"La Isla Del Tesoro"
Exhibition title: "La Isla Del Tesoro" from Holbein to Hockney.
Venue Name: " Fundación Juan March"
Website: http://www.march.es/arte/madrid/exposiciones/la-isla-del-tesoro/
Exhibition Dates: 5th October 2012 - 20th January 2013
Venue Address: Calle de Castelló, 77, 28006 Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
This winter exhibition called "La Isla del Tesoro" was on exhibit at the "Fundación Juan March". In this public showing there are lots of artists from different periods;
- Destruction and reforms (1520-1620) with artists like Hans Holbein, Robert Peake, Marcus Gheeraerts or William Lakin...
- The Revolution and the Baroque (1620-1720) with artists as Anthony van Dyck, Peter Leley, William Dobson and Godfrey Kneller with the landscapes of Jan Siberechts and the Historic paintings of James Thornhill.
- Society and Satire (1720-1800) with Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and William Hogarth.
- Mind's Landscapes (1760-1850) with artists like Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. There are watercolour paintings of Thomas Girthing Samuel Palmer Thomas and some other painters.
- Realism and Reaction (1850-1900) with lots of important artists as John Frederick Lewis, David Oberts, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, J.A.M. Whistler and Frederic Leighton.
- Modernity and Tradition (1900-1940) with Walte Richard Sickert, Henry Lamb, Gwen John and Spencer Gore, and the more radical art with Wyndham Lewis, Duncan Grant and David Bomberg.
- "Britain seen from the North" the huge sculpture made by Tony Cragg in 1981.
This exhibition is showed in a museum called "Fundación Juan March".
The effect the exhibition has on the viewer is that when you enter, it seems to take you to an ancient time, to a far past seeing all the paintings from 1520 to 1941. Everything is worth seeing but if you really like landscapes you can see the section of "Mind's Landscapes", they look enigmatic, and deal with nature and beauty, I personally love this part. The paintings overwhelm me. The works that I valued the most in this section were:
¨Proserpine¨, an appealing young woman, with an enigmatic look, and an absent expression.
This woman represents Proserpine or Persephone in the Greek mythology. She has in her hand a pomegranate, the fatal fruit, because she ate six seeds, therefore she must stayed six months in Hades' Kingdom and the other six months in the earth with her mother.
¨Nocturne Blue and Silver¨ a beautiful and simple landscape where the colour blue predominates and where silver and yellow colours are also present. These sweet, soft and pale colours make you feel calm and relax when you look at them:
As a sixteen year old student of the Lycée Français of Madrid specialized in Literature I'm going to present the painting I talked to my class in the Juan March exhibition.
My painting is "Britain Seen From The North" it was made by Tony Cragg, a British visual artist specialised in sculptures. He was born in April 1949. If you know a little bit of Tony Cagg's works you may know that his early works are made from found materials; like the work "Britain Seen From The North" made on March 1981.
This is a wall relief made from broken scrap materials which he had collected from streets and waste sites in London immediately before the exhibition. It's often interpreted as commenting on the social and economic difficulties Britain was going through at that time. This was the first occasion on which he had incorporated materials other than plastic in a work of this kind, because here we can see discarded plastic objects, metal and wood.
This work consists of two elements:
- On the left side there is a standing male figure, possibly the artist himself.
- Next to him a representation of the British Island.
Therefore we can think that the artist is "seeing" Britain from the North.
The male figure was made by the artist drawing around his own body on to a sheet of polythene pinned to the wall, and the map by freehand from an atlas used as a reference.
I like this work because it's quite fun and very original. This painting is enormous and when you look at it, it impacts you because you look so small compare to this work of art.
¨Proserpine¨, an appealing young woman, with an enigmatic look, and an absent expression.
This woman represents Proserpine or Persephone in the Greek mythology. She has in her hand a pomegranate, the fatal fruit, because she ate six seeds, therefore she must stayed six months in Hades' Kingdom and the other six months in the earth with her mother.
Proserpine, 1874
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Currently housed at Tate Britain
¨Nocturne Blue and Silver¨ a beautiful and simple landscape where the colour blue predominates and where silver and yellow colours are also present. These sweet, soft and pale colours make you feel calm and relax when you look at them:
Nocturne Blue and Silver, 1872
Dante James Abbott McNeil
Tate Britain
The title of the exhibition, "The Treasure Island", has a significant concept because all the paintings and sculptures that we can see in this exhibition are from the island of Britain and all these works of art are considered treasures. So the meaning of the title exhibition has been well chosen.
As a sixteen year old student of the Lycée Français of Madrid specialized in Literature I'm going to present the painting I talked to my class in the Juan March exhibition.
My painting is "Britain Seen From The North" it was made by Tony Cragg, a British visual artist specialised in sculptures. He was born in April 1949. If you know a little bit of Tony Cagg's works you may know that his early works are made from found materials; like the work "Britain Seen From The North" made on March 1981.
This is a wall relief made from broken scrap materials which he had collected from streets and waste sites in London immediately before the exhibition. It's often interpreted as commenting on the social and economic difficulties Britain was going through at that time. This was the first occasion on which he had incorporated materials other than plastic in a work of this kind, because here we can see discarded plastic objects, metal and wood.
This work consists of two elements:
- On the left side there is a standing male figure, possibly the artist himself.
- Next to him a representation of the British Island.
Therefore we can think that the artist is "seeing" Britain from the North.
The male figure was made by the artist drawing around his own body on to a sheet of polythene pinned to the wall, and the map by freehand from an atlas used as a reference.
I like this work because it's quite fun and very original. This painting is enormous and when you look at it, it impacts you because you look so small compare to this work of art.
"Britain Seen From The North", 1981
Tony Cragg
Fundación Juan March
" The Treasure Island" ends the 20th of January 2013 but there will be another exhibition called "De la vida doméstica, bodegones y flamencos holandeses del siglo XVII" on the same venue.
A very good job indeed, Miss Piruleta.
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