18 important works of art over the past year
As works of art are human manifestations that seek to transmit questions, reflections and meanings through the creation of an artistic product.
These products are generally são peças as objects, paintings, sculptures and installations. Meanwhile, artists can also create a work of art that does not materialize itself, such as music, dance, theaters and performances. Furthermore, he has expressed that these languages of art are mixed, creating hybrid works.
A history is full of important works of art and that contribute to understand the anseios of a society, o historical and political context, as the definitions of what is beautiful or not and the behavior of a certain population.
1. Vênus of Willendorf
TO Vênus of Willendorf It is a small statute of a feminine figure sculpted in stone, dating from approximately 25 thousand years BC. C, still from the Paleolithic era.
It was the team of archaeologist Josef Szombathy who met in Austria, in a city called Willendorf in 1908.
A sculpture, a pre-historical work of art, exhibits voluminous signs and a long quadril, representing an ideal of mulher for that society, because these attributes are related to the ideia of fertility and abundance.
2. Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa A painting painted between 1503 and 1506 by Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). It is very difficult to classify works of art as “important”, but we can say that this canvas is considered the most famous work of art in the world.
A painting, made in oil on wood, with reduced dimensions, 77 cm x 53 cm, in the Louvre Museum, in Paris.
In a work-first, I managed to portray a feminine feição wrapped in mystery, exhibiting a slight incomprehensible smile and an olhar that can be interpreted both as dejection and sympathy.
By chance, the image was popularized, being reproduced in various spaces and gaining many rereleases.
3. Judith beheading Holofernes - Artemisia Gentileschi
To paint Judith beheading Holofernes (1620), by Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656), part of the Baroque movement and exhibits a present biblical dinner, not an Old Testament.
The subject has never been painted before by other artists, so much so that Artemisia was inspired by a Caravaggio canvas to compare her version of it.
She was the first woman to stand out as an artist in her time, in the meantime, as a time she was created and only to be valued since the 1970s.
A work in question and important pois portrays a dinner from a feminine point of view and is related to a passage of the artist's own life, in which she was violated by her mentor, Agostino Tassi. Assim, Artemisia transmits to the cloth all her rebellion and indignation with this masculine behavior.
4. Or room in Arles - Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the two most acclaimed artists in the world. His fabrics are very well known and several of them will stand out in art history, as in the case of Or room in Arles. Na realidade, or painter made three verses of cloth, quite similar, between 1888 and 1889.
At dinner, Van Gogh portrays his bedroom, when he lives in Arles, not in France, where he produces most of his works.
We can see a bed with two travesseiros, some pictures on the wall, cadeiras, a janela ajar and other details that make up your home.
It is a composition with an intense and vibrant palheta of cores, as was typical of his art, and we Chama a atenção, pois position or observer closer to the artist, as shared by the seu space.
5. Os fuzilamentos de 3 maio - Goya
O Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) painted in 1814 The fuzilaments of May 3A picture that would become two more impressive and important portraits of violence.
A cloth exhibits a dinner of a collective execution carried out by the French troops of Napoleão Bonaparte in Madrid, during the so-called Peninsular War (1807-1814). São civis espanhóis who, contrary to the French advance, saíram às ruas to protest against the covariously assassinated.
A painting, measuring 266 x 345 cm, represents a historical setting and influences other artists who also portray the horrors of war, such as Pablo Picasso, as a large panel. Guernica.
The photos of May 3 can be appreciated at the Museo do Prado na Espanha.
6. Or violin by Ingres - Man Ray
Or violin by Ingres é uma feita photography by North American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) in 1924. A very well-known image and introduces model Kiki de Montparnasse as new coasts, displaying a barefoot in nanquim das duas acoustic fendas present us violinos.
A work teve as inspiration for a neoclassical painting by Dominique Ingres, entitled A banhista de Valpinçon (1808), em que o artist portrays impeccably the shores of a mulher.
A photograph, Man Ray, which shows part of the Dada movement, reproduced at dinner and included an element that refers to violin, suggesting that the mulher body as the forms of the instrument, pois or artist was a great appreciator of music.
7. Café da manhã em pele - Meret Oppenheim
Object, ou Café da manhã em pele, it is a work of art in the form of an object, as it was said. Produced by the Swiss artist and photographer Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) in 1936, with surreal characteristics.
This is one of the works that provokes a non-public mix of conflicting sensations, can cover a game of xícara as pele animal, the artist presents a sensory contradiction and transforms a banal object into a work of art, withdrawing function.
Meret ainda places in questão other reflections referring to the daily life and the universe of women, showing An unruly and rebellious feminine character that uses as support an object that represents education and civility.
The work is located in the Museum of Modern Art of New York.
8. To fonte - attributed to Marcel Duchamp
One of the most emblematic works of art in the history of A Fonte, attributed to the French Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). Meanwhile, it is currently speculated that the work was the idea of the Polish-German artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927).
Duchamp appeared in an exhibition in 1917 and caused a scandal, but it is a simple porcelain mythology that was traced by R. Mutt e data.
Regardless of the importance of such work, it represents a change of paradigm to raise a simple object to condition of art, questioning art itself and revolutionizing how it was produced, understood and appreciated.
9. A traição das images - René Magritte
Another important work that part of surrealism is A traição das images, by Belgian René Magritte (1898-1967). Nesse oil on canvas, we observe the figure of a hookah and below give a legend "Ceci'is pas une pipe", With a translation of" Isto não é um cachimbo ".
The work stands out in the history of art by carrying out a question on conceit and representation.
Here, the artist presents the figure of an object and warns the viewer that that image is not or object itself, but rather a representation of it. In this way, Magritte performs a playful and ironic game using an image and a word.
A canvas, dated 1929, can currently be seen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
10. Mantle of apresentação - Arthur Bispo do Rosário
Manto da Apresentação is a work created by Brazilian hair Arthur Bispo do Rosário (1911-1989) during the period in which he stays in the Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric center, not Rio de Janeiro.
Bispo do Rosário was a homem who had psychiatric disturbances, and was admitted to a young age. He created many things as the objects he collected and his purpose was not artistic, but rather to give his restlessness.
OR Mantle of Apresentação It is considered his work of greater value. It is a kind of cape all embroidered like the lençóis do hospital. Nela has drawn and many names of significant people for him.
It was built to be dressed in the body of Bispo at the time of his burial, constituting a sacred garment for the past years. In the meantime, bet on the death of the artist, or Manto was sheltered and found in the Museu Bispo do Rosário, not in Rio de Janeiro.
11. Spiral Platformby Robert Smithson
A work of Robert Smithson (1938-1973) more conhecida é perhaps Spiral Platform, made in Utah, US USA, in 1970.
It is about a work of art that is part of the chamada land art, or art of the land. Nesse type of creative manifestation, or artist is used in nature to make large installations that are integrated into the landscape.
Nessa, feita com rocha vulcanica, sal e terra, Smithson creates a spiral unfolding in an anti-clockwise direction that enters the Great Salt Lake, a lake of salted waters, not west of the United States.
On a land art, or artist defines da seguirinte maneira:
A liberation of art from the gallery space and the reconnaissance of geological structures of Terra as a monumental art form that does not fit in a museum.
12. Or banquet - Judy Chicago
To installation ORbanquet (The dinner party) The American artist Judy Chicago (1939-) was made in 1974.
This is the most well-known work of the artist and represents a symbol of the feminist movement. Já was exhibited in various countries and seen by more than a thousand people.
It consists of a 14 x 14 m triangular table, with 39 meadows decorated with tassels, flowers and vulvas, talheres and guardrails.
There are 13 places on each side of the triangle, which represents the same. The places are trazem not embroidered with significant women of history, from mythical deuses to personalities. This is how a banquet is ready to be served, just waiting for women to come.
13. Detour to o vermelho - Cildo Meireles
Work of the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles (1948-), Detour to o vermelho It is an idealized installation in 1967, but it has its final version in 1984.
A work that stands out in contemporary Brazilian art and draws a strong dramatic charge to or create environments that instigate the senses, present questions and provoke non-public discomfort.
It is about a local where a cor vermelha is impregnated in all objects, suggesting paixão e violência. As a motivation for his upbringing, the lost artist became a friend of mine, a dead man. Assim, this is a facility that traces, above all, a political character.
At the moment it is mounted in the Institute of Contemporary Art of Inhotim, in Minas Gerais.
14. Mamam - Louise Bourgeois
This is a series of sculptures by the French artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) that represents a huge aranha. An artist produced six aranhas.
With large proportions (3 meters high), one of them is in various locations in Brazil.
Mamam, which in French means more, represents or link between Bourgeois and his mother, his experiences in childhood, a or past that appears to be connected with objects such as agulha and ato de tecer.
Louise explains why to represent my own way:
A minha melhor friend was minha mãe, who was so intelligent, patient, asseada and useful, reasonable, indispensable as a aranha. She herself knew how to defend herself.
15. As duas Fridas - Frida Kahlo
Duas fridas This is a Mexican painting by Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) dating from 1939, being some of the most famous works of the. A picture of a self-portrait that traced a duplicate figure of the artist, one sitting next to or beside another of them.
Na tela, a painter seeks to synthesize her identity, marked by European influence and Latin indigenous origins. Frida da esquerda wears a white dress in the Vitorian style and da direita is dressed in typical Mexican clothing.
As two exibem or heart and are interlinked to one artéria. Or ground plan and a cover of nuvens loaded and can symbolize or intimate universe disturbed by the artist.
Or square with dimensions of 1.73 x 1.73 cm and can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Mexico.
16. Ironia do Policial Negro - Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was an important North American black artist with a forceful and compelling production. He started his career in street art and, later, won galleries.
His most famous work is Black police irony, painted in 1981 in a neo-expressionist style.
Nela has an obvious criticism of the police institution and racism in the United States. Basquiat draws a contradiction and irony that there is no fact of a black homem being part of an institution known to exercise oppression against the black population.
In the meantime, the artist suggests that the police can signify a form of manipulation, oppression and the same time opportunity to work for that same population.
17. Cut piece - Yoko Ono
In 1964, the Japanese artist Yoko Ono (1933-) appeared in New York one of the most significant performances of her career.
Nessa ação, entitled Cut Piece, the artist is seated in front of a plateia, he is next to a treasure and invites the participants to gradually cut their dresses.
In addition, Yoko places herself at the disposal of third parties, working on issues of vulnerability and what she is to be a woman.
A performance was carried out when the artist was part of the Fluxus Group, made up of artists of various nationalities and who produced important innovations in the artistic universe.
As a proprietary of this type of action, the records that take photos and videos.
18. Impossível - Maria Martins
To sculpture Impossível It is a work by the Brazilian Maria Martins (1894-1973), produced in 1945. It is part of the collection of the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro and is made of bronze. Although he is the most famous artist, I also highlight Brazilian sculpture.
Maria Martins broadcasts em Impossível A feeling of powerlessness and improbability, as the title of the work suggests. She creates two forms that are related in a conflictive way, in tension between them and explicitly.
We can also draw a parallel between the forms presented as the transformation of human beings into plants, such as two carnivorous plants that seek to feed one another.
The work can be seen as a visual metaphor for love relationships, much more complex than the idea of romantic love that was presented to us in a correct way.
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