feet in pencil

expressive hands in progress....oil paint

AP Art Fieldtrip

My first attempt of becoming the next Pro-I-Phone- Photographer.

Acrylic painting, figure drawing in nature: Cameron at his Equador trip 2011

Watercolor, "When butterflies go sailing"

Pencil drawing, room perspective: livingroom during World War 2

    Since our assignment was to visit at least one art show, I went to Germany's heart of culture, Munich, to see all kind of different galleries. My favorite exhibition was the "Frauen" ( means Women ) one presented in the Pinakothek der Moderne. The works of Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, and Willem de Kooning were presented under the commen theme women and the painters' perception of women. All three painters portrayed women in different ways: Picasso f.e. with a abstracting touch and emphasising the soft, curved figure of a women while Beckman focused on painting women as a seducing, bad influence, or on the other side, showing her inferiority to men through treating her as an object. Overall, the show invited us visitors to get a feeling of women's role in 20th century society: not more than an object, mo matter if portrayed in a negative or positive light.
    If you want to know more about this exhibition, just check out the following link:
          http://www.pinakothek.de/node/20674

    One big motivation to see this particular exhibition was because of Pablo Picasso's participation in it. He was a Spanish painter and sculpturist who studied the classical art school at the University in Barcelona before he developed his own, unique art style called Cubism. Other stylistic highlights were his Blue and Rosa Period (e.g. The Old Guitarist). Contrary to many other artists, Picasso already enjoyed respect and appreciation of his paintings by the critical art world  during his lifetime. Privately, his life was just as experimental as his painting styles: even though he only married two women duting his lifetime, he had a undefinite number of affairs faling for women almost every time.
     If you once again want to learn more about Picasso, just click on the linke beneath:
          http://www.pablopicasso.org/