Adriano Buergo (b. Havana, Cuba, 1964). Is a Cuban artist who is currently Miami-based. He completed his art studies at The Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Cuba, in 1988. Together with four other artists, he founded the art group known as Puré. The work of Adriano Buergo, along with that of other Cuban artists of the 80s generation, engages socio-cultural themes . In one of the best known series of his work he gave birth to a rather peculiar character: a bricollage domestic fan which named “Roto” (Broken). Roto became the icon of the struggle for survival in an environment plagued with material privation and contradictions. Nonetheless, Roto is capable of adaptating to the challenges of his daily existence and to yearn for them, allowing
It is a long-with-standing stereotype that Italians love to gamble. This is true. My great grandfather, Pasquale Giovannone, played the riskiest hand of cards when he immigrated to the United States as an illegal stowaway at the age of thirteen. He forged a life for himself amidst the ever-changing social and political shifts of the early nineteenth century. The legacy he left would later lead to the birth of my father, John Giovannone, in Northern New Jersey in 1962.
Ester Hernandez is a Chicana artist, best known for her works of Chicana women. Ester’s goal is to recreate women’s lives to produce positive images of women’s lifestyle and to create icons. Her piece, Frida y Yo, contains the iconic painter Frida Kahlo. Frida, after being in multiple accidents causing long-term pain and suffering, began painting, mostly self-portraits, to portray her reality and glorify the pain. Similar to how Hernandez's goals are a juxtaposition to Frida’s artwork, the art piece Frida y Yo creates a juxtaposition between life and suffering and death and fortune.
On July 21, 1981 an artist was born. Romeo Santos is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and former lead vocalists of the American bachata band Aventura. Romeo was born to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother in the Bronx, New York. His mom stood home to take care of the family while the father was working at construction. Romeo and his three cousins Lenny, Max, and Henry created their own group called “ Los Tinellers” in the early 1990s and changed their group name to Aventura.
Hermenegildo Bustos was relatively unknown outside of his hometown and area of Purisima del Rincon, Guanajuato. Not only was Bustos a portraitist, but he also made a living as a silversmith, farmer, carpenter, church sacristan and even an ice-cream maker for at this time he was a man who needed to make a living and provide for his family. It was difficult making a living just from painting portraits, but incredibly he managed to find commissions even after the emergence of photography. "Like Velasco, albeit on a smaller scale, Bustos communicated both h...
Brandon Vaughn Burlsworth was famous for being the number 1 greatest walk-on college football player ever for the Arkansas Razorbacks. He was also well known for his thick black glasses and comparison to comedian Drew Carey.
Velázquez was considered to be one of the most unique painters in the Spanish Baroque era. The phrase “Truth, not reality” is often used to describe his paintings, because Velázquez paintings usually display lifeline sense of the essential qualities of people and things that they seem to exist (Carr 26). Most of his painting’s subjects were the Spanish Royal family, however Velázquez occasionally painted historical scenes and paintings with...
Frida Kahlo is known for the most influential Latin American female artist. She is also known as a rebellious feminist. Kahlo was inspired to paint after her near-death bus incident when she was 17. After this horrendous incident that scarred her for life, she went under 35 different operations. These operations caused her extreme pain and she was no longer able to have kids. Kahlo’s art includes self portraits of her emotions, pain, and representations of her life. Frida Kahlo was an original individual, not only in her artwork but also in her
Diego Rivera was deemed the finest Mexican painter of the twentieth century; he had a huge influence in art worldwide. Rivera wanted to form his own painting fashion. Although he encountered the works of great masters like Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse, he was still in search of a new form of painting to call his own (Tibol, 1983). His desire was to be capable of reaching a wide audience and express the difficulties of his generation at the same time, and that is exactly what h...
Licking the toad? A phrase most have heard before but did you know that licking the toad referenced the hallucinogenic effect certain toads had once a person literately licked it. The cause of the hallucinogenic symptoms is bufotenine. This paper will define what bufotenine is, the history behind bufotenine, signs and symptoms of bufotenine use, and bufotenine addiction treatment.
Bartolome de Las Casas was an important protector of native peoples because the latter part of his life was dedicated to social reforms that called for better treatment of the natives.
Diego Velàzquez was called the “noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country.” He was a master realist, and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad, sure strokes. “His men and women seem to breathe,” it has been said; “his horses are full of action and his dogs of life.” Because of Velàzquez’ great skill in merging color, light, space, rhythm of line, and mass in such a way that all have equal value, he was known as “the painter’s painter,” as demonstrated in the paintings Las Meninas, Sebastiàn de Morra, and Baltasar Carlos and a Dwarf.
Joan Miro had a long career, kind of like a titanic career changing style every few years and doing two or three kinds of thing at once. Modern art at the national gallery of art in Washington, where Joan Miro art is now on view. Its show how Miro style evolve over his long career. Beginning like one of the painting from 1918 and progressing more too mysterious and provoked pieces like the farm. Joan Miro was born in Barcelona in 1893. He grew up with a middle class family. By his twenties, he was painting in Paris. At the time some realism was involve. He was allied with the movement but he didn’t want to be part of any movement. He talks about the importance of shock and how the work of art should hit you right between the eyes. From his
Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist reveals the breath of Burle Marx’s work and demonstrate how his training as a visual artist informed his holistic practice, showcasing his control scale and composition, from a vast urban pavement to a gilded earring. A Modern dat Renaissance man with ecological concerns, Burle Marx stands as a testament to the peaceful coexistence of creativity, innovation, and respect for local culture and natural
Fransisco Jose de Goya y lucientes is one of the most influential Spanish painters of all time. He is likely the most famous Spanish painter during the modernist movement, and his paintings and etchings are able to capture the spirit of this Era in Spanish, and European history. Not only will he document the positive aspects of Spain’s culture during the late 18th, and early 19th century, but he will dwell in the negative as well producing some of the most socially provocative works of all time. It can truly be said that Goya is a figure shrouded in Mystery, going from an optimistic court painter, to one of the most important war documentarist of all time. You must learn more about Goya, and his work In order to truly understand Spanish Society during the modernist age.