THE FLYING EGG

On this occasion the challenge facing our students from SIES Humanes in Cubas, was to find the way to make an egg land without breaking from a height of about five meters. 

They had several materials (garbage bags, sticks, staws, glue, ropes...) that they could use in the way they considered more appropriate. The only requirement was  the egg was not covered more than 20% of its surface and of course, it couldn´t break. After a hard but very fun work, only one of the teams achieved the goal. Congratulations guys!!!!!

Here you can see some of the videos of the moment in wchich the eggs were launched.

I hope you enjoy watching the videos as much as we did performing the job.

GRAFFITI

Graffiti has a long and proud history. The subculture surrounding graffiti has existed for several decades, and it's still going strong. The graffiti artists (or "writers" as they prefer to call themselves) are passionate, skilled, community-oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they've been portrayed as common criminals and vandals. 

One of the most important graffiti artist in the world is Banksy, an England-based  artist, political activist and film director of unverified identity. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world from New York to Gaza. Here you have some of the most important graffitis by Banksy in the Israel's separation wall.

 

And here you have a video of the Students from SIES Humnes in Cubas painting graffitis!!!!!

 

ABSTRACT PAINTING

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Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.

During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation.

In its edition of August 8th, 1949, Life magazine ran a feature article about Jackson Pollock that bore this question in the headline: "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" Could a painter who flung paint at canvases with a stick, who poured and hurled it to create roiling vortexes of color and line, possibly be considered "great"? New York's critics certainly thought so.

Pollock's greatness lies in developing one of the most radical abstract styles in the history of modern art, detaching line from color, redefining the categories of drawing and painting, and finding new means to describe pictorial space.

Students from SIES Humanes in Cubas have become "Abstract painters" by imitating Pollock, dripping paint as he did.  If you would like to create your own painting you can have a look at the following video and try to find some inspiration. Dare to do it!!!

    

MOTHER'S DAY

Se acerca el día de la Madre y no queremos dejar pasar esta fecha sin decirles a todas ellas cuanto las queremos y sin agradecerles todo lo que hacen por nosotros cada día.

FELIZ DÍA DE LA MADRE!!!!!!!

Aquí os dejamos algunos de los regalos que hemos realizado para ellas. Si alguien quiere animarse a hacer unas bonitas flores de papel como estas, aquí podéis encontrar unas sencillas instrucciones. Ánimo y a ver como os quedan!!!!!

EXPRESSIONISM

           
"Everyone who renders directly and honestly whatever drives him to create is one of us"

Ernst Ludwig  Kirchner

Expressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as a response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality. In part a reaction against Impressionism and academic art, Expressionism was inspired most heavily by the Symbolist currents in late nineteenth-century art. Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor proved particularly influential to the Expressionists, encouraging the distortion of form and the deployment of strong colors to convey a variety of anxieties and yearnings.

The artist attempts to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him. He accomplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.

The Expressionist is looking for a return to our inner, primitive state, in which we feel subordinate to life as a whole and in which we feel the often, ominous powers at work within ourselves, just as we see this in nature around us.