Movies awaken your artistic spirit.

Black Swan (2010)

The story of a ballet dancer, determined and ambitious. His life and his mind begins to unhinged after receiving the lead role of Swan Lake.

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

Tells the story of the famous painter Johannes Vermeer and the process of creating one of his most famous works: The Youth of Pearl Earring.

Factory Girl (2006)

Factory Girl portrays the life of Edie Sedgwick, the muse of Andy Warhol known. It focuses on the divided relationship between the artist and folk singer.

Midnight in Paris (2001)

The trip to Paris for an engaged couple is transformed into a mysterious journey through the past of the city, every day at midnight.

I article taken from: http://culturacolectiva.com/10-peliculas-artisticas-que-despertaran-tu-creatividad/#sthash.H25T23wW.dpuf

Theater for us

The theater is the branch of the performing arts related to the performance, depicting stories acted front of the audience using a combination of speech, gestures, props, music, sound and spectacle.

We have now left behind assistance to many of the cultural events that have marked the history of art that is theater. The performing arts is one of the most beautiful forms of expression in art history, since that natural individual is lost in a sea in between fantastic and unreal spaces beings to another world. TODAY THE MEDIA AND SOCIAL NETWORKS WE HAVE THIS Clueless FASCINATING WORLD OF ART. , I think we have embraced technological comfort.

A popular song in different styles

Art and design can be seen on the cover of this man, who has innovated in the way we perceive a song as recognized as it is this. It is noteworthy that the musicians are also artists

To all these ... What is design?

The design is defined as the previous process of mental configuration, "foreshadowing" in the search for a solution in any field. Commonly used in the context of the industry, engineering, architecture, communication and other creative disciplines; Etymologically derived from the Italian term disegno drawing, design, signare, marked "the end", the future vision of the future represented graphically,

Any types:

Industrial design.
It is responsible for generating strategies and set the shape of objects.

Graphic design.
It specializes in printing processes, illustration, editorial and gives great importance to the communicative aspects of the forms that are visually perceived.

Urban design.
Seeks to meet space requirements that are collective in nature, include the system of coexistence, politics, public administration, because the materials used are not only construction but also the financial resources, the laws and activity of society particularly in urban life.

Interior design.
Seeks to build a world within structures where space and light follow geometric, mechanical or optical laws to carry out a natural order. This is accomplished by projecting a small scale, defining the environment.

Subjectivity in the interpretation of a work of art

This painting is the Belgian painter Magritte, and has the legend "This is not a pipe" For some a mental game, for others a joke, for others a undertone that totally changes the way they see the world ... and you who you see in it?

Did you know that design is changing the world?

The Afghan designer Massoud Hassani shows that lives can be saved with the wind:

Hassani (1983) was born and raised in the Soviet Afghanistan. Accustomed to war and the horrors resulting in the civilian population, moved in 1998 to Eindhoven (Netherlands), where he studied design. In his draft final race he thought he could take a step forward and help his country to combat the scourge posed by landmines. That motivation was born Kafon Mine, mine detonator a peculiar
low-cost wind-driven. "In Qasaba we built our own toys and were serving us from the wind for them to run," he explains when asked about his inspiration.

The wars that have plagued Afghanistan in recent decades have flooded with dangerous sea mines. The Islamic republic has sadly become the epicenter of these explosive devices, leaving more than 23,500 dead along the way. It is estimated that there are up to 10 million landmines buried in the deserts and Afghan mountains. And those who pay are always civilians, victims of 80% of the explosions.

The big problem of landmines is their high cost to clear them. According to the UN, manufacture them and bury them can be a three-dollar expenditure while to annul the figure may rise to 300 to $ 1,000. "Since the 60's the same technology is used", says Hassani almost surprised. "We want to prevent human lives are played and can defuse mines in an economical way." Mine Kafon puts an end to this problem. The detonator devised by Hassani uses a mixture of recycled materials and ecological with more sophisticated elements. Thus, bamboo and biodegradable plastic is combined with a GPS system that produces a map of the tracked path.

Vicent Van Gogh: An example to follow

First I left a series of images where they can appreciate the style in which Van Gogh throws the brush strokes on the canvas, and the other images are a set of  my experience to went to Van Gogh Alive in Bogota-Colombia. We can see that the world proposes the painter is very different from others, and immerses us in fantasy and yellow of his works.

Van Gogh alive, brings his paintings and observers felt like traveling to another world and another reality, which although not entirely perfect in terms of proportions and shadows, it is very; and that to me is worth more than mastering a hyperrealistic technique perfectly, because he created and managed to express his style.

artists are crazy?

It is not known exactly whether an artist should be a requirement to have some mental illness, but many cases of this have been seen throughout history ... Some suffer bipolar disorders, other hallucinations, and others were just very peculiar in his expression. Watch the video and get an answer (or more  questions)

Artist creates series of self under the influence of LSD

The following images are a series of photos created by a girl who had the desire to draw a self-portrait while on LSD. For each drawing, the woman, identified as whatafinethrowaway on Reddit site, worked between 15 and 45 minutes without looking in the mirror. Check out the psychedelic result:
1. This is the first drawing done 15 minutes later consumed LSD before any visible effect.

2. After 45 minutes of having used the drug, she felt her hair had grown.

3. 1 hour and 45 minutes later she kept her mind about her grown hair. In this image it represented a little more color.

4. 2 hours and 15 minutes after the dose of LSD, their perception of their facial features changed completely. You can see that began more detail facial features.

5. With 3 hours with the acid affecting her head, she refrains from drawing his eyes.

6. 4 hours and 45 then changes the color of your skin to a mystic purple.

7. After six hours things began to get very strange, now it uses different colors to represent.

8. 6 hours and 45 minutes later removed again drawing his eyes, his face curiously seems to be the main focus.

9. After 8 hours began listening to Pink Floyd.

10. Passed the 8 hours and 45 minutes from the dose of the drug, he decided he would have a body.

11. After nine and a half hours and effects of acid on their perceptions were coming to an end.

This work invariably reminds us of another published some time ago here in Martians, that of an artist subject to the same experiment under the influence of LSD, this time the subject drew a portrait of the doctor who supervised the test.

I article taken from: http://marcianosmx.com/artista-crea-autorretratos-bajo-efectos-lsd/

Origami: Japanese arte

1. Start with a square of paper. Fold diagonally forming an X
How to make a paper crane step by step
2. Turn the paper and fold vertically and horizontally forming a +
paper
3. Using the marks made on paper, fold the ends as shown below:

4. Fold the side corners toward the center, mark and unfold
Bend
5. Fold the top point down, mark and unfold
Oriental
6. Take the lower tip top form and take it to a diamond. Mark the folds
crane
7. Flip the model and perform steps 4, 5 and 6 on this side
sheet
8. Fold the side ends toward the center
How to make a paper crane step by step
9. Turn the model and repeat step 8
paper
10. Fold both lower ends up. mark the fold and unfold
11. Use the mark to bend the ends inward, forming the neck and tail
12. Fold one of inward to form the head and bend the upper ends to form wings
folding AND READY !!

Animal artists?

Hong, this female Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) shot to fame some time ago when the Internet began circulating a video that featured painting a picture with a knack own a master. and this is currently the case in Thailand. This video gives us a direct blow to the face showing us like an animal on this planet has an artist's soul and has the gift of creating your own art with canvas and brush, you can paint beautiful pictures. A Hong likes to paint elephant holding a flower with its trunk.
Hong is a female elephant 8-year-old was always very curious and it showed a skill with the horn when even learned to open the doors of the trucks.
She has so much control and dexterity in his trunk that can create advanced paint with realistic forms. While painting, to Hong you are always rewarded with bananas and sugar cane, and of course with all the applause from his audience also pleased.
The Hong amazing art, sold in print to help save this large group of Asian Elephants copies, and to protect other people to use in illegal activities. Earnings are also used to keep their natural environments and pay for food and veterinary services.

Hong training is positive without any abuse, even cared to use only non-toxic paints.

GOTHIC ART

Gothic art corresponds to the Middle Ages, Romanesque below. It is a dynamic period from the socioeconomic point of view, very varied, with intensive contacts with the East through the Crusades and trade routes.
This is a European artistic styles with time limits ranging from about 1140 and the last decades of the sixteenth century, depending on the geographical area.
Today it is considered one of the most important moments from the artistic point of view in Europe.
It was an art that was applied in the field of civil and religious architecture, sculpture, stained glass, mural painting and table, the illuminated manuscripts and various decorative arts.
Gothic art. cathedrals
The term Gothic was first used by wealthy Renaissance, in the pejorative sense, to refer to the art of the Middle Ages, which they considered inferior and Barbarian (gothic derived from Godo) compared to classical art.

Despite being a continuation of Romanesque, Gothic in quite different and even opposite attitudes are appreciated. If the Romanesque is known for his dark and recollection, the Gothic implies the opposite, light, color, elevation, expressivity and naturalism.

Gothic, like all artistic styles, has regional variants. As examples we can mention the school francesadonde emphasize the cathedrals of Notre-Dame de Paris, Sens, Chartres, Laon, Reims and Amiens or Saint-Chapelle built by St. Louis.
The Spanish school noted for the cathedrals of Leon, Burgos, Toledo, Gerona, Barcelona or Seville.
Portuguese School with Belem and Batalha monasteries or the church of the Order of Christ in Thomar.
Germany is famous for the cathedral of Cologne, Strasbourg and Ulm. While in England it has the cathedrals of Gloucester, Salisbury or Lincoln.
As for the Italian school, we can differentiate a revolutionary gothic, against traditional in the Cathedral of Santa Maria de las Flores Florence, or closer to the European Gothic and Milan Cathedral style.

From: http://www.historiayarte.net/a-arte-gotico.html

But ... How did born the art?

We could say that art is born of necessity of expression, or perhaps as an invention without intension
For the answer we must return to prehistory: where homo sapiens began to shape their daily lives and the current awareness of the world saw at that time. Representing hunting times, zoomorphic beings, and cousins ​​anthropomorphic symbols. Rock art embodied with natural pigments and using as support the gigantic caves inhabited. Today for many the beginning of our art arguably the characters composed of circles and lines, are based on that remote idea of ​​many thousands of years ago, our world has not ceased to be sensible.

The man as we see was using this art later as a record of their experiences, in time to capture the beauty of man and the world around him; But today thanks to these basic pillars we can see that contemporary art wants to take everything in the new world to the limit, which many people can not see or would like to see but we are not able to easily translate.

Rejection is a motivation

It is well known that not everyone has the same liking, so have the possibility  that to become artists, has not a good answer about the opinion of our work, and it's for several reasons: one of them would be some people prefer bright colors, and others simply black and white.


But when displaying a job, we should not let the comments of others go back negative, and should not affect our style and that we want to show our works.

It is important to know that when creating art, this lends itself to multiple interpretations, and be open to constructive criticism to help us improve in the future.

Obviously, not forget where you came from, and towards where you want to go. Much less should stop loving our own creations!

The music: also an art

Music is more than a set of sounds and words together coherently you hear pleasing to the ears of the recipients... as I said before, it is considered art because in songs and intensity to be show, it can express feelings and thoughts, may any songs that have no letter, and yet still considered art as they are able to transport us to some point in our lives and create happiness or sadness. And this seeks art: create a sense of what we see and that everyone interprets it in their own way.

What do you see?

Many know the painting Starry Night by Van Gogh, we have seen it many times, but today the question is ... what are you see on it? sometimes we don't stop to observe and detail the paintings or artistic works offered by the world, and we may be losing a great sense that hides on them, a meaning that could only be discovered by ourselves.

Cold and warm colors

When we see a painting made with colors like orange, red and yellow, our mind sends a message that at the time of capturing the image, the atmosphere was of summer ... while if we look at a picture with colors like blue, white purple ... we will think that the moment was caught in a winter time or the stage was a place where it was cool or cold weather.

You have thought of this before?

Self-portrait

It is known as painting or drawing and performing artist himself. It is one of the exercises deeper analysis can make an artist, as is to translate in that canvas or sheet of paper the way you see yourself, and may contain a facial expression of sadness, bitterness, happiness, anxiety and other moods that go through your mind at that time. In times like Baroque paintings or rebirth, one of the ways that the artist was autorretratara inside a large box to reaffirm its authorship or to signify their intentions.

Self-portrait Some examples are:

Frida Kahlo

Van Gogh

The artist is not born... it does

It is no secret that to succeed, it is necessary to persist in the aim, it is necessary to keep in mind to where you want to go to where you want to go, know the benefits and possible consequences that may be present on the road.

The same happens with artists, and with any profession, should persist every day to improve his passion. The most important thing is whether one is really where you want to be, or is forming the way up there.

At first it is normal to receive many negative comments towards the works, but this is part of the process, and that's when it must show the pride you feel to their own works; and these
comments do not become a bad thing, but a reason to move forward and improve every day.

Pleasing others is rewarding, but not necessary. The secret of good artist, is that love and swashbuckling defend their own work.

Why "art and design" as a central theme?

Artists are here to shelve the dark world in which we live and create their own world. And these thoughts,when made public are serving to many people can identify and can to adopt it. The best part of the works, is that they can provide for multiple interpretations and it is interesting to hear every viewpoint.

A wrong question would be "What means this painting / poem? They really have no meaning. In order to interpret, we should based it on our own experience, projecting it in our feeling and this ... is the secret to fall in love with the art.

The world in which we live has been commissioned to silence and suppress what sometimes we want to do. Art is one of those releases where no one can intervene. As the saying goes, you can silence a voice, but not an idea, so this will grow.