FAMOUS PAINTINGS

6A: SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL-2010-11

LIGHT AT TWO LIGHTS by Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper was born in 1882 and died 1968.

As a young man he always wanted to be a painter.He studied at the academy of painting in New York for seven years. He had an art studio in New York. He lived and painted in the same studio for 50 years. In 1924 he married Josephine Nivison. She was also an artist and they bought an apartment to paint together.

He painted scenes of ordinary things you see in the city and country; terms of buses, office buildings, restaurants, lighthouses etc...

We can see a lighthouse on the left. There´s a white house on the right.

This painting was bought by the Art Institute of Chicago and because of it, he was at last made a known artist. In the following years he received many awards and medals for his work.

Zuriñe Ochoa Royo

THE GUERNICA BY PICASO

-Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on 25th October, 1881 and he died on 7th April, 1973. He lived in Malaga

– “The Guernica” is the most famous painting by Pablo Picasso.

– Picasso completed the paintig by mid-june 1937. Then mounted an important Picasso exhibition on 15th, November 1939 that remained on view until 7th January, 1940.

– “The Guernica” is grey, black and white. It is 3.5 metre (11 ft) tall and 7.8 metre (25.6 ft) wide.

– It was made in response of the bombing of Guernica, basque country, by German and Italian war planes at the behest of the spanish nationalist forces, on 26th of April ,1937, during the Spanish civil war.

This painting can be seen in the “Reina Sofia” museum in Madrid.

I can feel the fear and pain.

Oier Zabaleta

THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

The artist was Lander Peak .He was born in Germany in 1830 and he died in London 1909. Wen he was a child he went to Colorado, the USA.He painted it there in 1865, then he sold it for $25 000..

This painting looks very bright.The rocky mountains have got very natural colors. There`re some animals and indian pepole on the grass and near some green trees.The mountains are high and they´ve got snow. The sky is blue with some clouds. In the center of the painting. there´s a very light waterfall. I think he wants to show us the importance of the light contrast.

Now "the rocky mountains" is in the Brithish museum, London.

I think the painting is very beautiful. I like this painting because it´s a beautiful landscape.

Lucas

TIGER

Ito Jakuchu was born in Kyoto in Japan. His father was a rich grocer.. He was 23 years old, when his father died and he inherited the business. He didn't really want to be a businessman, so he decided to paint.

Jakuchu enjoyed painting pictures of birds, and in his garden he kept all kinds of birds that he could use as subjects in his paintings.

When he painted The Tiger, he could not paint from a live model because there were no tigers in Japan, so he

copied a picture that a Chinese artist had painted.

He did not enjoy fame for his painting during his lifetime. People only began to become interested in his works after a hundred years or more.

In the year 2000, which was 200 years after his death, the Kyoto National Museum featured a showing of his artworks.

Unai Sevine

GREEN BAILLERINA

The name of this painting is “Green ballerina”. The artist is Edgar Degas. He was born in Paris on 19th of July, 1834. He lived in Paris ( France). He was the oldest of five children. He started painting at the age of eighteen. He is known for his images of ballet dancers. Edgar Degas died on September 17th, 1917 in the city of his birth.

In the painting there are ballerinas. The one in the middle is wearing a ballet green and orange dress, ballet shoes and she´s got a bun in the hair. You can see a ballet actuation. On the top there are ballerinas dressed in orange s and at the bottom there are ballerinas dressed in green dresses (I guess that's why the picture is called so).

I think Degas likes to paint ballerinas.

I like this painting because I love dancing and it has a mixture of warm and cool colours that I like.

Amaiur Lizaso6.A

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WOMAN WALKIN IN AN EXOTIC FORESTBY

Henry rousseau

This painting is called “Woman Walking in a exotic forest”, by Henry Rousseau. Henry lived in Laval 1844-1910. He served for a time in the French army and fought in Mexico, or so he told people.

In the painting we can see a woman wearing a white dress and a big white hat. As its name says she´s walking in an exotic forest. You can see big big green plants with blue flowers and orange fruits surrounding the woman. The colours are clear.

Gorka

THE STARRY NIGHT

The starry night is by Van Gogh.Van Gogh was from Netherlands. He was born on the 30th

of march 1854 and he died on the 29th July 1890.He had 5 brothers and he was the oldest.

In September, 1888, while van Gogh was staying in Arles, he painted “Starry Night” .

On the left of the painting there is a tree. On the right there are three moons. You can see a few stars in the sky.

It´s very nice.I like it because the colours are my favorite ones

Iker Perez

"MAYA A LA POPUP" BY PICASSO

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a famous painter from Málaga (Andalucia). He was born on October 25th,1881 and died on 8th of April, 1973. Since he was little he wanted to be a painter.

Picasso painted a lot of pictures, and I´ve chosen one of them: “Maya popup”

In the painting we can see a woman holding tight a baby .

My opinion:

I think this picture is very nice ,but some colours are very sad.

Eunate

THE WOMAN WITH THE HAT AND THE FUR COLLAR

by PICASSO

Picasso painted this painting. He was born on 25th of October, 1881 in Malaga and he lived in Malaga too. Picasso's real name when he was baptized had 23 words. His real name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano of the Holy Trinity Clito Martyr Patricio Ruiz and Picasso. The name "Picasso" is the name of his mother, Maria Picasso y Lopez, while the other names come from famous saints.

In the painting, there are many colours. She´s one girl with the hat and a fur collar. It was painted in París. It´s cubist style and it´s got geometric shapes. It´s abstract. She´s wearing a red hat and a red T-shirt. Her hair is green, and she´s got two noses. Her face is in profile. She´s a bit sad, but she´s very nice.

Ohiana

BLUE BOY By Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough was born on 17th of May, 1727 and he died on 2nd August, 1788. He was born on Sudbury, Suffolk, England.

He began drawing when he was very young. He painted “blue boy” in 1770. It is thought it is a picture of Jonathan, a famous aristocrat at the time.

He´s wearing a blue beautiful suit and he´s holding a black hat. It´s outdoors and it looks dark.

Thomas Gainsborough exhibited his paintings at the Royal Academy, including portraits of

contemporary celebrities, such as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland.

I like this painting because I like blue colour very much .

Ioar Lopetegi

Starry Night Over the RhonebyVICENT WILLIAN VAN GOGH

The name of the painting is “Starry Night over the Rhone”. This painting is by Vang Gogh.Vang Gogh was born on the 30th of March ,1853 in Netherlands and he died on the 29th of July, 1890. Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter.This painting is very precious. We can see a couple walking in front of the river, the sky is starry and on the coast of the river there are two boats. On the other part of the river there´s a city.

In my opinion it is a very beautiful and interesting painting and I think Vang Gogh was a very good painter.

AINTZANE