Monday 29 June 2009

The best in my area



I can't talk about artists that make etching, wich is my area in art, because I don't know too much about them, but in general, like just an artist I have to say that my favorite, the one that I think that is the best artist is Toulousse Lautrec.

He was a painter, draftsman and illustrator who was born in France in 1864, He was specially dedicated to represent the decadent life of those times. He used to paint provocative images of women.
Lautrec was one of the greatest post impresionist painters with Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gaughin and Cézanne among others.


I like him like an artist because how he used to work with colours, the deformation of bodies and the topic of the decadent life in France in his times. He showed the night life of the black sheep of an aristocrat family, who was him, his friends lifes, the places that were his refuges and the things that enjoyed him.
And it didn't matter to him if that tipe of life was bad or good for the rest of the people.

His most famous works were Le toilette (1896),
Ambassadeurs (1892), In bed (1893), marcelle lender on stage (1895), The clown Cha-U-Kao at the Moulin Rouge (1895), jane avril (1899) and salon at the rue des moulins ((1894) -wich is the picture of the right side-)

We can see him like a character in the movie Moulin Rouge, of course that I noticed that, a long time after see the movie for the first time.
But this life that the movie shows us couldn't be so happy like we could imagine. He was an alcoholic for the most of his adult life, so he had an early death at the age of 36.

Monday 8 June 2009

My future


I would like to be living in Buenos Aires in five years from now, finishing my film studies after arts, I would be in the third year of my film studies, probably taking the direction mention, but now I'm not really sure, maybe I would like to take the writing scripts mention or animation too.
To pay my life there I would sell some of my art works or something like that, of course that I'm talking about an ideal future. But I like to think that it's possible, it doesn't sound like a real crazy thing to me.

Why study in Buenos Aires and not in my actual university in Chile?

It's so simple: There are a lot of free film schools in Argentina, and that free schools are good shools, better than chilean. But the first factor is that I don't have enough money to pay the career month to moth, with the materials (cameras, computer, cds, dvds, cassettes, I don't know what else), the cost of the life (bills), and all those kind of things that includes studying and living in another country.

Personally I would like to live alone for a while. To learn how to do all the things by myself, the time studying there could help me to do that, of course that I don't want to be married with children, that situation couldn't help me at all, a family means a lot of responsibilities, when you have children you can’t do all the things that you want to do, you have to think what want all your family, there's not "just me", and to go and live in another country I have to be "just me". In five years I want to be free of other responsibilities that wouldn't be my bills and my studies, after that, I don’t know, I’ll know that in the moment.