Street Art

Sala Dalmau

In 1906 Josep Dalmau founded the Dalmau Galleries. After his death, Francisco and Mariana Draper opened up the Sala Dalmau in 1979 as homage to the old Dalmau Galleries. In the 1900's Joesp Dalmau helped to introduce avant-garde artists to the Barcelona art scene. At the time, Paris was considered the Mecca of the art world; many Spanish artists would travel to the city to exhibit their work. The Dalmau Gallery helped to restore Spanish pride in art by exhibiting the works of Dali', Miró, Delaunay, Braque, Duchamp, Picabia, Leger and Matisse among many others.

Unfortunately the original Gallery is no longer around, but the Sala Dalmau is living up to its name. So far the gallery has won awards for best exhibition and the ACCA (Association of Critics Catalana d'Art)

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Cofc Photo Competition

The College of Charleston
Photo competition



These are a few pictures I took In the Mountains. Let me know which one(s) you like. This is the link to some of the past winning pictures www.facebook.com/cofcinternational . The deadline isn't till August 15 of next year! so Ill be posting more pictures in the next few months.

El MNAC Pren el Carrer

Carrer

The Museum of National Catalan art is currently having and exhibit in which they have made 33 copies (using the highest HP quality and technology) of art from the museum and placed them down the major streets of Barcelona. The museum definitely had a great idea with their art scavenger hunt, the idea is, is that you download a map from the MNAC museum and make your way up and down Passige De Gracia, Las Ramblas, Diagonal and Ciutat Vella where you will find prints of work posted on the walls. Most of the work on the streets was classic religious art, which I feel would have been more appropriate if they had been placed in the "old city" or the Gothic district of Barcelona.

http://www.elmnacprenelcarrer.cat/cat/

This is the link for more information it has all the paintings used as well as commentary on a few.

Nonsense

As I wait for my camera charger , which hopefully ill get today I thought Id post a funny site I found on stumble. Enjoy.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2vZUKa/www.laboiteverte.fr/lavant-et-lapres-de-peintures-connues-expliques/

Hopefully later today ill have some new stuff. I have a few spots around town in mind.

-M.

"Pasodoble" en el Casón del Retiro

Today I took a metro trip down to Caixa Forum to go see ^ an artist from Majorca (an island in the Balearics). I got off at Plaza Espana an area I'm definitely going to be visiting a lot. After walking 10 mins in the wrong direction I followed the obvious street signs and ended up on the right track, which happens to be a beautiful walk through 2 pillars in the direction of the monumental MNAC Museum (hopefully my next visit) and towards Monjuic. As I approached Caixa Forum I noticed a giant sculpture out front, which I first perceived to be a grotesque interpretation of an organ. Look for yourself.
But as I got closer it was obvious what it was... an
elephant. This was the first piece of Miquel Barcelo's exhibit only a prelude to the many animals represented by Barceló. What I found most interesting about the pieces in the exhibit were all the different elements and materials he used. From cardboard to clay and watercolors to oil his work creatively combines the natural and material worlds. One of my favorite pieces was a self-portrait (autorretrato) Barceló created on cardboard with sticks. The image was contrived by puncturing holes and creating scrapes over the canvas and quit impressively it truly resembled him. Iv been looking for a picture on the Internet but haven’t come across it yet when I do ill post it. Also intriguing but extremely bizarre was a video of Barceló creating one of his pieces. The video was basically a repetition of Barceló being pounded with giant clay pots as he struck a pose … its art right? Over all I enjoyed the exhibit his upbringing near the ocean is undeniable as a major influence bellow is a picture of a piece appropriately named "L'amour+ Fou" there were many pieces like this one The ocean is a reaccuring theme in his work. Also on display were illustrations Barceló created for the Dante's Inferno, its worth checking out online. .... well thats all I got for now im beat
at the bottom of the blog ill post the press release for the show if you’re interested in more info.

>>http://press.lacaixa.es/socialprojects/miquel-barcelo-caixaforum-bcn-engl__816-c-7262__.html