PICK - A - SO ; simply, the Greatest!

Picasso was a prolific artist. He changed his visual styles many times.

I really admire his courage and his ability to push the boundaries of his craft instead of just getting complacent with a style that sells/established him as a known artist.

Portrait of an Old Fisherman

When Picasso began painting, he created excellent realist works, for example he painted the "Portrait of an Old Fisherman" at age of 14

However, it's imperative that an artist - any artist - develop a distinctive style of his own that is appropriate for, and reflective of the time in which he works. So Picasso went on from classic realism to play around with several other styles. There was a Blue Period and during this phase, he was still working essentially realistically, although his subjects and backgrounds had become somewhat more stylized, as you can see, from "The Tragedy", an example of the period.

The Tragedy

And then, in 1914, Picasso attended a show of African masks in Paris. That flipped a major artistic switch for him, and resulted in "Demoiselles d'Avignon". In this painting, Cubism became allied with African masks and figuration and sculptural dimensions. The women seem angry and primitive, they confront the viewer head-on, with no traditional use of painting perspective.

This work caused a huge uproar when it was first viewed, and western Art was never the same, because no one had ever conceived of combining all of these elements, being this "rude" and composing in this manner.

Demoiselles d'Avignon

About the fact that many people find his styles scary and bizarre, some of his paintings were meant to make you feel that way. One of his most famous paintings "Guernica" was his response to a tragedy that happened in a village in Spain. He masterfully depicted the violence and disturbing nature of the event.

Art is about sharing what's inside of a human soul with the language of aesthetics. What the artist wants to share could be "beautiful" or "ugly", which would dictate how it's represented through art.

Guernica

Summer holidays!

Hi everyone! Today my post will be about what I'm going to do in my vacations this year :)

Well. I have to start explaining I'm not from Santiago, I came from the South of Chile, a little city called Los Angeles, near to Concepción so, the first 2 years when I moved to Santiago, every summer I traveled to Los Angeles, to stay the holidays there, 'cause I can work and don't pay a penny because I stayed at my father's place jejeje

But this last year, things have changed, I lived with a friend and I worked here in the capital to pay all my stuff and obviously, the rent, so probably, this summer I'll stay here, working and maybe traveling near to santiago, for simple reasons; my year won't finish in december, regrettably we'll finish our year the last week of january and also, with the passage of months, I have been buying many things, for my place, so practically, I started a life here in santiago and I can't go back.

Now, of course I'll give to myself a couple of days to hang out with my friends and maybe travel to the coast, I'm not a 100% sure, but I'll try to make it happen and maybe, if I can, travel to Los Angeles to visit my father and my old friends :)

I really enjoy to travel, but not all the time I have to opportunity to do it, when I can't go to another place, I try to take a everyday walk through Santiago and visit some interesting places, of course from my point of view, I think it's amazing to visit museums and parks inside the city, and relax my mind trying to unplug it from all the daily stress jaja 

That was my post, and you probably question yourself, why the puppies? Well, because I love puppies <3 

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK !

Special Talent ?

Despite of me liking architecture, I enjoy art in general, especially  music ! I actually really enjoy to play many instruments, but my favorite above all it's the piano, I don't know how to explain it, but when I hear the sound of the keys, it's kind of magic for me; I remember that when I was a child, I dreamed of becoming a great piano player, but there was one big problem, I didn't have a piano jaja but when I became a teenager, my mother gave me a keyboard and I started to learn.

The first song that I learned was "Für Elise" by L.V. Beethoven, 'cause it was my mom's favorite song in piano, and that was the first approach to a new world of music, called "Música Docta" or Classical Music, where you cand find composers like Mozart, Haydn, Bach, and so on.

Anyway, this topic it's really emotional to me, because that keyboard was my mother's last gift before she passed away like 8 years ago, and for like 2 years, I didn't play the piano or any other instrument, 'cause all the memories soured my mind, but eventually I was able to cope the situation and actually when I play some instrument the thoughts about my mother are very comforting and I feel happy having good memories about her. 

To finish the post, I left a video of myself playing piano blindfolded, like one year after start practising, and surprising myself with the ability of make a few mistakes in the entire piece, of course that was many years ago and today, I think I've improved a lot compared to when I started.

I hope you enjoy the video, and see you next week :)

Bach's Minuet in G Major

My Dream Job

Salute everyone!

Today i'm going to write about a future job that I would like to do and also it's my opportunity to explain a little bit my life's dream.

One of my biggest aspirations is to become an architect, that's why i'm a current student on this career, but inside this area, you can find many kinds of architects, 'cause you have a lot of lines to specialize.

Even though there are architects dedicated to sustainability, heritage, interior design and so on, my interests are directed to be a town planning. because I really like the fact to be able to think the city behavior from the design of it.

I can't picture how it will be, I don't know, my office for example and also I really don't want to idealize this, I just want it to be real, 'cause since I was a child I'm dreaming of this.

This type of job it's characterized by traveling and living in many cities, either by planning or learning, but being there so besides the fact that allows me to think the city I can also meet a lot of places and cultures. <3 

Nowadays I'm still learning a lot about it, not only in my classes but also by speaking whit some urbanist, architects and some artists because, you know, when you talk about architecture, you can't settle with only one perspective. I have to finish my college first but I'm very happy so far with many of my decisions about my career (because if I start to talk about my life's personal decisions, there are a couple that maybe would change xD) Anyways, I feel very satisfied thinking that in the future I'll be able to live with a sense of independance by working with my own hands and brain in an area that since I was like 6 years old I dream of.

Go to Paradise! Valparaíso Road Trip

Hi everyone ! Today I'm going to write about a trip my girlfriend and I made to Valparaiso the last year; I had the option to talk about a concert that I went to, but there is not so important to me :)

Love & Peace

We had a weekend holiday that may last from 2 to 4 days depending on the date; the last year was for 4 days, from saturday to tuesday. 
We started our trip the sunday morning, after a full saturday doing nothing, like any other day in fact LOL
We arrived to Valparaiso after lunch, and honestly, none of us knew where we were, so we walked for 2 or 3 hours just watching the city, and obviously, taking a lot of pictures. 

Sunday Sunset

Nearly the sunset, we decided to look for a place to spent the night, so we went to Cerro Concepción, 'cause is the most beautiful and not so expensive place to stay the night in the city, also is near to Cerro Alegre, one of the most distinctive hill in Valparaiso.
We stayed the night in a hostel called "Casa Aventura", located in the highest point of Cerro Concepcion, the view was amazing and the place had been one of the first houses founded in colonial times. 
We left our things and determinated to make a night walk we prepared to go outside, and the funny thing is we could not reach the street, 'cause we met a group of european tourist; the thing was, in the hostel, we were the only chileans, all the others were from another countries, so was an incredible experience, because we learned about other cultures without go outside Chile.
In first place, our decision was only spent one night in Valparaiso and then go back to Santiago, but we made great friendships, so we stayed other night, besides we had another free day, without classes.
I really enjoyed the trip, not only for met new people from other cultures, also, 'cause when we came back to Santiago, we did the trip backpacking, because we ran out of cash jajaja (typical of us) and for that reason it has been one of the best trip so far to me.

Oh la lá! France

A country I'd like to visit is France :)

Burdeaux Métropole

This beautiful country it's located in Europe. neighbour to the countries of Spain, England and Germany; so it's like a central point, between all the others countries I'd like to visit too.

I like this place for their culture and history: in France you can find so many cultural places to go among the entire country, every city and town have an excentric and unique quality to learn from; I have some friends in Bordeaux, a port city on the Garonne River in southwestern France; so if one day I were to travel, I would love to visit these friends and maybe stay there a couple of days, traveling during the day and coming back at the sunset to stay the night in some hostel.

In fact, one of my purposes is to go for an college exchange the next year, but it's very complicated to win this, not the exchange, but the scholarship to pay all expenses during my stay there. Anyway, if a can't go while I'm student, I'm sure that I'll go in the future 'cause is one of my dreams go to France and also travel through Europe.