the Bauhaus wave

The BAUHAUS was a school in Germany which combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. The bauhaus set the begging of what now is known as Industrial design. One of the main objectives of the Bauhaus was to unify art, craft, and technology.
Nowadays we have a lot of design schools which have their own teaching methods. But all of them unify as the Bauhaus art, craft, and technology with lots of creativity. Industrial design solve necessities creating objects, spaces or services.
Like Selk'bag; this sleeping bag is more like a body bag ( not the corpse ones ). It's padded and shaped to the human form and allows free movement both in and out of sleep, where traditional sleeping bags don't. also like Kenguru which is a car specially designed for wheelchair users. The car's interior space has no front seat, just a space built to house the drivers own wheelchair so all he/she has to do is simply roll in through the extra large car doors and into position. The wheelchair locks into place, within easy reach of the car's controls which are centred around a joystick.

Cezanne way

Cezanne was an artist whose work laid the foundations of the transition to modern art. His work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, composition and draftsmanship. He was characterized by his repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes.

As an Impressionist he was interested in light. So does Françoise Nielly, a French artist whose work is a construction of space, feelings and bright colors. Her paintings are very expressive, in which she shows strength and love for life. With her creations she transcends as an artist who synthesize the power of the masculine and feminine expression. The brush strokes are thick and powerful.

Turner and frida

Turner was a brilliant artist of the Romanticism, also known as the painter of light. He painted landscapes, but what was very interesting about him was his double personality in painting, he could paint beautiful happy landscapes and in other hand he was the master of chaos. Turner painted moving scenes; he was very interested in the affection of humanity, and the sublime of nature. He was one voice looking for justice when he painted the slave ship by painting such an emotive subject Turner was attempting to assist in the abolitionist slave campaign.

The way he used to represent his feeling about the things in which he believed reminds me the Mexican painter Frida Khalo who through her paintings was able to talk about her feeling but, she was more about herself. Also she shared a feature with Turner which was this double personality, she painted happy surrealist themes but also chaotic destructive ones, which was linked with her love for Diego Rivera. For example she had paintings about nature and life but others (a lot) talk about her painful love for Diego or her depression about not being able to have babies. Just as turner we have an artist who’s internal tragedy and thoughts became the source their artwork.

the Baroque body

Baroque art rebelled against the traditional Mannerist style of Renaissance art. Renaissance art was more orderly, restrained, and symmetrically balanced. Baroque artists made their work richer and more grandiose. For example, a Renaissance artist may have used rectangles to make an artwork balanced and beautiful. But a baroque artist would have replaced the rectangles with curved areas for a more dramatic effect. Baroque artists strived to make their work more emotional, appealing to all the senses with variety and movement. Baroque art also contrasted values and depicted bold ornamentation.
This highly ornamented idea is now transported to skin ornamental art of tattoos. We can admired or even horrify with the tattoo addiction some people have, but in a way is the same idea of emotion, appealing to senses, because this people want to arose other people with their personal canvas (their skin). The problem with skin is that we have a limited quantity of it so, people addicted to tattooing, with a crescent collection of tattoos began to look as a life baroque piece of art.

Lachapelle and neoclassicism

Just as Neo-classicism began looking back at classic art, to revive the ideals of Greek and roman art, David Lachapelle is an artist, who through photography brings resemble of famous pieces of art to actuality. Like the Pieta of Michelangelo, the last supper, or Andy Warhol’s Marylyn. The Neoclassicism searches for the virtues of the French revolution and enhances the courage of men. In Lachapelle’s work the cosmism and plastic symbols are part of a joke, where the viewer became the judge when he or she sees the familiarity of the cosmism world in the pictures.
He plays with symbols in a modern context just as Neoclassicism used to work. But insted of encouraging patriotism or freedom, the subjects matter is about tha plastic idialisms in famous

Bernini is in Marble as Mueck is in Silicon

Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. His sculpture work is quite interesting and reminds me Bernini work; because of his attention to detail, and non common perfection that gives more realism to the piece.

The attention to detail and sheer technical brilliance of his figures are incredible, but it is Mueck's use of scale that takes your breath away. He is also a mas­ter at capturing human expres­sion and recre­at­ing the detail of mus­cles, skin, fat and bones that we are all made of.
Also as Bernini’s work Mueck’s Hyper-realist art sculptures force the viewer to respond to the artwork as they would to the presence of the real thing. And both gave their pieces those little imperfections or details which gave them more emotion, and make us wonder what are those pieces thinking.

Leo and gestures

Working with dead people was the only way to obtain knowledge about the different muscles, bones and layers of skin and fat, that help to give some gestures and positions. Just as Leonardo Da Vinci did, he took a knife and began to explore in the insides of corpuses with the objective of the understanding of the body and how it looked. He left drawings, and notes about what he was able to comprehend about how certain parts affect the features and movements.

Nowadays we have books instead of corpuses to understand how this different muscles, bones and skin, called human body, work together in different positions. Fortunately for us the times of sneaking inside corpuses in a cold and stinky chamber are over.