Pinturas de Sorolla, consulted on Monday September 1st, 2009. Available at: http://www.artespain.com/joaquin-sorolla/imagenes/sorollabalandrito01.jpg“El balandrito”
Artist: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863 – 1923).
Year: 1909.
Original size: 100 x 110 cm.
Style: Impressionism.
Technology: Oil on canvas.
Artist: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863 – 1923).
Year: 1909.
Original size: 100 x 110 cm.
Style: Impressionism.
Technology: Oil on canvas.
People can travel in many ways...
Fortunately, we don´t always do it in transportation; and by this I mean that: sometimes, no airplanes, no cars, no trains and no boats are capable of taking us to where we want to go.
Sometimes we aren´t going anywhere, but nevertheless, we travel ...We travel to places that we can not touch, but can feel.
Today, I have traveled to the country of the light, the reflections and the sea. And I have done by the hand of Joaquin Sorolla:
I “teleported” to the Sorolla´s Museum in Madrid...
Panic was what I felt when I accessed to the first room: With so many people is hard to see any of the paintings that hang on the walls. Anyway ...is what is there. I am seeking the appropriate hole to go looking at every one of the paintings. Given the circumstances (that I'm in exam´s week and I have to go to volleyball in 50 minutes), I intend to make a quick visit.
The exhibition is organized chronologically.
One of the first image that strikes me is the Fishermen Valencia. It looks like a photograph but it is more. IT IS AN EXTENSION OF A MOMENT. The sea moves, the reflexes vibrate and the light colored the reality...
It was just one example of what prevails in most of his works: Light, color, reflections, transparencies, textures, intense strokes... Landscapes, portraits, views of Spain... The Mediterranean; the sea.
My father always tell me: “Fer, if there is a starry sky that belongs to Van Gogh, there is a sea full of reflections and lights that belongs to Sorolla”.
There are many paintings that I'm caught in this museum...
And despite the burden of the amount of people who are visiting, I'd say that it's worth seeing the exhibition. (Of course if I ever have the fortune to go to this gallery... I'm sure I'll enjoy that more).
And if someone doesn´t have the chance to visit or be able to “teleport” to the place like me, I leave you one of the pictures that I liked and enjoyed a lot: “El Balandrito”.
Perhaps many of you think that this painting is no a big piece of art (and you will be right), but for me it is much more than that...
You will say: - More than that? But Fer, is only a naked child playing with a small boat at the sea.
So, I will answer to you: - Right, it's a naked child playing with a small boat at the sea, but that's just a physical thing (one of the 3 properties for an artwork according to Ingarden)... But, come on, I know that you can see more beyond these brush strokes. Put your eyes very well inside the painting, get into it ...let yourself go and discover. Discover this hidden world.
Fortunately, we don´t always do it in transportation; and by this I mean that: sometimes, no airplanes, no cars, no trains and no boats are capable of taking us to where we want to go.
Sometimes we aren´t going anywhere, but nevertheless, we travel ...We travel to places that we can not touch, but can feel.
Today, I have traveled to the country of the light, the reflections and the sea. And I have done by the hand of Joaquin Sorolla:
I “teleported” to the Sorolla´s Museum in Madrid...
Panic was what I felt when I accessed to the first room: With so many people is hard to see any of the paintings that hang on the walls. Anyway ...is what is there. I am seeking the appropriate hole to go looking at every one of the paintings. Given the circumstances (that I'm in exam´s week and I have to go to volleyball in 50 minutes), I intend to make a quick visit.
The exhibition is organized chronologically.
One of the first image that strikes me is the Fishermen Valencia. It looks like a photograph but it is more. IT IS AN EXTENSION OF A MOMENT. The sea moves, the reflexes vibrate and the light colored the reality...
It was just one example of what prevails in most of his works: Light, color, reflections, transparencies, textures, intense strokes... Landscapes, portraits, views of Spain... The Mediterranean; the sea.
My father always tell me: “Fer, if there is a starry sky that belongs to Van Gogh, there is a sea full of reflections and lights that belongs to Sorolla”.
There are many paintings that I'm caught in this museum...
And despite the burden of the amount of people who are visiting, I'd say that it's worth seeing the exhibition. (Of course if I ever have the fortune to go to this gallery... I'm sure I'll enjoy that more).
And if someone doesn´t have the chance to visit or be able to “teleport” to the place like me, I leave you one of the pictures that I liked and enjoyed a lot: “El Balandrito”.
Perhaps many of you think that this painting is no a big piece of art (and you will be right), but for me it is much more than that...
You will say: - More than that? But Fer, is only a naked child playing with a small boat at the sea.
So, I will answer to you: - Right, it's a naked child playing with a small boat at the sea, but that's just a physical thing (one of the 3 properties for an artwork according to Ingarden)... But, come on, I know that you can see more beyond these brush strokes. Put your eyes very well inside the painting, get into it ...let yourself go and discover. Discover this hidden world.
“El Balandrito” is a very beautiful painting and although it hasn´t many colors, those that prevail in it are very bright. This is a very cheerful work of art (after seeing the wavy lines of the waves, we can deduce that represent movements of happiness, so the author was happy and felt good about himself when he made it).
It contains a static vertical symmetric line... therefore the child that be in the center of the painting becomes the work force...
And changing the subject... Why I chose this painting? Well, because since I was small I loved going to the beach and play sand wars with my brother and my cousins, collect shells and make castles or something like a castle (hehe)...
For me the sea is one of the most beautiful things I have saw in my life (maybe because as we live here in Colima, a few minutes from the coast, we don´t appreciate it so much... But, not all people have the oportunity to hear the waves, feel (and sometimes drink, hehe) that salt water, fill the bottom of our swim suits of sand, give crackers to the seagulls and get on the banana ...(who never misses a fat boy or girl that falls upon you)...
This painting is not complicated and I guess what Joaquin Sorolla wanted to express was the sensation of pleasure and fun that leads to being at sea ...but I don´t know why it makes me feel more than that and something completely different...
I know that this sounds strange, but every time I see “El Balandrito”, I think in the future (maybe it's because one of the races that I would like to study is a marine biologist).
...Sometimes I think about the destination ...but I believe I much prefer to think that we have the control of our lives, if not, nothing could change. Sometimes only an illusion enough to draw a horizon in our thoughts, a place where travelers can be reached, but this time not in a mobile, this time by browsing in our dreams...
So just let dreams grow, because in them is the truth... THE TRUTH THAT THIS FICTION OF ACTUALLY TRIES TO HIDE.
“Swimming in memories”
Artist: Fernanda Covarrubias Noriega (1992 - ____).
Year: 2009.
Original size: 150 x 180 cm.
Style: Spontaneous-Thought.
Technology: Photos, crepe paper, clothing and swim team on floor.
Artist: Fernanda Covarrubias Noriega (1992 - ____).
Year: 2009.
Original size: 150 x 180 cm.
Style: Spontaneous-Thought.
Technology: Photos, crepe paper, clothing and swim team on floor.
Several days of observing the painting “El Balandrito”...were enough to create my piece of art, which I named “Swimming in memories”.
In that I represent my soul (that explains why the face doesn´t see very well) trapped in the time... (Because when I was little I swam at the University of Colima; and I don´t want to be presumed (really!), but I belonged to the selection of Colima) So a special feeling runs through me when I see it.
I never forget the day when I created this piece of art: it was incredible! For me “Swimming in memories” is everything, although you need to half closed your eyes and turn your head to see what it really is, is everything!
Bibliography
El Balandrito, consulted on Monday September 1st, 2009. Available at:
http://www.reproarte.com/cuadro/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla+y+Bastida/Le+petit+bateau+de+voile+/16350.html
Pinturas de Sorolla, consulted on Monday September 1st, 2009. Available at: http://www.artespain.com/joaquin-sorolla/imagenes/sorollabalandrito01.jpg
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