Caligrafia

“La tarde trae sonido de alas”

Author: Miguel Ángel Ojeda

Technique: Oleo sobre lienzo
Year of creation: 2013

This colorful painting is one of the newest pieces of art exhibited at MUSAS in Hermosillo, Sonora. The picture joined to the author’s collection called “El extraño viaje del tiempo”.  Ojeda is from Culiacan, Sinaloa.

My first impression was attractive and funny because of its colors and the shape the author uses to draw the houses. The painting makes you feel you are moving like kind of waves, and I do not know much about art and stuff, but in my opinion is not a typical style of shapes.

He details every space in the painting like the stone pavement, the long wooden windows, and the elegant and simple balconies with their view to the downtown square. The sunset is a strong characteristic from the northern of Mexico and they are like Ojeda painted it, sometimes yellow almost orange, rose almost reddish and lilac almost purple. Even he used strong colors, the painting does not look saturated, I mean, he knew the best balance for it. Actually, he is using tertiary colors such as lilac, coral, different tones of green, etc.

I think what the author wanted to transmit to public in this group of pieces, is a mix between traditional or colonial places with modern life. His inspiration comes from the culture and history of Mexico; architecture such from cathedrals, colonial downtowns, temples, streets, square, etc. And the modernity comes with these nice-looking colors he used, and which was what I most liked and as I already mentioned, what caught my attention. Also, I think the author is trying to reflect what really is happening with our cities and specially our little towns. That maybe, with this modern age, most of these places are losing their characteristics and origin from what they really were. They are suffering this phenomenon called acculturation that means like a type of clash of cultures.

I like his idea of mixing up this two ideas, tradition and modernism, because while little towns and village people do not lose their origin, I do not see any problem to give them a little touch of modernization. I mean, everything has to keep in advance and development.

Anyway, I never understand art, and this one is not the exception. I didn’t understand why Ojeda in this whole collection, has the musicians, the couple in a cloud and thousands of cats (the animal what I hate the most by the way). The sky just seems at it because of the blue color, but not cause of the white circles. Also, I did not find the meaning or the sense of the name of this piece of art.

Ana Lucía Ocaña

Intento de mosaico

Prehistory

Our ancestors were brainy and brilliant in many ways, especially in survival circumstances. They discovered fire and used this for brightness and sometimes as a weapon; primitives were the best hunters and gatherers, they learned how and what to eat from hunting. They were the first ones who started drawing, and as we saw at class, they can be called artists. They started painting in caves everything they saw, maybe in hope or with the purpose that one day somebody could interpret them and inform how things started once upon a time.

I have been in many archeological sites and museums, so I believe that primitive knew the best way to teach us about the ancient times, I never used to think about coincidences because everything is exactly and has logic. Their religion, culture and manners is so exciting.

When I saw this video, I knew about the paintings and weapons they used, but I didn’t know anything about constellations its relation with the zodiac signs. I admit that I always wanted to know where zodiac came from, but honestly I have the same doubts the video mentioned. Why these people had to compare constellations with animals? I know because of the form or shape, but I think this is a coincidence, I mean astronomers today aren´t sure how ancestors measured. How can astronomers compare degrees or inches with measures of centuries ago? So I have to say, this video just informed me but didn’t convinced me.

Greek Mythology

The Muses

According to greek mythology, the Muses are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemósine, who were conceived during nine consecutives nights. They are able to inspired every kind of poetry and also narrate in past, present and future tense thanks to their prophetic skills.

The Muses are divine singers who, with their choruses and hymns delight Zeus and other Gods at Olympus. Sometimes, descend to Earth acting as mediators between the divine and human beings through the inspiration that convey the poets, providing knowledge of the Eternal.

Clio – Who offers glory

Euterpe – The one who is very pleasant

Talia - The festive

Melpomene - The melodious

Terpsichore - Who delights in dance

Erato - The kind

Polimnia – The one of many hymns

Urania – The Celestial

Calliope - The beautiful voice of

In accordance to a legend King Piero Pieria, in Thrace, had nine daughters who were skilled in the art of singing. They were so proud of this virtue that decided to travel to Helicon and challenge the Muses to a contest, who accepted. The Pierides sang a wonderful song that even the birds fell silent to listen, but the song of the Muses moved the stones. The Pierides, defeated, were punished for their arrogance Muses transformed them into magpies, changing their voices squawking.

Collage Egipto