Famous Painting

Contemporary
Artworks
Local Artworks
Famous Sculpture
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Famous Painting in
Art History
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 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
In 1879, Georges Seurat enlisted as a
soldier in the French army and arrived
back home in 1880. Later, he ran a small
painter's studio in Paris, and in 1883
showed his work publicly for the first
time. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island
of La Grande Jatte is both the best-
known and largest painting Georges
Seurat ever created on a canvas. It
depicts people relaxing in a suburban
park on an island in the Seine River
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called La Grande Jatte, a popular retreat
for the middle and upper class of Paris
in the 19th century.
Story behind it:

He was an ambitious young man with a scientific theory to prove,

something totally unique for the elite of the modern art world. Seurat's
theory was an optical one - he had the conviction that painting in dots
was able to produce a brighter color than painting in strokes. Seurat's
painting was a mirror impression of his own painting, Bathers at
Asnières, completed shortly before, in 1884. Whereas the bathers in that
earlier painting are doused in light, almost every figure on La Grande
Jatte appears to be cast in shadow, either under trees or an umbrella, or
from another person.
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Evaluation/Reflection:

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is both the best-known and
largest painting Georges Seurat ever created on a canvas. It depicts people relaxing in
a suburban park on an island in the Seine River called La Grande Jatte, a popular
retreat for the middle and upper class of Paris in the 19th century. And that painting
was beautiful because aside of it’s meaning it was nice seeing people that are chilling
with their loved ones and with their animals. The painting depicts fashionable
Parisians enjoying a Sunday afternoon at a popular beauty spot located on the River
Seine between Neuilly and Levallois-Perret.

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The Last Supper
The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, is
one of the most famous works of art in the
world. It is a large fresco style painting on the
wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan,
Italy. Unfortunately, because of the medium
used, the work began to deteriorate soon after
it was painted, and so over the years
numerous restoration attempts have been
made to restore and preserve it. Although it
took over three years to complete, da Vinci
did not actually work on it continuously. No
one knows the exact date of commencement
due to lost and unreliable record-keeping. 6
Story behind it:

The First Epistle to the Corinthians contains the earliest known mention
of the Last Supper. The four canonical gospels state that the Last Supper
took place in the week of Passover, days after Jesus's triumphal entry
into Jerusalem, and shortly before Jesus was crucified that week. During
the meal Jesus predicts his betrayal by one of the apostles presents, and
foretells that before the next morning, Peter will thrice deny knowing
him.

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Evaluation/Reflection:
Before we leave on a journey, move house, or migrate abroad many of us like to gather
with family and friends. We give them a parting gift; something symbolic so our love and
friendship will be remembered, and our life will be recalled and cherished. It can be a
photograph or favorite book, a recorded video or audio message. Jesus left no such
mementoes by which to be remembered. He left something greater; He left Himself
present to all. The meal of bread and wine, The Last Supper, the Eucharist, is much more
than a farewell party, more than a religious rite and more than a religious obligation. It’s a
unique spiritual event through which Christians experience His presence and during
which the redemption of humankind that He brought about by his life, death and
resurrection is re-enacted and renewed. During the Eucharist we are called to be true and
faithful disciples - to be another Christ. We are called to serve others as Jesus did -
helping the poor, lifting the downtrodden, releasing captives, healing the sick, challenging
the causes of poverty and oppression, helping orphans and widows. This is the way 8to
extend His presence and love in the world - through unselfish service.
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Contemporary
Artworks
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 Mobile Lovers
This image by Banksy, titled Mobile
Lovers (2014) it shows two people, one
man and one woman. They are in each
other’s arms as if they are about to kiss.
The photo is in all black and white but
gets increasingly lighter towards their
faces and the hand that is holding a
phone. The woman has her left hand on
the man’s right shoulder and her right arm
is behind his head holding her phone. The
light from her phone is reflecting onto her
face. The man has his right hand on the
woman’s waist, but his left hand is behind 10
the woman’s head holding his phone, with
the light reflecting onto his face.
Story behind it:

This specific piece of artwork, Mobile Lovers, created in April

2014 in Banksy's hometown of Bristol, conveys the message of
the importance of living in the moment. Today, people are
consumed by technology and living their lives through their
phones.

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Evaluation/Reflection:

In the painting “mobile lovers” it has a very significant meaning it is showing us

that no matter how much people may love each other they are still attached to their
phone. I personally believe that the media message is extremely true in today’s
generation. In today’s world people claim to be so in love with each other but can
never leave their phone or put it down when they are with the person they love.
They find the need to always put everything on social media and stay on it. People
live completely different lives on social media than in real life, that their partners
may not know about, they go behind their backs and can never tell because they are
too distracted themselves. This mural truly shows a major problem in today’s
generation.
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The Girl Who Had Everything

thus lures the viewer into a promiscuous

game of hide-and-seek, whereby an
explicit detail will suddenly snap into
focus. With each glance, the painting
evolves into an experience of visual
pleasure, repeatedly revealing itself to the
imagination.

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Story behind it:
In her 1998 painting The Girl Who Had Everything, she melds the figurative
and the abstract to create a new painterly grammar, filching the shiny bits of
art history with magpie abandon. There’s an impudent irreverence to the
voluptuous surface with its gut and blood reds and calamine pinks, its swirls
of meaty colour reminiscent of Soutine and Bacon set alongside girly ice
cream shades. A carnal sensuality to the explosive brush works and restless
paint. A mix of tough knowingness and I-don’t-give-a-fuck, reminiscent of
Cy Twombly’s chthonic Bacchus series. But where Twombly bought into the
romanticism of classical myth, Brown’s lush carmine swirls swell and bloat
erotically to suggest tumescent and menstruation with her tongue firmly in
her postmodern cheek There’s sexuality and violence here, but it feels more
porny, more playful, more Saturday night rave than distraught Bacchae.
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Evaluation/Reflection:
Cecily Brown is one of these painters who have tried to expand the life and
language of painting. She was born in London in 1969 and studied at the Slade
School of Art, which has a long history with painting. She melds figurative and
abstract to create a new pictorial grammar in her 1998 work, The Girl Who Had
Everything, scavenging the dazzling parts of art history with magpie recklessness.
The sensuous surface, with its gut and blood reds and calamine pinks, its swirls of
meaty color suggestive of Soutine and Bacon juxtaposed alongside dainty ice
cream tones, has an impudent attitude to it. Artwork might well have come even
close to requiring life support in recent decades, gasping on the gurney of an
unappreciative artworld more interested in the immediate results of video and
performance, but Cecily Brown has shown that no matter how many times it's
declared dead, and the great experts of artwork called in to pronounce the last rites,15
there was always an artist interested in finding its pulse, to resurrect it into yet
another lease of creative experience.
 The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone
Living

The Physical Impossibility of

Death in the Mind of Someone
Living is an artwork created in
1991 by Damien Hirst, an
English artist and a leading
member of the "Young British
Artists" (or YBA). It consists of
a preserved tiger shark
submerged in formaldehyde in a
glass-panel display case. 16
Story behind it:

Story'Owing to deterioration of the original 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger

shark, it was replaced with a new specimen in 2006. It is considered
an iconic work of British art in the 1990s and has become a symbol of
Britart worldwide. It is an actual tiger shark preserved in
formaldehyde in a vitrine, and this installation was commissioned by
Charles Saatchi who was willing to pay for whatever artwork Hirst
wanted to produce. The animal was caught by a commissioned
fisherman in Hervey Bay in Queensland, and the artist's desire was to
have a specimen "big enough to eat you".
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Evaluation/Reflection:

is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a

leading member of the "Young British Artists" (or YBA). It consists of
a preserved tiger shark sub merged in formaldehyde in a glass-panel
display case. It was originally commissioned in 1991 by Charles
Saatchi, who sold it in 2004 to Steven A. Cohen for an undisclosed
amount, widely reported to have been at least $8 million. However, the
title of Don Thompson's book, The $12 Million Stuffed.

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Local Artworks
(Philippines)
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Filipino Struggles Through History
According to the National Museum, the
“Filipino Struggles Through History” is
arguably the greatest extant work of
Filipino famous painter Carlos “Botong”
Francisco, and among his last, as it was
finished in 1968—only months before his
death on March 31, 1969. In 1996, this
Filipino painting was declared a National
Cultural Treasure, which means that it is
“a unique cultural property found locally,
possessing outstanding historical, cultural,
artistic and/or scientific value which is
highly significant and important to the 20
country and nation.” This famous painting
in the Philippines can be seen at the
National Museum of Fine Arts.
Story behind it:
After four years of painstaking restoration, National Artist Carlos
“Botong” Francisco’s Filipino Struggles Through History is finally
viewable to the public. According to the National Museum, it is
“arguably Botong’s greatest extant work of art—and among his last, as
it was finished only months before his death on March 31, 1969.” Also
known as History of Manila, the series of paintings documents the
history of the Philippines from pre-colonial Tondo to the end of the
American colonial period in 1946. It was commissioned by Mayor
Antonio J. Villegas for the Manila City Hall back in 1968 and declared a
National Cultural Treasure in 1996. Over the years, however, the murals
fell into grave disrepair. 21
Evaluation/Reflection:

Another major work of National Artist Carlos "Botong " Francisco

is enshrined at the national Museum of Fine Arts. His opus History
of manila (Kasaysayan ng Maynila), now titled as Filipino Struggle
through History ( Pagpupunyagi ng mga Pilipino sa Daloy ng
Kasaysayan) is a mural on canvas that chronicles the known
historical narrative of the Philippines, particularly of Manila during
prehispanic times until the post - Second World War . The major
historic events in Manila as depicted in the mural were
consequently tied to the national narrative of the country generally
because Manila held and holds the seat of power. The work 22

comprises panels that form the shapes of the three planes of a hall.
 Madonna of the Slums

His Madonna of the Slums is a portrayal

of a mother and child from the
countryside who became urban shanty
residents once in the city. In his
Jeepneys, Manansala combined the
elements of provincial folk culture with
the congestion issues of the city.

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Story behind it:

Shunning Amorsolo's rural idylls, he developed a new

imagery based on the postwar urban experience. The
city of Manila, through the vision of the artist, assumed
a strong folk character. He painted an innovative mother
and child, Madonna of the Slums, 1950, which reflected
the poverty in postwar Manila. The painting shows how
dangerous – mentally, physically and emotionally – it is
to live with the people in the slums. 24
Evaluation/Reflection:

He uses his subject as a symbolism of a thing that represent mainly the barrios or the
provincial life like the “Jeepneys” and ” Kalabaw”. His artwork, “Madonna of the
Slums” pictured a woman bearing a child as a subject. It was clearly shown in the
picture together with the houses most found in slang areas or highly populated
residential areas as a background. The conventional meaning of his artwork mainly
focuses of the lives of people finding refuge in the slums or a highly populated
urban residential areas. It is where they are born but grew up being indifferent with
the frequent changes brought by modernization and economic development. The
people in this specific area experienced being “left” by the continuous change in the
society. Madonna of the Slums expresses sadness.
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Famous Sculpture
(Local/International)
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Lapu-Lapu Monument
The Lapu-Lapu Shrine is a 20-meter
bronze statue located in the Mactan
Shrine Park in Punta Engaño, Mactan
Island, Cebu. The statue was erected to
honor Rajah Lapu-Lapu, the native
chieftain of Mactan Island who defeated
Ferdinand Magellan during the historic
Battle of Mactan in 1521. The Lapu-
Lapu Shrine is inside a plaza commonly
known as the Magellan Shrine Park that
commemorates the events of the Battle
of Mactan. Thousands of foreign and 27
local tourists visit the park every year.
Story behind it:
Lapu-Lapu is widely celebrated as the first Filipino hero, famously
vanquishing Portuguese conquistador Ferdinand Magellan and his
army in their attempt to colonies Mactan Island. In honor of his
triumph, Lapu-Lapu’s monument stands tall in the island of Mactan
today, symbolizing the country’s first successful resistance to
Spanish colonization. Apart from successfully defying foreign
invaders, little is known about the man and legend that is Lapu-
Lapu. Citing scholarly research and historical accounts, Culture Trip
aims to paint a picture of this Philippine hero and the events that
shaped the future of the nation. Lapu-Lapu is also known under the
names of Lapu-Lapu, Si Lapulapu, Salip Pulaka, Cali Pulaco, and 28
LapuLapu Dimantag.
Evaluation/Reflection:

Lapu-Lapu is widely celebrated as the first Filipino hero,

famously vanquishing Portuguese conquistador Ferdinand
Magellan and his army in their attempt to colonies Mactan
Island. In honor of his triumph, Lapu-Lapu’s monument
stands tall in the island of Mactan today, symbolizing the
country’s first successful resistance to Spanish colonization.

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 Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Saint Teresa of Avila was a Spanish nun who claimed
to have experienced divine visions in which she
would suddenly feel consumed by the love of God,
feel the bodily presence of Christ or of angels, and be
lifted to an exalted state of ecstasy. She described
these visions in her writings. In 1622, forty years
after her death, Teresa was canonized by Pope
Gregory XV. This sculpture depicts one of the visions
described by her in her spiritual autobiography.

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Story behind it:

He pierces her heart repeatedly with the spear, an act that sends
her into a state of spiritual rapture. Gian Lorenzo Bernini is
regarded as a pioneer of Baroque sculpture, a style the flourished
in Europe from early 17th to late 18th century. In it, an angel
carrying a fire-tipped spear appears before her.

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Evaluation/Reflection:
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini painted The Ecstasy of St. Theresa in 1652. It was
built between 1647 and 1652 and stands 11 feet 6 inches tall, brightening up the
Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria dell Vittoria, Rome. Marble, stucco, and gilt
bronze make up this sculpture. St Teresa was a nun who wrote about an
encounter with an angel who appeared to her and pierced her intestines with a
blazing arrow of heavenly love. St. Teresa's expression is one of absolute
ecstasy. Aside from the sculpture, there are wooden rays that descend from
behind it, symbolizing the effect of light beams. Bernini was the first sculptor to
realize the dramatic light effects in a sculpture where the sun rays shine down on
Teresa and the angel, illuminating both figures. The light behind the sculpture is
designed to reflect a dramatic contrast of light, which was prominent throughout
the Baroque era. Teresa's twisted body is in utter ecstasy of the angel's holy love,32
and the sculpture is set atop a cloud.
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