Series of Time
By Anna Quinones
By Anna Quinones
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Red Paper Mache
If we were monkeys my world would still be red and paper macheBy Anna Quinones
Media-paper, white glue, molder, acrylic
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
It is written in the stars
Is our destiny in our own hands or is it written in the stars?
Anna Quinones
Anna Quinones
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Clement Greenburg- Modernist Painting
The task of self-criticism became to eliminate from the specific effects of each art any and eery effect that might cenceivably be borrowed from of by the medium of any other art. Thus would each art be rendered 'pure', and in its 'purity' find the guarantee of its standards of quality as well as of its independence.
'Purity' meant self-definition, and the enterprise of self-criticism in the arts became one of self-definition with a vengeance.
Modernists saw the limitations the Old Masters had seen such as-the medium of paiting, the flat surface, the shape of the support, the properties of pigment- as positive factors.
Manet became the first Modernist pictures by virtue of the frankness with hich they declared the flat surfaces on which they painted.
The impressionists made sure that they were not tricking the eye and left no doubt that the colours they used were only medium.
The modernist painter can only be seen into; can be traveled through, literally or figuratively, only with the eye.
The making of pictures means, among other things, the deliberate creating or choosing of a flat surface, and the deliberate circumscribing and limiting of it. This deliberatenedd is precisely what modernist painting harps on: the fact, that is, that the limiting conditions of art are altogether human conditions.
Art is- among other things- continuity, and unthinkable without it.
By-Anna Quinones
'Purity' meant self-definition, and the enterprise of self-criticism in the arts became one of self-definition with a vengeance.
Modernists saw the limitations the Old Masters had seen such as-the medium of paiting, the flat surface, the shape of the support, the properties of pigment- as positive factors.
Manet became the first Modernist pictures by virtue of the frankness with hich they declared the flat surfaces on which they painted.
The impressionists made sure that they were not tricking the eye and left no doubt that the colours they used were only medium.
The modernist painter can only be seen into; can be traveled through, literally or figuratively, only with the eye.
The making of pictures means, among other things, the deliberate creating or choosing of a flat surface, and the deliberate circumscribing and limiting of it. This deliberatenedd is precisely what modernist painting harps on: the fact, that is, that the limiting conditions of art are altogether human conditions.
Art is- among other things- continuity, and unthinkable without it.
By-Anna Quinones
Thursday, August 12, 2010
New Work!
By-Anna Quinones
So I just finished my first drawing class... and let me tell you drawing and technique is so much more difficult then I had ever imagined...
Please comment on the work and let me know what you think.
Also I will be back in Madrid in a few days and am super excited to get to work there and take a ton of photographs so that I can then give you a piece of my explorations.
Thank you for following!!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Felipe & Victoria
By-Anna Quinones
Inspired by the relationship between my parents. A rough but passionate one full of love & life & a tragic finale.
Inspired by the relationship between my parents. A rough but passionate one full of love & life & a tragic finale.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Together or Apart?
This piece in particular has been one of the most interesting ones to make and to think up...
It symbolizes globalization and the effects we have on others as a consequence of our quickly shrinking world. All of the different shades of colors within the different areas act as a metaphor for the different cultures, countries, races, ideas, languages, religions in the world. The center shows how we are quickly becoming one color... or in other words all these different peoples around the globe are turning into a globalized world. The problem with that is though globalization is forcing us to become this world.... we are all still very much disunited and unwilling to open up to this new world we live in. Not to mention how unconscious we are of the huge impact our decisions have on the entire world whether it is as a country, or an individual.
So in conclusion the question remains... are we together or apart?
Please comment
Simplicity
Taken in Vars, France.
I went on this trip to ski. However, the truth is I don't know how to ski so of course, on my first day on the slopes I accidentally twisted my knee while very cautiously and awkwardly going down the bunny slope. Though this disabled me for a few weeks, it allowed me to walk around the mountain while my friend went skiing.
While strolling around the wide open sky and all of the beauty surrounding me was inspirational and allowed me to come up with both Simplicity as well as Peace.
Please comment
SOLD! 1 of 10
Peace
Taken in Vars, France.I went on this trip to ski. However, the truth is I don't know how to ski so of course, on my first day on the slopes I accidentally twisted my knee while very cautiously and awkwardly going down the bunny slope. Though this disabled me for a few weeks, it allowed me to walk around the mountain while my friend went skiing.
While strolling around the wide open sky and all of the beauty surrounding me was inspirational and allowed me to come up with both Simplicity as well as Peace.
Please comment
SOLD! 1 of 10
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
A Litte Princess
"We are all princesses ... didn't your father ever tell you that! Didn't he?"
This piece was actually inspired from not the original but the second A Little Princess movie.
Sometimes women we forget how beautiful and gentle our souls are.
We are all princesses.
We are all beautiful.
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Who am I?
This piece was painted in my first week back in Dallas after being in Madrid.
I was so confused about everything.
With culture shock.
It is hard to believe I have integrated into 3 cultures each one having changed and challenged my point of view as well as broadened my horizons.
However, no matter how many people you meet how many cultures you integrate to, it only proves how little you know.
Life goes up and down. Vigorously yanks you to one side then to the other.
In the end friends come and go...
Boyfriends come and go at an even faster speed...
But -you- remain -yourself-.
You can never change your soul.
It will mold a little differently but you will always be you.
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Las Cinco de la Tarde
My mother and younger sister came to visit me in Madrid during the Spring. We of course meticulously followed the tourist list of famous attractions and truthfully enjoyed every second of it.
The most emotional for my family though, was the bullfight and the musical about the bullfight we saw the night after.
It was not until that moment that I realized how sweet animals are and how brutally we take advantage of their kindness... it is amazing, but ironically though we take our anger out on these creatures and label it "culture" we still seem to have so much anger and resentment left over which we of course take out on each other.
How the slicing of an innocent animal can be labeled culture is beyond me.
...... a las cinco de la tarde........
Together or Apart?
This piece in particular has been one of the most interesting ones to make and to think up...
It symbolizes globalization and the effects we have on others as a consequence of our quickly shrinking world. All of the different shades of colors within the different areas act as a metaphor for the different cultures, countries, races, ideas, languages, religions in the world. The center shows how we are quickly becoming one color... or in other words all these different peoples around the globe are turning into a globalized world. The problem with that is though globalization is forcing us to become this world.... we are all still very much disunited and unwilling to open up to this new world we live in. Not to mention how unconscious we are of the huge impact our decisions have on the entire world whether it is as a country, or an individual.
So in conclusion the question remains... are we together or apart?
$250
It symbolizes globalization and the effects we have on others as a consequence of our quickly shrinking world. All of the different shades of colors within the different areas act as a metaphor for the different cultures, countries, races, ideas, languages, religions in the world. The center shows how we are quickly becoming one color... or in other words all these different peoples around the globe are turning into a globalized world. The problem with that is though globalization is forcing us to become this world.... we are all still very much disunited and unwilling to open up to this new world we live in. Not to mention how unconscious we are of the huge impact our decisions have on the entire world whether it is as a country, or an individual.
So in conclusion the question remains... are we together or apart?
$250
El Gitano Borracho
Are all gypsies drunks?
... well.... I can't speak for all of them but I can certainly speak for the polish gypsies that live in Madrid ..... and they are most definitely all drunks.
They are exactly like in this picture... some with black eyes... some with one black eye. Others with a ridiculously red face because all of the alcohol has cut off their circulation to their brain or something. And always hustling....
Ugh I can remember perfectly when this damn gypsy in Paris sold me a fake painting of the Eiffel tower! I know exactly what you are thinking, what an idiot how in the world do you mistake a fake painting from a real one?.... well my friends it is much harder than you have been led to believe.
The Drunk Gypsy.
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