Galician Women ART GALLERY

The aim of this Art Gallery is to interpret pictures of the female figure in the Galician figurative art. The students of ‘4º ESO’ are going to be the artists. After the survey done by the students of ‘2º Bacharelato’, the subject matter of the Galician painting was hidden to the students’ eyes .They needed to be informed of its meaning and importance. So we did this by studying Isaac Díaz Pardo, who had a clear political awareness of transforming our contemporary society through ART. In this way he followed Manoel Antonio’s ideas as they are in his manifesto ‘Máis alá’ (1922) Isaac Díaz Pardo wanted to reconstruct, strengthen and preserve Galician culture. He did it through a number of projects, including art dealing (being himself one of Galicia's great painters), becoming a Galician-language editor, working as an industrial art designer and as a writer. GALICIAN WOMEN through the eyes of Issac Díaz Pardo, Roberto González del Blanco, Carlos Maside García and Manuel Torres Martínez

ISAAC DIAZ PARDO ARTIST and TEACHER There are three places in Isaac Díaz Pardo’s pictorial line. Madrid, where he attends the Fine Arts Academy and starts his painting career. Castro de Samoedo, the second and the most fertile period, which drives him to his maturity and here he produces his big oil paintings. Magdalena (near Buenos Aires) in his exile, far from the gloomy, oppressive and constricted Galicia of the 1950s.

FAREWELL IN BOISACA Unfortunately, when we were doing this project, he died in January 2012. He was buried in Boisaca cemetery, Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela 1920- A Coruña 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlwzkXX4Aow

  FROM MAGDALENA TO SARGADELOS http://www.almargen.com.ar/?p=660 In 1955, the interest shown in the ceramics made at O Castro led Isaac Díaz Pardo to the creation of a project in Argentina. The “Magdalena” Porcelain Factory near Buenos Aires, where production continued for over thirty years. This trans-oceanic project also awoke the interest of Galician intellectuals, who had been in exile in Argentina since the end of the Spanish Civil War. There they tried to recover the economic and cultural situation of Galicia and in 1963 they created the "Laboratorio de Formas" (Laboratory of Forms). http://www.sargadelos.com/sargadelos/?txt=historia&lg=cas

THE GROUP OF WOMEN by ISAAC DIAZ PARDO This is the group of nine porcelain women designed by Isaac. They are a numbered series of 2000 pieces altogether of approximately 13 cm. They have rosy skin and Isaac’s characteristic designed hairstyle. We have tried to trace the idea of the ideal woman’s proportion canon through their corporal expressiveness. For that purpose we took the most iconographic figurative examples of the Galician plastic arts from last century.

THE FRUIT SELLER by ROBERTO GONZALEZ del BLANCO

TERESA by ISAAC DIAZ PARDO THE FRUIT SELLER by ROBERTO GONZALEZ del BLANCO http://maestrosdelretrato.blogspot.com.es/es/2009/01/timoteo-perez-rubio/html http://www.gonzalezdelblanco.com/

WASHERWOMEN by CARLOS MASIDE GARCIA

MARIA by ISAAC DIAZ PARDO WASHERWOMEN by CARLOS MASIDE GARCIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZbPBxUldGU

PEASANT WOMEN RESTING by MANUEL TORRES MARTINEZ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N2aZc_xddY

MARIÑA and ANA by ISAAC DIAZ PARDO PEASANT WOMEN by MANUEL TORRES MARTINEZ From the 20s onwards, the Galician artists, heirs of the preclassic transition, made their work using idealistic identity Models (the Mater Gallaeciae), following Manoel Antonio and Alvaro Cebreiro’s “Máis alá”. Which led to the so called “granite aesthetics”.

SCHOOL ACTIVITY. VISIT TO THE ART GALLERY “quiñones de leon”, vigo In the new section of the ”Quiñones de León” museum, Pinacoteca Francisco Fernández del Riego, we can see a wide variety of the best Galician paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries, more than 150 works of art, by the well-known Galician artists like: Serafin Avendaño, Castelao, Lugrís, Maside, Colmeiro and Menchu Lamas among others. In the opening exhibition “The Beautiful Face of our Country”, its curator Carlos L. Bernárdez has presented these works ordered so as to show the development of a really Galician pictorial image, from the first half of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. Although the origin of this pictorial image in our community keeps in line with the Spanish one, it also has to do with the European culture produced in a country with a distinctive historical singularity, in which the great art movements of Western Europe are projected. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N2aZc_xddY

ROBERTO GONZALEZ del BLANCO (León 1887-Santiago de Compostela 1959) He started his Medicine studies in Santiago, which continued in Madrid, where he combined them with Fine Arts, his real vocation. In 1916 he got his degree in Santiago after returning from a trip to Italy, Greece and Turkey to broaden his artistic education. He got a professorship in Pictorical Anatomy in Cádiz and became member of the Fine Arts Academy. After, he was appointed director of The School of Fine Arts in Santiago. His paintings depict strict realism in folk subjects : Life in the country, Fairs… He shows them accurately, with elegance, emotivity and tenderness.

CARLOS MASIDE GARCÍA (Pontecesures, Pontevedra 1897-Santiago de Compostela 1958) He had to work hard since he was a child, but he attended drawing lessons. In 1917 he did military service in Madrid, where he met different artists. He won a scholarship in Paris and got in touch with the European avant-garde. Being a republican,he had a harsh time during the Spanish Civil War. After the war, he settled in Santiago where he had a great influence on young intellectuals. Issac Díaz Pardo and Luis Seoane founded Maside’s museum in Sada, to recognise his importance in the new Galician pictorial trends, which before him were only figurative and traditionalist.

MANUEL TORRES MARTÍNEZ (Marín , Pontevedra 1901-1995) A self-taught artist, whose work was intense and prolific. Working as a school teacher he met Carlos Maside. He got scholarships to go to Madrid and Paris, he visited their museums, where he learnt a lot. During the Civil War he went back to Marín And painted all the time. After the war he exhibited his works again. His firm drawing shows his great expressiveness in his round and simplified models. In his oil paintings, he shows the same Energy. An ironic world, sometimes dream-like, fills his work halfway between the post impressionist and fauve tendencies. Occasionally, he approached cubism, but he was closer to Braque than to Picasso or Juan Gris.

CREDITS THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT TEACHERS ANTONIO J. BLANCO DOPICO EDUARDO BRAGADO RODRÍGUEZ AND THEIR STUDENTS PABLO CABEZAS MAGDALENA 2º BACH E SARA CORBACHO ARAGÓN 2º BACH E ANTÍA COSTAS COMESAÑA 2º BACH E ROCÍO EXTREMADURA HIERRO 2º BACH D ALBERTO PINHEIRO MARTÍNEZ 2º BACH E CORA VEIGA ALVAREZ 2º BACH D   IES SAN TOME DE FREIXEIRO, VIGO