Ponencias en torno a el Arte - CYDT

  Madonna and Child was painted by one of the most influential artists of the late 13th and early 14th century, Duccio di Buoninsegna. This iconic image of the Madonna and Child, seen throughout the history of western art, holds significant value in terms of stylistic innovations of religious subject matter that would continue to evolve for centuries. The Madonna and Child is understood to be an intimate, devotional image. Some evocations of this understanding come from the burnt edges on the bottom of the original engaged frame caused by burning candles that likely would have sat just beneath Looking past the abrupt simplicity of the image, one can begin to understand the changes Duccio was applying to the depiction of religious figures in painting during the early 14th century. Duccio followed other innovative Italian artists of the time like Giotto, both of whom strove to move beyond the purely iconic Byzantine and Italo-Byzantine canon and attempted to create a more tangible c...

  Federico Cantú 1907-1989 Mexican Artist Born in 1907 in Cadereyta de Jimenez, Nuevo León, Federico Cantú was a prodigious talent who with barely fourteen years of age began his artistic career. In 1922 he enrolled at Alfredo Ramos Martínez, a newly established experimental school in Coyoacán, Mexico City. There he learned from his teacher's impressionistic techniques and before long he began working as an assistant to Diego Rivera, who newly arrived from Europe and was about to unleash an extravagant mural project that would change Mexico City and propel the careers of numerous artists. Mexican  philanthropist and intellectual Raúl Rangel Frías eloquently described Federico Cantu's colors as full of lyrical emotions, his luminous reds and greens create and add substance to the immaterial assets of the painting. Indeed, he believed the artist had a magic touch that enable him to endow his pigments with life. More importantly, he considered Cantu's way of painting, e...

San Miguel         Grabado al buril Letanía Lauretana 1947 La Purísima – Monterrey NL Capilla de los Misioneros de Guadalupe   Proyecto mural y Vitral La ultima Cena & Calvario   Arte sacro monumental   El arte sacro es una denominación utilizada para todas aquellas producciones artísticas que tienen como fin un culto a lo sagrado o divino. Durante el trayecto de los siglos el cual se reconoce la fe, encontramos que el arte sacro intenta determinar cada pasaje y aspectos divinos por medio de pinturas, esculturas y mosaicos.  Las representaciones más frecuentes en la Iglesia católica por ejemplo nos muestran el bautismo, el juicio, la crucifixión, la muerte y la resurrección de Jesucristo, también nos muestran a la Virgen María o imágenes de la Biblia   El arte sacro era común en la Edad Media europea, pero muchos de los mayores maestros fueron mandados por la Iglesia católica durante el renacimiento. Fue durante ese tiempo cuando Miguel Á...