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                                                         MY FAVOURITE BOOK Today I´m going ro talk about my favourite book, Honestly I´m not a big reader however I can say I like the books related to painting or written by artist. I believe I don´t have a favourite book, because I like many books, one of this books is "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" by Wassily Kandinsky, this book compares the spiritual in the life of humanity to a pyramid; the artist has the mission to guide other to the top with his work, the tip of the pyramid are those few great artist. Tis book is the personal response of a painter to the difficulties of his office and to the need to draw a theoretical framework in which to support himself vitally and artistically. In this work Kandinsky presents his conceptual and philosophical approaches to art and his plastic trajec...

                                                      POST GRADUATE STUDIES Today I´m going to talk about my future Post Graduate studies, to begin with I should to say currently I course a Visual Arts undergraduate in Universidad de Chile although I haven´t finish it I´m thinking to take a Master in Fine Arts in the School of Visual Arts of New York. I would like to take this Master in Fine Arts in New York firstly because I want to have a international experience respect to contemporary art and, secondly I like the Master in Fine Arts program that this school have, I like the interdisciplinary graduate program with six kind of courses: Mentorship, Studio, Crit, Talks, Seminars and Workshops, thirdly I want to study in this city because It´s the capital of the contemporary art. I would like to take a full time program because I believe the...

                                                             MY FUTURE JOB Today I´m going to talk about my future job, I would like to work like a painter, I think It´s the only job that I would like to make, because actually I´m studying visual art specifically painting, and I think to continue my painter work to try to get a job as a painter, I know it´s a very difficult activity but I´m ready to work hard. I imagine this job working a lot in a thing that I love, I imagine my job as a painter in a work shop maybe with other artist in the beginning, but my principal objective is to exhibit my paintings in the best museums or galleries. I believe in my future job I will to work principally indoors in my work shop, in some opportunities I will exhibit my work but this activity also will be indoors. I would like to trav...

                                               WHO`S YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST Today I`m going to talk about my favorite artist. I painter and I think I like many artist, but my favorite artist is Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon is a british painter, he borned in Dublin-Irland 1909. Bacon is a figurative artist who deform the bodies in schematic background, he represented the human figure and face in an expressive often grotesque style, make scenes that suggest, alienation, violence, and suffering. I like all the paintings of Bacon, but one of my favorites pieces is "Head I" because is a figure that confuse me, the bust have a kind of head with a inverted mouth, also I like the contrast and the different types of brush-strokes for solve the composition.         Bacon influence me in many ways, because in my paintings I work with human f...

                                                       MY FAVORITE MOVIE Today I`m going to talk about my favorite movie. So I should say I love the movies, usually I go to the Normandie cinema or I watch some movie in my apartment the weekend, and for this reason I have many favorite movies, but today I want to talk about "The Godfather". The Godfather is a american movie directed by  Francis Ford Coppola, based in Mario Puzo`s novel. The argument of the movie is about a New York mafia crime family of italian immigrants, who make different crimes that to have power over the city, also They fight with another families crime for the control of New York, in this battle happend a serie of betrayal and shoking murders and also you can see the corruption in any institution.                I think The Go...

                                                        MY BEST CONCERT EVER Today I.m going to talk about my best concert ever, I love the concert, and always I think that my best band that I saw was Black Sabbath. I saw the band in October, 2016 in Monumental Stadium in this country. Black Sabbath is a rock british band very fame during 70´s decade, lead for the charismatic singer Ozzy Osbourne , for Tommy Iommy in the guitar, Geezer Butler in the electric bass and Bill Ward in the drums. The atmosphere during the concert was incredible, because I was with five friends, and before to Black Sabbath, played Megadeth like supporting artist, So when we start to ear the music of Sabbath we was really excited, the band played his best songs like “War pigs“, “Paranid“, “Ironman“ or  “Snowblind“. I enjoyed every moment in the concert, in first m...

                                              A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT Today I´m going to talk about of a country I would like to visit. the first country that I have in my mind is France, firstly because I study Visual art, I.m painter and this country have some of the best museum of art in the world. I love painting and I would like to visit every country that have the best painting´s. About France, I know that it has a culture very developed in the artistic and gastronomic area, his capital city is Paris, and have very important museum like the Louvre or Orsay Museum, some of his touristic places are Palace of Versailles, Tour Eiffel, or Arch of Triumph. In France I would like to go to all touristic places in special to the museums, to see all the best painting in this country, also I would like to go to some coffee or restaurant and enjoy the bohemian lif...