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Hyperrealism. Eduardo Sanchez
On January 27th, two groups of the Drawing workshop of the School of Arts and Crafts visited the Luis de Ajuria room, located in the Plaza de los Fueros in our capital city of Alava. There, we were able to enjoy the impressive work of Eduardo Sanchez. We...
Kimon Nicolaides
KIMON NICOLAIDES was born in Washington, DC, in 1891, his first contact with art was a subconscious familiarity with oriental objects imported by his father. He decided at an early age that he wanted to paint and had to run away from home to study art because his...
Exhibition "Deconstruction of the landscape" / "Pasaiaren dekonstrukzioa" / "Pasaiaren dekonstrukzioa".
URT 31 JAN/OTS 14 FEB. EXHIBITION/ERAKUSKETAAlumnos de Proyectos de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios / Arte eta lanbide eskolako proiektuetako ikasleak On Monday, January 31, at 18.30 in the Exhibition Hall of the University Pavilion of the Alava Campus (Los...
Watercolor (31-1 to 11-2-22)
Levels: I and II The showcase on the right of the first floor is filled with color with the exhibition of a small part of the extensive work that students of the workshop AQUARELA AFTERNOON have developed since the beginning of the course until now. It is intended to...
What are photographs used for?
The present moment we live in, the 21st century, is the century of the image. We communicate with images. Photographs and videos are an extension of our desires, wishes, and a confirmation of our experiences. We show our emotions, we transfer our...
Impossible portraits
Impossible portraits. Joan Fontcuberta, one of the great theoreticians of national photography, says: "The neutrality and objectivity of photography is an act of faith, a cultural convention" In this line and from the lighting and portrait workshop we have been working on the...
Wood workshop (17-1 to 28-1- 2022)
THE CHAIR. Several workshops
The chair is an everyday and seemingly mundane object that has accompanied human beings since 4000 B.D. Throughout history, its forms, uses and meanings have varied and have been molded according to the functional and aesthetic needs of the moment. Its...
Urban Sketch Landscape
Landscape: Urban Sketch What is Urban Sketch? We can say that it is the practice of drawing -for example in your sketchbook- everything that surrounds you, no matter what the circumstance is. It does not necessarily imply that you draw cities, but it consists of capturing...
Three cards (digital image workshop)
Since it is always appropriate to congratulate "something", we propose a simple layout exercise. In a vertical A4 document at 180 dpi, we divide it into three thirds (using guides, for example). We will work on one third, creating an image with text....
Back to the forest (young wood-art)
BACK TO THE FOREST Through perspective and point of view (the horizon line as a unique and individual point of reference) as well as abstraction towards geometric shapes, students were proposed to carry out an exercise of imagination and simplification to...
The breeze of painting is the watercolor
"The breeze of painting is watercolor" Fluidity, transparency, spontaneity and freshness Watercolor, in principle, offers a deceptive ease. It is a seductive technique that uses its multiple attractions to subjugate many and most of the time, of all...