SPANISH+ARTISTS+-+CLASSICS

USE this POWERPOINT to introduce the Spanish Classical Artists.
Featured here are portraits (retratos) of each and a master work in which the painters included their own image.





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IDEA: COLORING PAGES: Google an "artist's name + coloring pages" - you'll be surprised at how many coloring pages available.

1. El Greco, España
== El Greco or "The Greek," is known for the distinct way in which he paints mortal and celestial beings. Students will easily identify his works by the "mano de Greco" and his elongated religious figures. ==
 * [[image:egnatz-integratingculture/greco-nobleman-with-his-hand-on-his-chest.jpg width="271" height="345" caption="greco-nobleman-with-his-hand-on-his-chest.jpg"]] || [[image:egnatz-integratingculture/El_Greco.jpg width="285" height="321" caption="El_Greco.jpg"]] || [[image:egnatz-integratingculture/Greco_Conde_Orgaz.jpg width="324" height="402" caption="Greco_Conde_Orgaz.jpg"]] ||
 * Greco often painted hands in this position. ||  ||   ||

2. Diego Velasquéz, España
== Although Velasquez was a royal court painter and known for his portraits and depictions of historical events, he was also a realistic painter. He often painted more common people doing everyday things. He began to paint more dimensionally and was inventive in his use of light (Ex: "Las meninas" - the mirror, the open door). [|Web Museum] ==
 * [[image:egnatz-integratingculture/Velasquez_meninas_sm.jpg width="340" height="393" caption="Velasquez_meninas_sm.jpg"]] || [[image:egnatz-integratingculture/Velasquez.jpg width="253" height="303" align="left" caption="Velasquez.jpg"]] || [[image:egnatz-integratingculture/velasquez_vieja_friendo_huevos.jpg width="362" height="313" caption="velasquez_vieja_friendo_huevos.jpg"]] ||

3. Francisco Goya, España
== Goya was also a royal painter - His works are known for it's different "periods" - the light-hearted, early period depicting pastoral scenes - his royal portraits (including the Duchess of Alba) - his evocative work, "El 3 de mayo," and his dark, gruesome, nightmarish sketches at the end of his life. (Students will be amazed by his portrait of the royal family with its turned faces, suggestions of adultery and facial moles.) ==

Goya: [|Web Museum]

 * [[image:egnatz-integratingculture/Goya.jpg width="204" height="240" caption="Goya.jpg"]] || [[image:egnatz-integratingculture/goya-royal-family_Carlos_IV.jpg width="327" height="269" caption="goya-royal-family_Carlos_IV.jpg"]] ||
 * Goya ||  ||   ||   ||
 * "La familia de Carlos IV" ||  ||