Persistence of memory by Mykola

One of my favourite work of art is the Persistence of memory.

This is one of the most famous paintings of Salvador Dalí and it was painted in 1931. This is exposed in Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Salvador Dalí painted this work a night when he feels bad. He thought about the cheese that he has eaten for dinner and scenery of Portlligat.

In the painting we can see the beach, the sky and the four hot watches. The watches mean the cheese and the time of life. In a watch of the painting there is a fly, and on another watch the are ants because Salvador Dalí was afraid of the insects when he was a child.

I like this work a lot because I think that the colours of painting are very nice and the image is very spectacular to see. 

Colosseum

My favorite work of art is the Colosseum of Rome. 

It was build about 1920 years ago by the Flavian emperors. The Colosseum was made with travertino, tuff, tiles and roman cement. It have aneliptical shape and which mesures 188m  and 156 the shorter one. Underground it have two steps, and avobe it there are three floors of arcades and a fourth storey with windows. There were eighty arches on every floor, divided by pillars with a half column.

Colosseum was the point of meeting to saw sows like the gladiators' fights or fight with beasts, the public executions of the reprobates to death that they were coming from all parts of the Empire to find here his last final moment.

After the imperial times the Colosseum was abandoned, but today is a scenary for important events or shows. 

It is visited by milions of people every year.

I like this work of art because I think that's very beautiful in spite the horrible things that were done there.

David of Miguel Angel by Gemma.

This sculpture was created by Miquel Angel in 1504. It was a order to the cathedral of Sta. Maria of Fiore, in Florence. This sculpture measures 5,17m of height, and it is made of white marble. It representes to David Biblical king. In addition, it's a symbol of Florence Republic. Currently, it find in The Gallery of the Academy of Florence. It's considerate a master work of art and a the most famous of the world.

My favourite work of Art by Oscar Gonzàlez

My name is Oscar. I would make myself known in this blog with this entry.

This is my favourite work of art. This is a portrait of a duck made by an anounymos person.In these days, the picture is in the collection of  BBVA bank.

I like this picture because I like ducks and they transfer me a sense of tranquility. 

I think these lines should end here. Since the picture speaks for itself and everyone should feel  this picture without my personal commentary. xxxxxxxxx Oscar

La Gran Esfinge

La Gran Esfinge by Laura Arnau

My favorite work of art is La Gran Esfinge de Guiza.

It is a monumental sculpture located at the West Bank of the River Nile, in the city of Guiza.

La Gran Esfinge was formed carving out a limestone hill situated on the plateau of Guiza. It has a height of some twenty meters, measuring the face over five meters. The head could represent Khefren Pharaoh, keeping the body the shape of a lion.

In the 20th century have been carried out restoration Works consolidation of the coating in 1925, with unsatisfying results by the techniques and materials used, with interventions later in 1980 and 1992.

Mona Lisa

by Èlia Coral

One of my favourite works of art is Mona Lisa.

 

It’s the most famous painting of all times.

Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardi da Vinci during the Renaissance in Florence.

He began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 and finished it shortly before he died in 1519.

The painting is named for Lisa del Giocondo, a member of a wealthy family of Florence.

In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen by Louvre Employee Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian patriot who believed the Mona Lisa should be returned to Italy.

 After having kept the painting in his apartment for two years, Peruggia was finally caught when he attempted to sell it to the directors of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Today, the Mona Lisa hangs again in the Louvre in Paris where 6 million people see the painting each year.

Mona Lisa is one of my favourite works of art, because it is different and it seems a very mysterious smile of the woman's portrait, and I like it!! 

EIFFEL TOWER BY CARLES DOMÈNECH

• My favorite building is Eiffiel Tower, is made of iron.

• The Eiffel Tower (French, Eiffel Tower) was built on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition held in Paris (France) in 1889. Was a landmark in the construction of iron. TheFrench engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel designed the impressive cast iron lattice.

• When it was built was the world's tallest monument, 300 meters (if you add the radio antenna is located at the top, its height is 324 meters). When built, the tower weighed about 7300 tons, while today it is estimated his weight at more than 10,000 t (due to the museum, restaurants, stores and shops that hosts). The tower was scheduled to arrive at 350 meters, but the neighbors were alarmed by the threat that a building could fall so high, and marched about a change of plans.

• The maintenance of the tower includes applying fifty tons of paint every five years, in order to protect it from corrosion. Sometimes I change the color of paint (the tower in 2005 showed a brown hue). On the first floor, there are consoles that allow voting on the election of the future color of the structure. The original color of the tower was yellow, but today no trace remains of this color. It is considered that approximately half of the unions whose structure is made ​​for security reasons, namely, that the tower would remain standing but failed half of the connections between their parts. This was to ensure the reliability from the beginning of the tower, due to the fact that at the time of its construction, many Parisians were afraid it may fall causing a catastrophe. Between 1889 and 2004, the Eiffel Tower received more than 200 million visitors from within France and around the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most visited site on the planet.