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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #1. Marcos circulares  

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #1. Marcos circulares  

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El principal referente que utilizaré para realizar mi proyecto es Alphonse Maria Mucha (actual República Checa, 1860-1939). Mucha es considerado como uno de los mayores exponentes (o el máximo exponente) del Art Nouveau. Así, "Sus pósters, avisos e ilustraciones, y sus diseños para joyería, alfombras, empapelados y decorados teatrales acabaron por conocerse como Art Nouveau" (Calvo Santos, 2016). En sus obras Mucha muestra en su mayoría a mujeres "jóvenes, hermosas y muy saludables" (Calvo Santos, 2016), que flotan entre fondos donde predomina la temática floral.

Referencia: Calvo Santos, M. (2016). Alfons Mucha. Historia del Arte. https://historia-arte.com/artistas/alfons-mucha

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¿Qué elementos voy a tomar del quehacer artístico de Alphonse Mucha para desarrollar mi proyecto?

-Mi apropiación se basa en dos aspectos, el primero, en los elementos compositivos que caracterizaron las piezas de Mucha. En este caso, la presencia de una figura central (en el caso de Mucha generalmente eran figuras femeninas) que posee detrás un arco o marco circular adornado de elementos geométricos y florales.  De igual manera, me parece interesante conservar la presencia de elementos florales (ramas, hojas, zacate, flores, brotes...) dentro del mismo elemento circular que mencioné anteriormente. Finalmente, en las composiciones de Mucha también se pueden encontrar elementos florales que complementan a la figura central y la rodean o se encuentran en contacto con ella.

-El otro elemento del que deseo apropiarme es en el diseño de los marcos circulares y de las flores y demás elementos afines. Es decir, que la representación de estos elementos sean lo más fieles posibles a la forma en la que Mucha los representó en su trabajo (tomando en cuenta el uso de la línea y su calidad (grosor), y la forma de añadir pigmento en ellos. En mi caso, estaré trabajando con pintura acrílica (tinta, marcadores) y gouache para colorear las figuras que considere necesario.

Estos serían a grandes rasgos los aspectos en los que referenciaré el trabajo de Alphonse Mucha.

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1898 La Plume, Woman with Poppies - Alfons Mucha

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Este es un boceto de la idea central que quiero desarrollar.

Las anotaciones serían las siguientes:

-La figura de referencia corresponde a uno de mis gatos (en otra publicación se encuentra la fotografía que estaré utilizando como referencia). Al principio quería utilizar como figura central a otro de mis gatos, la primera gatita que tuve, no obstante, tengo pocas fotos de ella y por ello no cuento con las suficientes referencias o material para lograr llevar a cabo mi idea (no me convenció la idea de utilizar como referente la imagen de una gata que encontré random en Internet). Así, opté por utilizar como mi "musa" a uno de los hijos de ella.

-Lo que se muestra en la foto es un boceto inicial, para la versión final planeo mover la figura del felino más hacia la derecha para que esta no choque con el marco circular.

-En el marco circular estaré utilizando la representación de diferentes flores, siendo la principal la llamada "Forget me not". En este mismo padlet incluiré las fotos reales de las flores que estaré utilizando en mi composición.

-En el interior del marco circular incluiré hojas, algunos brotes y flores de menor tamaño, mariposas y ramas (tomando en consideración los elementos que se encuentran presentes en las obras de Mucha).

-Con respecto a la composición, la mitad o menos de la mitad serían en el estilo que trabajó Mucha y la otra con textura gráfica y en blanco y negro. Para mí es importante que los elementos que sean a color (fieles a los trabajos del artista que seleccioné) tengan un menor tamaño, pues no quiero que estos compitan y sobrepasen a los que son en textura gráfica y en blanco y negro.

-Aunque no se encuentra presente en este avance del boceto, también incluiré en la composición otros elementos como mariposas. De igual manera, estas serán en el estilo de Mucha y en el de textura gráfica que yo seleccione.

-El espacio que rodea la parte del cuerpo del gato que NO se encuentra dentro del marco circular también tendrá alrededor elementos flores, conforme a los trabajos de Mucha.

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Otro ángulo del boceto.

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Acá se pueden consultar más obras de Mucha.

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Alphonse Maria Mucha Complete Artworks Reproductions | alfonsmucha.org

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Find out the Alphonse Maria Mucha handmade oil painting reproductions. Observe the superb style of the artist online, high-resolution images and ratings. | alfonsmucha.org

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Otros ejemplos del trabajo de Mucha que cuentan con los elementos que describí en mi post sobre la apropiación que voy a realizar de sus obras.

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Otros ejemplos del trabajo de Mucha que cuentan con los elementos que describí en mi post sobre la apropiación que voy a realizar de sus obras.

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Browse Works - Gallery - Mucha Foundation

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The official site of the Mucha Foundation. A comprehensive resource for information on Alphonse Mucha (or Alfons Mucha) with details on his life, the Mucha Trust Collection, news, exhibitions, events and publications.

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This website brings you information on the career of Alphonse Mucha and also presents an extensive gallery of his most impressive work, spanning the full length of his considerable career. Mucha was a highly productive artist and as such there is a huge amount of work from his career, and it was not easy to summarise it down to the works included with in this website. If you want to discover more then please take note of the more comprehensive list further down the page. The artist's original birthname was Alfons Maria Mucha.

This talented artist had a very consistent output, as you will see from studying the art in this website. Because of this, it is very easy to quickly recognise an Alphonse Mucha print when travelling around the different international galleries. His work has also been compared to British painter Beardsley, who remains well known herself. Alphonse Mucha is known for beginning the Art Nouveau movement but the artist actually later distanced himself from that in order to promote the media that he moved onto later in his career, such as oil painting. By the end of his career Mucha had created advertisements, postcards, paintings, illustrations and designs and showed immense talent in each of those disciplines, showing a real adaptability as an artist.

Alphonse Mucha had extraordinary illustration skills which helped him to quickly draw attention to his work at an early stage in his career. The work that he is best known for today came over an extended period of his early years before he later decided to move in a new direction, though he never varied too significantly from his original ideas and more just varied the mediums which he used. The original full name of the artist was Alfons Maria Mucha though he is now referred to internationally using his English name. Mucha is also a huge success right across the world and it seems his style is to the liking of art fans from all sorts of different cultures and countries, with his work also instantly recognisable.

The Czech artist decided to move away from the style for which he is best known for a certain period later in his career and started to experiment with new ideas and new mediums. The Slav Epic is a huge project which he is now well known for as the artist set up producing a series of large oil paintings which would cover the key historic moments of his own slavic race, and these are included in an inspiring permanent collection in the Czech Republic. The local name for these works was Slovanská Epopej and there were around 20 in total by the time Mucha had completed the series.

The Slav Epic is amongst the most impressive artworks to view in the country and well worth a visit if you find yourself near the town of Moravský Krumlov in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, where a chateau was adapted to provide a permanent home for this important series. Alphonse Mucha left the Munich Academy of Fine Arts to move to Paris where he then further developed his growing talent at the Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi in the French capital. At this time the city of Paris was home to many bright lights of the European arts scene and many of them were relatively contemporary and forward thinking, making it an exciting melting pot for Mucha to really absorb a whole series of ideas, opinions and techniques.

Mucha's movements around Europe may also have helped him to grow as a young man too, building confidence in himself and his ability to do whatever was necessary to push his budding career ever onwards. After spending several years in Paris building his own artistic reputation it was the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris which served as a springboard for the artist to broaden his audience to an international level for the first time, and it was this moment which marked the birth of a true international artist which he very much continues to be today, more than 100 years later. During this period it would have been harder for an artist to spread their work internationally than it is now, as there was not the same level of international media and art was a lot more localised than it is today.

Art Nouveau is the art movement which is now regarded as having been started entirely by the work of Alphonse Mucha before inspiring others to follow a similar style with in their own work which helped this art movement to expand over time. Art Nouveau translated directly from French as New Art and that is how many saw the style of Mucha as he sought to find acceptance from academics for his work which was undoutedly innovative and unusual at that time, in several different ways which combined to give the art public something quite different to what had gone before.

Alphonse Mucha was a typical artist in that fame was not what drove him on at all, nor financial reward. The artist would always say that the point of his work was to spread a message rather than simply gaining fame for it's creator. The popularity of the Art Nouveau movement indeed led to Mucha trying to distance himself from it later on in his career, even though it was his work that actually initiated it in the first place.

Alphonse Mucha Paintings are renowned for their intricate detail plus the charming feminine style which the artist used in most of his work. F. Champenois France is the painting included above and it remains one of his most popular and well known, aided by the artist's Wikipedia page which displays it prominently. F. Champenois France is very typical of Mucha's popular style and is frequently purchased by his many fans around the world who often choose art print reproductions of his best work. As with all of the paintings included in our gallery, you can buy a copy of F. Champenois France from the links provided which will take you through to the Art.com prints gallery where a great selection of the best Alphonse Mucha paintings are available.

Artist Alphonse Mucha received some high quality training from an early age which helped to set him along the right path and ensured that the natural ability which the young student had was put to good use and developed in the right way which was to yield great benefits later on. The first teachings for the young pupil came at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts where Alphonse was sponsored privately after showing early promise on several artistic jobs which he had already completed. At this stage it was already clear that Mucha was likely to find a career in an artistic role but the impact which he eventually made was not yet known.

Moon and Stars

Mucha created the Moon and Stars series in the very early 20th century. It was to become amongst his best known series of paintings. The artist's models would be used for more than purely decorative meaning here, becoming part of the moon and star arrangements themselves. Personification of the females as stars produces a stunning set of work, ideally suited to the Art Nouveau movement of which this artist was so significant. Mucha would typically choose to put four figurative portraits together into a single artwork, though his fame has meant each element have at times been studied individually as well as collectively. There is a calming, sedate atmosphere to this collection of four artworks together in one final piece, which is an idea repeated by Mucha in several other themes.

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt is depicted above in one of many portraits of this famous actor created by Mucha over a six year period as the two worked together closely and helped to draw more and more attention to the Paris-based painter. It would have been a huge honour for the artist to cover such a glamorous and well known actress as Sarah Bernhardt and he was quite content to continue this relationship over many years as the two started to build a close bond which remains much discussed and researched, with it being the most significant moment of his career.

Sarah Bernhardt was a famous actress in Paris who became highly significant in Alphonse Mucha's life when their paths crossed as he remained in the city himself. It was here that a chance opportunity enabled the artist to show off his illustration skills to a wider audience across the city through an advertisement which focused on Sarah Bernhardt and promoted her new play at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on the Boulevard Saint-Martin. The lithograph poster was immediately successful and created a great interest in Mucha, leading to an extension to Mucha's employment here which eventually lasted for an incredible six years.

Job

Job is one of the most famous art works by artist Mucha and you can see it above in all it's glory. Job features a very clear portrait of a woman using marginally less detail than usual for this artist, though there are more typical signs of his style in the background with flourishes on the lettering as well as background patterns that are very in keeping with this artist. Job has a particularly dark purple background which helps the female being portrayed to really stand out which is intended from Alphonse Mucha who uses her as the main topic of the painting. You will notice the tones used by the painter for the skin in this portrait and he regularly chose these colours for many of his other portraits too.

Tapestry

Tapestry shown above is another alternative for those who want to see examples of the different art mediums used by an ambitious Alphonse Mucha who spent much of the latter half of his career seeking to stretch his skills as far as possible. The tapestry shown above is even available as a reproduction, with Art.com offering some tapestries from great artists, though art prints, posters and stretched canvases are much more substantial in their product range. The style of Mucha with great detailed backgrounds and bright colours are probably more suited to art prints, but this tapestry may still be to your particular taste.

Precious Stones and Flowers

Precious Stones and Flowers is another stunning series piece from Mucha which features four related portraits together on one canvas in a similar way to the artist's seasons series. The same model is used here in different poses as the artist concentrates on combining different coloured outfits together to create a stylish overall work that fits the four portraits together seamlessly. Precious Stones and Flowers is certainly another good work that is well worth checking out, with some also choosing this as a print reproduction.

La Primavere

La Primavere is a delicate and highly feminine painting from Alphonse Mucha which sums up his career perfectly and also retains the tones that can be seen in so many of the artist's portraits. La Primavere is one of several seasonal pieces from the artist who produced individual works plus a multi-portrait painting aimed at depicting all of the four seasons together. It is very common across most art movements for artists to use seasons as an inspiration for their work, and also to produce a series of each one together. La Primavere remains one of the most frequently reproduced art prints from the painter's career.

Famous Art Nouveau Artists

After the successes of Mucha there was now a new art movement which drew in many other talented artists over an extended period. See below for a list of famous Art Nouveau artists.

Alphonse Mucha

Gustav Klimt

Charles Rennie MacKintosh

Antoni Gaudi

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Eugene Grasset

Rene Lalique

Aubrey Beardsley

Alphonse Mucha Paintings - A List Of The Best

Alphonsemucha.org covers a selection of the best paintings from this artist, but please see below for a more extensive list for those looking to learn more about him and see yet more of his impressive art.

Evening

Les Saisons

Czech Slet

Night

Morning

Spring

Daytime

Dance

Polar Star

Eveil du Matin

Salon des Cent

La Samaritaine

Reverie du Soir

Painting

Lorenzaccio

Job

Cognac Template

Printemps

Moet et Chandon

Music

Fruit

Eclat du Jour

Seasons

Automne

Poetry

Dusk

Chocolat Ideal

Ivy

Ete

Dance

Morning Star

Mucha Nouveau

Bernhardt Gismonda

Moet Chandon Dry Imperial

Round Portrait

Theatre de la Renaissance

La Dame aux Camelias

Precious Stones and Flowers

Repos de la Nuit

Medee

Salon des Cents

Biscuits Lefevre Utile

Reverie

Zodiac le Plume

Flirt

Salammbo

Summer

Bieres de la Meuse

La Primevere

Winter

Fall

Cycles Perfecta

Hiver

Princess Hyacinth

Amants

Mucha Nouveau Iris Flower Poster

Theatre de la Renaissance

Seasons 1896

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Alphonse Mucha Paintings, Prints & Artwork

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This website brings you information on the career of Alphonse Mucha and also presents an extensive gallery of his most impressive work, spanning the full length of his considerable career. Mucha was a highly productive artist and as such there is a huge amount of work from his career, and it was not easy to summarise it down to the works included with in this website.

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #2. Flores 1 

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #2. Flores 1 

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Foto de uno de mis gatos.

Al utilizar esta fotografía NO se pretende hacer una copia exacta de la misma, es decir, solo utilizaré unos elementos como guía al momento de realizar mi proyecto.

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Acercamiento del estudio (sin líneas de boceto)

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Práctica textura gráfica para el proyecto #1. Gato

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Práctica textura gráfica para el proyecto #1. Gato

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Primer estudio texturas de los ojos y segundo estudio sobre pelaje

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica 3. Flores

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica 3. Flores

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Práctica textura gráfica para el proyecto #2. Flores-Hojas 

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Práctica textura gráfica para el proyecto #2. Flores-Hojas 

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Otra práctica del signo gráfico para las hojas.

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Práctica textura gráfica para el proyecto #3. Mariposas

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Práctica textura gráfica para el proyecto #3. Mariposas

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Este trabajo formó parte de mi sketchbook, pero también lo trabajé pensando en que podía ser una práctica de los signos gráficos en animales.

-El puntillismo sirve perfectamente para texturas suaves y delicadas, como la piel.

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #4. Flores

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #4. Flores

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La foto que se incluye representa un ejemplo de cómo Mucha utilizó colores planos y con unas tonalidades similares a las flores que deseo incorporar en mi trabajo.

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #5. Hojas

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #5. Hojas

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Primer estudio hojas- *Al final procedí a descartar esta forma de representar las hojas. Así, decidí mantener esta separación de las partes de la hoja, pero complementándolo con un poco de textura gráfica (como la que se encuentra en la parte de las texturas gráficas que voy a utilizar).

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #6. Mariposas 

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Prácticas apropiación de artista- lámina sinóptica #6. Mariposas 

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Art Nouveau Ornaments. Decorative arts by Alfons Mucha. - Lost and Found

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Flores "Forget me not"

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Para realizar la mariposa voy a trabajar con este mismo signo gráfico (puntillismo), ya que este funciona para texturas suaves y por ende se adapta muy bien para trabajar la figura de la mariposa.

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Versión complementaria del boceto con otros elementos que se incorporarán en el diseño final.

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Versión final del proyecto.

Materiales utilizados:

-Rapidógrafo marca Staedtler 0.05, 0.1, 02, 0.2, 0.5, 0.6, 0.8, 1.2

-Marcadores acrílicos Marca Posca tonos: Blanco, Negro, Rojo, Amarillo, Amarillo Pajizo, Verde, Azul Claro y Naranja

-Papel Fabriano Mixed Media, 29,7 x 42 cm 250 gramaje

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Mariposa Monarca

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Estudio textura gráfica para el proyecto #4. Pez

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Estudio textura gráfica para el proyecto #4. Pez

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Como parte de los elementos que deseo agregar a mi composición se encuentra un pez. Así, voy a partir del ejercicio que realicé previamente en clase (la sección de los animales) y con base en la retroalimentación que me realizaron incorporan estas texturas (aletas, escamas...) en mi proyecto final.

Nota: Si bien es importante NO abusar del uso del contorno, en el caso de mi proyecto, este estará presente en algunas partes por dos motivos: 1-Para incorporar el estilo de Mucha, que procede a usar contornos gruesos. 2- Para separar la figura del pez del pelaje del gato, ya que sin el uso de estos contornos gruesos se perdería dentro del pelaje del gato.

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Estudio de textura gráfica para el proyecto #5. Colibrí - Plumas 

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Estudio de textura gráfica para el proyecto #5. Colibrí - Plumas 