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My name is Sara Silva, I am from Madeira Island, Portugal and I am a student at De Montfort University International College. Next year, hopefully, I'll be a BA Fine art student so that is what to blog is about - Fine Art - and it is going to work as a portfolio for the Digital Art module.
I started to draw when I was only two years old and since then one of my biggest passions is art. Not only I love to draw but I also love to play the piano, which I play since I am 5 years old, and sing. Apart from this, I also used to play volleyball and to swim.
The future is still uncertain for me but one thing I know for sure: I don't aim to be famous, I just want to change mentalities and make people believe in theirselves through my art. Don't know how yet but I feel that I am going to discover this through the next years.
As an art student, everything that surrounds me had influenced me in a certain way, specially people; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said “Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us”. I am who I am today because of people who crossed my path and it is thanks to them that I am so passionate about art, music, photography and most importantly life.
There are many artists that tried to represent life as it is but the ones that I love the most are those who created other realities like René Magritte, an iconic artist from the surrealism.
The "The Treachery of Images"(La Trahison des images) is a series of paintings made between 1928 and 1929. When looking at the painting above, the spectator read "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" french for "This is not a pipe" which might be confused at first, but after some reflection the conclusion to be drawn is that it truly is not a pipe, but an image of one. This is an example of conceptual art, a art which the idea or conceptual behind the artwork is more important than the finished one. This is what I expect for my art, to have a concept behind it capable of changing the mentality about objects and moments considered ordinary.
One other artist transformed the ordinary was Yves Klein, an artist who dedicated his work to the monochrome, which was, to him, the only way to make visible the absolute. Above all, he is remembered by the use of this single colour: the rich shade ultramarine that he panteted with his own name (International Klein Blue).
Yves Klein was one of the most controvertial French artists to emerge in the 1950's. According to him, beauty existed everywhere but in a state of invisibility and his task was to find it wherever it might be. The way he choose to express himself moved beyond ideas the artistic representation, revealing a new concep of the role of the artist. His blue was used to capture the immaterility and the infinitive, and through it was possible to see with our soul.
This is the "aches of his art", the final result of a controvertial performance in which naked women
covered themselves in IKB paint and imprinted their bodies on giant canvases. “Klein used colour as an instrument of revelation and a gateway to the soul,” sayd Klaus Ottmann, director of the Phillips Collection in Washington DC (sotheby's). Klein opened a new path to the conceptual and performance art which shaped today's mentalities and art and that's is what I expect to do.
I hope you enjoy the blog!
Sara Silva
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