I’m going to explain about 3 different kinds of art that I experienced in in Argentina so far.
The first one is Street Art. People do it because they are interested to show what they think about what is going on in the world. And if you see street art on a very fancy building, its not because its not fancy, its because the owners don’t want people writing really scribbly graffiti, so they get a street artist to draw something nice on their building instead. If you see a drawing on a random building, don’t think its only grafitti from cans, it can also be oil pastels, or stencils, or paste up (which is sticking bits of paper from magazines or newspapers onto walls).
My favourite one from Street Art is this one:
Here are some other photos I took in the streets near where we were staying:
The second type of art that I want to tell you about is sculptures.
In La Boca (a very colourful place where there are houses of all sorts of colours), we went to a museum about sculptures/art. There was an amazing exhibition all done by Alexander Calder. The art was mysterious. It was put together in loads of bending twiddling ways. He was a sculptor and an engineer because there was something you could wind up but there wasn’t an engine in it.
My favourite one was this one:
Here are some other photos I took of the exhibition.
The third type of art I want to talk about was at a big art museum and it was Fine Art from stage to stage like old art all the way through to modern. We drew pictures of paintings we saw that we liked.
Here we are:
8 thoughts on “Arty Argentina”
Dinnie
That was really interesting about the street art, we could do with some to cheer London up in places. I like your choice of artworks, particularly the wire ones. That elephant is so clever, I would have liked actually to see it – in the photo it seems a very clever mixture of line in two dimensions but three at the feet and ears. It looks at first as if it would be really easy to do, but then I realise it is really inspired, not easy at all.
Thank you very much for writing about it, we love hearing about your adventures and experiences.
D xxxxx
Emily
i think we could cheer it up to but i still think that it dose have a little art love ems xxx
Miss Edgeworth
I loved reading about street art Emily – it’s one of my favourite things to photograph when I go travelling myself but I need to remember to take more notice of street art in London too!
You are really immersing yourself in the art abroad – what a wonderful experience. I am loving reading about your travels from the UK.
Sending my best wishes to Bella too.
Miss E 🙂
Emily
i will try to take more notice but i still have to admit that the stuff is still better i am missing you ems xxx
Grandpa Martin
Lovely piece, Emmy.
Next time we go to see Uncle D in Italy we will stop off in Florence.
Going to see pictures in Florence was your Daddy’s ‘best thing’. Ask him WHY !
XXXX
Ness Langdale
Really interesting seeing the different art and you wrote about it brilliantly.
I see you have been doing a bit of art yourself and given us all different icons. They are great!
I love reading about all your different adventures and it fantastic that you will always have a record of everything that you have done.
lots of love Godmother Ness xxx
Grandpa Suffolk
Hi Emily, Wow, what an amazing piece you have written about art in Argentina. I’m so sorry to have taken so long commenting on it but I have been really busy and also away in Spain with Dinnie. I really like the street art and had no idea that they arranged for artists to draw on their houses to stop other people just doing graffiti.I really like them all, but I think your top picture is great. I think I want to play with the one you can wind up as well (I bed Daddy did) All brilliantly described……Thank You. Lots of love………Grandpa Suffolk
Auntie Heather
Really love the photos you have taken of the street art. They are framed so nicely. And I love the 3D elephant line drawing. That must have been difficult for the artist to create and think about all the different perspectives that you would see their art from.