Favorite piece of the Gugenheim

 Karl Benz with his sells assistant Joseph bretch in the Benz Painted motor car autoan (1886) Andy Warhol.

Firstly, Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

We can see in this painting many colors which best represents pop art. We can also see a contrast between the old and the new with the old Benz and then a colorful background and geometric shapes falling from the sky. 

This painting was our favorite because it shows us the evolution of cars. In addition to that Andy Warhol is a painter we like as his art is very noticeable and timeless. 

                                   Louna, Hope 

artist work

 

Anselm Kiefer

Solène, Marthe

Goggenheim

 Jeff koons

"Puppy" 1992

(Maximilien)

 

ED Ruschar

"Standard série"1969

(Mathieu)

 FAVORITE PIECE OF THE GUGGENHEIM

     Located in Bilbao, the Guggenheim museum is full of masterpieces. Our favorite one is "Die berühmten Orden der Nacht" (The Renowned Orders of the Night) by Anselm Kiefer. 

The Renowned Orders of the Night

    The canvas represent a man laying down on the ground. Over him, the sky takes 3/4 of the painting. The sky is black and full of white stars that are glowing in the dark. The canva is massive ( more than 3m) in order to make the experience even more realistic. We can say that it is a sort of self-portrait because the man on the ground is him. 

Anselm Kiefer

    Kiefer is a German born in 1945 during the World War II. During is childhood, he witnesses all the brutalities that the war has brung to the world. This experience has influenced is art : he often uses references to political figures and he also likes to represent himself lying down on the ground on some of his pieces to express is feeling of loneliness and spirituality. 

A contemporary artist 

    Kiefer is a plastician and a contemporary artist. He incorporates various materials in his paintings such as mud, hair, straw or clay. His art is very spiritual and philosophic, he treats subjects like mythology, history or books. His paintings can seems to be weird or not really modern, but he is : Kiefer is a survivor from the war and he put all his feelings and reflexions into his masterpieces.  

Kiefer's art in Barjac, France

    His philosophy is that art consists of using is spirituality and refelxions in order to find the meaning of life. He also likes to represent the "incomprehensible and non-representational". During his life, he has been controversial due to his action such as making nazi salutes in various places to show how much the nazi ideology was still there. Now, he lives in the south east of France, in Barjac, and he also often moves to Paris. 

By Léa, Béatrice and Eviane

Favorite piece of art at the Guggenheim

 Joa Mauduech 

Hemingway

 Hemingway

This image is a photo of a famous square in Pamplona called Plaza Del Carctio.  Hemingway often went to this square to have a coffee in the cafe Iruña. 

This cafe was made wolrs known thanks to Hemingway. We found it very luxurious, and gathered many memories of Hemingway. 

This was one of the many rooms that was field with photos of Hemingway on the wall as well as a statue of him standing next to the bar. This shows that he was an important person to Pamplona and had an impact on the cafe. 

Louise, Lena, Louna, Hope 

Hemingway in Pamplona

 

Hemingway in the cafe iruña at Pamplona 

Hemingway in Pamplona

 

This picture represents a typical street of the oldest part of Pamplona near to the place where we can find the Iruña cafe and the Montoya hotel. 

This is a picture of the inside of the famous Iruña cafe where Hemingway used to go when he traveled to Pamplona.

This is the statue of Hemingway placed in front of the Pamplona's ring entrence where the bulls arrive during fiesta in Pamplona.

Joa Mauduech 

HEMINGWAY IN PAMPLONA :

   Hemingway is an author that frequently uses travel in his books. Here, in "The Sun Also Rises", he describes his journey in the spanish city of Pamplona. We can see his influence in many places :

His statue is in front of the world famous Pamplona's bullfight area. Everyone can admire the great author before entering in the scene to watch bullfights or the end of the "encierro", a local fiesta that usually happens during summer.

The café Iruna, on the "Plaza del Castillo" is full of Hemingway's aura : an entiere room is dedicated to his memory with photographies and a big statue of the author. Even when you are inside the café, you are able to feel what Hemingway was feeling during is journey in Pamplona. 

The corrida is a topic that Hemingway loves to use to illustrate the culture of Pamplona. He describes the torreros, those mens who goes in the scene to fight with the bulls. He also depict the release of the bulls, the first day of the encierro. All the ambient of the fiesta is relevant in Hemingway's work.

To conclude, Hemingway is everywere in Pamplona, in the streets, in the cafés, in the bullfight scene, and even in the Pamplonese's minds (inhabitants of Pamplona) 

By Léa A, Beatrice, Eviane and Joa

Hemingway in Pampelona

 

A narrow street near the cathedral of Pampelune. The medieval mood that come from this street bring us back in the time where even Hemingway wasn't here there was a city before and after his journey.

The hotel where Hemingway stayed in. it's not 5 stars for no reason, the luxury that emanate from this building is overwhelming, it's all over the (plaza) place 😂😂

The arena of Pampelune is the must of the city

It's size is impressive and let thousands of people (like Hemingway) admire, every year, the bullfight show

Hemigway have lot's of statue of himself that's show how much he's loved and appreciated by the inhabitants

Mathieu, Maximilien, Nathan

The release of the bulls

 

"They were all running, packed close together"

At 8 o'clock, when the bulls get freed, a crowd of aventurous spectators run with them, eventhought they take the risk to be injuried.

"They would race throught the streets and out to the bullring "

The race only knows an end when it reaches the bullring of pamplona, in which the bull will have to fight in a rutheless corrida.

" Then finally the pop of the rocket that meant the bulls had gotten throught the people in the ring "

Finally, the bulls reach the centre of the arena, the bullrace is over the 6 fighter bulls will be set into boxes until they fight for the last time.

By Chloé, Joah and Noah 

Day 1

"By the time the second rocket had burst there where so many people in the arcarde, that had been empty a minute before"

"the marble-topped tables and the white wickers chairs were gone. They were replaced by cast-iron tables and severe folding chairs"

"When the fifers stopped they all crouched down in the street, and when the reed-pipes and fifes shrilled, and the flat, dry, hollow drums tapped it out again, they all went up in the air dancing"

"Going down the streets in the morning on the way to mass in the cathedral, I heard them singing through the open doors of the shops"

Maximilien, Mathieu, Nathan

Hôtel Montoya/ Perla

       

« We got into Pamplona late in the afternoon and the bus stopped in front of the hôtel Montoya »

« We went into the hotel and on the stairs I meet Montoya. He shook hands with us, smiling in his embarrassed way. »

 

« Aficion means passion. An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bullfights. All the good bullfighters stayed at Montoya's hotel; that is, those with aficion stayed there. The commercial bullfighters stayed once, perhaps, and then did not come back. » 

Hotel Perla

The bullfight

 “Romeo was the whole show. I do not think Brett saw any bullfighter. No one else did either , except the hard-shelled technicians . It was was Romeo”

“I had her watch how Romeo took the ball away from a fallen horse with his cape , and how he held him with the cape and turned him , smoothly and suavely , never wasting the bull”

“They had hitched the mules to the dead bull and then the whips cracked , the men ran , and the mules , straining toward , their legs pushing , breaking to a gallop , and the bull , one horn up , his head on his side , swept a swath smoothly across the sand and out the ref gate” was 

Louna , Hope , Louise , Léna ! 

Café Iruña

Café Iruña

 The Café Iruña in the Plaza del Castillo was established in 2 July 1888. The Café Iruña has gone down in the history of universal literature as the meeting point for the main characters of ‘The Sun Also Rises/ Fiesta’ the novel that made Hemingway stand out as one of the great writers of all time and that put Pamplona in the map of world literature. 

« During the morning I usually sat in the cafe and read the Madrid papers and then walked in the town or out into the country. »

« Workmen put up the gate- posts that were to shut off the side streets when the bulls were released from the corrals and came running through the streets in the morning on their way to the ring. »

« I went to church a couple of times, once with Brett. She said she wanted to hear me go to confession, but I told her that not only was it impossible but it was not as interesting as it sounded »

                                     By Beatrice, Eviane, Léa, Joa

Once it s all over

 

"I drank a Coffee...He sat down at the table and ordered a coffee."

"Cafés were just opening...the marble-topped tables in the shade of the arcade."

"We came over the mountains and out of Spain and down the white roads."

Léa B

Louann

Solène

Kylian ( guest)

Marthe