Today it was my first time in the "Casa-Museo Antonio Padrón" and it was amazing and amusing at the same time.
Amazing by the paintings which are there and amusing thanks to the several activities that our English teacher and her colleague had prepared for us .
And... as we say in Spain, a picture is worth a thousand words... Ha, ha!!
The arrival at the museum...like children...
The painting that was not... there...
painted by Santiago Santana which had a versatile personality: he was a painter, a draftsman, a stage designer... In fact, he contributed to the urban design of Las Palmas de G. C.
And, bellow, the photo that I was able to take, at least, when it appeared on a screen in the museum. That was better than nothing!!...
The tools for the future artits. Sorry...
the tools for one of the activities:
empty space and
coloured pencils, pens, wax crayons...
Firstly, all the classes in the "Indigenous room".
At the end of this photo you can discern the famous work by Pepe Dámaso: "Seven atlantic heroes".
"The aguadoras".
A realistic and vibrant painting by Oramas.
A painting by our well-known César Manrique.
And... we were lucky thanks to the very nice weather we had that day.
We visited the workshop of the artist: a reaL luxury for me!! There, I could enjoy with his personal photos on the fireplace, old furniture, with his materials to paint and his paintings too, for example...
"The Piety", one of his most famous painting.
Nowadays you can see several of these drawings inside wall of our school.
A drawing by one of the classmate.
I loved it.
At a partiuclar time, my English teacher asked us to make a drawing inspired by the paintings at the museum.
We could choose some of them among several significant elements, up to seven.
and... start painting!
Here is the drawing that I made there...
In my improvised artistic work -ha, ha!!- I wanted to transfer the ocean, a boat, the special vegetation of this earth, as the tabaiba and, on the top on the drawing, I wanted to highlight the majestic presence of the Roque Nublo.
(All these repetitive elements were present in the different works of the Canarian Island painters we saw there).
I put in my painting the representation of two colours. The first one was the red colour that appeared in the dresses of "The aguadoras", paint that can be seen above.
For the second one I found inspiration in the work called "The dance of joy" (I am on the photograph with this paint at the begining of this writing) and hence I extracted the pink colour which I used to write the name of the boat with and my own signature too.
I enjoyed a lot with this activity and it helped me to improve, in fact, in a personal level too, apart from knowing more about these artists and their works.
In the room devoted to Antonio Padrón´s works of art, which gives the name to this house museum.
A. Padrón painted Canarian women on their everyday life and work: the peasant woman, the ceramist woman ("The alfarera"), in the market, the shop, the cave, etc.
At the side, it is one of Padron´s paintings that I really liked.
In fact, it is a painting I found awesome!
This is another painting I liked.
I realized that it is another constant element because this topic is also repetitive in his work.
Really, the water is highly appreciated in the Canary islands, specially by the workers of the primary sector.
I realized that it is another constant element because this topic is also repetitive in his work.
Really, the water is highly appreciated in the Canary islands, specially by the workers of the primary sector.
He also shows ordinary people feelings and their leisure activities...
... from both, adults and children:
The required signature in the "Guestbook" of the museum, especially when the visit had been rewarding at least for me.
Some significant words of the artist...(http://desdelaventanademicorazon.blogspot.com.es/2016/04/apadron-dijo.html)
And...
some classmates, even, had enough time to go shopping in the flea market, for example, these beautiful typical flowers called "antunos".
Finally, all of us went to Las Palmas, to the language school and at home.
It was a nice day and a nice experience. I don´t know if we learned much English but...
in my opinion,we should repeat this experience or another similar next year.
I would have liked this visit to be longer to have more time to enjoy and learn even more...
Perhaps next time...
Anyway, thank you to my/our teacher for this and thank you to the school to offer us this... "cultural tour".
Anna.
