NO ACTA!!!

Dear readers, this post has little to do with art and artists but the blog is a way of spreading information. Today´s post is about ACTA. Many of you out there dont know much about it due to the restriction and the censorship in public media. Please read carefully ACTA affects YOU!

ACTA is: 

- The Anti-CounterfeitingTrade Agreement 

- Has been planned confidentially since 2008 by Japan, the U.S., the EU, etc. Possible ratification will be in June 2012.

- Will affect e.g.:

    - File sharing

    - Generic medicine 

    - GM Seeds

Hinders freedom of speech and the individual privacy

censoring/monitoring the internet

Do we trust the government to monitor our moves on the net?!

Please read about it and take action at once!!!

http://www.stopacta.info/

P.S there will be a demonstration against ACTA in Gothenburg/ Göteborg on Saturday 2 pm be there and spread the knowledge! 


The information on this page is from a TOK presentation which was done by me and my classmates Annie and Alma. 

Ivan Albright

Ivan Albright was a Chicago area native, growing up on the North Shore and graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923.  He was born to a father who was a painter and was an identical twin to his brother, Malvin Marr - also an exceptional painter.
Ivan Albright is most well known for his many paintings of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" which were commissioned by a Hollywood studio and used in the movie "The Portrait of Dorian Gray".  Due to this notoriety Albright's works have often been interpreted as being in the horror genre.

Luc Tuymans

Born 1958, Mortsel, Belgium. he is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today.

Albrecht Dürer

German artist of the Renaissance period. (1471–1528) was born in the Franconian city of Nuremberg. He was a brilliant painter, draftsman, and writer, though his first and probably greatest artistic impact was in the medium of printmaking. More than any other Northern European artist, Dürer was engaged by the artistic practices and theoretical interests of Italy. Dürer developed a new interest in the human form, as demonstrated by his nude and antique studies. Italian theoretical pursuits also resonated deeply with the artist. 

GUSTAVE COURBET

GUSTAVE COURBET (1819-1877) – Leading figure of realism, and a clear precedent for the impressionists, Courbet was one of the greatest revolutionaries, both as an artist and as a social-activist, of the history of painting. Like Rembrandt and other predecessors, Courbet did not seek to create beauty, but believed that beauty is achieved when and artist represents the purest reality without artifice

ANDY WARHOL

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) – Brilliant and controversial, Warhol is the leading figure of pop-art and one of the icons of contemporary art. His silkscreen series depicting icons of the mass-media (as a reinterpretation of Monet's series of Water lilies or the Rouen Cathedral) are one of the milestones of contemporary Art, with a huge influence in the Art of our days

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA (1416-1492) - Despite being one of the most important figures of the quattrocento, the Art of Piero della Francesca has been described as “cold”, “hieratic” or even “impersonal”. But with the apparition of Berenson and the great historians of his era, like Michel Hérubel -who defended the “metaphysical dimension” of the paintings by Piero-, his precise and detailed Art finally occupied the place that it deserves in the Art history