Rendering № 2

   The title of the article is “Painting by Dèlacroix defaced in Louvre-Lens", it was published in "The Art Newspaper" on 08 February 2013. It discusses the exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in northern France.

    Eugene Dèlacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People, 28 July 1830, has been defaced while on view at the Louvre-Lens in northern France. A 28-year-old woman scrawled across the bottom of the painting with a marker pen shortly before the museum closed on7 February, Le Monde reports. Her actions were noticed. She was apprehended by security staff and then arrested by the police.
     Dèlacroix’s painting is on display in the main exhibition area, entitled the Gallery of Time, at the Louvre-Lens, the satellite branch that opened last December.

I like the fact that we can know about such incidents through the magazines and newspapers. Together we can attract attention to this burning issue!

Specialists from the Louvre's paintings department were due to assess the work last night. “On first view, the markings appear to be superficial and may be easily removed,” said a museum statement. After the initial assessment of the damage, a decision would be taken whether the painting will be removed for restoration.

The Louvre issued a statement on February saying that the conservator Anne Perrin has successfully removed the markings. The restoration work was done on site and took less than two hours.

  But according to the article the Louvre issued a statement today (8 February) saying that the conservator Anne Perrin has successfully removed the markings. The restoration work was done on site and took less than two hours. "The work has not been damaged as the marks were superficial and on the surface layer of varnish. They did not penetrate the paint layer [underneath]," the statement says. The painting will go on show again tomorrow from 10am when the Louvre-Lens reopens. The museum says it plans to step up its security measures.

   I like the article and in conclusion I dare say Vandalism is a growing national problem.       

  Although most vandals do not have a clear motive for their acts, studies show that basic social problems and attitudes are at the root of the vandalism.

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Painting-by-Dlacroix-defaced-in-LouvreLens/28609

Pleasure Reading. Summary №1

1.Briony is the youngest child in her family, and she writes stories. 2.She is imaginative and has an “orderly spirit,” which is marked by a love for the miniature and a passion for secrets. 3.Briony has written and prepared a play for her older brother Leon, who is returning home from London. 4.Three cousins from the north arrive to spend the summer at the Tallis home while their parents are supposedly attempting to work out their differences.5. As soon as her cousins arrive, Briony begins to assign them roles in her new play. 6.It becomes a course of conflict and destroys Briony’s vision of a spotlighted moment and perfect evening prepared for her brother’s return.

Rendering №1

The title of the article is "Picasso and Chicago", it was published in "The Art Newspaper" on 15 February 2013. It discusses the exhibition of Picasso's works in Chicago, that will take place there from 20 Feb 13 to 12 May 13. The show “Picasso and Chicago” includes more than 250 works of the institute’s plus loans from private collections in the city and beyond. Because of the fact that this genius of art inspires millions of people, this exhibition could easily find sponsors. The peg for this Picasso celebration, sponsored by BMO Harris Bank, is the centenary of the Armory Show of 1913 (left), a scaled-down version of which was hosted by the museum after its New York debut. 
Among the 700 works of Modern art that travelled to Chicago were some by Picasso. Stephanie D’Alessandro, the institute’s curator of Modern art, who has organised “Picasso and Chicago”, says a 1906 Picasso drawing of a peasant woman from the collection has a special significance, being the first work by Picasso that people ever saw in the US when Alfred Stieglitz exhibited it in his New York gallery in 1911. Also from the article, I found out that the collectors Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett ensured that the institute acquired works by Picasso from the 1920s onwards, including The Old Guitarist.
In conclusion, I'd like to add that one piece of history I found rather interesting. When Picasso discovered the institute owned Mother and Child, 1921, he gave Hartmann (William Hartmann, the lead architect of the city’s Modernist civic centre, assiduously wooed the artist) a fragment of canvas featuring a man holding a fish, telling him to give it to the institute, which would know what it was. Conservators confirmed the piece formed part of the original composition and shows the child’s long-lost father.
I liked the articled and the way author discribed the facts. I dare say that it's really great that through the centuries people are still interested in eternal talent of Picasso.

My Pleasure Reading

Year 1 Term 1 - "Theatre" by William Somerset Maugham

Year 1 Term 2 - "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Year 2 Term 3 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Year 2 Term 4 - "The Catcher in the Rye" by Jerome David Salinger

Year 3 Term 5 - "Tender is the night" by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Year 3 Term 6 - "Atonement" by Ian McEwan