Centelles: a good example of photojournalism

Centelles: L’atzar i la memòria

From 27^th of October to 14^th of November there is a new exhibition of pictures by Centelles at Palau Robert, in Barcelona. It’s called “Centelles: l’atzar i la memoria” (Centelles Chance and memory)

The exhibition is collection of images from Agustí Centelles took.

Agustí Centelles is the most important journalist of the Republic on the Civil War.

He took thousands of photos during and after his exile. Those photos were not found until 37 years later, when Franco died. In summer 2008 lots of photos were found, luckily in a cookie box, about the social and political world from the Civil war and Post-war. In times when Centelles was forced to leave the journalism, he devoted his work to the industrial photography and commercial journalism.

The exhibition is free and available from 27^th to 14^th November, at Palau Robert, Passeig de Gràcia 107, Barcelona

Social Groups

Nowadays there have appeared different social groups that were in fashionable some years ago. The most part of the social groups have their origin in the last century. These groups were created by people who liked the same things ( music, types of clothes) and have the same rules and habits. Usually, these groups don’t have any relation with a social class. Every group has something that characterizes them ( clothes, hairstyle,…) The most popular ones are: ●Posh ●Gothic ●Skaters / Riders ●Freakys ●Emo ●Garrulos

Oscar's hobby

Our friends' favourite kind of music

We carried out a survey among people of 4^th ESO (15-16 years). The survey is about the music that we listen to and the radio station that we most listen to, and finally the music TV channel that we watch. And more or less these are the results:

The genre of music most listened to is rap, the second is pop and the third is rock. The most famous Spanish group here is ‘El Canto del Loco’And the most famous international group here is ‘Simple Plan’. The most listened radio station is ‘Maxima FM’, in this frequency house and techno sound. And finally the most watched TV channel is ‘MTV’ (Music Television).

What type of music do you listen to?

By: Laura García, Vicky Muñoz, Ainoa Planas, Montse Jiménez

Piotrek's profile

Claire's by Andrea Benavides

Aerobics by Ainoa Sánchez

Inside by Angela Mas

Pull and Bear by Nerea Ruiz

Stradivarius by Laura Jiménez

Fartons by Laura Vera

Pa amb tomàquet/Bread with tomato by Coral Martí

Belly dance by Katherine Núñez

Ballet by Ana Sofía Núñez

American Modern in the Joan Miró Foundation

Once more we’re fortunate to have a new temporary exhibition in Barcelona which is also of great interest.

The Joan Miró Foundation – a visit you shouldn’t miss when you come to Barcelona- is presenting American Modern, a selection of paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. The show contains over 100 works produced by American artists since the end of the nineteenth century. From landscape painters and the artists working under the influence of Paris, to Abstract Expressionism and even photography, the exhibition shows how modern art has developed in the United States up to the present day.

The artists represented include George Bellows, John Singer Sargent, Arthur Davies, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Cornell, Thomas Hart Benton, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Richard Diebenkorn, Martin Puryear and Robert Mangold.

One of the pictures that particularly caught my attention was in the Afro-American room of the exhibition. It is entitled “Black girl dragging white girl” and it was painted by Kim Dingle in 1951. It seems to me that it could symbolise the heavy burden the white race has meant for the black race. Maybe, I’m interpreting it this way because last summer I visited South Africa where this situation is absolutely obvious. Let’s wait and see what finally happens in the American elections. Maybe it is time for a change and paintings such as this one are only a product of the past.