The Colors of Avant-Garde (English project)

Cl. a XII-a A from C.N. “Ferdinand I” Bacău Prof. Agrigoroaiei Iulia

● Short Description:

It’s Friday night! It’s late! It’s „Art Night” with Roxana Neagu and Ioana Tudor – America`s most watched TV show! Tonight`s guests are the well-known avantgardists painters: Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

● Cast:

Television Host 1 – Tudor IoanaTelevision Host 2 – Roxana NeaguSalvador Dali – Ciocan AlexandruPablo Picasso – Petcu Andra

● Plot:

(music. applauses.)TV Host 1: Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of “Art Night” with Roxana Neagu and Ioana Tudor. Tonight`s subject is “The colors of avant-garde” and we are going to invite some of the most appreciated and even controversial painters of our time.TV Host 2: Our first guest grew up in a small town in Catalonia, Spain. He is best known for his bizarre images in his surrealist work and of course for his eccentric manners which sometimes annoy his critics. By a round of applause: mister Salvador Dali.(music. applauses.)TV Host 1: So, mister Dali … tell us what determined you to start a career as a painter.Salvador Dali: Oh, but Dali isn`t just a painter. Dali is also a writer, a performer, a singer, dancer ..TV Host 2: Yeah, but after all you are known as a very talented painter and …Salvador Dali: Dali isn`t a good painter. He is too intelligent to be a good painter. If one wants to be a very good painter one has to be a little bit stupid except, of course, for Velasquez. TV Host 1: Mister Dali, please tell us how it all started. How did you start painting?Salvador Dali: At school, Dali never was a remarkable student but The Genius has always been very talented at painting. I was guided in my evolution as a painter by Roman Pichot, a local painter. Dali`s first exhibition was in 1921, back in his home town,

Figueras, when he was only 17 years old. In that same year I …The Divine attended the School of Fine Arts in Madrid but I was expelled in 1926 because of my behavior. It was my final exam when I insulted my teacher saying that no one from the Academy was competent enough to examine me.TV Host 2 (laughing): Really???Salvador Dali: Yes! TV Host 1 (laughing as well): What an interesting story! Now … tell us something about your art works.Salvador Dali: Well … Dali always liked weird things, strange things which can not be explained. I always liked painting in a surrealist manner, trying to paint more of a distortioned reality, things above it … like our dreams for example. Dali always adds lots of symbolic elements in his work. TV Host 2: We`ll show some of your works to our viewers and we`ll discuss them later on. Now, I would like to ask you: which are your sources of inspiration?Salvador Dali: It`s very hard to try and paint your imagination. I use a method I like to call the Paranoiac-critical method. Using it allows me to access my subconscious. This way I let my imagination fly away. Dali`s main source of inspiration is, of course, his muse: my beloved wife, Gala which I love very much.TV Host 1: I`ve noticed that your wife appears in most of your works which I personally consider it wonderful. It`s very nice how you manage to illustrate her in different surrealist themes. She sometimes appears as a background element … amazing!Salvador Dali: Thank you!TV Host 2: Next question: How would your best art work look like? … Tough one!Salvador Dali: Indeed a very tough one. Well, Dali can`t possibly paint his best work because if Dali paints his best work the next day he would be dead. TV Host 2 (laughing): Ohhhh … what a strange answer! Salvador Dali: And it`s sad because genius people don`t deserve to die. They have a very important role in society, contributing to the evolution of mankind. TV Host 1: Very well then! And now it is my pleasure to introduce the second guest of our show: mister Pablo Ruiz Picasso.(music. applauses.)TV Host 2: Alright … Welcome to our show! Before starting our discussion with mister Pablo Picasso, our viewers should know that picking these two wonderful man to be our guests for tonight wasn`t just a coincidence. The two of them have many things in common. They both are Spanish, they both studied in Madrid at the School of Fine Arts, they both revolutionized modern art, they both paint in a surrealist manerr and of course, they both are very important figures of our time.TV Host 1: And now, tell us … how did you become a painter?Pablo Picasso: Well, my father used to be a painter too. Since I was little I said that the only thing that I`ll do in life is to create art. It was the only thing I ever wanted to do. My mother told me that my first words were “piz, piz” which are a short form for “lapiz”, the Spanish word for pencil. TV Host 1: It is said that your work is categorized in 5 major periods. Which are they and please tell us some words about them?

Pablo Picasso (thinking): Hmmm… well the first period, as you call it, is, I think, the Blue Period which consists of sad paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. Many paintings of very thin mothers with children date from this period and the subjects I used the most back then were prostitutes and beggars. TV Host 2: What can you tell us about your second period also known as the Rose Period?Pablo Picasso: The Rose Period is characterized by a more jolly style with orange and pink colors, featuring many circus people, acrobats, harlequins. The next period is, I think, the African-influenced Period in which my art work was inspired by African artifacts. Some of the ideas developed in that time led me directly into the Cubist period that followed.TV Host 2: This is also the most important stage of your creation. I heard that there are two types of Cubism. Is it true?Pablo Picasso: Of course! There is the Analytic Cubism which consists in using neutral colors and monochrome brownish and the Synthetic Cubism in which cut paper fragments were pasted into compositions.TV Host 1: Indeed very interesting how you managed to revolutionize art. And now, the next period we are going to talk about tonight is the Surrealism Period. What can you say about it?Pablo Picasso: In this period I preferred using more of a neoclassical style. The minotaur replaced the harlequin as a common symbol for my work. This thing was caused by getting in contact with the surrealist movement, with painters like Dali, for example … which I really appreciate.Salvador Dali: Oh, Dali is very touched by your kind words. TV Host 2: And now, ladies and gentleman stay tuned for the second part of our show. We are going to discuss some of our guests` best works. I hope you`ll enjoy it because it will get very interesting!