LEVEL 3 >> POST 7 (week 11) >> Career-related website / An expert on your field

Hello readers!

Today I will write you about an art portal that I really like! : Art Sy  https://www.artsy.net/

 Art Sy is a meeting point between artists, art lovers and students. It is like a database that is dedicated to connecting diverse artistic interests through places and works of art. Its designer, Carter Cleveland, is a programmer son of art historian David Cleveland and with this website aims to "create an educational resource for people to participate and encourage them to explore and discover art."

The portal has different links of interest, Artsy presents the world's leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist properties, art fairs and profit auctions all in one place. Its database contains art, architecture and design images by many artists. It encompasses historic, modern and contemporary works, and includes the largest online database of contemporary art. Artsy is used by art lovers, museum visitors, collectors, students and educators to discover, learn and collect art.

I like the portal because it collects everything in one place, there are very few portals that have the galleries open to collect the art of your house! It is very interesting. I always visit the portal, it is a way to keep up in the spheres of art.


The portal has an application to make connectivity easier! Look for it!

I hope you like the page! Is very interesting!
See you next week!

Themed post 2: A FAVOURITE ARTIST / PIECE OF ART

Hi readers!


In today's blog entry I will tell you about my favorite artist.

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist. She born in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s. Vicuña began creating "precarious works" and Quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile, as a way of mix the ancestral and the avant-garde.
Cecilia vicuña has used pre-Columbian textile art as a reference to develop his authentic work. For this reason is that one of my favorite works is the collection of Quipus. She has many Quipus, but my favorite is the “Menstrual Quipu”.

The Quipu was a tool used by the Incas to carry out registration and accounting, Was an article made with wool and knots, each knot represents a number or a quantity. It is important the use of the Quipus for the Andean civilizations since it was also used as rosaries in Catholic churches. Has many hidden meanings and ancestral messages. Cecilia vicuña rescues some of its characteristics and brings its to our time.

I met the Quipus of Cecilia Vicuña investigating about textile art. She is known worldwide and has exhibited her work in different museums around the world.

I like the work of Cecilia Vicuña because it rescues an ancestral 
language and redefine it. I think that is the way in which art 
must be manifested, like a mixture of knowledge.

Upload some photos of the Quipu and I will leave
the link of the work Quipu Menstrual. 

http://www.quipumenstrual.cl/


https://vimeo.com/163000731

LEVEL 3 >> POST 3 (week 5) > MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

Hey readers!

In today's blog session I will tell you more about my favorite technological device. Well, I don't have a favorite technological device! But I have to choose one... ¡okay! I choose the photographic camera.

My first camera it was a Barbie camera. I was 10 years old and I was very happy with that gift. I remember I was taking pictures of everything!!...Now I have two new cameras, also given by my parents, a Canon powershot sx500 and a Canon T5i. The first I always carry with me in my bag. Because it is smaller and easier to use and the second camera I use it to work.

Some people tell me that with cell phone cameras can do the same. But…¡that's not true! You can not compare it! Because it both have different essences, the camera captures different things with a lot of pressure. If both were the same, there would be no photographic cameras. ¿What do you think?

I have always believed that images keep memories, that is the reason why I like the photographic camera. Because it is the only instrument that can do something like this! ¡Create memorabilia! ¡wonderful! ¿true?

I love photo cameras! I don't know what my life would be without it!

I hope you like this blog post! 

See you next week!

Blog session #5: A PHOTOGRAPH YOU LIKE

Hello readers!

Today, I will tell you about a photograph of myself. The picture I chose is very important for me and I hope you like it.

The picture you will see below, it was taken by my boyfriend in the summer of 2016.
I remember that day we had a picnic on the beach, watched the sunset and played cards, it was a very nice afternoon!

We are a small family, we are young and we have a little daughter. We have grown a lot and we have become strong. It's hard to be young parents, people always have something to say ja ja. But we went ahead together. For this reason I like this picture, because it makes me remember how happy we are together.

That summer was very important, because we were able to overcome our differences and understand that all people have different times. Sometimes it is good to take a break to think.

I hope you like the photo! We read next week
 see you!!!

Level 3 - Post 2 (week 4) Why did you choose this career/study programme?

Hello readers!!

In this blog entry I will write about myself and my college career choice. I hope you like it.

When I was a child, I wanted to be a photographer. I always took pictures with a Barbie camera. I took pictures of everything and then kept it as little treasures. Possibly without knowing, I always wanted to keep memories, not forget anything. 

At the moment of applying to University I had only one option, and that option was “History and art theory” because I want to be a conservator-restorer. I would love to be in charge of the area of ​​textile conservation and teach courses on Pre-Columbian fabric.

Unfortunately in the university the academic art is privileged, leaving aside the Latin American art and the pre-Columbian art. I hope one day that will change, because it is important to conserve our roots. 

see you!

First Term 2017 / LEVEL 3 >> Blog Session 1 (Week 3) >> My Auto Biography

Hello readers!

My name is magdalena Guajardo Matta. I was born in Santiago on August 9, I'm 26 years old. I am a student of History and the theory of Art of the University of Chile.

I have a daughter, she is 4 years old. We are partners, we walk through life together and we love each other very much.During 2015 I began my studies in the school of textile art Ad llallin and in the MAPA museum I studied "telar Mapuche". Now I work as a textile conservation assistant at the Chilean museum of pre-Columbian art and I am doing my thesis there.

I love textile art, it has a lot to say. Textiles have been a fundamental part of human life. The methods and materials used to make them have been used by different cultures around the world.

I hope to continue studying and creating through the textile. I want to travel all over the world, to know techniques and stories, people and places. 

see you next week!