DECONSTRUCTING DALÍ. Anna D. (1 BTX A)

WHEN I MET SALVADOR DALÍ:

The last week of the first term was a little bit strange. The first two days of the week we did the project “Dalí”. In the middle of the week, first of batxillerat went to Figueres to know more about this fabulous artist. And finally to end the week, some of us went to school to wish people a good Christmas to play “Jornades Esportives” and a happy new year and obviously that they could make a lot of wishes.

To do the project the teachers made groups about 5 of 6 persons. And then every group needed to create an element 3D and do more things that the teachers told us to do and every group had their topic and their picture. In two days we did our perfect “Ous al plat sense plat” and in my opinion the representation that my group and me did was brilliant.

After all of that on Wednesday first of Batxillerat went to Figueres to do a little trip. We spent the morning and a part of the evening there. But there was a reason  why we were there on that day. The teachers told us that they were thinking a lot of time that they didn’t know when to go there, but they had and idea that if we did the work the last week of the term and we had a day in the middle of the week, why not to go after the work that the groups had done, with the mind fresh and maybe we paid more attention to the explanations in the Dali’s museum? 

Yes, first of all we arrived on time and we had a little break about 30 minutes. My group of friends went to a café. Some of us took something to eat and then we returned to the entrance of the museum to start the adventure inside the Dali’s museum. 

It was spectacular. the pictures, the statues, the stairs, the room of the “kiss”... everything was brilliant. We had a girl that was explaining us step by step all the museum in English!!! But we could understand what she was saying.

Finally all the groups finished the explanations we said bye to the girls of the museum and we had time to have lunch. We were talking that we needed to eat something or maybe we could die. Well no, I’m joking only. We did something similar that we nowadays say “Cau” or “Esplai” we were eating in the middle of the street on the dirty floor, after all of that we went to the buses to come back home. It was a tiring day to some of us, but it was worthwhile!

ANNA DIEZ

1 BTX A

DECONSTRUCTING DALÍ. Genís F. (1 BTX A)

Dalí and the journey to Figueres

It was the last week before Christmas holidays so it was a bit different from previous weeks. On Monday and Tuesday, we worked in an interesting project about Salvador Dalí, a famous Catalan artist of the XXth century, and on Wednesday we went to Figueres to visit Dalí’s Museum. Finally, on Thursday it was the School Sport’s Day.

On Monday, we started a project about Salvador Dalí in which we investigated about his life, one of his paintings (each group had a different Dalí’s picture allotted), the influence of an iconographic element in his work (or group worked the element of “eggs”) and the relation of the artist of Figueres with Science. I decided to work hard these two last days of class and enjoy the trip to Figueres. We worked so hard on Monday that on Tuesday we had the project almost finished.

Finally, we went to Figueres, Salvador Dalí’s birthplace, and we enjoyed so much the visit to a city that I had never visited before, and it really surprised me (of course, in the good way). It was a brightening and quiet city with amazing streets full of lovely people speaking a sweet dialect of our Catalan language (and Roncero says that it’s a Spanish dialect!)

First of all, we ate breakfast. Then we went to Dalí’s Museum and, fortunately, we understood it all very well because we remembered what we had been working in class about the artist of Figueres. Besides the visit was in English, so we learned about Dalí, the most famous Catalan artist of all time, in the most international and useful language. Is there something better?

Thereafter, we could go anywhere in the city to have lunch. Èrik and I, as salmons, went to the opposite direction of all other people and we went down the narrow street until we arrived at a huge square where we, as usually, sat in a bench and we looked how people moved up and down, right and left, and we feel lucky of not being like them, despite the sun was shining and some people was running we felt relaxed (maybe because we were tired).

A few minutes later, we stood up and we passed through the market, we were looking for some souvenirs. Otherwise, we went into a bakery where we both bought some “carquinyolis” (a Catalan traditional kind of sweet which my mother really loves) and wind fritters (well, there they cold them Empordanian fritters but I’m sure that they were actually wind fritters)

Finally, we came back to Barcelona by bus, after a joyful and incredible visit to Figueres, with much new knowledge, some sweets and an enormous illusion because holidays were just at the other side of the window.

A PHOTO OF DALÍ AND ME

A PHOTO OF MY GROUP, I'M AT THE RIGHT OF THE PHOTO

Genís Fibla i Costa

1 BTX A

MY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Cesc F. (2 ESO A)

DIE SCHWEIZ (Switzerland)

This Christmas I went to Switzerland, in a town called Platenga.

I stayed there for 1 week with my family. There, we did a lot of activities, one day we went to the forest and we made a fire and ate some sausages, it was really cool. 

Another day we went to a place called Rufalipark, there we did ice skating, it was so funny because we fell down a lot of times and we laughed a lot. 

The last day of the year we did Olympic games with the family, there were 3 games: Boules, a prove of Shot and a game called Vikings. At night we threw a lot of fireworks and we ate the 12 grapes, we danced, sang and we did a lot of things, it was very amazing. 

The 1^st day of 2017, at night, we came back to Barcelona by plane. A very beautiful stay. Happy New Year!!

CESC FIGUERAS

2 ESO A

DECONSTRUCTING DALÍ Vicenç C. (1 BTX B)

Museu Dalí, Figueres’16

The week before we left the school for Christmas holidays, we were doing an ABP about Salvador Dalí and his life, and the following day we went to Museu Dalí in Figueres. It is so shocking and peculiar because it has got lots of elements of surrealism (and this artistic movement is so shocking).

At the beginning of the visit, Petra, our guide, showed us the details of Dalí’s paintings, sculptures, etc, because he did his work with lots of subliminal images and messages. I really loved the dome of the building, the history of the dome, because Dalí wanted to represent the eyes of a fly. This museum has got only one dome and I was looking for the other, and Petra told us that the other dome is reflected in the big mirror of the museum, so at the end I could see both eyes. It was a curious datum because normal people want to look physically the two domes but, because he was a ‘’crazy’’ man, he found a different way to look the things and interpret them. He wanted to trick the minds of people, in this aspect!

The next stop of our guide was Dalí’s faces lounge, where we did the “face swap challenge” with him hahaha. It was so funny because there were lots of stupid faces (in the good sense of the word, obviously), because Dalí had lots of different faces to express a feeling. For example, there were people taking photos with the photo of the right, and you can imagine the results of the face swap; it was really really really funny!

Definitely, the excursion wasn’t boring as I was thinking about, and it was so curious and impacting… I want to go another time there, because I enjoyed a lot and I liked the stories of him too! Please,  invite me the next year to come another time.

Vicenç Capsir Orihuela

1r Batxillerat ‘’B’’

DECONSTRUCTING DALÍ. Andrea R. (1 BTX B)

Salvador Dalí and Figueres

So the 20 and 21 of December we were working in a Project about Dalí and his paintings or sculptures. Each group worked on one and once it was finished, we went to the Teatre-Museu Dalí in Figueres to watch some of his works.

We arrived there, and we were divided in three groups. Mine started the tour in like an inner courtyard looking at the beautiful place and the great sculptures, and it was there, when we had the idea of making the mannequin challenge (you can find it in the school Instagram and Twitter ) And so we did it. After that, we went in and the tour girl was talking in English all the time, explaining us his works, where were painted, some of the visual effects that were in them…, etc. She also explained us a bit of his life to get to know him better and in that way it was easy to understand his way of thinking and his works.

I was lucky that the paintings that I worked with were there and one next to the other. And Nicolás, that was working with me, explained one of them and the tour girl was impressed.

And we continued passing through a lot of rooms, with different topics and painted in different years.

At the end, we finished, and we went outside. There we waited until the other groups finished and we had free time to have lunch. My friends and I went to La Rambla of Figueres we had lunch in a bench and we stayed there fooling around and taking a few photos until it was time to go back to meeting the others and going back to Barcelona.

It was a great day, and besides, I learned a lot about Salvador Dalí.

ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ

1 BTX B

DECONSTRUCTING DALÍ. Jordi C. (1 BTX B)

Dalí theater-museum visit

I think that the previous days to the visit, we all were thinking that Dalí was  a crazy person with some mental issues and a life controlled by Gala and his problems.

But after the museum I have a different idea about Dalí and his art, I keep thinking that it was a bit creepy and crazy but I also think that it was a man advanced to his time, and the use of the sciences to make art and understand art is very impressive, because in some paintings of Dalí you can see things like all people do but if you look at that painting in relation to science you can see more than a simple painting or sculpture.

My favorite painting of Dalí is The persistence of memory  because all people understand the principal meaning of the painting but not all can see all the meanings that this painting has, and that is why I like this painting that much, and it is also the motivation that Dalí used, in this painting,  the motivation that Dalí used was a Camembert cheese.

In summary, I don’t know too much about art but I think that Dalí was a very good artist and I really enjoyed the visit to the Dalí Museum in Figueres.

Jordi Calafell 1 Batx “B”   

DECONSTRUCTING DALÍ. Guillem B. (1 BTX B)

ABP – Salador Dalí

The truth is that I loved the visit to the Dalí museum in Figueres and also with the technique that man used to create these sculptures, paintings and compositions. Truly astounding. 

Of all the works that we saw in Figueres by Dalí, the one that surprised me the most was the one of a huge picture where the woman of dali with her back turned to the sea. But the surprising thing of the picture was that if you looked at it in another way you saw Abraham Lincoln.

Now leaving aside the visit, let me tell you my experience in that first ABP in BTX. I think that like all typical groups, in our group also there were good and bad moments and events. Sometimes, we used to have conflict about different issues, but we shared our problems and decided how to do together.

And finally just to say that I don’t know what kind of experiences my group had with me but I had all kind of experiences with them and I learned a lot from them and group work, like in all school works, of course.

Guillem Bayo

1st BTX B

DECONSTRUCTING DALÍ Èrik E. (1 BTX A)

Deconstructing Dalí and visiting Figueres          

The last week of the first term,  instead of doing ordinary class, we did a little project about the figure of Salvador Dalí i Domènech, a Catalan artist and his surrealism. 

Each group had a piece of Dalí, it could be a picture or a sculpture. Then we had to do two texts, one about the relationship between Dalí and science and the other about the symbol of our picture or sculpture and what it meant to Salvador Dalí. Everything that he painted in his pictures has got a significate and they transmit something to the spectators. Furthermore, we did a reinterpretation of our symbol and my group used the technique of “object trouvé”, and we recycled an old shoe. For Dalí, shoes represented the women, specifically his wife and muse Gala, and the perfection of her body. Also we did our blackout poem, a new way to interpret poetry, and it was so interesting doing it. We summarized all activities in a short oral expression.

On Wednesday the 21^st, to finalize this project, we went to the Teatre-Museu Salvador Dalí, in Figueres, Girona (Catalunya). There we had a guide, her name was Petra and she was from Amsterdam. She explained us the principal characteristics of Dalí’s art and his own world.

Moreover, when we were in the terrace in the middle of the museum, my tour group did the famous “Mannequin Challenge”. It was promoted by Petra and our teacher Ms Rosa Maria Martínez, and she filmed it. After it, we went upstairs and we saw the tomb of Salvador Dalí, and the spectacular “portrait” of the actress Mae West. It is made with a sofa, a chimney, a clock and two pictures. But, you have to take the correct perspective to see it well. Dalí’s art is not easy.

Before returning to Barcelona, my friend Genís and I went to a very famous bakery of Figueres and we bought some “bunyols de l’Empordà” and “carquinyolis” to our family.

Here you have the link of our “Mannequin Challenge”:

https://twitter.com/manyanetsandreu/status/811517358309310464

Èrik Esteban 1^st Btx A