exhibition 4: war

Artist: Tonio Mallia 

Theme : War 

this patriotic painting shows the mercy of those innocent people suffering from the consciences of war .

 this painting shows those people who are forced to leave there families and dont even know if they are going to see there families again .

this picture shows an effect of war (poverty) which is a common after effect of war 

this picture represents the soldiers going into combat. And the feelings they all have .

exhibition 3 : abstact art

Artist: alfred chircop 

media:variouse media used 

 this painting is inspiring because of all the bright colours merging together 

this painting is interesting because of the different lines going out of them and of the different colours also

 this painting is done with charcoal on canvas and it very interesting as how the lines are constructed

in this painting u see that if you look carefully into the pictures u can see that there are some figures and it is interesting also because of the dripping lines randomly from the top of the canvas 

exhibition 2 portraits

Artist: variouse artist from different years 

Date : seen 15th may 2013

this work is called Ragel Bl ingravata. This work was made by Vincent Apap from (1909-2003), this work shows a portrait of an old man with a very seriouse look on his face . The artist went into alot of detail in the face to get out certain expressions. 

   this work is called Qassis made  from george borg  this bust probably took more time to make than the previous one as the artist went into immense detail doing the type of clothes the priest is wearing.

this work is called mara eleganti hafna by Antonio Sciortino. Again the artist focused on the facial expressions of the bust. overall it is a very nice piece but personally i liked the preist better to this. 

 this work is called tifla titbissem by Antonio Sciortino (1879)-(1947) this work shows a girl smiling with this innocent smile .The artist focuses most on the facial expression to get out that smile of the girl in the bust .

exhibition 1: Christopher ebejer

Date : 8th April 2013

Name of artist : Christopher Ebejer

Medium Used : Ceramics 

this work is called Bavaria and is inspiring by how the drapery flows in harmony . the material used is ceramics with a wooden frame as a background .

this work is called swan lake II and is inspiring how graceful the swan is and is made out of ceramics with a wooden frame as a background and probably did this by carefully carving in alot of deatail and then glaze the piece with a white glaze.

this work is called Nymph II and looks like it was inspired from greek myths . and it has buetiful drapery. this is a ceramic piece with a wooden frame as a background and probably did this by carefully carving in alot of deatail and then glaze the piece with a white glaze.

this piece is called metamorphosis II and has an amazing amount of detail in it and  how all the butterflies all fly out together and gracefully give the piece a really nice effect. this is a ceramic piece with a wooden frame as a background and probably did this by carefully carving in alot of deatail and then glaze the piece with a white glaze.

this work is called winter drops it is a very nice piece, the drapery gives it a modern look as it is all seperated . this is a ceramic piece with a wooden frame as a background and probably did this by carefully carving in alot of deatail and then glaze the piece with a white glaze.

patrick scicluna

Patrick scicluna was born in 1972, Scicluna is a self-taught artist who is always  researching and experimenting . He undertook art classes with Ray Pitre for 7 years and more recently he did a year  also studying nudes with some help from Anton Calleja




.Scicluna strives to capture a mood, a sentiment, a feeling or express a sensual image or moment.  His good eye for  observation is acute and he is driven by a willingness to learn and excel in his work.








scicluna had various opportunities to exhibit his work not only in malta but also in exhebitions like the United Nations Geneve Exhebition in which he showcased a number of paintings titled 'changing rooms' that was held in 24 th may to 8 th april in 2011.






from personal experience scicluna is a kind hearted person and is ready to help everybody how he can. His big heart was shown to a voluntary association and painted a whole selection of works in new apartments in sutton.

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The development of modern Maltese culture

Maltese culture is described as a rich patern of traditions , believes and practices. this is the process of alot of adaptations and multiple diferent beliefs.Present-day Maltese culture is essentially Latin European with the recent British times are  also evidence. In the early part of its history Malta was also exposed to Semetic influences. The present-day this is linguistic rather than cultural. The Latin European element is the major source of Maltese culture because of the virtually continuous cultural impact on Malta over the past eight centuries and the fact that Malta shares the religious beliefs, traditions and ceremonies of its Sicilian and Southern European neighbors.

   

mattia pretti

The Sermon of St John the Baptist including Preti’s self-portrait – coming to Malta in May

Mattia Preti 

The well known artist Mattia Preti was born in Italy, Taverna to be exact a small town in Calabria. His brother was an artist that used to work in Rome. Preti soon followed his brothers footsteps.Preti got a lot of coverage from major commissions given from connections he had from with the night of St. john.He later on got his knight hood. He did a lot of works in Malta which are being exhibited right now. 

‘Mattia Preti – Faith and Humanity’ | Heritage Malta. 2013. ‘Mattia Preti – Faith and Humanity’ | Heritage Malta. [ONLINE] Available at:http://heritagemalta.wordpress.com/mattia-preti-faith-and-humanity/. [Accessed 20 May 2013].