Art presentation

Today i'll speak about an art work of Paul Cézanne : The Bather

It's an oil on cavenas painting painted in 1885.

First this painting appears tu be very soft, it really can describe like a picture because oil on cavenas don't create so much texture.

This painting represent a man, only with a white underpants. He maybe goes to swim in a river or a lake. Globally the colour of this painting is a mix of a grey and a light blue. Only one part of a vegetation in bottom right corner is green. The back ground appears cold, because of the colours. The artist use cold colour like blue.

The bather is looking at his feet something we can not see. The direction is vertical because of the format of the painting and the man which is standing.

We can point the fact that, the area of vegetation painted in green is very small compared to the rest of the painting.

We can analyse all this things : The colour of the back ground, gives an unity to this painting and an harmony because the light blue-grey colour is a quite neutral colour. But the man is painting with light colour which contrast a bit with the back ground. In the same way, the little area of vegetation put some variety in this painting. It is quite balance between the man and the back ground but there is always this vegetation which touch our feeling, in a first way we do not understand but after have seen the other parts of the painting we can have an interpretation.

The man is looking down and we see that he is sad. He is not happy, he do not smile. The back ground is painting with cold colour. Maybe the water where he want to swim is cold too. But there is a little peace of vegetation which say the water is warm. I think this picture in a metaphor of what the man think. He knows he is going to a sad destination where he will not return, so he is not happy, and he only see bad side of this destination : all the background is painted with cold colour which are not happy. But secretly he have some hope or good idea of his destination : the small area of green vegetation represent it. The face of the man is not smiling so we can think that the vegetation represents his unconscious part of his mind.

Personally in a first approach this painting do not touch me. But it's only after view the all painting, you understand the feeling of this painting. I like this idea to externalize the man mind on his environment. It says that we can not dissociate the human to his environment. The perception is an important part of the life.

8 secrets of a perfect match with the success

Listen Richard St John, and he will gave you awesome secrets to raise the perfect success ! But because you're a bit busy, i've wrote a summary for you !

The 8 secrets are :

Passion : It's better when you like your job !
Work : Nothing come if you don't work, and work hard !
Be good : You need to practice to be better !
Focus : Concentrate on what you do, do this effitiently and rapidly by being concentrate !
Push : Don't let another judge you, be strong, and if you're not enough, tell you mother to push you, she did it a lot of time before !
Serve : You need to be proud of your work and to do it !
Ideas : It's evident ! you need an idea, and an awesome one to touch the success !
Persist : Don't let criticism annoy yourself ! Surpass it !



According to me, the most usefull secret is IDEA.

Well, I think it is my secret because everyone can success with a great idea. And i am not so different of the others, and by definition, the success is the gift when you are better than the others. So you need to be the best. Or one of the best.
The is several examples but i think the usefull are the self made men ones. During the last century there are a lot of them who appear generaly with a good idea. Take the example of Henry Ford which creat the automotile factury which already exist! But he don't just creat an automobile label, he success by have a great idea in the industry mind : the Fordism, the production in chain which is revolutionizing the industry.
This is a great example, is not it?

But this is more and more difficult to have great ideas, because all basic ideas are already found, and now, you realy need to do study the find more complex ideas in science (in a large scale : human, economic and scientific one). But i do study, so i've a chance to find an good idea !!!

But have an idea is not enough, you need all 7 others secrets to success : An example : James Dyson. He have a great idea to make revolutionnary vacuum cleaners long ago. But because of the pression of "classic" vacuum cleaner industry, which has the monopoly of the market, he couldn't be well known. But he persist, and push through this shiled and now he success, he is the main seller of vacuum cleaner in the USA and in GB!

To conclude, you need a great idea to success, but you need to not forget the other secrets !

A Cultural Change by Art.

I watched the video How art gives shape to cultural change and i decide to chose one sculpture art work at 7:11.

This art appears as a sculpture on a wall. We can see a "Me" lit in white, and a "We" not lit.
This art interests me more than the other, first because i'm more able to be touch by a sculpture than by a painting, I thing the third dimension, gives us a real new content. Without listen, we can cleary see than the speech is cleary about black art and black artist. Related to this, this view gives us a great meaning : I (Me) can be a white man (lit in white), the society and the world more generally, is black, or include black people. the "We" is not lit, correspond to the society which is not only white. Black people are an entier part of our society.




According to Golden, images & art, can influence people. The fact is that ,in art, there are a lot of under meaning, which are not openly said. It makes people think about these secret meaning, and by this way, people reflect on their situation, their culture, to provide a personnal meaning which can be different for every people.
She raise the question of the place of a museum in the society. She says that a museum, beause it contains a lot of art, is a place where people can think, and reflect about the society. It can be a place where people speack each other to share their idea and maybe find answers for questions which are raise by the society. The museum can be catalyst of a more global reflection on culture.




Golden says : “Think about artists, not as content providers,.... but again as real catalysts (for change).”

I see two faces for this problem.

On one hand, we can not disociate the artist of his content. All art need to be creat and related with an artist and an art trend. In this way, the artist provides us art, and consequently, he is a content provider.On the other hand, i agree, because the power of the art, in contained in the not-openly said meaning of art, and it is the artist who can decide what he want to pain and figure, and what he does not want. The artist is not a content provider but he helps us to think about several topics, and act as a catalyst. We do not wait the ne painting of this artist like we can wait a new film, or a new book. The art need to be thought at the T time, at the present. Each art has to be placed in his time, but the reflection need to be done at the presnt.

Art for me !

For me, the art can be several things.

One part of art can be explain by the necessity for the artist or a man to show his internal pulsions. The society is more able to understand the necessity to creat, by art, things which can be the representation of the pulsions than a murder which is the basic way to achieve a pulsion.

A second part of Art can be attriuate to an other necessity : express our fellings. Sometimes, the artist is a romantic man. He needs another langage to express that which can not be express by words. The sculpture, the drawing, the modeling, can be these ways to express ourselves and our feeling without speak.

The third part, linked with the second, is the expression of other ideas. You need sculpture to describe the architecture, you need a photo to show how the view was beautiful during your trip... All kind of thing, which sometimes are not considered as art, are in fact, art. And maybe a lot of thing which i don't considered as art, is very important for you, and you think, it's an art!


But art can not be divided like that... in fact the art we see, is a mix of all these, and it's maybe the reason why, a lot of art are not understood.

The Water Cycle

Well... Today, some of us begin to become ecologist. We are going to speak about the water cycle, to understand how can we save the water, maybe the main issue of this century.

Because it's a cycle, we need to arbitrary chose a start point!

First, a large amount of water is available in seas and oceans. Under the warm of the sun, the water evaporates and becomes invisible to us (water steam is not visible).

Then, when molecules of water are cooled by a upper cold atmosphere, they condense in big clouds.

Next, the wind pushes theses clouds over a continent. The next step is precipitations in two main ways : snow and rain. The first one when the water is under 0 degree, the other when it is over. The snow is usually store on mountains. The rain is everywhere else.

Subsequently, the precipitations are divided in two parts : surface run-off (rivers, lakes...) and ground water which infiltrate the ground.

The next stage is the return of all this water into the sea by the gravity action. Simultaneously the water in the surface evaporates(liquid to steam) or sublimates(solid to steam) in part and regenerates a bit the clouds.

Finally we are is the start point, the sea or ocean!

The best Tacos ever seen !

First let me describe what a tacos is. It is a wheat crepe, in which you find French fries, meat, and sauces. Yes, I apologies if you do a diet, but this food is for “fat” people. I mean by “fat” people, the person who like to eat fatty food, but who are not necessary fat.

You normally find it in fast food restaurant like kebab restaurant! But you will find best of them in a special restaurant : “Le tacos de Lyon” near the cathedral of “Sainte-Claire” in Grenoble.

When you command, you need to choose one of two different meat (beef, turkey, nuggets...), and one, two, or three sauces like white sauce, barbecue, Tunisian … After you need to wait a bit (about 10 min) and then you get the precious tacos !

When you bite it for the first time, it's simply a gustatory orgasm! And even more if you are starving! Classic tacos can be rate with 6/10 but this tacos, because the restaurant is specialise, is rate 10/10 bye me! And it doesn't cost so much : 4€50 is you chose only one meat, 5€50 if two! And you can drink an additional can for 1€.

I encourage you to eat there one time, to test it, and you will back there every week after because you will become tacos-addict just after your first bite !!!

Welcome in my blog!

Hi people !
I'm Florent Richaud, a student of 20 years old at Phelma School.

I was born in Grenoble and i always lived in Grenoble and around. I like my montains, and it will be difficult to leave them when i'll need. I like snowboard, and climbing. I'm a fight pilot too, and it's so beatiful to fly with snow on montains !

I've got 2 older sisters which don't leave any more in my house! (yes yes i live in  my parent's house)

Have fun with my blog !