An artist that i like

When I entered college I was super obsessed with this artist, I'm not going to say I admire him, because I don't know anything about his private life, but I really like his art and how he has been developing it. I like Tim Bengel because he has a very particular way of making paintings.  He is a 31-year-old German artist, he is known for his detailed sand paintings adorned with gold leaf. He started by making short videos of his technique, not as a "how to" but rather it offers a visual experience where the final result of his work is revealed.

Bengel studied art history and philosophy at the University of Tubingen. His first solo exhibition was in 2017 in New York, and he was the gallery's first artist found online. Due to his success on social media, in which his videos receive 400 million views, he increased his openness in the field of arts and culture and is considered one of the most famous artists of his generation.

I like this artist for the different way he has of making his paintings, as I said before. In a time when art is not appreciated and thanks to the internet everything happens so fast, it arrives fast and it goes on to the next very fast, I think he has managed to fulfill "the dream" and above all he has managed to innovate while maintaining his own essence.

My American Dream by Tim Bengel, 2017

Why i like art

As a child I enjoyed making collages and drawing, but nothing very wow, I did enjoy going to museums but I didn't go very often. But in high school my mom gave me a coupon for oil painting classes, and that's when I fell in love with painting, I was in classes for about three years I think, in those years I decided to study arts.

After so many years studying arts, and realizing that I have not learned everything I expected to learn, I feel a little disappointed and I have ended up hating oil painting.  But to see the bright side, I found new art disciplines that have me a bit obsessed, such as goldsmithing and engraving, and my latest obsession is digital design. In none of these disciplines I consider myself very good but I enjoy learning and doing new things.

I like modern art in general, both art, music and dance. I like to see it from the point of view that what is modern, popular or trend, in twenty years in the future will be considered vintage, and I like to think that I can enjoy at the time that it was something original or new. How is it happening now with the fashion of the 2000s, I like to see them return with the additions of the current era but I don't know if I would dress again as I did when I was ten years old. For this reason, I also consider graffiti, hip hop music and rap dance art. For me, hip hop music from the 90s is a form of art, just like hip hop music and rap from now will be for the next generations.

I don't have a favorite artist, neither in plastic art, nor in music, I only have seasonal obsessions depending on which discipline has me obsessed.

A food i really like

 A food that i really like is spaghetti with tomato sauce.

Spaghetti is made like normal noodles are cooked, with boiled water, a few bay leaves, left for about 15 minutes and then strained. The sauce, as I like to make it myself, I put the soy meat in a bool with water so that it hydrates, meanwhile the vegetables are fried with a little olive oil in a wok.  Then I add the tomato sauce, the soy meat and a lot of oregano.  I leave it for about 10 minutes, stirring every so often so that it doesn't stick, and that's it, I serve immediately so it doesn't get cold, with tomato salad for more pleasure.

I really like this food because when I was a child my grandmother always cooked it for me when I didn't like the food my uncles made, then it was the first thing I learned to cook on my own, and I did it when I took care of my siblings, and now that I'm vegetarian I love how it tastes with soy meat. 

A week in London

Day       Place                                        Entrance Fee £      Tube Station

Monday

AM    Natural History Museum                    Free              South Kensington 

PM     Serpentine Gallery                            Free              South Kensington  

Tuesday

AM    London Eye                                            £36.00             Waterloo 

PM     Palace of Westminster                            £29.00              Westminster  

Wednesday

AM    Kew Gardens                £19.50             Kew Garden 

PM     Kew Gardens                                    £19.50             Kew Garden 

Thursday

AM    Tate Modern Art Gallery                    Free             Blackriars

PM     Shakespeare’s Globe                            £18.70             Blackriars

Friday

AM    Tower of London                                    £29.90             Tower Hill 

PM     St Dunstan in the East Church Garden   Free             Tower Hill 

Saturday

AM    The British museum                            Free             Tottenham’s Court Road 

PM     Madame Tossaud’s Museum.             £37.00             Baker Street 

Sunday

AM    Camden Market                                    Free             Camden Road 

PM     Camden Market                                    Free             Camden Road 

Total cost: £189.60

My favorite piece of technology.

 My favorite piece of technology is my iPad. In high school, for a birthday my mom gave me the iPad Air, and for the nexts 5 years i really enjoyed it, like watching series and movies, doing schoolwork, read a lot of books in PDF, but what i liked most was that the battery lasted along time and it was much easier to transport it, unlike a computer. Over time, the iPad got slower, it had less memory spaces, updates were no longer available and the battery lasted much less and took longer to charge, when it started to fail i was just entering college and luckily i was working, so i could afford to buy another one, in fifteen hundred installments of course. I bought the iPad Pro with the pencil, so i could do digital illustrations and with a lot of memory so it would las longer. To this day i have that same iPad, it’s been with me for about 4 years now, i love it and use it all day.

Why did I choose my major?

As a child i wanted to be a ballet dancer, but we did not have enough money, after that i wanted to had a chocolate factory, like in the movie, and eat chocolate all day, but i think that’s not possible either. In high school, i used to read a lot, so i wanted to have a library, also i started going to private painting classes, where i fell for art. When i finished high school i had no idea what i wanted to study, and my score on PSU was useless, so i entered the pre university. After that year, my score was better but not enough for study arts in University of Chile, so i apply for Etapa Básica in the same university and i was accepted. So far things have been not that bad I think, now i just want to finish the career, work enough to leave my house and go to travel anywhere.

About myself

I was born in Santiago, Chile. I moved a lot during my childhood, but when i had 12 years old we moved to Valle Grande, it’s a small town between Lampa and Quilicura. I’m 23 years old today. I’m the older daughter of three, i have a little brother and a little sister and a little dog named Mia. I went to Sol del Valle High school, and after that I went to Preuniversitario Pedro de Valdivia, where i had the best year of my life and i met amazing people who are still my friends. I got into the Etapa Básica of Universidad de Chile in 2018, at present I’m in third year in Visuals Arts in the same university.