The silver face pictured above was fabricated using a technique called REPOUSSE- one of the lost arts that is being taught and revived in the silver smithing school.
Nacho Gomez - one of the many VERY talented teachers at the school is pictured here speaking about how he made his piece. Claudia Cota (the director of the school) is talking to some of the students about how difficult it is to achieve this level of volume in what started out as a flat sheet of silver/metal- alloyed to 980.
The silver face is of the Spanish playwright Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza (1581-1639) who was born in Mexico to parents from distinguished Spanish families.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcon was educated in both Mexico and Spain and obtained two law degrees. He later became a playwright and when he returned to Spain in 1614 he was considered a major figure of Spain's Golden Age, 1580-1680. His work is distinguished by mastery of humorous dialogue and by use of a thesis, or basic premise, to satirize common human failings.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón wrote less than 30 plays, all in verse. In spite of his output, relatively small in his day, he ranks among the European comic geniuses.
(This biographical information on Juan Ruiz de Alarcon y Mendoza was taken from this website : http://www.answers.com/topic/juan-ruiz-de-alarc-n
and shall be given the proper credit).
No comments:
Post a Comment