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Cesar Manrique Artwork Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Moments 2 Art Print
By Tony Broadbent
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Cesar Manrique Foundation Entrance Art Print
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Texture of Nature and man workinh in harmony at Fundacion Cesar Manrique Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Foundation Wind Sculpture and entrance Art Print
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AM Deconstructing Cesar Manrique a conceptual homage Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Monumento al Campesino Lanzarote Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Wind Chimes Lanzarote Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Foundation Wind Sculptures Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Foundation Tile Name Plaque Art Print
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Cesar Manrique ‘Fobos’ Wind Sculpture Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Foundation Wind Sculpture Lanzarote Art Print
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Cactus Garden Lanzarote Canary Islands Spain Spanish Art Art Print
By Emma Fifield
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Cesar Manrique Circular Wind Sculpture Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Circular Wind Sculpture close-up Art Print
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Wind Sculpture – Cesar Manrique 2 Art Print
By Franglais
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Jameos, Cesar Manrique Art Print
By Arts-sexteto
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Cesar Manrique – Images on Lanzarote montage Art Print
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By annet goetheer
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Lanzarote Art Print
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gorgeous place to be Art Print
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Be careful where you sit down. Art Print
By Fara
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Island way of life – Images on Lanzarote montage Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Foundation mural wall Lanzarote Art Print
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jameos del agua Art Print
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Lanzarote Art Art Print
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Copy of Curious Eastern Gray Squirrel Sticker Art Print
By LucLuu
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Graffiti Cactus Art Print
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Teguise, Lanzarote Art Print
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Cesar Manrique’s Cactus Garden Art Print
By Kevin McNeil
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Cesar Manrique Centenary Exhibition Entrance Artwork Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Centenary Flag Art Print
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Devil Lancelot Art Print
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Cesar Manrique Centenary Art Exhibition Art Print
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Sunset from Lighthouse, Faro Pechiguera Art Print
By Kevin McNeil
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El Monumento al Campesino Art Print
By Allen Lucas
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Montana Roja Art Print
By Kevin McNeil
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Cactus Garden Lanzarote Canary Islands Spain Spanish Art Art Print
By Emma Fifield
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The Prickly Pears Of Lanzarote Art Print
By Fara
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Wind Sculpture – Cesar Manrique Art Print
By Franglais
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Jameos del Agua Lobster Art Print
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Windmill, Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote, Canary Islands Art Print
By MichaelBShannon
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The Cesar Manrique Cactus Garden. …………….Lanzarote Art Print
By Fara
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Islas Graciosa Art Print
By Kevin McNeil
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The Cactus Gardens Of Lanzarote Art Print
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Timanfaya (Lanzarote) by SmileMoreAgain Art Print
By SmileMoreAgain
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Mirador del Rio entrance Sculpture by Cesar Manrique Art Print
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The Mirador del Rio in Lanzarote Art Print
By MichaelBShannon
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Wind sculpture Art Print
By Fabrizio Troiani
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Cesar Manrique Fundacion Mural Wall Garden Art Print
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People getting a close view of Lanzarotes Volcanic Coast Art Print
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César Manrique Sculpture Art Print
By Tom Gomez
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Waves breaking on Lanzarotes volcanic coastline Art Print
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Pink Palm Trees Art Print
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Old Fishermen, La Graciosa Art Print
By Kevin McNeil
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Arrecife Lanzarote Art Print
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El Diablo at Timanfaya Lanzarote Art Print
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Mirador del Rio – Cesar Manrique – lanzarote.world Art Print
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Lago Martiánez, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain Art Print
By Fabrizio Troiani
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Lago Martiánez, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain Art Print
By Fabrizio Troiani
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Isle of Palm Trees Art Print
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Lanzarote Canary Islands Art Print
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Blue Palm Trees Art Print
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Cactus plants on Lanzarote Art Print
By Patricia Hofmeester
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ACE Cesar Manrique-Lanzarote Airport Art Print
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Green Palm Tree Art Print
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Deep Purple Palm Tree Art Print
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Orange Palm Tree Art Print
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Grey Palm Tree Art Print
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Cactus plants on Lanzarote Art Print
By Patricia Hofmeester
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Lanzarote – Timanfaya National Park – A little bit mystical. Art Print
By lanzaroteworld
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Deconstructing Cesar Manrique – a conceptual homage – ( part 3 ) – dark Art Print
By Tony Broadbent
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Deconstructing Cesar Manrique – a conceptual homage – Part 4 – Assymmetry Art Print
By Tony Broadbent
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AM Deconstructing Cesar Manrique – a conceptual homage Art Print
By Tony Broadbent
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Fundación Cesar Manrique – Vincent van Gogh Style Art Print
By Balan-Art
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Deconstructing Cesar Manrique – a conceptual homage – ( part 2 ) – approaching infinity. Art Print
By Tony Broadbent
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Hazy God Rays Over Cliff Coastline Art Print
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Wind sculpture Art Print
By Alessandra Antonini
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Island of Lanzarote Art Print
By Fed Sher
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Arrecife César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport (ACE) Boarding Pass rickrolled Art Print
By mamahao
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César Manrique sculpture Art Print
By Alessandra Antonini
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Lanzarote, house and museum of Cesár Manrique – lanzarote. world Art Print
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Museo Casa De César Manrique, Lanzarote Art Print
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Canary Islands – Lanzarote Art Print
By Fed Sher
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The Artist’s House Art Print
By Viv Thompson
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The work of César Manrique: a Kinetic art genius
In 1878, Edward Muybridge projected 24 photographs he took of a horse galloping on a screen using his invention, the zoopraxiscope, a sort of early predecessor to the movie projector. The result was 2 seconds of the first motion picture in history.
Since then, many artists have been experimenting with movement, especially in the beginning of the XX century. Does the term Kinetic ring a bell? The word kinetic means relating to motion. The definition of Kinetic art, or kineticism, is a bit broader: Kinetic art is an international movement that refers to art of both real and apparent motion.
The origins of Kinetic Art
Although it is hard to say when the first Kinect art was conceived, some historians consider Impressionism canvas paintings as the earliest examples of kinetic art. They claim that these paintings extend the viewer’s perspective of the artwork and incorporate multidimensional movement. Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Édouard Manet, who originally experimented with accentuating the human movement on canvas, are some of the early names connected to this kind of art. Other historians consider that Kinetic art was created between 1920 and 1970.
One thing is generally accepted: Kinetic art is built upon the foundation created by Constructivism and Dada. Marcel Duchamp’s iconic readymade sculpture Bicycle Wheel is considered the first piece of Kinetic art. “In 1913, I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn”, said Duchamp about his own work.
Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel, 1913Atelier sur Seine by Claude Monet, 1876
Famous Kinetic artists
Today, Kinetic Art is a term that normally refers to three-dimensional sculptures and figures such as mobiles that move naturally or continuously and are machine operated. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer.
Many famous modern artists experimented with Kinect art. Jackson Pollock, for instance, had a strong desire to animate every aspect of his paintings. He used tools that most painters would never use, such as sticks, trowels, and knives – which later led him to his famous drip technique. He focused his efforts on achieving different painting results from movement. That is how he arrived to kinetic art.
Max Bill, also known for being a graphic designer, became a complete disciple of the kinetic movement in the 1930s. He believed that kinetic art should be executed from a purely mathematical perspective. Using mathematics principles as a way to create objective movement for him.
For some art historians, Vladimir Tatlin was the first artist to ever complete a mobile sculpture. He made a series of suspended reliefs that only needed a wall or a pedestal, and it would stay forever suspended. Despite all the above named artists, for art historians Alexander Calder is one of the greatest exponent of Kinetic art to date.
Three Tentacles by Alexander CalderNumber 18 by Jason Pollock
Kinetic Art today and the work of César Manrique
Let us introduce you to one of our recent discoveries, the Spanish artist César Manrique. Although he’s not as famous as his contemporary fellows Picasso and Mirò, his body of work has been just as rich. He was born in Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. His life, work, and especially his pioneering vision of how man and the environment interact is infused in many of the island’s top spots.
Manrique designed many touristic attractions all over the archipelago. He fought hard to prevent Lanzarote from becoming a soulless island full of bathing tourist resorts made of cement and wall-to-wall hotels.
Famous lava window from Fundación César ManriqueArtist César ManriqueLagomar, house of actor Omar Sharif designed by César ManriqueJardin de Cactus by César Manrique
César Manrique and his Wind Toys
What blew us away about this creative artist is that he was really into creating mobile structures that were wind-powered. César Manrique’s curious “Wind Toys”, as he liked to call them, were inspired by Kinetic art. He would design them in his isolated studio in the small town of Haría, in the northern part of the island Lanzarote.
Manrique’s Wind Toys are solid (and most of the times colorful) structures, cast in heavy iron, made up of geometric forms as spheres, circles and pyramids. They establish an interpenetrating and complicated opposing rotational movement.
You might be asking yourself: but where did Manrique get his inspiration from? Let us take a guess: In the past, wind mills were used for agriculture purposes in Lanzarote. The landscape was filled with them, they were a distinctive character of the island. As the island began to develop, the windmills began to disappear. Manrique then created new sculptures to replace the old windmills and to, in some way, keep the tradition and history of the island’s past alive.
In 1990 Manrique places his first Kinetic art in the town of Arrieta: a spectacular and heavy iron “weather vane” painted in red that softly moves pointing the direction of the wind. In the following years, he has created many more sculptures that have been placed not only in Lanzarote, but in other Canary Islands such as Tenerife. Have a look at some of his work below:
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Lanzarote Cactus Garden
The cactus garden on the Canarian island of Lanzarote is a magnificent example of architecture integrated into the natural landscape.
The garden was conceived in the 1970s by the Spanish artist Cesar Manrique (1919 – 1992), who was born in Lanzarote and had a great love for the island throughout his life. The artist turned his attention to an old, outdated quarry, and decided to purchase these lands from the municipal council of the island, with whom he worked closely. Manrique’s plans included the construction of a new Arts, Culture and Tourism Center on the devastated site, as well as the restoration of the traditional windmill that adorned the quarry. However, due to various difficulties, this project was destined to be implemented only in 1980s. The Cactus Garden, which became the final chord and final architectural work of César Manrique, was fully completed and opened in 1990.
The Cactus Garden is located in Guatiza, in the municipality of Teguise, in the center of an agricultural area with extensive prickly pear cactus plantations. On the fleshy stems and leaves of these plants, cochineal is bred – an aphid-like insect, from the females of which the natural dye carmine is obtained. Cochineal is harvested in late summer using special tools that look like long-handled spoons. To obtain a dye, insects are dried in the sun, crushed and treated with chemicals. Carmine dye is used in the textile, cosmetic and food industries. nine0003
At the entrance to the garden there is a huge cactus made of metal by Manrique. This sculpture and the wrought-iron cactus gate serve as symbolic landmarks, heralding the majestic and amazing character of the space hidden behind the wall.
The entrance to the Cactus Garden is designed as a labyrinth of vast, ornate spaces arranged around a central plant-shaped structure, the purpose of which is to obscure the view of the garden and thus provoke visitors to move on. But right after the entrance, a truly amazing view opens up. The structure of the garden is circular, and this is, in part, a metaphor that reminds us of the volcanic nature of the island and the craters that exist here. One of the main features of the amphitheater recreated by Manrique is the terraced walls, on the ledges of which various types of cacti grow. nine0003
At the entrance to the garden, a double staircase opens up in front of us, inviting us to walk along the winding stone paths and passages connecting different landscape zones.
In the center rises a group of monoliths composed of compacted volcanic ash, which have survived intact as evidence of past quarrying. The special sculptural texture of the monoliths is in harmony with the changing natural forms of the cacti. As an idyllic contrast to the arid landscape, Manrique built several small ponds in the garden, which he filled with water lilies and colorful fish. nine0003
There are two main buildings in the garden, which are a continuation of the wall and have characteristic domed roofs: one was intended for a shop, the other for a cafe. In the latter, we can admire an elegant spiral staircase and a central sculpture made of steel rods and glass balls resembling chains of molecules.
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Various artistic disciplines are combined in this unique space in an attempt to play a general didactic role. Sculpture, painting, architecture… Cesar Manrique used a variety of techniques to give visitors an unforgettable experience. Many additional innovative elements (lamps, door handles, dustbins, etc.) that decorate the interior of the building have nothing to do with the models familiar to our eyes. Designed specifically for the garden, these design elements bear a striking resemblance to cacti. nine0003
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Lanzarote
Lanzarote – studio island
Each island in the Canary archipelago has its own identity. They are all very different, despite their geographical proximity, common history, one country – Spain, which they are part of. Island Lanzarote is not only not an exception to this rule, but rather a vivid example of it.
The island has its own special beauty, which may not be immediately understood by everyone. This is truly “unearthly” beauty, in the sense that the visitor has a strange feeling that he has fallen into some kind of colony of earthlings, recently created on another completely lifeless planet before. Here the civilization of people, as it were, fits into the existing landscape, accepting everything as it is, and does not form it. Moreover, it fits very neatly, beautifully and naturally, observing some important rules established by someone. Then it turns out that the rules are really set, but more on that below. We highly recommend renting a car here to experience it all to the fullest. nine0003
And the landscape of the island was largely created as a result of a gigantic catastrophe – a six-year volcanic eruption that began in 1730. A hundred years later, the eruption repeated, although in a much smaller volume. Despite the fact that in a large part of the territory the earth turned into lifeless solidified lava, not all people left here. They even learned how to grow grapes on volcanic sand.
Many years have passed and the island is finally lucky. It was the birthplace of a man who, thanks to his talent and energy, made his dream come true: he managed to reveal the beauty of his native places to the world and make Lanzarote attractive to tourists from all over the world. The economic consequences of such a discovery, of course, were not long in coming. nine0003
“I came from New York with the desire to make my home island the most beautiful place on earth, capitalizing on the enormous opportunities that Lanzarote has to offer.” So said Cesar Manrique – a sculptor, artist, landscape architect, ecologist, constructor, designer … But he himself considered himself, first of all, an artist. The whole island became the studio of this artist, and both the artist and the inhabitants of the island were lucky. I don’t know if there are other places on our planet where this has been possible. If there is, it’s definitely not much. Manrique created the style of Lanzarote, which was adopted by its people because it was in harmony with nature and local traditions. The components of the style are the absence of high-rise buildings, the use of traditional colors in the decoration of houses, the absence of billboards along the roads that obscure the landscape, the symbols of the island and logos. The Jameos del Agua cave, the house of Taro de Tahiche, the El Diablo restaurant, the Mirador del Rio, the cactus park – these and many other famous sights of Lanzarote are the work of Cesar Manrique. nine0003
As usual, it was not without luck. An old friend of Manrique Pepin Ramirez became the governor of the island. Thanks to the joint activities of the artist and politician, Manrique managed to realize his plans, and the official – to boost the local economy through the rapid development of tourism.