3.Spanish advertising / Publicidad española.

Picasso is so near from this medieval Lincoln sculpture.

A common past.

Spanish advertising copying Lichstestein style.





One of the few things I learnt during the last teachers’ meeting at Lincoln Christ´s Hospital School was the great interest the art teachers showed in approaching their students to the different techniques and styles of some great contemporaneous artists. In particular the students of grade 7th (11 years old) were researching in the same activity the styles of Modigliani, Picasso and Lichtenstein.




We also work with our students in the same direction in our school and it is exciting to find how much of our methodologies and activities we share in our classes in the different countries.
When I came back from Lincoln I read at a Sunday magazine a particular advertisement about Spanish wines clearly inspired in Linchtenstein´s style.




At that very moment I felt taken back to the warm art classrooms of Lincoln´s School.
More things in common: I was born in Salamanca, an important old Roman city called Helmantica. I am sure that in many of your cities, Hättingen, Lincoln... it is probably easy to find remains of the same ancestros who settle down and dominated our land.

2. JUST A QUICK LOOK AT Hättingen 2006 VIBES.

Dancing and performance workshop.

An Italian student at Arts workshop.

The Gymnasium Waldstrasse.

European menu.

My good friend, Gorbi.

Hellen Malik walking through the hills near Hättingen. March 2006.





Photography is, from my point of view, one of the great resources to talk about truth, or at least what we think it is our truth. Plato in his play Fedro , reproduces through Socrates´ the following words: “ When somebody senses the beauty of this world and evokes truly beauty (I mean, that of the world of ideas), his spirit adquires wings and longs for flying....Among all kinds of excitement, this fourth kind of delirium is the most magnificient in its causes and effects”. Photography approaches us to truth as well as beauty.

1 INTRODUCTION / PRESENTACIÓN.

My name is Ricardo Cordero, I'm an arts teacher at the I.E.S. Pintor Antonio Lopez in Tres Cantos, a town near Madrid. It's possible that next March 2009 I'll be the leader of the workshop "Rotanews" on the project of Rota.The first thing before explaining what we are going to do in the workshop "Rotanews", I consider important to explain you what Rota means for me as personal and professional experience.Rota is an important event for meeting new people from different European countries.

And I think that it will be great to invite to this Web-site the students, teachers, parents, etc who have taken part in Rota other years, to show their experience in different media (audio, video, texts, photographs...).I started with this project in 2006, when Ricardo Rodero, a music teacher at our school, gave me the opportunity to participate in a previous edition of this program in Hättingen, Germany.

Of course, the most important thing, is to invite all the pupils that have chosen this workshop to send images, texts and videos to our email address:epviespal@hotmail.com, to get to know each other and to favour our pupils to partly know who we are and what things we want to learn.

I would like to thank all the people who are helping me in this project: teachers like Marga López, Ricardo Rodero, Carlos Bravo, Marisa Hortelano... and students like Aurora Torres, Laura Marcos, David Espinel...I suppose this list will be growing till March 2009.