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The Murcia Pedro Cano has been the artist who made this year's poster of the Festival del Cante de las Minas.
The image is a representation of Cabezo Raja mountain symbolizes the municipality unionense.
Cano's poster is filled with shades of yellow, blue, gray and ocher tones present in the mountains that characterize the face of it.
White artist chose a particular place to look, to observe and soak up all the smells, tastes and colors of the head.
A point of view from which made the first sketch for the poster that has been selected again to develop the workshop that, despite the hot afternoon, have come more than eighty people.
After the first notes of the artist in his own words tried to "explain to people how to catch a landscape through a box of watercolors."
Cano began the course painting.
During an hour reflected in his painting time and landscape.
Then, after a series of clues to decipher the artist, the audience began to translate the lessons learned from his watercolors, oils, or just colored pencils.
The afternoon wore on and the weather was taking a break to the audience.
Clouds appeared by Parasol to discover more shades and nuances of this symbol unionense.
Finally Pedro Cano made a collective correction of the work done by assistants, among whom were children, youth and adults.
PEDRO CANO, brief biography
It starts out their first self-made oil paintings with just eleven years in his home town of Blanca (Murcia).
Later he moved to Madrid and later in 1965, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, which is teachers and Juan Antonio López Bartolo.
Obtained numerous awards and recognitions, including the Gold Medal at the Biennial of Painting and Sculpture in Florence in 1971 and a year later the Gold Medal of the Biennial of Graphic Arts in Florence.
In 2001 he was named Academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Santa Maria de la Arrixaca of Murcia and the task of Isabel the Catholic in addition to the artist's investiture as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Murcia in 2005.
Currently out in the Vatican Museum and Rome lies between alternating with a few seasons in his hometown, White.
BLOOD "RED" THE RE-UNION Alpargatera
The grandson of Antonio Grau Mora "Rojo Alpargatero" Grau José Collado, receives the Gold Castillete the international festival of song of mine has given the patriarch of the mining and lifting Cantes, one of the greats of Flamenco in the Union.
The grandson of the honoree said he felt very excited when he stepped on the land of their ancestors, and say "We love this town, its people, who take forever in the heart" and pledged to "be one of the Templars of flamenco manufacturers whose miners began my grandfather. "
For its part, the Mayor of La Union and president of the Foundation Cante de las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, asserted "that fifty-one years after justice is done to a capital figure in the history of the Union".
And this year is that the songs in the mining and lifting has been declared of cultural interest, the highest level of legal protection.
And it is because "nobody beats us orthodox."
José Bernabé Grau just telling that "your name is part of the history of La Union, although thousands of miles separate us. The Union and the Cante de las Minas is the Red, and Red is The Union and the Cante de las Minas and Pepe Grau, are the repository of that legacy. "
Before delivery Castillete de Oro, the official chronicler of La Union, Francisco Rodenas, he gave a lecture on the Red, glossing the life of "the great red-haired flamenco, whose legend began when he heard a miner from the early morning chanting Almería up the hill of Lajas. "
BEGINNING FLAMENCO DANCE COURSE FOR BULERÃAS TARANTO AND TAUGHT BY JAVIER LATORRE.
The winner of the first dancer Trophy Valencia "The rudeness" award by the International Festival of Cante de las Minas inaugurated the flamenco dance classes and bulerías taranto taking place in the Municipal Pavilion of La Union until 12 August.
The courses consist of two levels, an intermediate-advanced level for dancing bulerías and an advanced level of professional dancing taranto.
The deadline for registration is still open
Source: Festival del Cante de las Minas. Fotos: Rafa
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