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The Museum of the City prepares to mark the end of the exhibition season, "Painting the wind and the moon of parchment.
Fans and tambourines "offer a children's workshop on Saturday mornings in the smaller sample visit tambourines and painted fans, plus you learn to make your own.
The purpose of the workshop, which is aimed at children between 5 and 10 years old, is to know the origin and use of fans and tambourines; recognize and identify Murcia painters touches tambourine.
The workshop every Saturday in February from 11 to 13 hours will be held.
Registration can be done through the museum (museo.ciudad @ ayto-murcia.es) mail, phone (968 274390) or at the museum, intervening with a photocopy of the ID of the child.
The materials used are: foil, cardboard, cardboard, scissors, glue sticks, tape and tambourine
The first session will begin as follows: 11 h.
Visit the temporary exhibition "Painting the wind and the moon of parchment.
Fans and tambourines. "
11:30 will take place the beginning of the craft: Painting the wind.
At 12:00 hours the craft will: Fan step.
And at 12:30 hours there will be a brief explanation of the highlights tambourine.
The exhibition will be open until Sunday March 2 in regular museum hours.
The building workshop is free and fans can register up to 20 children.
Brief history of the art of painting and decorating tambourines, tambourines and fans.
This is a very old custom, almost as much as the instruments themselves, will be the end of the nineteenth century that this art of the popular jump to enter the cultural fields of the time.
Anthropologists and ethnographers have seen these decorations, the need to own unique elements that may be considered tools and therefore similar to each other.
Researchers have been interested in investigating the origin of this tradition say that was the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, in 1892, in its second year of celebration of Carnival, which organized the Tambourine dancing at the Royal Theatre.
In these dances are bypassed and art objects whose benefits were intended to cover the costs of an institution which in those years was not even stable headquarters were auctioned.
At other times the revenue went to charitable causes, for example, soldiers who fought in Cuba or Africa.
In the ABC February 1934, to announce the masked ball that year, recalls that in 1892 a few hundred tambourines were made on parchment, which were painted by the most famous artists and illustrators, and valued the autographs of renowned poets and writers.
There was also dancing and paddle fan, in which he made were also fans and paddles with firms most prestigious artists.
The first dances organized by the Circulo de Madrid, which was founded in 1880, were "sponsored" by the partners and both the poster and the pieces up for auction, they were made and donated members of society.
In a few years, thanks to the call activity Cultural Societies in the first half of the nineteenth century, proms, which until then were exclusive to the nobility, became also become bourgeois entertainment.
The change can be seen in the "commercial" planned event and which become parties open to anyone who could afford a ticket.
Although dances are held throughout the entire year, the most popular were the carnival.
In Murcia the "official" dance was organized by the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Romea Theater or Casino, but there were also dances in other cultural societies such as the Club Taurino, the Instructional Center Rail, the Society of Friends of Art or the curious dancing Dependents Dependents organized the Federation of Commerce and Banking in the Romea Theatre.
These carnivals of the time, followed the same pattern in almost all circles: posters advertising contest, creative writing contest, custom artists paintings for auction, dancing, prizes for best female costume and delivery gifts to attendees.
Local media used to echo the art pieces, both pictorial and poetic that were offered in these dances, like that of the prizes were awarded and to whom.
So somehow participate in these events during the week of Carnival became a demonstration of relevance in the life of a medium sized city such as Murcia.
In the years of change between the nineteenth and twentieth century these two objects, the range and tambourine go on to become a brand and star, bullfighting posters, parties, operettas (titled as "Fans and tambourines or A in Sevilla botijo ​​"Alvarez Quintero Brothers), plays, artwork releases, announcements fashion or commercial products, etc..
Will this be the time when artistic creation, to canvases and settings, enter the tambourine, shawl, fan and bulls, providing features of traditional popular culture to the fine arts and inaugurating a distinctive style that became neglected or "stigmatized" by the usual "Spain tambourine."
Today, even those no longer masquerade balls are held, some institutions are still in the habit of commissioning artists such decorations as the Club Taurino de Murcia in recent years has increased its collection of tambourines painted by artists as Alvaro Peña, Antonio Sanchez and Jesus Silvente.
Part of this collection was donated to the museum for this exhibition.
There are also collections of fans in public institutions, such as belongs to the Autonomous Community of Murcia, now in the Museum of Fine Arts and in private collections, thanks to the collaboration of several of these show the fans Murcia collectors series decorated by painters like Barberà Muñoz, Ramón Esteban Linares or Gaya.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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