The Escola de la Llotja
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escola_de_la_Llotja>is an art and design
school located in Barcelona, where several important
painters as Picasso <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso> studied.
Llotja and Amical
Viquipèdia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associaci%C3%B3_Amical_Viquip%…
a pioneering partnership in which 6
illustration <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustration> students are doing
their final degree internship at Amical, creating images that are being
incorporated under free licenses to Wikimedia
Commons<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A0gina_principal>to
illustrate some Wikipedia articles.
It is an opportunity for them to work in a real context, public and very
visible, while contributing to a public good that is being built
collaboratively and is useful for many people.
The project aims to be a global precedent for involving other art and
design schools with Wikimedia related projects · More than thirty articles
are already illustrated in several languages thanks to this agreement of
collaboration.
At the beginning, we identified and listed some entries with missing
images, and the emerging illustrators of La Llotja are helping us with the
task of creating professional and informative images according to the
encyclopedic context which they are be published. Among which there are,
for example, outstanding
figures<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josep_Maria_Folch_i_Torre…
the twentieth century and fictional characters. Also noteworthy
illustrations teaching on the drying of the
Mediterranean<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etapa4muda.jpg>d…
the Messinian made with scientific advice.
Wikipedia has a strict criteria for the inclusion of images and media
files, in order to keep open its contents: works might be public domain or
free licensed (CC-BY-SA), which may be freely reproduced for any purpose
(also commercial) and which they can freely create derivative works to
improve them or adapt them. That's why many Wikipedia entries have no
image, because many topics do not have a related free image. One purpose of
this collaboration is to begin to fill this gap. Members of Amical
Viquipèdia with the participation of Catalan Wikipedians identified
articles with missing images difficult to achieve if not creating them
again.
*Goals*
During the academic year of 2011-12, there are 6 students doing their
internship at Amical Wikipedia.
Three of them have drawn portraits of the twentieth century which have had
to fend for graphic work to create an own designed to accompany the
biographical entries of the encyclopedia. In one case we have worked with
fictional characters, also creating their own works, which were faithful to
the literary source and they also have the requests for information and
descriptive encyclopedic context. In three cases have been drawn
illustration or didactic information about geological phenomena and
artistic practices:
- Luis Segovia: portraits of illustrators of the twentieth century
(Ricard Giralt Miracle, Lola Anglada, Pauline Baynes, Fernando Krahn,
Robert Monk Segura).
- Gerard Plan: portraits of Spanish politicians of the early twentieth
century and democratic transtition governments after the Franco
dictatorship (Adolfo Suarez, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Villa Martin, Manuel
Gutierrez Mellado, Landelino Lavilla).
- Albert Pons: portraits of Catalan writers of the twentieth century
(Josep Maria Folch i Torres, Montserrat Roig, Terence Moix, Joan Perucho,
Josep Palau i Fabre).
- Jessica Leon: fictional characters from books by JRR Tolkien.
- Paul Bahia: didactic illustrations on the drying of the Mediterranean
Sea during the Messinian period. Scientific advice was done by Daniel
Garcia-Castellanos, a researcher at the Jaume Almera Institute of Earth
Sciences, in addition to Wikipedian and member of Wikimedia Spain.
- Oriol Tuca: recreating scenes and portraits related to the Fluxus art
movement.
*Exhibit*
All works arising as a result of this project will be exhibited on May 10
in Barcelona. We wait for you at Llotja Sant Andreu at 19:30 pm in a
ceremony attended by all participants and organizers.
*Future: WikiArS (Art & Design Scools) movement*
Next year we will repeat the experience with Llotja and other art and
design schools of Catalonia. In addition, the project is open to other
interested schools and wikipedians around the world.
You can see some of the illustrations already uploaded
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Contributions_from_Llotj…ja>.
See the project page <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Llotja>.
*David Parreño Mont (User:Davidpar)
*
(As a member of Amical Viquipèdia)
david.parreno(a)gmail.com
PS: Soon the March Amical report!