​Bellver artists visit Es Balluard

Bellver College´s Year 12 Art and Design students have organised a series of monthly visits to the local museums in Palma. This week the students visited the beautiful museum built within the old city defence walls, Es Baluard.
 The museum is situated on the ramparts above the Sa Faixina park where the students could view the city harbour and various abstract sculptures placed along the walls’ walkway. They contemplated the permanent exhibition of Mallorcan artists’ oil paintings of landscapes, Miro´s paintings, and engravings and contemporary abstract art. The students spent a long time studying the large heavily textured and relief painting of Miguel Barceló’s craters. Later they saw the temporary tourism exhibit with many examples of graphic design posters past and present and portrait photography of tourists from all different walks of life, as well as, a massive mural made up of post cards from all the breath taking spots in Mallorca.
 Students documented their first-hand experience of artists’ work that interested them as part of their AS Cambridge level research for their coursework.