The period of the Romantic movement was a time in arts history that proposed people another way of approaching life than the one they had and of their everyday philosophy, pushing to put forward feelings, dreaming and emotions. Romantic artists worked on creating beautiful works that would express the ineffable. One of theContinue reading “Considerations on Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Stages of Life””
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Consideration’s on Caspar David Friedrich’s “Mountain Landscape with Rainbow”
Caspar David Friedrich was a German painter who lived in the XIXth century and who is considered one of the most important Romantic artists. His paintings are known for being charged with codes and allegories with religious allegories. This is also the case in the painting titled “Mountain Landscape with Rainbow”, “Gebirgslandschaft mitContinue reading “Consideration’s on Caspar David Friedrich’s “Mountain Landscape with Rainbow””
Original Photography in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Cultural critic Walter Benjamin wrote in 1936 an essay called “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (or Reproducibility)” (German: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit), which was first published in the “Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung” (“Magazine for Social Sciences”). The piece has been highly influential across the world of humanities, especiallyContinue reading “Original Photography in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Catching Up with the ET’s in Art and Culture
Life on other planets is a concern that people have had for many years now, even more so since the “space exploration age” started in the 1960s. Aliens have fascinated people because they are the ultimate mystery: extraterrestrials can be imagined in any way, shape or form, given that they are one of the bigContinue reading “Catching Up with the ET’s in Art and Culture”
Discovering Reality: An Analysis of “Alice in Wonderland” (1951)
“Alice in Wonderland” is a classic animated film directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. The movie, adapted after Lewis Carroll’s novel with the same name is a production that has been seen by millions of children (and, why not, adults) from around the world. The story, while it may be packaged asContinue reading “Discovering Reality: An Analysis of “Alice in Wonderland” (1951)”
Fantastic Spaces: An Evolution
Ever since the dawn of humanity, mankind has sought to reach or dwell in other worlds than the world that we live in on a physical level. Other worlds have always been part of the arts and of storytelling. In some cases, within the respective storylines, people don’t have access to these worlds, while inContinue reading “Fantastic Spaces: An Evolution”
Curating the Mind: The Culture of Today and the Politics of Tomorrow
Many people, especially those who grew up in the 70s, 80s and 90s sometimes get a bit nostalgic about old-timey television. Well, not necessarily extremely old-timey, but for the time when television was pretty much at its peak. That world where you would wait for a show, then maybe for the rerun and when televisionContinue reading “Curating the Mind: The Culture of Today and the Politics of Tomorrow”
The Museum as a Learning Place
Art has always been a strong tool used to explore the human mind and spirit and the world and to teach others about the ways in which the mechanics of the human experience work. Through painting, sculpture, music and other arts, people have made incursions in their own minds, in order to discoverContinue reading “The Museum as a Learning Place”
Who is an Artist?
Throughout history, many philosophers, thinkers and artists have thought of what constitutes an artist. In every society, artists have held an important role, which has often not been recognized. They are the ones who give shape to the inner emotions and mechanisms of the human spirit and mind. Artists make the invisible, visible. They turnContinue reading “Who is an Artist?”