A big city?

Hi comrades in arms!
The topic’s today it’s really funny, because, I grew up in a little town and constantly in this city I think in the way that I relation with Santiago. When was a child I knew that I would live in Santiago, the reason why I don’t have clear, but I found this city fascinating.
I live in Santiago since 2009, when I come to study here, before I come to this city more or less once in the month, my family on my father’s side live here. My relation with the city it’s changing constantly, in the beginning, for example I didn’t understand where the municipalities in the relation with the center are, because this is the place that I more know, now I can understand, jajaja!

I need to say something more peasant, in the 2009 caught my attention the incredible numbers of different people, and the lot of cars in the streets, I didn’t understand where appear so much! (I find this funny now, but in that moment I suffered jaja) in Marchigüe I know all the people, all faces and all the cars, and everybody knows me, but I don’t miss that.
I like this city because I can found all I need, I can come to the university, I can go to the cinema, the museums and the doctor, for example, also like me the diversity of people, not really not, because when I go to “La Dehesa” I want to die, this place sucks. This is something that I hate to Santiago, in this city you can found very rich and irresponsible people and people really poor, in Marchigüe happen but not a lot, the people is normal and can share the same places, this city has places for the rich and for the poor, this sucks.
I don’t believe that I can do a real change because the problem it’s bigger and deep.
The tip that I would give to a visitor would be, keep in the center because if you move you can look our sad reality.
I started this post happy, but I finished sad.

Miren como sonríen, cuando le hacen promesas al inocente.

Hi guys,

Today’s topic it’s very hard, in a first moment I can’t think in somebody, then the first Chilean that appeared in my mind was Salvador Allende, but then I remember my favorite Chilean woman: Violeta Parra.

Violeta Parra was born in San Carlos in 1917 and she committed suicide in 1967. She was a great and complete artist; she was singer-songwriter, painter, sculptress and ceramist. And her legacy is in the base of the national folk. She was very conscious about our culture and social reality, for example her songs were written fifty years ago, but actually has absolute sense, for example “Arauco tiene una pena” it’s really sad realize that with the time the things continue like this.

I think that with the time, the authorities have tried to “clean” her image, because her work best known are for example “Gracias a la vida” and her more critical and political songs have been unnoticed.   

Her visual art was value around the world; she was in Switzerland and exhibited her paintings and burlaps in the Louvre. In my opinion her work transcends the time and the theories. Actually it’s possible seer her work in the “Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda”. She had a permanent exhibition, but the people in general don’t know this work.

I have a theory about Violeta, In my opinion her death was because the world sucks and she couldn’t support more and a song like “Gracias a la vida” was a goodbye but also was a big irony. Knowing her is impossible but if I could ask a question, it would be what it’s the truth about this song.

This is the end, bye.  

    

Art History - History of Visual Representation

Hi everyone, today I have to create my own art timeline, this is a very simple task, because I can choose the images and authors that I like and think that are relevant to the art history narration.

Well, to begin is impossible to not make any mention to pre-historical art, actually this is not art, because the people who make it, never though of something like what we cal now: “Art”, they just paint and sculpt what they believe were natural forces that ruled their existence (so, their production is intimately related to survival and mysticism), the most known example are the paintings of the “Cueva de Altamira” is Spain and the “Wilendorf Venus” a very tiny sculpture of a woman.

Then, we could mention the Egyptian Art, a very complex form of representation if we compare it with pre-historical art. They could abstract the human form and their language, so they could create a conventional system of representation and communication. As you could though, we are here again with something that is not Art in a current way, but we must study this kind of images, because they are the foundations of the current Art, here we pass from a simple concept of art history as a sequential way of enumerate forms and images, to a more complex and interesting way of study images in their process of formation along the humankind, or we may say the constitution of the visual representation.

Now, a period we can’t forgot is the classical art in its Greek and roman expression. First, the Greeks made a huge revolution in the area of human and narrative representation, they give us the very foundations of what we call now Art. All of the Art History, even in our days we are discussing classical concepts to analyze contemporary art, so as you could imagine, we owe to much to the Greeks, not just in Politics and Literature. Then, the romans catch all the greeks forms and concepts and brought them to Italy, where they could be expanded all over the known world.

Finally, I have to close my narration because probably I’m boring you. But I can continue this in the next session. I made a great effort in this post because I missed the last class and the subject is very fun for me.

Regards.