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.