WARNINGS. Italian President of Republic‚ Giorgio Napolitano delivered a special speech on New Year’s Eve. He starts confirming the assumptions on his resignation‚ but he also directed strong words of warning to Italian politicians and of hope to citizens. 31st December is the day when leading political figures traditionally welcome the new year with a reflection on the past one. In this occasion with a 21 minutes speech aired on television‚ Italian President Giorgio Napolitano takes leave from Italians
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view of artists’ began to change. Artists’ skill became increasingly respected by those who wanted to be seen as being aesthetically sensitive‚ and as such‚ artists began to rise in the social world. The respect for skill is especially prominent in Giorgio Vasari’s book‚ The Lives of the Artists‚ in which the author takes special note of Michelangelo’s genius. The change is especially noticeable between the beginning of the fifteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century‚ in which artists
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PAINTING – CLELIA FARNESE Jacopo Zucchi was an assistant to Giorgio Vasari‚ whose style he initially copied. In Rome‚ the light-dark painting of Caravaggio impressed him‚ while compositional solutions can in part be traced to Bartholomeus Spranger‚ who was resident in Rome. This painting is an example of the Flemish-influenced style of portraiture of the second half of the sixteenth century that was dubbed the "international court style". Formerly given to Pulzone‚ the painting was attributed
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Still Life – Theory Task Jan Davidsz De Heem Jan Davidsz De Heem Was Dutch still-life painter. He was born at Utrecht and his rare early pictures are in the style of Balthasar van der Ast‚ who taught him there. Later he worked in Leiden and showed that he had studied the restrained and simple works of the Haarlem still-life artists Claesz. and Heda. In 1636 he moved to Antwerp‚ became a citizen of that city in 1637‚ and spent most of his very productive life there. The paintings he did in Flanders
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What is “power over life”? Do you agree with Foucault that this is how power manifests itself today? Can you feel its influence in your own life? There are many definitions of power‚ it is often described as something that presses on the subject from the outside or the ability to do something or act in a particular way. However there is much more to power‚ Foucault describes power as forming the subject as well as providing the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. Power
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© Roger Cardinal‚ 2004 Giorgio de Chirico and surrealist mythology Roger Cardinal What is most modern in our time frequently turns out to be the most archaic. Guy Davenport It has long been a sore point in the history of surrealism that the poets of the early Paris group should have heaped praise on Giorgio de Chirico as the inventor of a revolutionary approach to painting‚ only to revile him as a traitor to their cause just a few years later. The deep disappointment caused by the artist’s
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Thierry Lenain’s Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession is‚ to my knowledge‚ the first book-length investigation into philosophical issues of art forgery since Denis Dutton’s 1983 edited volume‚ The Forger’s Art. And Lenain’s text‚ it must be said‚ presents in fascinating detail‚ not only historical accounts of forgery and its cousins—from ancient Rome up to the dubiously celebrated twentieth-century forgers—but also the history of religious relic veneration‚ which he argues forms the historical
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An Attractive Analysis of Emporio Armani ad Josh Hartnett‚ an actor of several famous movies such as Black Hawk Down‚ was invited to act in a perfume ad of Emporio Armani’s Diamonds for Men. Josh seems like the strong handsome figure that would want to be captures by many people and captured many looks. He showed his handsome and elegant performance in this ad‚ which made this image more significant. This perfume advertisement whose target audience is towards upper class young men evokes strong
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Focault’s concept of biopower and the problem of genocide Course: Michel Focault Written by: Rauf Ahmed From the readings of two texts of Focault‚ one is the part five (Right of Death and Power over Life) from the book “History of Sexuality: vol. 1 Introduction” and second text is the eleventh lecture from the book “Society Must be Defended‚ Lectures at the college de France‚ 1975- 76” I try to articulate the Focault’s concept of biopower and its main notions in this writing. “If
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interesting information about the artist that I have chosen. After looking through our text over and over and trying to find an artist who inspired me that would actually require me to do more research I narrowed my choice down to a piece created by Giorgio De Chirico. I decided on this artist because I really like his ideas‚ for example‚ “de Chirico explained‚ there are more enigmas in the shadow of a man who walks in the sun than in all the religions of past‚ present‚ and future. De Chirico anticipated
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