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Deep Black – Benoit Courti
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Blow-Up, the movie that changed our youth
An icon film from 1966, it is the modern model of the visual story, in which the magical charge is intertwined with the dramatic thrill of the „murder” type. Launching a „mods” vibe, with a dynamic that inspired later films, including Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation…
The perfect illustration of the concept of existentialism
The artist Alex Plechko builds through his creations a metaphysics of the image that could always illustrate the existentialist philosophy. The sober monochrome accentuates the strong visual impact, the technique used by the artist from Birobidzhan, being Maxon Cinema 4D („The boundaries of nothingness” Project, Visura.net)…
Interestingness 2022 – trends in the visual arts
The population on Earth has reached 8 billion people. Official. Probably a quarter flirts with the idea of artistic creation and another quarter must appreciate the first ones. The digital onslaught is a virtually endless supply of works from various fields of visual arts, contemporary creators…
The peasant carolers-minstrels announcing Christmas
With archaic roots, starting from ancient Rome, the artistic rituals that herald Christmas, bring joy to Romanians in December. In the Romanian village, the tradition of caroling is a very strong one, with the role of sacred revitalization, purification, purpose of abundance and social cohesion,…
Pas cu pas prin curcubeul cultural și emoțional – Însemnări despre volumul de proză scurtă – „Sfârșite și nesfârșite călătorii”
Însemnări despre volumul de proză scurtă „Sfârșite și nesfârșite călătorii”de Violeta Pușcașu (Editura Coresi, 2022) de Violeta Stanciu Motto: „Vrând să-mi pun capăt zilelor mohorâte, am hotărât să înghit un curcubeu.” Poate că niciodată nu se încheie o călătorie în care te-ai angajat la…
Mystery books written or not yet written – Cărţi misterioase scrise sau nescrise încă
In a long and painstaking work, the hand armed with the graphite pencil, brush or nib bent over the paper. The effort to revive the fantastic in an era of modernity appears as a metaphysically condensed art. M. Merleau-Ponty, reformulating an idea taken from Sartre, said:…
O frământată romanţă postmodernă: Jeff Koons şi Ilona Staller (Cicciolina) – A turbulent postmodern romance: Jeff Koons and Ilona Staller (Cicciolina)
A turbulent postmodern romance: Jeff Koons and Ilona Staller (Cicciolina) What can contemporary sculpture and porn movies have in common? It can intensify the desire for freedom and the dissolution of customs. The show, the glitter and the money. Challenging the viewer already tired of…
(Santa) Madonna (nu) este cu noi!
Un text dramatic de Elise Wilk, pus în scenă la Teatrul din Buzunar Galaţi, cu premiera pe 20 septembrie 2022. Atunci când maşina de spălat devine instrument psihanalitic al familiei post-comuniste aruncată brusc în consumerism. Speranţe şi visuri în camera oglinzilor deşarte, fum, spectacolul arătându-ne sensul…
SCURTCIRCUIT 15 – între nostalgia barocului şi revoluţia simţurilor
Printre artiştii contemporani care încearcă să descifreze secretul existenţei umane se află doi care sunt dominaţi de teamă ca rezultat al speranţei metafizice că lumea are un temei non-lumesc. Ei gonesc după o speranţă şi spre un acces eliberator pentru fiinţa umană, într-o relaţie polimorfă…
Metamorphosis, in contemporary artistic visions – Metamorfoza, în viziuni artistice contemporane
One of the great advantages of global connectivity is the ease of traveling to a space where the intellectual and artistic productions of millions of people are exhibited. And so art galleries become gigantic, visiting them being a constant human adventure. The virtual labyrinth appears…
Critical approach to contemporary society through photography – Abordare critică a societăţii contemporane prin fotografie
The 20-year-old photographer from Alcala (Spain), Carlos Ladrón de Guevara, is an enthusiast who is now launching his project, „El Avance de la Regresión”. His cultural concept wants to reflect the progressive dehumanization that we experience in today’s society. Inspired by the genius of Joel…
Hirosi Nagare ( ながれ ひろし) and the rhetoric of Japanese abstractionism
Hirosi Nagare ( ながれ ひろし) and the rhetoric of Japanese abstractionism The brush of Japanese artists moves with the precision of a watchmaker and the ease of a bird in the sky, and the inspiration comes from the line of cherry blossoms and an ancestral…
Prietenia, curajul și generozitatea povestite copiilor de toate vârstele
Prietenia, curajul și generozitatea povestite copiilor de toate vârstele O recenzie de Violeta Stanciu „Poveștile somnifere” ale lui Vlad Stroescu, ilustrate extraordinar de frumos de Andreea Dobreci, te seduc de la prima vedere. E greu să hotărăști ce să faci mai întâi: să admiri ilustrațiile…
Avem nevoie de educație emoțională
Avem nevoie de educație emoțională de Violeta Stanciu Moto: Mulți dintre noi suntem niște copii mai mari sau, altfel spus, ne-am îmbrăcat în hainele părinților noștri având în interior dimensiunea psihologică a unui copil. Apărută la editura Humanitas în 2022, cu un cuvânt înainte de Vlad…
„Vrabia” – curajul și sinceritatea autobiograficului
Despre familie, timp și creștere se poate vorbi în multe feluri, dar autoarea Leta Popescu a găsit o manieră inedită de expresie teatrală și, alături de echipa sa, ne-a oferit o demonstrație de curaj și sinceritate. Prin piesa „Vrabia”, cu premiera în 3 iulie 2022, …
1975, a photograph won the Pulitzer Prize and sparked ethical controversy
„Woman Falling from Fire Escape”, 1975, Stanley Forman I came back off the ladder truck and of course I was shaking. The little baby had already gone in the ambulance and the woman, who was the baby’s grandmother, was still on the ground and they…
A better engraver than Albrecht Dürer? (Un gravor mai bun ca Albrecht Dürer?)
Motto: Goltzius is one of the best draughtsmen ever! ( micheledanieli_arthistory) Goltzius was insane.. Definitely a hero of mine. (ericb.art) In a discussion with a specialist in art history, I caught an idea: That the great Dürer has a rival, contemporary with him and…
Cum am uitat de război pentru o oră și ceva! Iubire și ghips…
Teatrul din Buzunar Galați-Premiera spectacolului „Hai să ne întâlnim” În distribuţie: Alessandra Spiridon, Laurenţiu Bobeica şi Ionuţ Strat Text şi regie Dan Mirea Galați Pocket Theater-Premiere of the show „Be my date” Cast: Alessandra Spiridon, Laurenţiu Bobeica and Ionuţ Strat Text and direction by Dan Mirea Cum…
A cat that symbolizes war (O pisică care simbolizează războiul)
At the Picasso Museum in Paris, spectators can admire an oil painting on canvas, measuring 100 centimetres, painted in 1939. Famous among the many animal subjects of the great Spanish artist, the picture is simply called, „The cat seize a bird.” At the time, Picasso was…
The perpetual modernity of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings and sketches
The line. The line, an instrument of simplicity or apparent simplicity on its way to supreme sophistication, as the great Leonardo liked to state. For hundreds of years, the huge and secret collection of manuscripts has remained for the most part in a shady area,…
Quo Vadis Gloria Artes (Where is contemporary art going?)
Motto: Artists for Future” with the message: WHAT DO WE WANT? Trends, styles, trends and ideas about contemporary art In a novel by Pascal Bruckner (The Divine Child), a child appears who does not want to be born, scared of the evil world in…
Stepan Kucheryavy (Степан Кучерявий) and the temptation of freedom
Friend Stepan Kucheryavy is a photographer from Lviv (Ukraine), a master of expressionist-dreamlike style. His work foreshadows the general and personal horror of this period prophetically and grimly. At the same time, the echoes of his art come tirelessly from Lviv. Worried about his fate,…
Brâncuşi’s revenge (an imaginary interview) -Răzbunarea lui Brâncuşi (un interviu imaginar)
This year marks the 146th anniversary of the birth of the one who in the Parisian crucible of the beginning of the century asserted himself as the most famous sculptor of the modern artistic movement, an avant-garde who redefined the notion of form and sculptural…
The woman, an eternal winner (Femeia, o veşnică învingătoare)
Sarajevo, June 1995. The city has been at war for 4 years, under siege. The wave of violence is becoming a real urban apocalypse. Hate and poverty, bullets and explosions make this place unimaginable. As a call to normalcy, Meliha Varesanovic, in heels and in…
Those who do not believe in tears or a disease called war (Cei care nu cred în lacrimi sau despre o boală numită război)
Motto: Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. (George Santayana) August 1968, February 2022, two moments of historical turning point, events that radically change national and even world destinies. The Austrian writer Stefan Zweig called them the „astral hours of mankind”…
On the set- A parallel story (Pe platoul de filmare-o poveste paralelă)
Motto: A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. ― Diane Arbus A story? What is it like to tell a story with multiple voices? Shouted or whispered, the story flows like parallel rivers, in a…
Messages from a silent world-painting 2019-2020 Vera Toma Ungureanu
MOTTO: When you want to do something beautiful you just have to watch around yourself, nature teaches you, it lives, it vibrates through you, it breathes and elevates you. If you want to fly, that is. With a dandelion you can build a propeller, a wheel, a…
A photography shaman wets the female body
If Jules Verne had brought these mermaids near Captain Nemo, the journey of 40,000 leagues under the sea would have stopped, as in the story of Odysseus. Odysseus was clever and covered his ears with wax, which we cannot do with our eyes at the…
Metamorphosis, in contemporary artistic visions – Metamorfoza, în viziuni artistice contemporane
One of the great advantages of global connectivity is the ease of traveling to a space where the intellectual…
History in photographic images or how nostalgia can become delicious
Motto: The Greek word for „return” is nostos. Algos meaning „suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning…
Cine a inventat “selfie-ul”? (Who Invented the Selfie?)
Who Invented the Selfie? A sometimes obsessive form of portrayal of the 21st century, the optical recording of one’s…
Proprietarul norilor: Aurel Mihailopol, unul dintre cei mai mari fotografi români
Unfortunately, in this age dominated by speed and anger, memories hang on the Internet. This makes great talents and names,…
Un paradis în care poţi să crezi – Seminariştii lui Mario Giacomelli
Motto: Mă interesează o realitate care respiră, care continuă să se miște, pentru că spune ceva și acest lucru contează…
Covid19 în artă: Marco Mandolini şi autoportretul din spatele măştii
Motto: Am văzut cel mai de sus cerc al puterilor supreme. I-am dat acelui cerc numele de Dumnezeu. I-am…
Fotografia de portret sau ȋntre dionisiac şi apolinic (Dmitry Ageev şi Brett Walker)
Este greu de sintetizat un concept fãrã sã greşeşti sau sã jigneşti un artist. Mã gândeam la contrastul dintre cei…
SCURTCIRCUIT 7: Irving Penn şi Denis Rouvre, magicieni ai portretului ȋn fotografie
Fotograful newyorkez Michael Comeau, pasionat de portretisticã şi fondator al OnPortraits.com, spunea cu umor ȋntr-un articol: Irving Penn este cel…
Camere, cămăruţe, hurdubăi, opere nebune…dar toate obscure…. cu citate din două doamne
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” ― Dorothea Lange Today everything exists to…
