Blogging Experience

In first place, I liked write the blogs cause the topics was related with my career and the kind of things what I like. I really like write, is one of my favorite pastime, I don`t write only essays and other type of documents for the university, I write poems and literature too. I think it helped to improve my English cause I don`t used to write in English in other situations, even in my past English classes. In the school the English classes was too bad, the teacher teach always the same and he wasn't interest in our learning. I never had this kind of exercises before and I appreciate that. The advantages of the blogs is be able to write better and fluently and use other words and vocabulary not so usual. I don't thing any disadvantages of write blogs, is always fruitful write in the language that I learn. Maybe the only suggestion could be the word "favorite" in the instructions of some posts. I don't like the word "favorite" cause demand you choose one thing, and this is very difficult to me. Anyway, I feel a little bit of sadness to finish this blog, but everything must to finish sometime.                        

My favourite subject

My favourite subject of this term is called "Work and Speech"(I suppose that the translate is correct, the name of the subjects of my career are weird). In this subject I study the correlation of Art and politics. I can see the relation of artistic work and daily works since the context of Russian avant-garde and the essay: "The Work of Art in the Age of  Mechanical reproduction" of Walter Benjamin. With the mechanical reproduction, work of Art lost its "aura". The mass production and the work undermine the aesthetic autonomy. The aesthetic autonomy is also a content of the subject, I read "Critique of judgement" of Immanuel Kant to understand the artistic autonomy. It's an exposition class and have two assessment until now. I like this subject cause I'm interested in the Art process, the modern way of understand Art in its non-representation condition and its relationship with daily life in a political sense. The subject will finish with the ideas of Jacques Rancièrè about this problems, is important his idea of emancipation and the implication of Art in this.                  

BEAUTY OR NOT BEAUTY

Today I'm gonna talk about the video: ¨A Darwinian Theory of Beauty?¨by Denis Dutton. Dutton thinks that since the homo erectus to the actual human being, the experience of beauty and beauty elements work equally, based in the "Darwinian Theory of Evolution". Maybe is right in the case of natural beauty, but is difficult to think that a homo erectus can get an aesthetic experience in his condition of oppressed by the nature. In the case of the artistic beauty I completely disagree. In first place, Lascaux and the other examples can´t be considered art, they are only ruins of the past, we can`t know how it was. Besides of this, the concept "Art" is modern, before of this we can only defined this like an image. In second place, we need carry out an intelectual operation for enjoy the beauty: the consciousness. And repeat, I don´t think that it can be possible in a homo erectus, even in a ancient human. The other thing about the artistic beauty is that since the beginning of the XX century, in Art, the most important issue is no longer the beauty. Beauty would be a design, clothes, an ornamental paint, but no more in Art.                   

An important painter

I don´t have a favourite artist, but now I´m interested very much to the french painter Paul Cézanne. Cézanne was a post-impressionist artist and he influenced all the art production following. He would be considered the father of 20th century art. His major contribution was the geometrical simplification and, the most important, the multiple perspective or Cézanne perspective: we can find in one of his paints a frontal perspective, a zenithal perspective, a lateral perspective and so on. This two characteristic will be represented in the cubism, in Braque and Picasso for example. I would like show you this paint:

      


it's called "The Kitchen Table". Aparently this paint is very simple, this paint represented a ordinary theme: a kitchen table with different fruits and kitchen objects. But, if you look well, the layout of the objects is weird. Is imposible find this objects in the real life in this way. And this is the important issue of this paint, it's a paint, no the real life. This is the modern operation of Cézanne, his perspective deny the illusion that until this moment prevailed. For all this things, I like Cézanne, he opened the road for all the artists next, specially to the avant-garde artists.

A photograph

If I would have to choose a photograph, maybe would be this one. This picture belong to the "Boxeadores" serie of the chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz. The boxers are one of the most iconic works of Errázuriz. In this photo we can see a young man, shirtless and posing in a simple staging. I like the sincerity and the austerity of this photo, a sober black and white. Stand out the body and the face of this young man, this elements represent the sacrifice, the pain and raw life. This photo symbolize the neglect of the society, the existential drama of living in a body that depend of a historic structure. We can see the face of loss: although the boxer win a fight, actually he never wins, he lived for a lost cause. His body load with the weight of some more than the punchs and the hurts, he carry on in his back the weight of the senseless. He is an anti-heroe like Sísifo.

            






















Sísifo has to carry up a huge rock over a hill, and when finish, must be start again. This is his punishment, his divine penalty for try to fool his destination. Like Sísifo, the young boxer have to fight again and again for nothing, but he do it with honor, we can see the dignity in his eyes. In his arms we can see the veins stand out: he will continue fighting a fight that not belong him, but wich in turn belong to us all.