Pintura metafísica

Douglas Sirk, director de películas como Extraña confesión (1944), Obsesión (1953), Solo el cielo lo sabe (1955) o Ángeles sin brillo (1957), pasará a la historia del cine como uno de los grandes directores de melodramas de Holywood, pero la pretensión de este libro no es hablar tanto del autor o del cineasta sino de su escritura. Desplegar la metáfora del espejo - he aquí un buen camino para introducirse en el cine de Douglas Sirk, en su singular arte del melodrama, pero también en cierto momento de la historia del cine en el que la solidez del relato cinematográfico clásico de...

Number 13 of the series gets together 2 thesis submitted for the degree of the Masters in History and Theory of Art and Architecture, focused on the relationship between the political discourse and how Columbian art was critically interpreted in different epochs. Lleras examines the state involvement in art through the works of Carlos Correa and Pedro Nel Gómez amongst others while Jaramillo documents the plastic language used by Marco Ospina, Enrique Grau, and Alejandro Obregón amongst others who incorporated European avant-garde elements to become pioneer artists of modernism in Colombia.

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

Mandalas allow us to better understand ourselves and are essential for self-awareness. The creative activity of coloring mandalas requires a departure from everyday consciousness, which lets us experience our deepest feelings and thoughts.