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Hey, I think my livejournal is broken. The last article showing up in my friend's folder is Steve's entry on patience. I read that entry about 20 times until I found out how to get to the others.
For most of the year, I have been pretty scared to talk in class or to my profs. However, since last week, I've had this urge to speak. Of course, I have made a fool of myself more than once, but at least I bring something to the class (comic relief primarily).
All of my classes are at the moment extremely interesting, expect for economics of course.
In Art in the Age of Revolution, we are studying the transition from male nude to female nude. It's very sad to see the naked young men be replaced by random chicks, but the transition has some pretty weird stuff.
At the moment, we are studying Gericault. His works have absolutely no women in them. However, in their absence, their presence comes out in other places. An example of that is depictions wounded and dying men, which was never painted in the classic or neo-classic style. Furthermore, he emasculates men by portraying them as castrated. He doesn't literally do so, but he implies it in depicting dismembered bodies. In parallel to that, he begins to paint portraits of horses and he gives them extremely feminine traits. Some of them actually look like women.
In modern art and theory, we just finished our study of Piet of Mondian and his attempts at abstraction. He's the dude who painted black squares with primary colours. What he did was genius. He was a firm believer in Theosophy, the belief that the world was once one, all peaceful, and had absolutely no conflict or hierarchy. Mondrian tries to recreate this unity in his work by extracting all conflicts, colour vs. no colour, foreground vs. background, and hierarchy. if you look very attentively to his works, you will notice that they have absolutely no conflicts.
Today, we discussed Hans Bellmer. He would make pieces of mannequins, assemble them, and take pictures of them. His art only existed in photographic form because he would then destroy the models. His works give his women surrealist traits (bataille's surrealism), such the conflict between life and death, sexuality and violence, etc.
In art of listening, I wrote a midterm today. We had just been talking about the Lied. It is a small poem for which the composer writes music and accompaniment. My favourite was Schubert's Erlkonig. The poem Erlkonig was written by Van Goethe. It's about a man and his son ridding in the middle of the night. The son suddenly sees the elf king (erlkonig) who invites the boy to come with him. The child gets very scared and the elf king says that if the child is not willing to come, he will take him by force. The child starts to scream and says that the elf king is pulling him. The father speeds up and finally reaches the farm. In his arms, he finds his son dead.
The music Schubert wrote to accompany this piece perfectly captures the emotions.
We then talked about Berlioz, a french composer, and his Symphonie Fantastique. Berlioz had gone to a play and fell in love with one of the actresses. he decides to write a program-symphony in her honor. The piece is pretty normal until the fourth movement when he kills her in a dream and is sent to the guillotine. Right before his execution, he hears her melody. Then, SLACK, he dies. It gets better. In the fifth movement, he is dead and he witnesses a witch dance. All of a sudden, his love, a crazed witch, enters and joins the others in the dance. Berlioz made a copy of this piece and sent it to her. She married him.
Tonight, I found this documentary online about Prince Charles being the anti-christ. This guy has pretty strong evidence, but that doesn't change the fact that he look like a nutcase. An interesting fact he did mention is that Prince Charles of Wales claims to be a legitimate descendant of King David as well as Jesus.
Otherwise, life has been quite dull. I don't go out enough and my roommates are killing me. Yada Yada Yada
For most of the year, I have been pretty scared to talk in class or to my profs. However, since last week, I've had this urge to speak. Of course, I have made a fool of myself more than once, but at least I bring something to the class (comic relief primarily).
All of my classes are at the moment extremely interesting, expect for economics of course.
In Art in the Age of Revolution, we are studying the transition from male nude to female nude. It's very sad to see the naked young men be replaced by random chicks, but the transition has some pretty weird stuff.
At the moment, we are studying Gericault. His works have absolutely no women in them. However, in their absence, their presence comes out in other places. An example of that is depictions wounded and dying men, which was never painted in the classic or neo-classic style. Furthermore, he emasculates men by portraying them as castrated. He doesn't literally do so, but he implies it in depicting dismembered bodies. In parallel to that, he begins to paint portraits of horses and he gives them extremely feminine traits. Some of them actually look like women.
In modern art and theory, we just finished our study of Piet of Mondian and his attempts at abstraction. He's the dude who painted black squares with primary colours. What he did was genius. He was a firm believer in Theosophy, the belief that the world was once one, all peaceful, and had absolutely no conflict or hierarchy. Mondrian tries to recreate this unity in his work by extracting all conflicts, colour vs. no colour, foreground vs. background, and hierarchy. if you look very attentively to his works, you will notice that they have absolutely no conflicts.
Today, we discussed Hans Bellmer. He would make pieces of mannequins, assemble them, and take pictures of them. His art only existed in photographic form because he would then destroy the models. His works give his women surrealist traits (bataille's surrealism), such the conflict between life and death, sexuality and violence, etc.
In art of listening, I wrote a midterm today. We had just been talking about the Lied. It is a small poem for which the composer writes music and accompaniment. My favourite was Schubert's Erlkonig. The poem Erlkonig was written by Van Goethe. It's about a man and his son ridding in the middle of the night. The son suddenly sees the elf king (erlkonig) who invites the boy to come with him. The child gets very scared and the elf king says that if the child is not willing to come, he will take him by force. The child starts to scream and says that the elf king is pulling him. The father speeds up and finally reaches the farm. In his arms, he finds his son dead.
The music Schubert wrote to accompany this piece perfectly captures the emotions.
We then talked about Berlioz, a french composer, and his Symphonie Fantastique. Berlioz had gone to a play and fell in love with one of the actresses. he decides to write a program-symphony in her honor. The piece is pretty normal until the fourth movement when he kills her in a dream and is sent to the guillotine. Right before his execution, he hears her melody. Then, SLACK, he dies. It gets better. In the fifth movement, he is dead and he witnesses a witch dance. All of a sudden, his love, a crazed witch, enters and joins the others in the dance. Berlioz made a copy of this piece and sent it to her. She married him.
Tonight, I found this documentary online about Prince Charles being the anti-christ. This guy has pretty strong evidence, but that doesn't change the fact that he look like a nutcase. An interesting fact he did mention is that Prince Charles of Wales claims to be a legitimate descendant of King David as well as Jesus.
Otherwise, life has been quite dull. I don't go out enough and my roommates are killing me. Yada Yada Yada