четверг, 7 марта 2013 г.

Pleasure Reading 4

After the ball, Maxim told about her ex-wife's death. It turned out that there was a heavy gale when Rebbeca sailed. Her boat was turned over and Rebbeca died from serious injuries. And in some time after their talk, a diver investigating the condition of the wrecked ship's hull also discovered the remains of Rebecca's boat. The investigations showed new circumstances: before the tragedy, Rebbeca had got a mortal blow. Maxim confessed the truth to his wife: his marriage to Rebecca was nothing but a sham. From the very first days husband and wife had loathed each other. Rebecca was a cruel and selfish woman who manipulated everyone around her. She had had a lot of love affairs with different men, and that ill-fated day she said about her pregnancy from another man. She had intentionally provoked him, at which point he had shooted her, leading to her death. Then, fearing to be hanged, he had disposed of her body on her boat and had sunk it at sea.

среда, 6 марта 2013 г.

Rendering №4 ART

This article "Proof 'original' Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci" was published on the 14 February in 2013 in the web-site "Visual arts news and gallery info".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/leonardo-da-vinci/9869357/Proof-original-Mona-Lisa-was-painted-by-Leonardo-da-Vinci.html


It tells us about another test for the Mona Liza. Leonardo da Vinci or not?

New tests on a painting billed as the original version of the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's 15th century portrait, have produced fresh proof that it is the work of the Italian master.

The experts tell a lot about this subject. But the results are here!
Documents show that a painting of his wife Lisa was commissioned around the turn of the 16th century by Florentine nobleman Francesco del Giacondo. In French, the Louvre version is known as "La Giaconde" and "La Giaconda" in Italian.

Supporters of the "younger" version say it was almost certainly delivered unfinished to del Giacondo before Leonardo left Italy in 1506 and took up residence in France, where he died in 1519 in a small Loire chateau.

From the Giacondo house, it probably eventually found its way to England after being bought by a travelling English aristocrat, this account runs, while the Paris version was probably painted by Leonardo around 1516 in France.

I think, it's important for our society to rehabilitate a great artist because it is disrespectfully towards the artist's work, talent and his wonderful inspiration. And i don't understand the people who try to prove "falsity" in everything. It's a shabby act!

Individual Reading 1

The narrator, a famous writer visited a fashionable woman and there acquainted with Mrs. Strickland, a wife of a well-off, middle-class stockbroker. Immediately, they became good comrades and interesting interlocutors for each other. In some time there was a meeting of the narrator and her husband Charles Strickland, who seemed to be a boring, pompous man interested only in his stock exchange affaires. Once, visiting Mrs. Strickland he became an unintentional witness of a depressed state of the woman and her brother's fury. It turned out that Charles left his wife and children and went to Paris. In order to bring her husband back, Mrs. Strickland asked the writer for the request: to go to Paris, to explain the terror of his act and to make him come back. He was afraid to offend the woman, that's why he agreed.

Film Review 2

Finding Neverland (2004)
 
 

Cast:

Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee.

The film was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Depp's portrayal of J. M. Barrie, and won one for Jan A. P. Kaczmarek's musical score.

I find this film very attractive, fascinating, thoughtful and full of common sense! It's like a fairy tale with child's smiles and dreams, with fairy-tale hero ( Petter Pen ) who gave the hope of the best and bright performance for little children. The film shows that even if you are adult you can dream, believe in miracles and hope of the best future. P.S Johnny Depp is the best!!!!!
 
 

воскресенье, 3 марта 2013 г.

Film Review 1

"Frida" (2002)
 
 

Cast:

  • Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo
  • Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera
  • Geoffrey Rush as Leon Trotsky
  • Mía Maestro as Cristina Kahlo
  • Ashley Judd as Tina Modotti
  • Antonio Banderas as David Alfaro Siqueiros
  • Edward Norton as Nelson Rockefeller
  • Amelia Zapata as Maid
  • Alejandro Usigli as Professor
  • Diego Luna as Alejandro Gonzalez Arias

  • Frida is a 2002 Miramax/Ventanarosa biopic which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera.
    The movie was adapted by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas from the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. It was directed by Julie Taymor. It won Oscars for Best Makeup and Best Original Music Score (recipient: Elliot Goldenthal).

    The life of artist Frida Kahlo--from her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband, Diego Rivera, to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative romantic entanglements with women, Frida lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

    It's really interesting for me that 2 themes was connected with each other in the film "Frida": the theme of the art and the theme of the person's privet life. That's why i can say with the confidence that I'm deeply impressed by this film. I like the film because it's not only about the art and the artist but also about devoted love, life difficulties, tragical moments, unfaithfulnss and treachery. This film about a real, complete life of a talented artist. I really admire the main character Frida how she holded her own and in all  dismal cases she was strong and patient. This film leaves much room for meditation. And after watching it, i not only got to know about this artist and the art of that time, but also saw how people could pass all negetive situations with dignity. So, I like it very much!

    Pleasure Reading 3

    Mrs. de Winter got to know that in the days of Rebbeca at the estate Manderley there were many beautiful and fancy-dress balls, with the participation of very rich and respected people. She decided to renew them and met with her husband's approval. Mrs. Danvers helped her and  manipulated to choose the dress shown in a portrait of one of the former inhabitants of the estate Caroline de Winter. When the narrator showed Maxim the dress, he got very angry at her and ordered her to change. It turned out that the same costume had worn by Rebecca to much acclaim shortly before her death. That incident undermined their relationships and Mrs. de Winter began to think about Rebbeca and her place in the house and in her husband's heart more and more.

    Rendering №3 ART

    The article "New exhibition at Museo Picasso Málaga looks at Pablo Picasso’s earliest years as an artist" was published by All Art News on the 26th of February in 2013; Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured.
    It's the link on this article http://www.allartnews.com/new-exhibition-at-museo-picasso-malaga-looks-at-pablo-picassos-earliest-years-as-an-artist/

    MALAGA.- In the late 19th century, Malaga was a city full of contrasts. The enterprising spirit of the bourgeois classes had resulted in there being over 150 registered factories here in 1878. A large part of the population worked in them, with working hours of up to seventy hours a week. Described in travel books as “God’s paradise on earth”, this superbly located seaport suffered a series of natural disasters during this period that brought on an economic recession. The city tried to recover from this with new plans for urban growth and by promoting alternative forms of business.
    This was the context in which Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and spent his childhood.

    It's interesting that portraits of his relations, lesson studies, bullfighting scenes, landscapes, still-lifes and copies of other artworks all bear testimony to those early years, when the young boy portrayed his home environment and the landscape around it to suit the aesthetic tastes of the city at that time.

    The author underlined that the exhibition also contains 35 works by other artists such as José Denis Belgrano, Antonio Muñoz Degrain, Joaquín Martínez de la Vega, or the artist’s own father, José Ruiz Blasco, that reproduce the artistic atmosphere in Malaga at the time.

    I'm impressed by this artwork, this ehibition and this article on the whole. I'm glade that in our modern society we have more and more new, interesting ehibitions and we don't forget about real masterpieces of great artists.