Giannina Muzzio - Blog de prueba

Hi everyone, finally we´re ending this english course and I'd loke to say that the idea of having a blog is very useful because of several reasons. First of all I think is very good for us to write in english, try to put together sentences that make sense and practice grammar. On the other hand is interesting knowing each other interests and can make comments about it, allows the exchange of ideas and things like music or movies.Besides, other advantage of blogging in english class is that you can learn about your partners redaction, when its right and when is not, so you can correct your own writting. I think writting is a great way of learning and practicing how to create and order words in order to comunicate ideas using the right words and concepts. If I could give some suggestion to improve the experience I think that is maybe  adding some audiovisual resources  so then we can talk about it; we actually write about  ¨A Darwinian Theory of Beauty", but talking a...

This Denis Duton video is really interesting, I think he has a very unique theory I never listen before, especially because has a lot of sense. Duton talk about beauty, and… what’s beauty? We cannot totally define beauty, even if you are a theorist or an art critic. The aesthetics taste we always think it was subjective, or culturally conditioned, but Duton has a different theory based on darwinian evolution. The question is: how to explain the universality of the experience of beauty? If I think about it has sense because we know Chilean people who likes japanese music or japanese people who likes African art. That means the experience of art is not determined by the culture, beauty is part of the psycology, is one of the darwinian adaptions in perception, our ancestors finds beauty in the same things we aesthetically enjoy today, but we expand that experience through the development of art and entertainment. Finally, humans find beauty in something done well, since always, so this t...

I think is really difficult to think in one favorite artist, I can think in several artists, styles and pieces of art. Whatever, I can think in one of them, who I think is a great one: Marcel Duchamp. He´s a XX century artist, known as the father of conceptual art. He also change the idea of who is the artist, he said that being an artist was an exercise of the will, not a talent or a result of special preparation. Duchamp breaks with tradition by introducing everyday objects as pieces of art, opening precisely the question “What is art?” He use this objects and put it in the art context (museums, galleries) his most famous work is “The fountain” shows a simple object signed by an artist, so, is that art? What matter for him was make you think about it. After each work there is a question, a concept, an idea, and that was the central issue. He worked in other styles, cubism, Dadaism, surrealism, but the conceptual art was the work of his life, he developed this style as a personal pro...