The last post........

Hi everyone!!!!

Well, today I write my last blog post, because this is my last English class. The finish of the semester is coming…..

In this post I am going to talk about my experience with the blogs I never have a blog before, but I like the experience to write about some things. I like write about topics and know who thinks my classmates about that.

I think is good writing post because is more easy practice and improve the English. The most of post I was written is about things who likes me and that it’s good. People of other country can see my post and read about them and me own classmates write their opinion about them think.

The advantages about blogging are the didactic possibility to practice and improve the English. That is good because is easier do oration and speak. The disadvantages of this is sometimes is not to easy found the appropriate words to use in the post, or put in order your ideas for express that after.

My suggestions are maybe give more time to write the post, or give more different topics.

Well, I hope my last post like you….maybe I write more post in the future, but I don’t know that…… We never know.

Bye….   :D

My favourite subject

Hi everyone!!!!!

Today I am going to talk about my favourite subject….. Well, these terms are a little bit crazy, but, still that, my favourite subject is restoration. The teacher’s name is Johanna Theile; she is a recognized restorer of art.

In class I see the way to restore different kind of material, like ceramic, porcelain, textile and paintings (in the other term we learn to restore paper, wood, glass, metal and other material) and the way to keep the object safe. When the object is in good condition, is most better restoring, but when the object isn’t in good condition, the most better is preserve, because the object can damage much more.

The class is didactic; we restore ceramic, textile and painting yet. The teacher gives the information of the way you can restore or keep the object and a historical review, like the history of the restoration, or the preventive conservation.

I like too much this subject because it’s funny and didactic. I like work with the object and fix them or know the form I can preserve.

I hope like my favourite subject. Bye!!!!  :D

A Darwinian Theory of Beauty?

Well….. The video ¨A Darwinian Theory of Beauty? ¨ by Denis Duton is so interesting and funny. In the video, Duton talk about the concept of “beauty”, the experience that produced the concept and some   definitions of “Beauty”. Darwin says that beauty “It´s in the eye of the beholder”. I think the same of Darwin, sometimes when we see something beauty, we experiments certain emotions produced for the beauty of the object. But sometimes, the beauty is culturally conditioned. For example, the Padaung women, use brass coils that are placed around the neck .This is for hers a beauty symbol, but maybe for the rest of women, it’s a little shocking.

Duton also talk about the experience of beauty has relation with a natural selection and the sexual selection. The prehistorically men evolved for adapted, that is the natural selection, adapted for survive. The sexual selection has a relation with reproduction,but there are factors that favor this action, like the Padaung woman with the coils in the neck.

In the career who I study the topic “Beauty” has too much importance. In my particular opinion, the beauty has a relation with the emotions who produced by the object (art, music, places, etc).  The concept of “Beauty” is very broad, and the meaning depends on the own people.

I hope you like the video.......  bye.

http://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.html

ART!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone!!!!! 

Today I am going to write about one of my favorite artists……in this case a painter. His name is François Gérard, was a neoclassical French painter in the XIX century. He was one of the most important disciples of David.

Born on May 4, 1779 in Rome (Italy) and died on January 11, 1837 in Paris (France) . He painted important people like Napoleon Bonaparte, the empress Josephine and others. Gérard was the favourite pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who competed for be the best portrait painter. Besides, he was painting mythological and historical pictures. His paintings are Neoclassical, but he used more delicate tonality.

The painting that I more like is Cupid and Psyche (1798). Is oil on canvas and stay in the Louvre. The history of this picture is about the young Psique, who be surprised for the first kiss of Cupid, or the love, which is invisible for her. This history of love is an old myth but also is an allegory; Psique is the personification of the human soul (sometimes is blind to love).

I think this picture in particular is beautiful. The expression of Psique, if she was lost, but always beautiful and Cupid, who touch her like she was broken. I love the colors, and the form who the artist painted the figures (and the dress of Psique). 

I hope you like this painting to, because is wonderfull…

Bye :)