Ciudad de la Pintura

Hello everybody.

I enjoy visiting a website called Ciudad de la pintura, once or twice times for week, because this website is very useful for my career. I can search the different painters and painting. Ciudad de la pintura is really completely, It has various sections: you can find for different thematic, for example, you can look for about the authors, museums, chronology or styles of art. Thus, the search is more easily and quickly. Ciudad de la pintura had a browser and you can put the name of pictures or authors and the website to show your search and each picture had your respective name, author, year of production, technique and in the museum of it stay or other localization. Also, the website has different information about expositions and has a commercial gallery for the people that like buy pictures. You can see the pictures that have on exhibition right now! This is amazing because we can know about an important exhibition as Van Gogh.

The design of this website is very comfortable, you can search easily all the pictures. I use this website because the resolution of the pictures it’s fine and this help me in my classes and in my works. I like this website, because I can find the old art like prehistoric and the contemporary art.

Well, I invited you to visit this page if you like the visual art.

http://pintura.aut.org/

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Favourite

It’s difficult for me choice one artist, because I love the art in general from the prehistory until the postmodern art. But one of my favorite artists is Joel-Peter Witkin. He is a particular postmodern artist. Joel Peter-Witkin has worked with corpse, hermaphrodite, person or things that not want to see in the society, reject people. This is his characteristic of Witkin. His fascination for things like this is because when he was a child; he saw an accident and this marked his life. I knew this artist in a course of Esthetic, in my first year in the career. I searched on internet about he and I surprised me, I considered his work fascinated, really.

His work can be considerate awful or shocked, it depends of the person in particular. For me, is a great artist, he used the corpse for artistic form, he used the canonic pictures (like Las meninas of Velázquez, The birth of Venus of Botticelli or Ingres) as inspiration from his works and he reproduce this pictures, using the body of different people, who has been reject in the society, as hermaphrodite, midget or deformed. Witkin had taken to this people and he has showed to this people of different form in the art’s world. In the art, where I think all is possible.

Learning English

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I like this website, I saw it before once or twice time actually and it’s really useful. The design is very comfortable and activities are amusing. I like in particular the news on the website, I read and listen completely the news about death of Malcolm McLaren, who launched of Sex Pistols in the musical scene and he was considerer of godfather of the British Punk music. I’m interesting in this news because I like the punk music, and I listening of Sex Pistols music years ago. And also I listen the news about the new discoveries from the rainforests of Borneo, in this place there many amazing flora and faune and some animals isn’t discovers even. In the website there games very funny and has Quiz for exercise my English. The section of download is useful, we can download mp3 and text and thus, we can listen later. The activities for teachers is relevant, because is amusing material for class. And finally, this website is important for practice our English.



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About me...

Hello everybody! My name is Catalina Martínez and this is my last year in the University and I feel very excited actually… Well, about me, I like the horror movies specially the Giallo Italiano and Dario Argento is my favorite director, I like the horror literature too and I love Edgar Allan Poe, he was an excellent writer.

For this semester I wait to finish my courses and I pretend begin and finish my thesis. About English course, I want learn more, because the language is important for my career and a first step for another languages.

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Force of nature

Well, we know about Chile is a country of constant tremor, but nothing was waiting for this terrible earthquakes. I think so much about this event, in particular about my family and people that who suffering for this earthquake. In general I don't feel afraid when the earth it's coming to move, I only coming to walk on a save place and wait for the tremor stopped. But this earthquake was different. I was in another place with my friends, away from my home when the earthquake was coming. I don't felt fear or nervous, I felt worried for my family and not only for my parents and sister, I was very frightened for my grandparents, his house wasn't steady and I thought that his house can to fall,, fortunately, this don't happen. But I think about this people who lost everything, not only the material things, the most terrible they lost his sons, mothers, fathers, sisters. The material things weren’t anything compared with the human damage and injured. I consider me fortunate; my family is fine and me too. But, before of this event, we can forget the force of nature and the vulnerability of humanity.

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