THE ART OF “POWER” - THE POWER OF ART - SOME EXAMPLES

Many movements have created an own art for various reasons more or less public: political propaganda, indoctrination, spreading of a secret message, etc.

REGIME SYSTEM:

• FASCISM: Mussolini had an "inconsistent" approach at the art and architecture of his system. Under his power large areas of Rome, rich in ancient monuments, were destroyed to create monumental fascist structures. In other times he preached the "cult" of art of ancient Rome imitating them. Mussolini concepted the art as the domain of visual communication and so a powerful tool for the dissemination of his values and ideals of his system.

• NAZISM: Nazis understood the importance and fascination exerted on the mass of images, so decided to exploit them intensively in his propaganda: Hitler wanted the population surrounded by symbols of power. The art was at the service of power: big avenues were built to allow triumphal military parades, or gigantic domes that could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people for official ceremonies.

• SOVIET SOCIALISM: Socialist realism was a cultural and artistic movement born in the Soviet Union in 1934 and then allargatosi in all socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Its main function was to unify the artistic style and provide a propaganda tool.

RELIGION: Some religious artworks were created to indoctrinate the faithful people such us images, sculputers in the cult places but also ancient maps. Infact during the middle age they used to insert in maps biblical episodes.

OCCULTISM:

• BEATLES: in their album "Sergeant Peppers", among the rappresented heros there is also Aleister Crowley a famous occultist. John Lennon said "The whole idea of Beatles" was of Aleister Crowley.

• PRINCE AND LED ZEPELIN: listening to some of their songs reversed they say you can hear clearly something about the occultism.

• PAINTINGS: in some church we can observe apprarently normal paintings, but actually they're not. They rappresents occult powers.

• MASONRY: this secret international movement has created its own form of art consisting of many enigmatic symbols rich of meaning for its followers. When I was in Edinburgh I visited a masonry graveyard full of symbols represented on each tombstone.

In my shoes!!!

I did love the subject of the painting (shoes in particular). At the beginning I thought to insert the objects in a more extended room, after few attempts I've decided that maybe focusing on the details would have been better because otherwise they could be two lonely objects in a too big room.

The technique used is always the same (I had a lot of fun using foil to paint the background).

Something to change

I've to do something to change things that happens around me. I don't wanna see people I love sufferin' that much. We, people, have more brains and too many minds provoke too mess. If I could I would sort out these kind of things, but really could I do that by my own?

Mostra fotografica collettiva

 

Old ladder

Ultima conferenza del Gruppo Archeologico Goriziano

Il Gruppo Archeologico Goriziano organizza una seconda conferenza, intitolata "Tra cielo e terra. Il cielo visto dagli antichi", che avrà luogo il 23 novembre 2012, e nella quale la relatrice Roberta Battiston ci guiderà invece alla scoperta del pensiero che le civiltà antiche crearono sull'origine dell'Universo e sul suo funzionamento, dal quale nacquero la Cosmogonia e la Cosmologia. Non si può trattare queste due discipline senza addentrarsi nella mitologia, religione, astrologia, astronomia, alchimia, filosofia, storia, arte, cartografia, archeologia ed archeo-astronomia. Infatti, fino all'epoca illuminista, la parte razionale e irrazionale dell'uomo confluivano in un unico calderone nel quale "mescolare" e interpretate i fatti della vita. Questa conferenza offrirà la possibilità di approfondire la visione che gli antichi avevano dell'Universo, come essi lo interpretavano attraverso le loro credenze e lo rappresentavano sulle mappe.

L' appuntamento, patrocinato dal Comune e dalla Provincia di Gorizia ed aperto al pubblico, si svolgerà alle ore 20.45 presso la Sala Espositiva gestita dall'Associazione Culturale "Equilibri", sita nella Galleria tra Via A. Diaz e Corso Verdi, ed al suo termine sarà un piacere per il Gruppo Archeologico offrire un piccolo rinfresco ai partecipanti.

Per ulteriori informazioni: http://www.gagoriziano.org/attivitasvolta/2012/tracieloeterra_ilcielo.pdf

Si coglie anche l'occasione per informare che, con queste due conferenze, si concluderà definitivamente l'attività del Gruppo Archeologico Goriziano, che con la fine del 2012 si scioglierà per vari motivi: a causa della sempre maggior riduzione dei soci effettivamente disponibili ad organizzare eventi e dell'impossibilità dei pochi attualmente rimasti a portare avanti le attività, consegue una sostanziale stasi dell'associazione con derivata impossibilità di perseguire in maniera seria e costante lo scopo sociale come da Statuto. Lasciare in piedi un fantasma inattivo, ben lontano da quello che è sempre stato lo spirito che ha animato il Gruppo, non avrebbe alcun senso, avendo inoltre purtroppo rilevato una notevole, ingravescente difficoltà nel coinvolgere il pubblico nelle iniziative per un generale disinteresse verso questi argomenti, imputabile anche alla profonda crisi che il mondo della cultura sta attraversando, per mancanza di fondi, tagli e per un generale impoverimento del livello di istruzione medio della popolazione, spesso e volentieri "a tutt'altre faccende interessata". Invitiamo pertanto tutti a partecipare numerosi a questi ultimi due appuntamenti in calendario e ringraziamo sentitamente gli "affezionati" che ci hanno seguiti con costanza e affetto in questi 8 anni di attività.

Gruppo Archeologico Goriziano

Umbrellas

Even the subject is simpler than previous one, I've to say that indeed it was more difficult because I've created the composition by my own, so I've tried to image how the shadows could be.
I've rappresented a child hid behind a red umbrella. We don't know why she's hidding but I think this element put something mysterious in the composition. As well as we don't know why the room is so empty with just  a green umbrella hang up on the wall. The room is in a ruin condition.
When I was younger I was particular influenced by japanese manga (I was used to draw them continuosly) and I can still see this influence in the drawing of the body of this picture.
Technically I used water colours, acrylic and a foil as usal. I've realized the spotted area of the floor with a toothbrush.
The most difficult things were: shadow of the child and the different shade of the umbrella.

mostra "OPPOSTI" 2

Il "FOTOCLUB LUCINICO"

con il Patrocinio della Provincia di Gorizia e del Comune di Gorizia

in collaborazione con:

Unione Associazioni "LUCINIS"

BCC – Cassa Rurale ed Artigiana di Lucinico Farra e Capriva

invita la S.V. all'inaugurazione della mostra fotografica collettiva

"Opposti - itsoppO"

SABATO 10 NOVEMBRE 2012

ore 17,30

Centro Civico

Piazza San Giorgio, 37 - Lucinico (Go)

espongono:

Roberta BATTISTON, Renzo BELLOGI, Leopoldo BON, Fulvio CULOT, Felice CIRULLI,

Giusi FERRARO, Enzo GALBATO, Amelia KAPPEL, Ferdinando SFIRRI, Sonia SITZIA, Enrico SVERZUT

La mostra resterà aperta fino a domenica 18 novembre 2012

Feriali: 17,00 – 19,00 / Festivi: 10,00 – 12,30

Bycicle

Here I am again with a new Drawing for this week. I've to say that it was a challenge for me and indeed I'm quite satisfied as far as the result is concerned. I've used watercolors overall and acrylic for white spots.

Before painting it I had a look into Dumas and Cremonini's paintings and I was worried and attracted by them at the same time. I love the materic sensation of their paintings.
The major difficulties were about the perspective (the wheel First of all), but once that I've found the right way I finish the Drawing quite easily. The painting pahse took a lot of time specially for the b/w spots on the wall Made with foil.
The color in the picture are slightly warm because of the color of the light.
Eventually, I did enjoy in doing this painting.

Persone lagnose