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L’innovazione del dipinto “Medusa” di Caravaggio | le pagine dei nostri libri

Lo Scudo con testa di Medusa realizzato dal pittore italiano Michelangelo Merisi detto il Caravaggio, conservato alla Galleria degli Uffizi di Firenze, fu donato nel 1598 dal cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, ambasciatore a Roma del Granducato di Toscana, al granduca Ferdinando I de’ Medici.
Si tratta di un dipinto a olio montato su un grande scudo di legno di pioppo sul quale è raffigurata Medusa: il mostro con la chioma composta da un cesto di serpenti, in grado di pietrificare chiunque la guardasse, sconfitta da Perseo che, con l’aiuto di Minerva, osservando il suo volto riflesso in uno scudo riuscì a mozzarle la testa.
Caravaggio rappresenta la Gorgone nel momento in cui viene uccisa, con il volto urlante, gli occhi e la bocca spalancati dalla paura e dalla sorpresa e la testa da cui sgorga il sangue, nel momento quindi in cui la sventurata creatura comprende che, per via di quello stratagemma, morirà e tuttavia sarà anche, finalmente, libera.
È probabile che Caravaggio abbia ripreso i propri lineamenti allo specchio per il volto della gorgone, tuttavia non si tratta di un vero e proprio autoritratto, ma di uno studio di espressione con il ricorso al modello più economico a portata di mano.
Il quadro ” Medusa ” di Caravaggio, per la ferocia e la crudezza del soggetto rappresenta un momento di rottura rispetto alla sensibilità che caratterizzava i suoi dipinti precedenti. La potenza di questa innovazione non riguarderà solo l’ambito della sua opera ma avrà ripercussioni per l’intera storia dell’estetica, dato che la sua violenza insieme al suo intenso realismo infransero quelle regole sul decoro e sull’equilibrio della composizione pittorica vigente.
Questo cambiamento del gusto prenderà corpo più avanti durante l’epoca barocca e sarà destinato a trasformare il concetto di pittura che non avrà più solo lo scopo di rappresentare il bello come accadeva nel Rinascimento: l’arte si proporrà di stupire, di colpire l’animo dello spettatore con qualsiasi mezzo.
Source: L’innovazione del dipinto “Medusa” di Caravaggio | le pagine dei nostri libri
O lado obscuro do Amor – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
O lado obscuro do Amor
O lado obscuro do Amor reflete exatamente a coisa do relacionamento abusivo, doentio ( contém violência), abusos, maus-tratos entre outros. O amor por si só, não tem essa característica doentia, mas o ser humano, sim. E a depender da situação, ele usa o parceiro como forma de instrumento para conseguir o que quer, sem levar em conta os seus sentimentos.
Marii Freire. O lado obscuro do Amor
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George Takei releases children’s book “My Lost Freedom” – AsAmNews
By Gage Skidmore via Wikipedia Creative Commons
George Takei shares his experiences at an Arkansas incarceration camp during WWII with water-colored illustrations of barbed wires and armed soldiers, in his new children’s book My Lost Freedom.
The Star Trek actor, activist, and author wanted to help children understand his experiences as a Japanese American during a time of adversity and discrimination, KARK reports.
“I looked back at my own memories to help children today understand what it feels like to be treated as an enemy by your own country,” Takei said in an Instagram post. “This is a story of my family’s courage and the important of staying true to yourself in the face of injustice.”
Source: George Takei releases children’s book “My Lost Freedom” – AsAmNews
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Sen. Rick Scott Says He’s a China Hawk. But He’s Made Lots of Money With China-Related Investments – Mother Jones
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In 2014, while Scott was governor of Florida, his administration tried to recruit Chinese businesses to establish operations in the Sunshine State. Enterprise Florida—a partnership between the state government and local businesses—opened offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong to attract Chinese investment in Florida, and Scott dispatched the state secretary of commerce, Gary Swope, who was CEO of Enterprise Florida, to China for this occasion. A report issued by Enterprise Florida in 2020 (a year after Scott left the governor’s mansion for the Senate) noted that the outfit had positioned “Florida as an ideal business destination for Chinese companies.”
One particular venture stood out. In 2018, Scott’s administration boasted that through EF it had helped expand the operations in Florida of a Chinese solar firm called JinkoSolar. When JinkoSolar that year announced it would build a new state-of-the-art solar panel manufacturing facility in Jacksonville, Scott took credit for this and declared, “Florida’s economy is on a roll.” City and state tax incentives for the JinkoSolar plant totaled $4.2 million.
A few months later, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported the deal with this Chinese firm “could pad Scott’s vast, personal bottom line.” The paper noted that he was an investor in a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, the parent of utility giant Florida Power & Light. And NextEra had said it planned to purchase 7 million solar panels from JinkoSolar over the following four years…Scott and his wife, according to his disclosure forms, have invested millions of dollars in other financial corporations with major interests in China. In 2022, they had between $1.8 million and $3.75 million invested in funds managed by OVO Fund, a venture capital firm. One of its portfolio companies is Avaamo, an AI firm that has drawn backing from a Chinese VC firm called WI Harper. And that VC company has been funded by another Chinese VC firm, Westlake Ventures, which has been tied to the Chinese government. OVO Fund has also held investments in other firms engaged in business in China…
Far-right US Senate candidate tells crowd to carry guns ahead of election | Arizona | The Guardian

“They’re going to come after us with everything. That’s why the next six months is going to be intense. And we need to strap on our … ”
Lake briefly paused before deciding on the item her supporters should strap on. After suggesting a “seatbelt”, a “helmet” and “the armor of God”, she said: “And maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case…”
Source: Far-right US Senate candidate tells crowd to carry guns ahead of election | Arizona | The Guardian
Disneyland cast members file for union election with NLRB – Los Angeles Times

Source: Disneyland cast members file for union election with NLRB – Los Angeles Times
Future is in our hand! – Silent Songs of Sonsnow
“I always consider that the shape of the future is in our hands. The past is past and can’t be changed, but the future has not yet arrived. Young people have the opportunity and responsibility to shape it by creating a better world.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Source: Future is in our hand! – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Open Thread | About Donald Trump And His So-Called ‘New Stance’ on Abortion | 3CHICSPOLITICO
The Man Who Snuffed Out Abortion Rights Is Here to Tell You He Is a Moderate
April 9, 2024
By Jamelle Bouie
Opinion Columnist
Donald Trump does not speak from conviction. He does not speak from belief or at least no belief other than self-obsession. He certainly does not speak from anything we might recognize as reason; when he’s holding forth from a podium, even the most careful students of Trump the rhetorician will struggle to find the light of complex thought.
You should think of Trump instead as a purely instrumental speaker. It does not matter, to the former president, if a statement is true or false. It does not matter if one statement contradicts another, either in the same speech or the same paragraph or within the same sentence. What matters, to Trump, is whether the words serve the purpose at hand. Trump will say anything if it’s what he feels an audience wants to hear or if it moves him one step closer to a personal or political goal.
Trump’s fundamental disinterest in the truth value of his words is the only context that matters for his comments on abortion Monday morning. In a direct-to-camera statement on Truth Social, the former president told his audience that he does not support a national ban on abortion. “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint,” Trump said. “The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state…”
Source: Open Thread | About Donald Trump And His So-Called ‘New Stance’ on Abortion | 3CHICSPOLITICO
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