Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Hollywood Takes Action Hero Jesus To India
(via The Guardian) Randeep Ramesh writes about the Aquarian Gospel + a $20m movie, which portrays Jesus as a holy man and teacher inspired by a myriad of eastern religions in India + a fantasy action adventure account of Jesus's life with the three wise men as his mentors + commercial and spiritual gains from the concept + other viewpoints @ http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2213087,00.html
Net Gains
Carly Berwick writes about interactive, computer-based artworks + a general acceptance of the genre + other viewpoints @ http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=1226
A Swashbuckling Tale Of 10th-century Adventure
Ishaan Tharoor writes about 'The Adventures of Amir Hamza' + its Persian/Arabian roots + the blending of Sufi Islam and the mythological repertoire of the older strains of Hinduism + the religious element + other viewpoints @ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1684204,00.html
Mon Oncle d'Amérique
Mon Oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Screenplay: Jean Gruault
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia
(via YouTube): Mon oncle d'Amerique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7AfY-ux7Ds
It's entertaining + illustrative + experimental + a form of movie fun.
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Screenplay: Jean Gruault
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia
(via YouTube): Mon oncle d'Amerique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7AfY-ux7Ds
It's entertaining + illustrative + experimental + a form of movie fun.
Ancient Jade Study Sheds Light On Sea Trade
Tan Ee Lyn writes about ancient jade artifacts in museums across southeast Asia + the sea trade patterns dating back 5,000 years + analytical studies via X-ray spectrometers + other viewpoints @ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071119/sc_nm/jade_asia_dc
Nay Win Tun: Burma's Gem Stone Tycoon
Wai Moe writes about Nay Win Tun, the CEO of Ruby Dragon Jade & Gems Co Ltd, a young businessman in his early 40s, who controls Burma’s largest gem trading business + other viewpoints @ http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9164
A Rare Red Diamond
According to the Christie's, a rare purplish-red diamond ring has sold (British jeweler, Laurence Graff, bought the ring) for 2.97 million Swiss francs ($2.6 million), setting a world record for a red diamond. For photo and details see Christie’s and Reuters.
The Birth Of Modern Painting
(via The Outline of Art) William Orpen writes:
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In the expression of feeling, the most famous follower of Fra Angelico was Fra Filippo Lippi, but if unable to attain the etheral spirituality of Angelico his art was full of humanity and delicacy. His Madonnas belong to Florence rather than to heaven and reveal the painter’s fine feeling for feminine beauty more obviously than his piety. He was a genial painter, and in his comfortable satisfaction with the things of this life he shared with Angelico a love of flowers. ‘No one draws such lilies or such daisies as Lippi,’ wrote Ruskin. ‘Botticelli beat him afterwards in roses, but never in lilies.’
Lippi’s geniality is very evident in his ‘Annunciation’. The figures are human, the scene is homely, characteristics generally suggestive of the Dutch painters of a much later generation.
Fra Angelico and Fra Lippi stand for the imaginative development that followed the death of Giotto. In the other direction, the first great advance in the rendering of physical nature is found in the painting of Paolo Uccello, who first introduced perspective into pictures. Uccello was far more interested in the technical problems of foreshortening and perspective than in anything else. Uccello represents the scientific spirit in the air of the Florence of Cosmo de Medici, where not only artists, but mathematicians, anatomists, and great scholars were congregated. Among his achievements must be reckoned the recommencement of profane painting by his invention of the battle picture, a subject in which he had no predecessor and no successor till a century later. His early battle piece, the ‘Sant Egidio’, amuses us by the rocking horse appearance of the horses. In his absorption with technique, Uccello was indifferent then to realistic accuracy. Truths of color did not interest him—he painted horses red. The third dimension in space, which Giotto could only suggest experimentally and symbolically, was conquered by Uccello, who clearly separated the planes in which his figures move and have their being. Roses, oranges, and hedges were drawn with botanical precision, and no pains were spared to draw branches and even leaves in correct perspective. The splendid realism to which Uccello ultimately attained is best represented by the intensely alive animal and its rider. Uccello’s equestrian portrait of the English mercenary John Hawkwood in the cathedral of Florence is a milestone in the history of art.
The Birth Of Modern Painting (continued)
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In the expression of feeling, the most famous follower of Fra Angelico was Fra Filippo Lippi, but if unable to attain the etheral spirituality of Angelico his art was full of humanity and delicacy. His Madonnas belong to Florence rather than to heaven and reveal the painter’s fine feeling for feminine beauty more obviously than his piety. He was a genial painter, and in his comfortable satisfaction with the things of this life he shared with Angelico a love of flowers. ‘No one draws such lilies or such daisies as Lippi,’ wrote Ruskin. ‘Botticelli beat him afterwards in roses, but never in lilies.’
Lippi’s geniality is very evident in his ‘Annunciation’. The figures are human, the scene is homely, characteristics generally suggestive of the Dutch painters of a much later generation.
Fra Angelico and Fra Lippi stand for the imaginative development that followed the death of Giotto. In the other direction, the first great advance in the rendering of physical nature is found in the painting of Paolo Uccello, who first introduced perspective into pictures. Uccello was far more interested in the technical problems of foreshortening and perspective than in anything else. Uccello represents the scientific spirit in the air of the Florence of Cosmo de Medici, where not only artists, but mathematicians, anatomists, and great scholars were congregated. Among his achievements must be reckoned the recommencement of profane painting by his invention of the battle picture, a subject in which he had no predecessor and no successor till a century later. His early battle piece, the ‘Sant Egidio’, amuses us by the rocking horse appearance of the horses. In his absorption with technique, Uccello was indifferent then to realistic accuracy. Truths of color did not interest him—he painted horses red. The third dimension in space, which Giotto could only suggest experimentally and symbolically, was conquered by Uccello, who clearly separated the planes in which his figures move and have their being. Roses, oranges, and hedges were drawn with botanical precision, and no pains were spared to draw branches and even leaves in correct perspective. The splendid realism to which Uccello ultimately attained is best represented by the intensely alive animal and its rider. Uccello’s equestrian portrait of the English mercenary John Hawkwood in the cathedral of Florence is a milestone in the history of art.
The Birth Of Modern Painting (continued)
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