How are you? 

I hope all right!

Today I´ll speak about my blog. I think that I have a good experience because I have enjoyed this experience a lot. This is my first blog and I’m very happy to share it with you! I think that this blog is a very good way to know better your classmates. It’s very interesting to know the hobbies of your friends and it is a good opportunity to exchange opinions about them too! A blog is a very good tool because really help us to improve our English and, personally, I like to write it in our English class. But I would like to dynamize this blog experience anyway; I think that is a good idea to write a new post about a subject of our own choice. It’s very motivating to write   about our most funny life experiences. I felt very comfortable when I received commentaries about my favorite music, films, web pages, philosophical opinions about aesthetic, etc. etc. from my most beloved classmates. It was really a good experience and I would like to continue using my blog and share it with my all friends!´

Greetings, dear classmates!!!!

A big hug, Karina! ;)

Hello guys!

How are you? I hope all right!

Today I'll talk about my favorite subject.  I think that in the present I don’t have specially a favorite subject. But I remember a subject that changed my life. When I was student of Visual Arts in another university, I had my first subject of History of Art. My teacher was very good and motivating. She showed us the Art with a real passion! Her philosophical and aesthetical observations were very interesting and didactic! …and her classes were very funny! We watched movies to understand the aesthetics of some periods of the twentieth century, like Fellini, Visconti, Bergman, etc.... because she worried to teach some notions of cinema too! She is a very cultivate woman and we talked about music, cinema and visual arts for long time!  On the other hand, the life of the visual artist is very hard in this country! It’s very difficult to get a job to an artist, here! So... thanks to her lessons, I discovered that I preferred study the career of History of Art and now my teacher of History of Art is my best friend!

Greetings, my friends!  

"A darwinian theory of beauty" by Denis Dutton.

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Today, we must talk about the beauty. So, we will speak about Denis Dutton, who was a great american phlisopher of art. In the video of the web site http://www.ted.com we can see the conference  entitled:  "A Darwinian Theory of Beauty". Dutton attempts to show what's beauty. The philosopher says that the beauty is manifested in several varieties, there is the artistic beauty, the natural beauty, the human beauty, etc. The most solid theory of the beauty comes from  the mind of a scientist: Charles Darwin. We can explain the nature of beauty across the evolution theory. Dutton says there are two variants of this theory. The first: The natural selection,which includes a liking for certain foods and the sexual pleasure; and the second, called 'sexual selection',which aims to reproduction. The individuals attract the opposite sex through the magnetism of the beauty. Dutton says that we can see that in the exemple of the male peacocks feathers, who opens his tail to attract the female peacock. Someone may think that artistic beauty is a cultural product, Dutton speculates, but he says that this is wrong because, he says that the artistic beauty has the same purpose as peacock feathers. So, he talk about the very ancient hand ax of the prehistoric men. The hand ax was a teardrop-shaped stone but this weapon was not used to hunt animals; the hand ax was the first work of art of the human been! Likeness of peacock tail, the hand ax was made for attract attention to the others. A beautiful hand ax showed the talents of the artist who manufactured it. And this is the reason which we admire, for exemple, a virtuous pianist. Beauty lies in the well crafted things, like the big tail of the peacock. 

At the end of the conference, Dutton says that beauty is a virtue of the intelligent capabilities and he adds that the beauty is a product of the rich emotional lives.

One of my favorite artists: the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek!

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How are you?!

It's very difficult for me to choose just one artist, because I love a lot of them!

But... today I woud like to talk you about my favorite writer. She is called Elfriede Jelinek. She was born in Steiermark, Austria. Her mother was a catholic Austrian woman  and her father was a Czech Jew who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War. Elfriede loved so much her father and when  she was child, her father went mad (he couldn't stand the feeling of guilt for having worked with the Nazis) and  he died absolutly demented... Elfriede has not supported it and  she fell into a deep depression. Her mother, who had a very strong character, forced her child to study music at the conservatory. So, Elfriede studied cello, violin, flute, organ and music composition.  But Elfriede wasn't happy because the musical discipline in Austria is very hard and she began to develop a love of literature. At the age of 22, she wrote her first book, called Lisas Schatten (Lisa's Shadows). She married with the German journalist but Elfriede's mother lived with them in the same house. The relationship with her mother was very complex and Elfriede wrote its story in her most famous novel called 'The Pianist'. In 2001, Haneke adapt to a movie this roman where Isabelle Huppert plays the role of the protagonist, the pianist Erika Kohut and Annie Girardot plays the character of the piano teachers mother.

Elfriede Jelinek suffers from Asperger's syndrome. She's married but her husband lives in Germany and she lives alone in Austria. 

Elfriede Jelinek is my favorite writer because she has a poetic and musical language but, at the same time, her writing is very hard! She mixes the most beautiful and classical culture with the hardness of porn. She's a very subversive and political writer. In Austria, she was censored by the rightist politician Gëorg Haider, who hung posters on the street who said: Lieben Sie Elfriede Jelinek oder Kunst und Kultur?" ("Do you want art and culture or Elfriede Jelinek?")

 In 2004, Elfriede Jelinek received the Nobel Prize for Literature. I love her kitsch and ironic aesthetic!! Elfriede Jelinek, as Thomas Bernhard, belongs to the misanthropes current. I think that she's a very important artist because she has changed the concept of dramaturgy, she has created a new style of theather and she also composed an opera! For me, Elfriede Jelinek is a genius!