Another award season reached its end last night with the 85th Academy Awards. Seth MacFarlane was hosting this… unusual ceremony, which was a bizarre mix of Academy’s conservatism and New Hollywood’s spirit. Early Nielsen ratings show the Oscar telecast earned a 26.6 rating and a 41 percent share of the TV audience, marking a 4 …
Spoiler Alert Django (with a silent D) Unchained has all the characteristics of a Tarantino movie. Dynamic soundtrack which varies from Ennio Morricone western themes and folk music to 2Pac and James Brown, panoramic long shots combined with extreme close ups on the characters’ faces, memorable prose, the postmodern cult aesthetic of the movie, manifested …
The issue of metamorphosis in Alice in Wonderland operates on a double level. The ordinary world’s metamorphosis, in order to become the dreamy Wonderland, reveals the hidden unrationalism of the adults’ world and points out the hypocricy and the comformism of a corrupted society, which although it is realistic, it has stopped being true. Within …
British, b. 1952 Martin Parr was born in Epsom, Surrey. As a boy, his interest in photography was encouraged by his grandfather George Parr, himself a keen amateur photographer. Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970 to 1973. To support his career as a freelance photographer, he took on various teaching assignments between 1975 … Continue reading
William Klein Movies Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? 1966 Mr. Freedom 1969 Far from Vietnam 1967 The Model Couple 1977 The Little Richard Story 1980 Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther 1970 Muhammad Ali: The Greatest 1964-74, 1974 Messiah 1999 Festival panafricain d’Alger 1969 Continue reading
American, born April 19, 1928 is a photographer best known for incorporating unusual elements into his photographs and videos. Born in New York, he grew up as a Jewish boy in an area where anti-Semitism was common. He turned to art at a young age as a way to escape from his peers. He frequently … Continue reading
Czech/French, b. Czechoslovakia 1938 Josef Koudelka, born in Moravia, made his first photographs while a student in the 1950s. About the same time that he started his career as an aeronautical engineer in 1961 he also began photographing Gypsies in Czechoslovakia and theater in Prague. He turned full-time to photography in 1967. The following year, … Continue reading
Photographer Annie Leibovitz was born October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1970 she took a job at Rolling Stone magazine. In 1983 she began working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair. During the late 1980s, Leibovitz started to work on a number of high-profile advertising campaigns. From the 1990s to the present, she has … Continue reading
Chris Hondros (b. March 14, 1970) was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated phtotojournalist. Born in New York City to immigrant Greek and German parents, both survivors of World War II, he moved to North Carolina as a child. After studying English literature at North Carolina State and taking his Master’s degree at Ohio’s School of Visual … Continue reading
Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948 … Continue reading
Broad literary and artistic movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that was a reaction to the rationalism of Neoclassicism, in which emotions, spontaneity and self expression were valued above reason, producing colorful works in many styles. Landscape painting was a popular genre at this time, as were history painting and scenes of … Continue reading
Art movement that began in the mid-nineteenth century and aimed to produce naturalistic works depicting everyday life, in contrast to Romantic subjectivity (Romanticism). Continue reading
Pigments mixed with the slow-drying and flexible medium of oil and applied to a primed wooden panel or stretched canvas strengthened with a mixture of glue and white pigment. Oil paint became a popular medium from the fifteenth century, SOURCE: 10.000 YEARS OF ART, Phaidon, 2009 Continue reading
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