July 2021
No. 2
Vol. 7
Portada: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Herbarium, circa 1839-1846. 1 volume (66 pages)
C C atharsis can be understood as a process of purificación
and emotional, mental, and spiritual freedom. Its origins are attributed to Greece, where Aristotle made use of the word to explain the sensation of the souls being cleaned after watching the Greek tragedies. The cathartic method is the one used to elevate the emotion and beyond that, the liberation of it. It is curious to think about artworks as part of the cathartic method. Who hasn't cried, shivered, been angry at an artwork? Catártica is born as a project to explore, experiment, discover at the maximum, our capacity to feel through art.
κάθαρσις -Kathársis-Kathársis-
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disciplines with the ambition of carrying art to anyone who needs it. With the desperation of making us understand and heard in this world with so much noise, Catártica allows us to have a voice behind tinted letters, having speeches that although they are monologues, open the dialogue in the student’s community and field professionals, and especially reach everyone who ignores, wants to know and feels ready to read voices with contrasting opinions. In a nutshell, Catártica is our tool to make us understand and communicate our sensible and affective relationship with our world.
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Perfect sense ARTS ARTS 1O1 1O1
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The View From Half Way Down
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EL EL SÉPTIMO SÉPTIMO ARTE ARTE
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No More From the Past
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The historical and photographic feat in "1917" América Invertida
Halsey´s Virgo Lactans
Losing fear of Opera
PERFECT PERFECT SENSE SENSE
(2011) (2011)
What What is is left left when when nothing nothing is is left? left?
Lucero S.T. Ten years ago, the Scottish director David Mackenzie proposed a scenario in which the world was hitten by a virus of a strange nature that gradually annihilated the senses of those infected. Between unpredictability and chaos, a chef and an epidemiologist start a romance. At first, Michael (Ewan McGregor) and Susan (Eva Green) give little importance to the contingency and their relationship begins as a spontaneous and casual affair. When the virus attacks them, their vulnerability reveals itself, their way of experiencing life changes and with it how the lovers interact. As the world they knew falls apart, their
connection strengthens.
Jake Roberts' edit describes the peculiarities of the disease. In each wave, the outburst of a feeling or impulse precedes the loss of a sense. The images on screen leave the streets of Glasgow, where the main plot takes place, to show us the madness breaking out at different points around the globe. Perfect sense was classified as a science fiction film since it was not concerned about providing scientific accuracy. The core of the plot lies in highlighting the reaction and social adaptation.
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Proof of this is the sequence in which Michael's restaurant must compensate for the absence of taste and smell by highlighting textures and colors. No one anticipated that a couple of years later a pandemic with the particularity of stealing the smell would happen. Not even the New York Times critic Stephen Holden, who wrote a review of the film on February 2, 2012. Holden points out that the love story between the libidinous chef and the frigid epidemiologist is a forced premise and leads to a sentimentalist conclusion. A decade after the making of Perfect sense, I think that besides being a romantic drama, the film reminds us how fortunate we are for the simple fact of being able to smell, taste, hear, see and touch. Our accelerated lifestyle makes us lose focus on what matters. We forget that it is thanks to sensory perceptions that our most precious experiences or memories are composed, such as enjoying a meal with friends, kissing a loved one, hugging our family.
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M. I. Flores Nachón This is the second time I am writing this text. I wrote it the first time, completely inspired by the good things happening as a collateral effect of the bad things. Now I'm not so sure about the focus of this text. July 11th is my birthday. This is me writing on my birthday. I’ve never been devoted to the celebration. I’ve never been the kind of person that expects happy things on birthdays. Birthdays are just days. Another one. Why don’t we celebrate every day? Because it is tiring. My favorite TVshow is Bojack Horseman, I believe it is one of the best things that Netflix has given to humanity. The second to last episode is without a doubt, and I'm sorry to use this term, a masterpiece. I don’t take any credit for the title of this article, as it is the title for this amazing episode. It is just so perfect, and it would have been a terrific ending. Death as a terrific ending. I'm turning 22. I’ve got a whole ton of things yet to live. A whole lot of heartbreaks, a whole lot of nightmares, a whole lot of excitement. Let’s say my life was to end today. Let’s put ourselves in that (hopefully) hypothetical scenario. I would be falling into the abyss and the only thing I would be looking at is complete silence and peace. A cold, but heartwarming sadness that invades my lifeless body and all of those who stare at my casquet. I would love to be remembered forever. But forever doesn’t exist. My forever would’ve been 22 short and intense years. (spoiler alert)
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-Is it terrifying? -No I don’t think so. It’s the way it is, you know? Everything must come to an end, the drip finally stops. -See you on the other side. -Oh Bojack, no, there is no other side. This is it. How can I talk about intensity in just 22 years? It is unfair, isn’t it? I have no moral power to say that my life has been shit. I have no right to say that my life has been the worst. It has not been. Not at all. If I were to look at my life from the view from half way down, I would’ve never imagined the rest of the path. My half way would’ve been María Inés at 11. She would’ve never imagined to have experienced a crime against humanity, a crippling depression haunting every autumn, 4 surgeries at 18. She would’ve had trouble breathing in, letting that sink in. She would’ve never imagined that her hair looked so cute cut short to the neck. Or that she would be successfully writing once a month in a magazine, or with an amazing job before even finishing college. I should’ve seen the view from half way down. How can I stop it now? Is it something to enjoy? Is there some way to break my fall? I’m still not sure if I’m falling or rising. If I were to die today, my view from half way down would’ve been terrifying. I would’ve asked to die before. If the view wasn’t half way down, but upside down, I would’ve been okay. My forever was great. It was all great and I managed to reach the ground, softly, even without touching it. We’re never ready when our names are called. It doesn’t really matter after all, our names are just there until they’re not. Someone told me we all die alone, and it is an inevitable truth, my mind will be left alone to be invaded by the cold heartwarming sadness and nostalgia, and I will have left is myself, my mind and my cold hands to hold each other. So I’ll better start enjoying the view from half way down, with no one but myself. At the end, the daylight falls, it’s the curtain call, and I will be honored to say goodbye to everyone, leave everything with nothing left to give, and be left alone to continue the fall.
Please remember me in your forever.
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THE THE PAST PAST ZOR.VERSH I usually create my content based on the music I listen to on a daily basis. Here I have not taken only one genre since I do not close myself to listening to only what people are used to every day. I usually go out for a walk just to get an idea of what to do next, seeing the lights or the atmosphere that can be achieved in a single image. Much of what I do is to show that you can create something simple but wonderful through a simple way. It is more with saying that I leave up to many details that make up the render that I have created. Of the few things that have come to influence me as an artist are festivals of all kinds, endless art, animations, paintings, drawings, totems or something that is setting the place with unreal settings, full of lights, colors and seeing in a big way that great artistic work of each mind without any limit of ideas.
Like many, I found this fascination with creating strange artistic content by fusing different elements of different shapes and colors in places I have visited. There is something that has taught me a lot about this topic of animation / rendering and it is the fact that you can give the world another reason to enjoy those things that not everyone understands, where one is connected with the environment.
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I would say that it is not only a good way of expressing but it is also a great opportunity to share what Mexico can have among so many people who want to get ahead on a daily basis. You do not necessarily have to have a great team, it is simply to adapt with what you have, risk giving everything for a moment where you are recognized for the great work you do every day and that you are meeting your goals, because at least it You feel you have already broken your limits. Without a doubt being at this point in my life with everything that has happened to me is one of the greatest achievements, in the end I will no longer have to regret because I made the most of my life.
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THE THE HISTORICAL HISTORICAL AND AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHIC FEAT FEAT IN IN "1917" "1917"
Alejandro Cañedo Ortega War cinema is one of the historical and realistic representations of numerous wars that have impacted throughout world history. These can be seen in both a documentary record and a cinematographic work during the 20th century. It not only shows the action and the attacks that the sides have made, but a fight for survival, honor and realism that each soldier experiences during their fight through the camera, as well as stories told through the filmmakers according to their personal vision. In this case, we go back to the First World War, known as the Great War, it was one of the most shocking war conflicts that has changed during the first years of the 20th century in Europe. Where the main countries that fought for power, territory and military force that annihilated cities, towns and their inhabitants between 1914 and 1918. Although there are some films that tell about this war from
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different filmic perspectives both in the plot and technical montages that were witnesses of battles at different key moments of the conflict. In this case, we have 1917, a film directed by Sam Mendes, known for his action films like 007: Operation Skyfall and 007: Specter. The film takes us back to the First World War, about two young British soldiers who must infiltrate enemy territory to deliver an urgent message that could save the lives of their comrades and prevent a massacre on the battlefield.
Sam Mendes, during the filming of 1917. Photography by Francois Duhamel
Photography Francois Duhamel
One of the interesting things was the historical context because the war was fought in the fields and trenches in Europe, it presents us with the realism and the life that the soldiers had in the trenches, considered as muddy, with lack of hygiene and dying due to these conditions. We also see soldiers tired and traumatized from fighting both in the trench and on the battlefield that refer to their traumas that the protagonists coexist. Just as they have been seen in the regions in France, where the film is set, in the countryside, bunkers, abandoned and ruined villages that people live in such conditions that certain moments are captured. On the other hand, the protagonists are a sample interpreted that they are participants in the horror of the
in their youth, villages in ruins and a path of no return that they must take. Among them are corporals William Schofiled and Tom Blake, played by British actors George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman, showing their courage and courage to deliver the message regardless of obstacles and the decisions they must make as young soldiers. On the other hand, a more prominent element is photography, where the special touch was to record in a single shot, which was made by the hand of cinematographer George Deakins, where we can see the entire story told from a single visual perspective that has very few cuts, but without any change of camera in the scene that the protagonists are directed during the action that takes place and transport us in the
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Photography by Francois Duhamel
suspense that they live when you fight against the Germans at the moment they are shot, the attack of the planes of war and the detonations of bombs in the trenches that hit the soldiers. While watching the entire movie, you couldn't help but observe everything that happened in a single shot that was the most characteristic of the film and many filmmakers use it mainly for action films in real time, where they are commonly used for a few minutes. . Both director Sam Mendes and cinematographer George Deakins have innovated in the single shot as the main element for the entire film to make us feel in real time on a journey between survival and war. This cinematographic direction was awarded at the 92nd Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, as well as Best
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Visual Effects and Best Sound Mix. It is advisable to watch this film and without carefully losing the elements that characterize it without losing minute details of the film due to the shot and its plot. The one-shot photographic technique is an innovation that Mendes and Deakins have managed to impact in the 21st century war cinema towards the audience. In addition, the First World War is an event where there are few films that tell stories, but there are certain key and historical moments that are worth recounting through cinema.
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Latin Latin American American Network Network of of Art Art History History Students Students
AMÉRICA AMÉRICA INVERTIDA INVERTIDA 2021 2021 WH WHAT AT IS IS MOVING MOVING OUTSIDE? OUTSIDE?
The Latin American Network of Art History Students inaugurated in the year 2020 its project of virtual conferences titled América Invertida. Our purpose is to stimulate the divulgation of students' research projects that have been developed during their courses or from their personal interests, relating to Art History. This year we launched the second call for this event, which will take place in the second half of the present year. For this new edition we selected a main topic, around which the postulated papers must be revolved. The main topic for the 2021 edition is: What is moving outside?. In the new version, the research must be relating to the artistic or theorial practices that happened outside of the institutional margins in the Latin American context. On this occasion will be the opportunity for the best works to be published in CLIO (Art History students’ of Los Andes University, Colombia magazine) special edition. The lectures must be about problematics around the non traditional artistic experiences (performance, happening, actions, pointings, ephemeral installations, land art, theatre, photography, videoart) that occurred outside the official institutions, relating with the public sphere, or pose a challenge for the disciplinar margin, and have been performed in the Latin American context. Each session will be divided in two parts: first 20 minutes, the student will make his lecture. The last 20 minutes will be a Q&A section with the moderators or assistants. The schedule will be determined by the best time for the speaker, keeping in mind that these will be synchronous encounters between students of different Latin American countries. This project is thought-out to be realized via Instagram Live, from the RED LEHA’s official account @redleha and moderated by a student member of the network.
This announcement will be open until Tuesday, August 31, 2021, once this date has passed no more proposals will be received.
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Latin Latin American American Network Network of of Art Art History History Students Students
AMÉRICA AMÉRICA INVERTIDA INVERTIDA 2021 2021 WH WHAT AT IS IS MOVING MOVING OUTSIDE? OUTSIDE?
Announcement Announcement
Main Topic
Research or projects about the artistic or theoretical practices that take place outside the institutional or disciplinary margins, in latin american context. Please send your articles to americainvertida.red@gmail.com sticking to the following guidelines:
Corpus requirements:
Title Key words Abstract (between 300 and 500 words) Full academic article, of 5000 words as a maximum. Summarized resume
Format requirements:
APA citation Editable format (word or similar) Bibliography and/or citation references must be included in the end. Pictures (if there are any) must be correctly referenced, numbered and gathered in a final annex
Applicants:
We will receive individual or collaborative articles made by Art History students* from Latin America that respond to the main topic. *Undergraduate Art History students will be prioritized. With this being said, we will accept, however, articles from close disciplines (in the arts or social sciences areas) and also graduates.
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VIRGO VIRGO LACTANS LACTANS
Rossanna Huerta It is no secret that many musicians and pop artists use plastic references when producing their music videos, songs or even album covers. However, the case of Halsey has surprised me ... And it is because in his recent album he has made a direct reference to Christianity, specifically to the Virgin Galactotrofusa, that is, to the Virgin of milk. That is why a little knowledge of art history is necessary to understand what is behind every detail within this photograph.
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Starting with the Virgo Lactans or Virgin Galactotrofusa, this is a term used to refer to certain types of images of the Virgin Mary. They are characterized by being representations of the Virgin nursing the Child. Its origin is considered to be found in the texts of the first Church Fathers where the Virgin's motherhood is identified with the Church. Just as Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, the neophyte accesses a new life by baptism through the Spirit of God. Mary, as the mother of the mystical head of the Church, becomes the mother of all Christians, that is, in the Ecclesia itself, and as a mother she breastfeeds them and provides the necessary care as she did with her own Son (Rodríguez, 2013). In the image we see of Halsey you can see that she has a breast outside the dress, one would think that this is an act of total heresy since "the Virgin is modest", however, it is totally the opposite. From the 15th century on, you can see various representations of the Virgin where she explicitly shows her chest. Another common attribute that can be observed is the melancholic gesture of the Virgin, standing or sitting on a throne where she presents her breast to the Child to suckle him. Both can appear indoors or outdoors, alone or accompanied by a heavenly court in which angels enliven the moment by playing music. Mary covers her head with a headdress or girdles a crown and the Child is represented clothed or covering her naked body with a transparent cloth. Even so I consider that the Virgin of Halsey has a second sense to a celestial representation and motherhood. Not only for the simple fact that Halsey has just had her first child, but she wants us to see him as a representation of a new beginning in her career and artistic vision ... well, it will be a matter of listening to her new songs. In the meantime, let's look at different Virgenes de la Leche throughout history:
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REFERENCIA: Rodríguez, L. (2013) La Virgen de la Leche. Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval, 5(9), pp. 1-11
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Gabriela Flores LOSING LOSING FEAR FEAR OF OF ÓPERA ÓPERA
What impression do you have on the word opera? It would be common to imagine a Viking on a stage, or maybe remembering the Bugs Bunny cartoons. I can be thankful that the music of the most famous operas has been disclosed in cartoons, as it has allowed the public to feel familiar with the genre. From my point of view, opera is the most beautiful of all the arts, ironically not belonging to the group of six fine arts, but it can be understood as the conjunction of them. In my opinion it is the work of art par excellence. To begin with, I would like to mention a series of annotations. They have led us to believe that opera is a boring genre, that it is extremely long, that it is not understood because it is in another language, that it is an expensive event, that you have to be well dressed, that it is elitist, among many other things. However, there are short operas, most of the theaters already have supertitling, (subtitles at the top), there are many free concerts and recitals and it is surprising the promotions you can find when buying a ticket at any theater, even in the Palace of Fine Arts. Likewise, opera is an event that lends itself to attending with a casual dress, or gala, if as a spectator it is desired. It is reassuring to comment that, as in everything, the function may not capture our attention without division at all times, it is normal to get bored and lose concentration, as it also happens in the cinema. It would be pertinent to remember that an opera, as a dramatic representation, has moments of climax and moments of relaxation.
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Romeo et Juliet, by Academy of Vocal Arts, 2019
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Carmen by Armando Mora Producciones, 2019
What happens is that much of what we come to think about opera is not entirely true. Give it a try. Just as we find aromas, flavors, acidity, sweetness, and many other aspects in a wine, we can discover and savor the different tints that an opera has as an artistic manifestation. As you attend an operatic event, it is the possibility to develop a taste and pleasure in witnessing it.
Opera is a show where you can listen to sublime music and poetry in the voice of the singer, see the creation of many characters on stage and enjoy a visual show with beautiful sets and costumes, including ballet or even a good fight. It is a reflection of humanity, it speaks of love, heartbreak, hatred, jealousy, revenge, devotion, freedom, passion, dedication, life and death. Many of the greatest stories have also been told in opera, Shakespearean plays such as Romeo and Julietta, Otello, Macbeth, fairy tales such as Cinderella or Rusalka (based on the Slavic myth of the Little Mermaid). Opera can be much closer than we think. I will present some recommendations so that when you first attend the opera and it can be fully enjoyed. The willingness to attend an event without time pressure. It is recommended that the first operas be light, there are many for children, such as La Bohème by Puccini, Elixir de amor by Donizetti, The Magic Flute by Mozart, La Traviata by Verdi or Carmen by Bizet. It would be good if before entering the function, you read a little about what will be presented; Knowing the plot, even with the outcome, this may provoke in you a desire to maintain attention at all times. Finally, knowing the music that will be heard in the presentation a few days before will facilitate the relationship that you can sustain with the opera.
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L'Elissir d'amore by Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2015
L'Elissir d'amore by Academy of Vocal Arts, 2019
Exposure to a melody repeatedly generates a sensitive attachment to it. The wonderful thing about operatic performance is the range of possible performances and stagings that one will have of the same opera. The essence is preserved, however each artist gives it a particularity that makes it unique. They are invited to enter the world of opera through the series of recitals "Losing your fear of opera." You can access from Youtube or Facebook. Through which you will be able to know the different types of voice and some of the most famous arias, all with their respective explanation. The following August 7th at 7:00 p.m. a brief performance of the opera Carmen will be presented.
@Gabriela Flores, Mezzosoprano
@Gabriela Flores, Mezzosoprano
https://www.gabrielafloresmezzosoprano.com
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