Love and Failure in Barcelona: Three Generations

Theme: Love

The research focuses on the love lives of the protagonist characters. The research results are not as expected. It is also largely a novel about failure, both personal and collective.

Argument

Mundeta Jover, married, only explains how her life was altered by an abortion in a relationship with a student, “Victor loved”, the birth of her daughter until the death of her husband. Mundeta Ventura shows the difficulties that now exist to move in society, her courtship with Ignacio Costa, and

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Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin: Analysis

Death of the Virgin by Caravaggio

Chronological Placement, History, and Culture

This work can be dated from the year 1605 to 1606.

Stylistic Affiliation

It belongs to the Italian Baroque style.

Formal and Conceptual Characteristics

  • Technique: Oil painting
  • Support: Canvas
  • Style: Openly pictorial, with color dominating the picture.
  • Composition: Complex, featuring curves and diagonal lines in various directions, including stripes. It is asymmetric and atectonic.
  • Compositional Geometry: No geometric composition.
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Understanding Literary Realism: A Deep Dive into Key Elements and Authors

Realism in Literature: A Detailed Exploration

Realism defends the representation of reality as truthfully and accurately as possible. Initially, the term was a pejorative applied to painting. This movement arrived in Spain nearly half a century after its emergence in countries like France, spurred by the success of authors such as Balzac, Flaubert, Dickens, Stendhal, and Tolstoy.

Key Features of Literary Realism

  • Analysis and Observation: Realism focuses on reflecting reality in its works.
  • Emphasis on
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Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish Baroque Painting & Sculpture

Italian Baroque Painting

The most important Italian Baroque painter was Caravaggio. Caravaggio’s painting was based on direct observation of reality, with all its rawness. His characters were inspired by everyday people. Caravaggio was a master of chiaroscuro, a technique that was called tenebrism.

Dutch School

They had commercial influences. Rembrandt, who catered to the tastes of the bourgeoisie, was the most important painter of the Dutch school. Frans Hals was a great author of portraits, both

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Key Literary Movements: 1898-1927

Key Features of the Generation of ’98

The Generation of ’98 was characterized by several key features:

  • Exaltation of antisocial behavior: A protest against established norms. Artists embraced a bohemian lifestyle.
  • Irrationalism: A rejection of rationalistic positivism, favoring intuition and the exploration of inner states. Influenced by Nietzsche and Freud, it manifested in literature as an opposition to Naturalism.
  • Pre-Raphaelite Influence: In England, a school emerged that emphasized the Middle Ages.
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Aesthetic Movement: Art, Beauty, and Oscar Wilde

The Aesthetic Movement

The Aesthetic Movement was a 19th-century European movement that emphasized aesthetic values over moral or social themes in literature, fine art, the decorative arts, and interior design. It represents the same tendencies that symbolism or decadence stood for in France and may be considered the British branch of the same movement. It belongs to the anti-Victorian reaction, had post-Romantic roots, and, as such, anticipates modernism. It took place in the late Victorian period

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