Spanish Literary Movements: 19th and 20th Centuries
Noucentisme and Avant-Garde
In Spain, the group of Modernist writers is called Noucentisme or the Generation of ’98. Its components are characterized by their European orientation and by their conception of art as an activity separate from the social and political. During the early decades of the 20th century, various artistic movements emerged in Europe, called Avant-Garde, breaking radically with the themes and expressive techniques of Romanticism and Realism. The Noucentistes connected easily
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Catalan Romanesque Architecture
Sant Climent de Taüll, along with San Martin de Canigó, Sant Pere de Rodes, and San Vicente de Cardona, represents the best of Catalan Romanesque architecture. These three churches feature crypts, an element that coexists with an aisle in the case of Sant Pere de Rodes, marking the first aisle of the Romanesque Peninsula. They showcase strong, classical, massive barrel vaults overlapping and resting on a plinth. San Vicente de Cardona also revives early Christian
Read MoreGalician Narrative: Xosé Neira Vilas, Carlos Casares, Alfredo Conde, Xavier Alcalá, and Victor F. Freixanes
Xosé Neira Vilas (1928)
Xosé Neira Vilas (1928): A non-manifesto of renovating NRTIs. His work concentrates on the tragedies of the Civil War and postwar times. His characters face conflicts with the established order, their oppressors, or similar figures. Four core narratives revolve around the world of rural life:
- Memories of a Laborer
- Letters to Weep
- From Monk to Those Years
, not included in the volume The Loop. He offers a perception of the world from a rural perspective. The author reconstructs
Read MorePhilosophical Reflections on Beauty and Art
Philosophical Reflections on Beauty
Within reason is the aesthetic practice, a branch of philosophy whose main idea is beauty. Beauty is an aesthetic value and is a reflection on values. It consists of values that are shaping the aesthetic judgments about the element to be considered: the values move in a subjective and objective scope. There is an aesthetic experience (a good time offering customers satisfaction) when we take as a starting point that sometimes we experience an aesthetic view; this
Read MoreUnderstanding Culture: Definition, Change, and Impact
Culture: The Humanization Process
Culture is the humanization process. It is the set of items with which humans improve and develop their spiritual and physical gifts, take over the cosmos, humanize social interaction, communicate their ideas and experiences, and so on.
Analysis
Culture covers the life of a people, the set of values and disvalues of this, and how to express them.
- According to psychology, culture is a specific mode of existence and the human being refers to it as the highest expressions
Drypoint and Mezzotint Engraving Techniques Explained
Drypoint Engraving: A Detailed Look
In drypoint engraving, burrs can be left or removed with a scraper. The most characteristic effect of drypoint is obtained by leaving the filings formed on the sides of the groove. These filings, also known as burrs, hold ink, which gives a print a broad and diffused line, similar in softness to etching.
Another feature of the drypoint impression is the appearance of two white fillets between the two faded marks from the burr and the peaks corresponding to the edges,
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