Giulio Carlo Argan

Hi, I write a mini essay about my oral presentation of today. This way you can know more about one of my favorite historian of art and architecture, and one reader fundamental in the history of occidental's culture.

Giulio Carlo Argan borned in Turin on 1909, and dead in Rome on 1992. He is a Italian person, because of that, he studied the history about his culture, in diverse aspects. Is important his nationallity because his most important studies are about the Italian's production, and when we thinking about the "Italian", only we put a date on with the foundation of Florence, the first modern state. In his book "Renaissance and baroque", he was reflexion to the piece of art in the Florence, Milan, Venice and Rome. Are very short his reference about the production in others places in Europe (even when we know exist baroque in others places, like in Spain or Belgium).
Because of that, is significant when he wrote about the modern art, center on the Bauhaus (a movement of vanguard in Germany). One explanation of that, is when the Bauhaus started in Germany, in Italy the futurists took the control of art, and the futurist is a fascist's movement. And Argan is a member of the communist party.
The polical practics in Argan is fundamental, because of that we can know because he was more interested in the Bauhaus, a school in the left of the politics. Also, the political tendency of Argan did traveled around the world, he found the pieces of art with a strong political sense, a significant topic for a good critic of Argan. We don't forget Argan was mayor of Rome, between 1976 and 1979 for the communist party, and he took an amazing choice, that was take care of Rome, like a one magnify master piece.

You must read to Giulio Carlo Argan, a fundamental reader about the art and the cities of the world.

The Lars Von Trier's movies

Is a extremelly difficult question, choose the most important movie in my life. I love the cinema, in differents styles, from dramatic's movie to the terror films. I follow to many directors and actors, because of that I have watched films of all history. But today, I going to talk about one of the most controversial and strange directors, is the danish Lars Von Trier, one of my favourite film makers in all times. To talk about the Lars Von Trier's movies I choose three amazing films, in three diferent moments of him work: Medea, Dogville and Antichrist.

"Medea" is a film of 1988, and is the adaptation of the play of Euripides (dramatist of the old grece). Tell the history of Medea, daughter of the king of Colquida, she is a powerfull witch that fell in love of Jason, commander of the Argonautas. After steal the "vellocino" of gold, escape to Corintis, where Medea has two childrens with Jason. After this, he flirts to daughter of the king of Corintios (Glauce), married with she and leave Medea. But she decides to take revenge of Jason. I saw "Medea" in my home, a friend give me the movie. Is a film very experimental, the character of Medea is play for Kirsten Olesen, an amazing danish's actress, and the set is a cold and hard steppe of the north of Europe.
Other film is "Dogville" of 2003, and is with one of my favourite actress in the U.S's cinema, Nicole Kidman. She is in the movie Grace, a women that is escape to a gangster, and arrive to a small town in the state of Colorado. In Dogville (name of the town), Grace must learn the personality of the members of the community, and she find that isn't so kind like she think. "Dogville" is the first movie of Lars Von Trier that I see, and I love it. I watched in the cinema, and surprise me so much the set, that is like a teather's set (the wall never exist, materially talking). The performance of Kidman is wonderfull, is the same year that she recived the Academy Award for "The Hours", him best year definitely.
The last movie I going to talk is "Antichrist" of 2009. A dark and controversial movie about a couple that they go to a forrest and freky things start to happen, after the dead of their baby in a tragical situation. Von Trier with "Antichrist" reform all terror's movies, he show us a gradual madness of the women, and the forrest like the representation of evil. The final scene are very hard, and very people hate the movie because of that. Independelly I love this film, have a direction of art very incredible, and the performance of Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Defoe is perfect. 

Only I want you to watch Lars Von Trier's films, it's a experience.

My favorite band

Is a really hard decision. I heard a lot of bands and singers, and my likes of music are very differents, from classic music to the rap. Now I heard a lot of "fado", that is the typical music from Portugal, also three disc of Bajofondo, a band from the "Rio de la plata", that is to say, is to form for musicians from Argentina and Uruguay (to stand out Luciano Supervielle, of Montevideo). But the disc is always in my mp3, is the Aquamini of  Outkast.

Outkast is a band from the East Point of Georgia, one of the state more racist of the south in United State. The musicians are André "André 3000" Benjamin and Antwan André Patton, two of the best raps in the U.S. The rap (the expression musical of the hip-hop) born in New York, but is in the south's states, where that style of music find a political sense (better said, other policital sense). The band is most famous for the Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, in this album are Hey ya!, the most popular song until that moment. But Aquamini (my favorite album) is five years before. The rap in Aquamini even have a "soul of ghetto", and the lyrics are more social, and the groove is most slowed.
I know the discsearching Spearkerboxx, but I find this, and I love it. And the best is my friends also knowed, and we like so much the album. Personally a preffer that disc (in comparison of others, of the same band or others musician) because is perfect. Every song is so good. As is a disc that you heard in different moments: in a party or the bus in the morning on the way to University. I can't choice a song of the disc, but I recommend two, for my the best in the album. One is West Savannah, that is the song about the place by birth of Antwan André Patton, that song have a bass incredible. And the other is Liberation, the best lyrics in the Aquamini.

Ckeck it the videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBh_JinGbE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7WGmwiZlyA