Song et mensonge de franco picasso biography
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Visuals Arts
Comics & Visuals Arts
The Visual Arts is a (very) broadly defined group of artistic practices, including, amongst others, painting, photography, decorative arts, and more.
Visual Arts is the medium to which the comic arts are the most clearly linked, both being pictorial mediums. Looking at the history of painting, we can often find sequential elements, one of the essential and defining aspects of the comic book. Paintings in the Middle Ages were often constructed in the form of brief scenes or sequences which told stories from the Bible. This narrative tradition continued in some of the most well-known works of visual art in the world, such as Michelangelo’s painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the vast scenes of the Last Judgement found in the monasteries of Sucevita and Voronet in Romania.
Comic Books: Just Another Element of the Visual Arts?
The obvious historic and aesthetic connections between comics, painting, an
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In Languages of Art ( [])Nelson Goodman states: "Let us speak of a work of art as autographic if and only if the distinction between original and forgery of it is significant; or better, if and only if even the most exact duplication of it does not thereby count as genuine." () [] "an art seems to be allographic just insofar as it is amenable to notation" [] "Amenability to notation depends upon a precedent practice that develops only if works of the art in question are commonly either ephemeral or not producible by one person." (, )
Thus: painting and sculpture are autographic (one-stage, perennial, not amenable to notation), music and literature are allographic (two-stage, ephemeral - the former, I mean -, amenable to notation).
What about comics, then?
Reading Goodman's book a bit too fast, people tend to say (comparing comics to literature) that comics are allographic. See, here, line 44, if I'm not mistaken (I'll discuss Carrier's book at another occasion):
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Guernica in Britain: The art of war
On 3 November , Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, stood up to address the International Council of New York's Museum of Modern Art (Moma): a world élite of tastemakers and guardians of culture. Referring to the Guernica tapestry, a copy of Picasso's original painting, that was hanging in the corridor outside the säkerhet Council chamber room, ytterligare declared: "The world has changed a great deal since Picasso painted that first political masterpiece, but it has not necessarily grown easier. We are near the end of a tumultuous century that has witnessed both the best and worst of human endeavour. Peace spreads in one region as genocidal fury rages in another. Unprecedented wealth coexists with terrible deprivation, as a quarter of the world's people remain mired in poverty."
It was a grimly realistic analysis of how far the world had progressed since , when Picasso reacted so powerfully to the catastrophe of the bombing of the Ba