Charris´s Figurative Paintings have always engaged my mind and tickeld my imagination. On glancing at his canvases I always find myself fascinated by shapes and colors, hint of histories, shades of sooner familiar long from life and art. I would compare his paintings with a process of choosing, reckoning, relating, persuading and visually informing by using his power of imagination.
Analogy, if we circle back to look beyond its roots, long figured in cultural endevours yet also provoked controversy. It was shunted aside by rationalist ideology, only recently to be redeemed to play a basic role in the core cognitive process describe as conceptual blending by Guiller Fauconnier and Mark Turner.[The Way we think: Conceptual Blending and the mind´s hidding Complexities, 2002]. In their view, analogy figures among the vital functions by which our minds operate in cognition, which is our shared activity of making sense of to each other and the world. [p.101]:basic notions that we employ, most often unconsciously such as change, Identity, Time, Space, cause-effect, Part-whole, Representation (Metaphor), Role, Analogy (likeness), dis analogy (hybrid), Property (Nearness-vicinity-owner), Similarity (one-like-like-ness), Cathe gory (Gender), Uniqueness (oneness).
Analogy emerges as a core of cognition itself and analogy at its very core is Visual. Douglas Hofsater, a paladin of cognitive studies assessed this in a presidential lecture at Stanford .(2006)
Friday, June 3, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Hallucinogenic Celluloid: Salvador Dali's Soft Self-Portrait & Destino
“Nothing seems to be more suited to be devoured by the surrealist fire than those mysterious strips of 'hallucinatory celluloid' turned out so unconsciously in Hollywood, and in which we have already seen appear, stupified, so many images of authentic delirium, chance and dream.” -- Salvador Dali, 1937
Born in the Catalan town of Figueres near Barcelona in 1904, Salvador Dalí (1904—1989) was a gifted artist from an early age. As a teenager, he travelled to Madrid to attend the prestigious San Fernando Academy of Art (Picasso’s alma mater), and by the late 1920s he had already earned a reputation in Barcelona as an excellent draughtsman and scandalizing provocateur. Dalí’s first “big break” would come not through painting, however, but through film, when in 1929 he collaborated on a seventeen-minute short with his school friend, Luis Buñuel. The film, titled Un Chien Andalou ("The Andalusian Dog"), was intended as an “anti-art” film that would shock the establishment. It went so far as to even include scenes of putrescence – ants and rotting donkeys among them – to suggest the “cultural cadavers” that needed to swept aside to make way for the new art. Although Buñuel famously reported that at the first screening of Un Chien Andalou, he carried stones in his pockets to hurl in the event that the audience revolted, somewhat to his and Dalí’s disappointment the film was an immediate success when it premiered in Paris. Indeed, its disturbing opening, in which a razorblade slashes a young woman’s eyeball, remains one of the most celebrated sequences in all of cinema history.Dr. Elliott H. King
Born in the Catalan town of Figueres near Barcelona in 1904, Salvador Dalí (1904—1989) was a gifted artist from an early age. As a teenager, he travelled to Madrid to attend the prestigious San Fernando Academy of Art (Picasso’s alma mater), and by the late 1920s he had already earned a reputation in Barcelona as an excellent draughtsman and scandalizing provocateur. Dalí’s first “big break” would come not through painting, however, but through film, when in 1929 he collaborated on a seventeen-minute short with his school friend, Luis Buñuel. The film, titled Un Chien Andalou ("The Andalusian Dog"), was intended as an “anti-art” film that would shock the establishment. It went so far as to even include scenes of putrescence – ants and rotting donkeys among them – to suggest the “cultural cadavers” that needed to swept aside to make way for the new art. Although Buñuel famously reported that at the first screening of Un Chien Andalou, he carried stones in his pockets to hurl in the event that the audience revolted, somewhat to his and Dalí’s disappointment the film was an immediate success when it premiered in Paris. Indeed, its disturbing opening, in which a razorblade slashes a young woman’s eyeball, remains one of the most celebrated sequences in all of cinema history.Dr. Elliott H. King
Thursday, March 24, 2011
White House Limerick. Poetry Reading Night. Retrato de Barney Sheenan
La White House pub fundado en 1812, está situado en el corazón de la ciudad de Limerick. Muiy cerca de un archiconocido centro cultural llamado Bell Table. Durante 8 años consecutivos ha servido de escenario para gran número de Poetas y amigos de la poesía, que cada Miércoles se reúnen en este acogedor PUB para leer y cambiar impresiones sobre sus trabajos. La atmósfera de este círculo de poetas y aficionado asegura una noche cargada de sentimientos a flor de piel y el buen humos que se respira da confianza para animarse a leer y aprender más sobre el pueblo Irlandes, sus tradiciones y cultura en general. Y la diversión tambiés está asegurada, buena música y la mejor guinnes están garantizados.
Micrófono Abierto de Poesía cada Miércoles Noche en el White House, Limerick.
Micrófono Abierto de Poesía cada Miércoles Noche en el White House, Limerick.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
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