ARTES

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized by allegories of emotion and sensation. This radical artistic adventure established new artistic means, as much as narratives. Expression became characterized by shocking juxtapositions of color, light, and line. Artists abandoned the conventions of brush and easel and played with new materials and methods of artistic gesture: commercial paints and housepainter’s brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands.

En lienzos rebosantes de luz, color y velocidad, los futuristas crearon uno de los testimonios más vívidos del giro tecnológico del siglo xx. Este libro presenta las figuras clave, influencias y controversias de un movimiento, que defendía el progreso y glorificaba la guerra y, al mismo tiempo, despreciaba la feminidad y socavaba la élite de la academia.

Este libro propone una aproximación personal al proceso completo de escritura de un guión de cine sólido, complejo, formalmente potente y que refleje además una voz propia y distinta. Con su dilatada experiencia en el campo de la docencia y los talleres de escritura, Tomás Aragay expone de forma clara, ordenada y pedagógica las herramientas, preguntas y dispositivos que constituyen la metodología para escribir un guión. A traves de un análisis concienzudo de dos películas premiadas y de alto valor nutritivo (Truman, de Cesc Gay, de cuyo guión es coautor, y Plácido, de Berlanga), Metodo para escribir un guión cinematográfico es un texto útil tanto para principiantes y estudiantes como para profesionales que quieran revisar su forma de trabajar. Y tambien para cualquier aficionado que tenga interes en entender los entresijos de la escritura del guión de cine.

In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483–1520) is one such star. The man we call simply Raphael has for centuries been hailed as a supreme Renaissance artist. For some, he even outstrips his equally famous, equally first-named, contemporaries, Leonardo and Michelangelo. From 1500 to 1508, Raphael worked throughout central Italy, particularly in Florence where he secured his reputation as a painter of portraits and beautifully rendered Madonnas, archetypical icons within the Catholic faith. In 1508 he was summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II and later embarked on an ambitious mural scheme for the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Within this room, Raphael’s The School of Athens is considered a paradigm of the High Renaissance, merging Classical philosophy with perfected perspectival space, animated figures, and a composition of majestic balance. This essential introduction explores how in just two decades of work, Raphael painted his way to legendary greatness. With highlights from his prolific output, it presents the mastery of figures and forms that secured his place not only in the trinity of Renaissance luminaries but also among the most esteemed artists of all time.

Exposición magistral de cómo son las cosas en el mundo del cine, presentadas con multitud de anécdotas. Ofrece a la vez las memorias de un magnífico director y una guía sobre el arte, la técnica y el negocio de la realización.