¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English: PAINTINGS ARE CONSIDERED A USEFUL TOOL FOR LEARNING ENGLISH. GIUSEPE ARCIMBOLDO: THE WINTER. 28-04-2011.

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Thursday, April 28, 2011

PAINTINGS ARE CONSIDERED A USEFUL TOOL FOR LEARNING ENGLISH. GIUSEPE ARCIMBOLDO: THE WINTER. 28-04-2011.

IMAGE SOURCE: pintura.aut.org

by G. Fernández - SOURCE: theartwolf.com
With the possible exception of Hyeronimus Bosch, Arcimboldo is the most original of all Renaissance painters, a genius who -with his astonishing portraits formed by elements such as fruits, animals or objects- seems to anticipate several 20th century avant-gardes such as the surrealism. In this brief and subjective article we are going to discover the best of his oeuvre.

THE FOUR SEASONS

Arcimboldo painted numerous series about "The four seasons" (one in a private collection in Bergamo, painted around 1572; another one, painted in 1573, in the Louvre Museum) being each of them a copy without many variations of the previous one, reflecting the success of the series. The painter represented the hypothetical faces of every season with the most typical element of any of them. Thus the face of the spring is made of flowers, the summer has a face of fruits and a body of wheat, while the autumn is a curious summary of fallen leaves, fruits and mushrooms. The series ends with the winter, arguably the most complex portrait of the entire series, in which we can find elements as "cold" and "dry" as the bark that forms the face, and others so "live" and "warm" as the leaves of the hair and the two fruits hanging on the neck. Perhaps the optimistic Arcimboldo was unable to depict the winter as a "cold" season, so he added these "kind" elements to the typical cold elements of the winter.

deep-seated discuss
Definition:	(adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held.
Synonyms:	deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained,planted
Usage:	He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.

misconstrue
Definition:	Interpret in the wrong way.
Synonyms:	be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misinterpret

¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English