Euro-American Pop Art

Some time ago I wrote a post about two Latin American Pop Art artists: Romero Britto and Fabian Ciraolo. In this post I'll write about artists who painted decades before Britto and Ciraolo. I'm not a critic of Fine Arts, I wanna let you aware of that right now. I like interesting paintings and drawings, besides that... I will not forget about Wharol's leading role in the movement, I wanna draw attention to Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, and Wesselmann, whose paintings I kind of liked much. It seems to me that Pop Art is related to those aspects of modern life we see every day and perhaps ignore due to its "ordinary" role in everyday life or to those great artists of past that we may ignore because their ubiquity in the web, postcards and so on.

Bedroom at Arles by Roy Lichtenstein

Robert Rauschenberg painted and combined non-tradtional objects in his works, the canvas below is a good example of the "combinations" he used to do.

"Sunset nude with Matisse Odalisque" by Tom Wesselmann

Roy Lichtenstein shed a new life to the old Van Gogh bedroom, very interesting...

Rauschenberg's untitled "combined"

Tom Wesselmann decided to play with Matisse's Odalisque, very good to see as well. I hope you enjoy these paintings and find more works about these and other artists. It would be a pleasure if you shared you findings with us.

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Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Texto em Português

Have you ever wondered how intelligence works? I mean, have you ever been in doubt if you are intelligent or not? Or if the things you are good at no one notices that? Or that everybody seems more intelligent than you are (something like "the neighbors' grass looks always greener than mine...")? We can also think that intelligence follows this concept, "the ability to learn, understand and make judments based on reason". Would it be only that? I don't think so...

One of the most interesting theories on the subject was made by Howard Gardner: his Theory of Multiple Intelligences. With his theory, the author shows us that the concept of intelligence can be much broader than we thought it could be. Therefore, the theory helps us to give all the complexity that involves our thinking and engagement with the world.

Gardner

Dr. House: everybody lies

One of the most interesting things I have ever watched in television so far is House, M.D. What an amazing TV series! Watching it allows us to understand a bit more about human relationships, about the challenges we have to face, about the scientific method, and sometimes it helps us to figure things by thinking out of the box, even if the box does not exist... And listening to amazing music styles that House himself likes to hear.