Hacia una nueva figuración

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

En los últimos tiempos se ha manifestado una dicotomía, una oposición real o ficticia entre los lenguajes audiovisuales y los lenguajes escritos. Una oposición que se resume simplemente en el enunciado: página versus pantalla. Para contrastar esta oposición escritura-pantalla, el autor de este ensayo ha elegido a los que considera los dos representantes más elaborados de ambas expresiones: la literatura y el cine, -con derivaciones o afluentes en la televisión, el video y el internet- tomando como punto de referencia el hecho de que la «cultura contemporánea», esto es, la...

Throughout the history of art, drawing has always represented the most profound and true expression of artists' visions, the final frontier to prove the depth of their talent. This book is an exploration of several of Colombia's most representative artists' pencil work. In most cases, these sketches are the most basic yet crucial point of an artistic idea that is later completed in another medium—paint, marble, photography, or a computer. A lo largo de toda la historia del arte, el dibujo representa la expresión más profunda y verdadera del artista, la frontera final para probar la...

The letter ñ is very important in the Spanish language. With the help of a mischievous elf, Carlos and Caterina find out just how important that letter is.