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Jackson Pollock for dummies

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                                   Art for you and me From tie to time or when we have free time, we get a little bored. Here is when we find art to cheer up our existences! Let´s check one of my favorite artists, Jackson Pollock. He was born in The U.S.A back on 1912 and die on 1956. But why is he so interesting? I think you should see some of his paintings and then I will ask again: So, isn´t him fantastic? don´t you feel the need of start painting by yourselve? Let´s learn something more about Pollock: Jacson Pollock facts: Pollock stopped using symbolic titles for his work because he found them misleading. This is why his later works are numbered. Pollock first studied drawing  but could not adequately express himself in the medium. Pollock converted the barn on his farm in East Hampton into a studio. For a time, Pollock sprayed paint onto the canvas through a...

The narrow eye

                                   Our "local" society Probably you've asked yourself a couple of times, what would my life have been like if I lived in another city? Our society, which we consider "local", offers us some of the most renowned folk festivals in the country, that´s a fact and we know that the city has an undoubedtly close relationship with the Magdalena river. We know our location in the region, it might be possible we can call ourselves truly opitas .  However, we are attracted to "the outside", what we don't have or those stuff we don't see everyday. What we have here is a point of view that could be named as "the narrow eye", taking in account that the word "local" contextually is taken as a term that isolates the individual. How many times we've wanted to be among giants (in stature and culture, I mean), closing our eyes to the possibilities we can open ...