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Luis Meléndez (1715-1780)

Felix de Azua analyzes the still lifes Luis Meléndez (1715-1780) in A defiant look .

Melendez's self-portrait in the Louvre. Here the young artist of 30 years (dating from 1746), a handsome young olive, dressed elegantly contained, olive satin jacket, frilly-white waterfall in the shirt, blue silk ribbon and bow collecting Monet. However, what impresses is the insolence of the gaze.

The first mystery is the nature of death itself, these compositions with cheeses, fruits, breads or rabbits. What led to Velazquez Zurbarán, Sanchez Cotan, to give such importance to an issue of poor quality? These still lifes have no connection with the flamingos, which is displayed in abundance, wealth, luxury living and furor of a hugely powerful provinces during the six hundred. The humility of English still life has more poetry than science, and yet the mystery is compelling. Heidegger wanted to imbue meaning poor Van Gogh boots, two broken pieces of leather that embodied the lifetime of work and pain of their own, as if the painting of everyday objects could read our fate. But the English still life is the opposite. There is pathos here, or symbols, and transcendence, even (though his defense Bryson) a form of material life. I think this genre is more mysterious than has been the almost extinct art.

No one that actually looks like twins these pristine objects, supernatural light, visible to an extent that not a mechanical eye can reach. It would be a visible reality in the eyes of angelic or demonic, but not humans. This "reality" is as unreal as that of Mondrian. In either still lifes immediately Melendez notes that are the result of an obsession. They are painted to match the eye from a incredible distance as if the painter had put his nose between grapes and cheese. Apparently, Melendez composing his still lifes, but painted one by one the objects and was adding and arranging on the canvas as it advanced (Hirschaner & Metzger). Melendez is located a few centimeters of a pumpkin under intense light we do not know how to install. After scrutinizing as a myopic, paints even the slightest wrinkle of the epithelium. Then do the same with a bread crust clay. And so on to accommodate the end, a blanket of support. With the addition of the size, of course, is not natural.

managed to alienate all guards, because they never received prestigious orders that his talent deserved and others more mediocre painters managed with ease. They have lost the few major works that gave King Charles during a brief stay in Naples (1748-1752), but it never came to know the real favor. So he was condemned to painting still lifes, genre considered the most low-class by the artistic hierarchy, but sold well.

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black legend

historian Joseph Perez explains why there black legend.

" Spain at that time there was in truth as such (the years in which reigned Carlos V and Felipe II) . What exists is a Catholic monarchy, not necessarily English, who rules the same in Flanders in the Milanese, Naples and in large parts of Germany, India and, of course, in Castile and Aragon. They are the leaders of the House of Austria, and occupy a prominent place in the Europe of his day, sent in diplomatic issues , military, economic. "

"The book came in France today, where watched there an unconditional surrender to the culture that comes from the U.S., his films and their authors, and everything else, and a fierce rejection of his imperial policy. Everything that happened to Spain a few centuries ago. The French are crazy about learning the language, copied his gloves and leather suits, Louis XIV himself adapted the label of the courts of Austria and even Pascal surrendered to Santa Teresa and San Juan de la Cruz ".

" To get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe power that came to have the monarchy Austria goes without saying that your currency - the pieces of eight, the piastres, was the currency in circulation throughout the world until well into the nineteenth century . Without a strong economic base so his immense power would be inexplicable diplomatic, military and political. English were reportedly responsible for the empire and yet, the most important figure in foreign policy was a Frenchman, Granvelle , and its military heroes are the Earl of Egmont (Flemish), Alessandro Farnese (Genoese) or Spinola, Duke of Parma.

" all began when Philip II puts a price on his head William of Orange, the Protestant prince Flanders, which reacts by challenging its legitimacy and its power to face. It was customary in those days to question the royal authority, so to arm himself with arguments flamenco develops an overwhelming propaganda that emphasizes (and exaggerate) the worst of his great enemy : a man capable of murdering the prince Don Carlos, his son (which proved false), who used the Inquisition to kill their enemies and that allowed the greatest cruelties during the conquest of America. "

" black legend built to weaken the power of the House of Austria , but when it comes its decline after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the argument is a Spain surrendered to the darkness of the papacy to the advancement of the Enlightenment. late nineteenth century, the Anglo-Saxon nations look down on Latinas. The Black Legend was present. "
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The Black Legend , just published Gadir. In the essay explains how to build a speech to the English became the paradigm of fanaticism and cruelty, the dogmatic closure around the flag of Catholicism and the pure desire for domination using springs of a powerful state.

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XXI century walls

In this twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, is a good time to take a look at the actual walls in the world are. Makes Nicole Muchnik in a recent article, following the census conducted by the geographer Michel Foucher, published in Montreal La Presse. Censa 17 walls with a total of 7,500 miles that they will reach 18,000 km when finished. But there are some more.

1. The wall that separates Israel from Palestine outside the official route of the border (get to enter up to 24 miles to include Israeli settlements). When completed, 10% of the West Bank will be on the Israeli side and isolated from the West Bank. Cost the Israeli government over a million dollars per kilometer, with concrete walls eight feet, with control towers every 300 meters, surrounded by ditches six feet deep, barbed wire fences and roads. Has been condemned by the International Court of Justice.

2. The former Friendship Park or Friendship Park, a few miles from San Diego, between Mexico and the United States, replaced by three parallel walls five meters high. U.S. Begun in 1994, a metal wall a third of its border with Mexico.

3. In the mid 90's the English government raised 8.2 kilometers of fence in Ceuta and Melilla 12. Melilla The Wall was fortified in 2005 to curb migration flow from Africa to Europe, a fence up to six meters, complete with skeins of barbed wire between the two walls, which had "concertinas"-eliminated in 2007 -, or blades, in the upper inner fence separating Melilla from Morocco and caused horrific injuries.

4. The Great Wall Morocco, raised in the desert in 1980 to prevent raids by the Polisario Front, which claims the territory. Two rows of sand embankments along of 2,720 kilometers, reinforced military checkpoints, walls of stone and sand up to 2.5 meters high, with barbed wire, minefields, and ditches. It takes about 120,000 soldiers to guard this sandbar, the maintenance costs two million dollars per year.

5. Saudi Arabia The built since 2007, to guard against terrorists in Yemen in the south and in northern Iraq, the latest barrier along its border. Equipped with a sophisticated radar surveillance system, able to capture any intrusion by land, sea or air along its 9,000 kilometers and cost about 10,000 million dollars.

6. The green line that divides the island of Cyprus and its capital . 180 kilometers is patrolled by peacekeepers UN is impassable and prevents any normal relationship between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots.

7. Those in cities like Baghdad separating the Sunni Shia communities . The U.S. military in 2007 began building a barrier of 5 kilometers long and 3.6 meters high in the Iraqi capital, surrounding the district of Adhamiya.

8. Which has risen in the city Padua, Italy, to isolate an African immigrant neighborhood.

9. The fact that the regional government of Rio de Janeiro (home of the Olympic Games in 2016) started lifting last March to hedge some favelas. Plans to build 11 kilometers of walls.

10. The 88 walls that are known by the euphemism of Peace Lines in Belfast, that dismantle the city walls that neither Catholics nor Protestants want to bring down, because the fear remains.

11. The range of 4 kilometers wide and 250 long divides North Korea and South Korea since the end of the war between the two countries in 1953. Is the demilitarized zone.

12. electrified barrier that Botswana installed in 2003, under the pretext of preventing the passage of a supposedly sick cattle from FMD from Zimbabwe, in fact to keep out the thousands of migrants trying to reach a richer Botswana. A barbed wire fence of 2.5 meters high and 500 kilometers long.

13. The Wall India and Pakistan (both with nuclear weapons) separated by walls and barbed wire about half of their common border (2,900 miles).

14. The Wall Kashmir. Five hundred miles of fence extending along the disputed Line of Control in Kashmir controlled by India.

15. The Wall India and Bangladesh. India is building along its 4,000 km border with Bangladesh, a security fence.


16. The Wall Iran and Pakistan. On its border with Pakistan, Iran is building a concrete wall about three feet thick and over 3 meters tall.

17. The Wall Iraq and Kuwait. The barrier is 190 kilometers and was built at the end of the first Gulf War by order of the Security Council of the UN. This is an electrified fence with barbed wire, sand walls and ditches.

18. The Wall Uzbekistan. In the north, a large barbed wire fence separates it from Kisrguistán. In the south, an electrified wire (380 volts) and minefields covering part of the border with Afghanistan.

19. The Wall Thailand and Malaysia. In the 70 two governments agreed to build concrete walls topped with wire along part of their common border. Since 2007, Thailand built a wall of 75 kilometers.

20. Brunei The Wall. Brunei is building a security fence along its 20-kilometer border with Limbang Malaysian region.

21. The Wall Egypt and Gaza. Separation at the Rafah crossing between the Palestinian Gaza and Egypt was built by Egyptian and Israeli governments after the peace treaty that both countries signed in 1979.

22. The ghettos volunteers for fear of robbers, terrorists, youth. as gated communities, gated communities in the United States, designed to preserve a lifestyle that might offend the sensibilities of the inhabitants of troubled neighborhoods that surround them. There are over a hundred around Los Angeles, watched 24 hours a day.

23. The virtual fence 45 kilometers Boeing has built between Mexico and Arizona , not a physical wall but qualifies as a wall, using thermal sensors, motion detectors and surveillance radars. (The National Security Agency United States estimates that the cost of securing the borders, between now and 2015 will be 178,000 million dollars).