Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
In XIX century there was a wonderful artistic movement called Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood that as main represent the painter Dante Gabriele Rossetti and the movement began in 1848 in the England.

The artistic movement was a reaction against the academic art classic that learned in the time. The name the group was a protest because they believed the real art was that before the Italian painter Rafael.
When I’ve knew the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, I`ve loved it!

Biography Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo is a great artist. Her pictures are very strong like her life. Frida has a art surrealist but her pictures shows about herself, especially her suffering.

Magdalena Carmen Frieda Caldéron was born in six of July in 1907. Her parents were called: Matilde e Guilherme Kahlo. When she was six years old, Frida had poliominite, this sick deformed her forever. That reason who she since younger wear longs exotic dresses to hide her legs.

Frida studied to Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, in 1922 and She was one of thirty –five girls to 2000 students in the total. Frida would like biology, especially medicine. In the time she had a socialist group. And they met to speak about revolution, music (as Jazz) and games.
In 17 of September in 1925, Frida suffering a terrible accident that event had influence in her pictures. In the hospital she began paint very much but also its fact had terrible consequences like she was serious wounded in the spine and the pelvis and never could had children.

In 1928 Frida Kahlo had friends (many revolutionary friends) like Tina Modotti and through her Frida knew the painter Diego Rivera who she married with 1929 (he was twenty years older than her). They went to United States in 1930 because Diego got a job in New York. In this time, Frida was pregnancy, but she lost the baby. She paints about this in many pictures and draws like the picture the Hospital Henry Ford (1932).

They both went back to Mexico in 1933. This time she was disappointed with him because he had a romance with Cristina (Frida’s sister). Diego was her won, but she had many cases with men and women; after this she left him and they divorced in 1939. This phase she worked very much.

In 1940 Frida had a infection in her right hand and She went to San Francisco to treatment. There Frida met Diego and they married again. In the same year Kahlo had fame like painter and She conquest the artistic public. Ten year after, Frida lost fingers and three years after, She lost her right leg because manys pains. She stayed with depression and She died in 1954 for pneumonia.

She wrote in year who died who She would hope to die and to wants it and who She never would to return again.

Valsa Nº6 – The Play By Nelson Rodrigues

direct by Clara Carvalho

Valsa nº 6 is a monologue have written by Nelson Rodrigues and It´s a fantastic surrealist play. The story is about : the girl Sônia and the beginner happens when Sônia doesn´t remember about herself only who music called : Valsa Nº 6 ( the real life calls “ Valsa do Minueto” opus nº 64 by Chopin) and during the story She plays the music in the piano many times.

Direct by Cynthia Paulino

In the play her memories happens in fragments and Sônia represents others characters like her father, her mother and Doctor Junqueira and the plays shows the Sônia`s age: 15 years old and during the story the main character has conflicts in relation the change the childhood to teenager. In the final She remembers who She have kissed a boy called Paulo.

Margareth Klein Actress
In the second and last act the plays shows the Sônia`s funeral and tells about the probably murder Doctor Junqueira who was the Sônia `s lover and killed her while She plays the Valsa nº6 in the piano and the plays speaks who Sônia never will kwon who She is dead. The final is very “ Rodriguiano” style and the play is the very nice surrealist theater work.

Second decade of twentieth century (Fashion)

Second decade of twentieth century

The women fashions changed so much in the time, especially after the First World War. When the women began to work and in the time fashion designer like Channel were very important for world fashion (there is a new film with Audrey Tautou as Channel).
In this time the fashion had short dresses, skirts and hair. And the make-up was very characteristic especially in silent cinema’s stars, the make-up combined with their dramatic eyes. Others highlights were their little shoes, and their hat. There was a change between the first and the second decade of twentieth century, in the way it was the great crash time in the women fashion.
Till today the second decade exists in the world of mode, it was a time of a sexual revolution and women started to wear their history.

Film Review Rosso come il Cielo

Film review — Rosso come il Cielo

The film speaks about education and It`s a special movie not only for this but also the story shows another form to see the things.
Rosso come il Cielo is a truth life story that tells about a boy called: Mirco who loves cinema so much but him life changes when happens an accident with him and he lost the vision So He goes in special school to blinds. In the beginner He sufferings with the adaptation and him teacher takes care him.
In the continuous Mirco shows like a creative boy and creates stories using a song’s recorder. In the journey, he has many friends like his classmates, Francesca (the woman gatekeeper’s daughter) and factory hands of the city. During the film, the young blind’s boy has many obstacles in his adaptation against the traditional system that was the Italian blind’s school in this time. But there, his teacher believes who children could have other and new methods to express their selves to the world.
As an Ethic’s class, this is recommended to everybody, because it has sensibility and a beautiful real story.

Idiomatic expressions

Idiomatic expressions

Don’t judge the book by its cover: that it is never judge the people by appearances

I`m in dark: that it is I don´t understand nothing.

It happens in the best of families : The expression in very common in Brazil or others countries. In Portuguese it means : “ Isso acontece nas melhores famílias"

It`s raining cats and dogs : It`s raining very much!

Film Moulin Rouge
This film shows the bohemian spirit of the first quarter of twentieth century, for this it uses characters like Henri Toulouse Lautrec to represent the bohemian spirit. The movie not only is great musical but also it has a beautiful love story.

Directed by Baz Luhrmann l, Moulin Rouge tells the story of a strange bohemian and romantic boy (Christian) who desires to be a writer, but to write, he wants to understand the love essence. So he knows the (search the bohemian village) Bohemians that desire him to write a play about beauty, freedom, truth and love and he goes to Moulin Rouge to talk with Satine (the main prostitute of the Moulin Rouge) to persuade Harold Ziddler. When he arrives there he knows and falls in love with Satine. But there is a duke (the Duke) who fells in love with her in the same night Satine knows Christian. They both (Satine and Christian) have a prohibit romance while the Duke invests in the play and invests in the Moulin Rouge too (he and Harold do an agreement to transform the brothel in a theater but like payment The Duke wants Satine). The story speaks about secret loves and uses many elements like dance (tango and the modern can-can) and modern songs like Elton John (your song), Nirvana (smell like then spirits) and Queen (the Show Must Go On).