Francisca

 Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. Today I'll write about a subject I've enjoyed studying this semester. One of the subjects that I've most enjoyed in this first semester has been Aesthetics and Artistic Modernity. Generally, what we did in class was analyzed texts and artworks to understand modern poetic and aesthetic debates of the period. For that, we analyzed with the teacher, authors like   Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Valéry, Guy de Maupassant, and one of the most important, Charles Baudelaire with his text  The Painter of Modern Life;  and also artworks like The Balcony, Luncheon on the Grass  by Manet, and The Orchestra at the Opera by Degas. In summary, the main contents that we have seen are modernity, literature, and artworks of modernity. And about why I liked this subject I can say that I liked it because, quite simply, I think it is a fascinating topic. This subject helped me to understand the art production after modernity; for example, the artistic production of

 Hello everyone, welcome to my blog! Today I'll write about the website Google Arts & Culture. Google Arts & Culture is a website that allows us to explore museum collections from different countries through high-quality images of artworks. The website also allows us to explore historical and cultural sites through the street view of Google Maps. Another section that is so funny about Google Arts & Culture is the game section, where there are games like cultural crosswords, visual crosswords, puzzles, or questionnaires such as What came first? I visit the site frequently because I always look there for the paintings, sculptures, or any artwork mentioned in the classes, and so I can see all details of the artworks. And that is why I like the site because I can get information about art and culture, and I can see the images on the website, which are also of good quality.  If you're interested in Google Arts & Culture, here you have the link: https://artsandculture