Category: Arts & Culture
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K-pop and feeding into unhealthy fan delusions for profit
The disheartening case of RIIZE’s Seunghan Imagine being a middle schooler and receiving several offers from multiple entertainment companies – including one of South Korea’s most renowned and reputable agencies that has fostered the biggest names in K-pop. Imagine training for two and a half years at this company, with people all around the world […]
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INDULGING IN NOSTALGIA
It’s raining outside, and the textbooks are almost menacing in the dim light. It’s a normal, predictable autumn day, and all I can feel is nostalgia—nostalgia for my family, my home, for another time. What is nostalgia? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as “a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some […]
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A duel of chess: Cinematography vs. The Human Mind
Ever since the beginning of time, art has been the most expressive human mechanism to treasure important events and permanently preserve profound emotions. It serves not only as a keeper of memories, but also as an active mean of identification and self-exploration. The art of cinematography offers a combination of visual and speech characteristics of […]
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ODE TO ALMODOVAR
I was just 13 when I fell in love with Almodovar after watching “Talk to her”. As long as I can remember, cinema was one of the most important aspects of my life, never merely a pastime. Since then, few directors have resonated with me as deeply as Pedro Almodovar. I hope to pay at […]
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WHEN I KNOW YOUR SOUL, I WILL PAINT YOUR EYES
How often do you pay attention to people’s eyes? Apart from cryptic rhetoric quotes, and fabled, belittling narratives: how much interest do you truly reserve to stares, quick glances and unspoken vocabulary? Paris, 1906. A 22 years old Amedeo Modigliani lands in the French capital, eager to prove himself to established revolutionaries and conquer fame […]
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Why poets cannot be lovers
To the artists, While I am aware that the title might be melodramatic, I hope after reading a few lines of this personal take on love and art it will cease to seem as tragic. With this article, I wish nothing more but to pose some questions about the role art holds in the lives we […]
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Music and Dance
by Anna Dalaidi The 20th century society was complex and full of controversies: dynamic and stagnant, rebellious but still deeply obsolete, rampant while on the verge of collapsing. During the first decades of the 1900s, the so-called artistic avant-garde depicted the tense climate of uncertainty and unstoppable change by breaking the traditional rules of academicism, […]
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Art and EMotions: Why does art make you feel?
In fact, why do we know what Art is anyways? What is Art? What are feelings? A shitton of questions are present here, let’s slowly delve into them. Humans are notoriously different in our ability to perceive beauty, art, and symbolism. We are also unique in our capabilities to understand morality. No other animal can […]
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The Rise of Digital Art: The Link Between Digital Technology and Artistic Expression
The digital age of art was initiated in the 60s, when artists slowly began to apply digital art techniques to television, computers, and other mediums. This had an enormous impact not only on painting but also on sculpture, music, movies, and video. Digital art started to be used for advertising websites, roadside billboards, and illustrations, […]
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The Cold of the War and Womanhood – a Dive into the Past and Emergence in the Present
Why is it that when a car crash happens or when we see a video of a guy on the verge of falling and most likely injuring at least half of his body we can’t look away? Unfortunately, I cannot answer this particular question, however, I will try to show you how it links to […]
