Happiness and sadness are the dominant emotions in the Eighteenth century. Happiness of a renewed freedom of expression, and sadness of not finding a real horizon for this freedom.
The film by Stanley Kubrick has always been controversial. Barry Lyndon (1975) is perhaps the most valued and praised film by the critics and the least loved by the audience, that still today think it is boring. Irrespective of personal taste, no one can deny the absolute technical and formal perfection of the film, in which highly deep topics and reflections are concealed.
Neoclassicism. Let’s forget reassuring atmospheres, idyllic settings and ethereal mythological subjects, that is, all those distinctive elements of the classical language, an evergreen that is periodically revisited in order to express man’s aspiration to a blissful life.
Italy, 1975. Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso saw the light of day. This shocking giallo-horror movie is a «cult» film that proudly withstands the passage of time (it premièred almost half a century ago) and which is a pacesetter (and scary!) still today.
Four songs. Four cities. A sequence that is sufficient in its own to understand the artistic journey of the most famous duo in Synth-pop music.
The opera is one of the key factors to understand the 19th century, the “long century” in which the modern world was shaped.
Space Bruschettas are so good that they could even divert Darth Vader’s attention from his plans to conquer while driving the Star Destroyer.
American art, that unknown art. Some people may remember Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, at least in terms of general knowledge, but with these characters, art is really on the wane.
“Iconic”, that is, relating to an image that strikes the viewer, imposing itself in the collective imagination as a symbol.
The 1970s: years of rock. A creative and turbulent decade, in which many musical genres came to light, some of which are so representative that they identify the very essence of that period.
