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martes, 19 de mayo de 2009 |
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| La Carta by Pedro Lira |
I saw this picture for the first time when I was really young, I was around 4 or 5 years old. When I lived in Concepción my parents usually made picnics in the parks of the Universidad de Concepción on the weekends, only if it was a sunny day, because in the south it rains a lot.
In the University there's a small museum of pictures or Pinacoteca, that's open even in the weekends.
So, after we had lunch in the park, we went to the Pinacoteca to see the pictures. There's a room full of pictures by Chilean artists, and there it was La Carta by Pedro Lira.
It's a really old picture, painted in the XIX century, and it shows and aristrocratic woman that is away from the viewer perspective, so you can't see her face. She's holding a letter behind her, trying to hide it from someone that's opening her door. We can't read the letter, because it's too blurry, and we can't see who's entering the room, so everything it's mysterious.
I really like this picture because the woman is faceless, we can't see if she's crying, or scared, or even smiling playfully. I like to think that she has a secret that's she's trying to hide, and she's really scared, because the person that it's opening the door it's going to find out about it. Maybe she has a secret lover, and her father doesn't know, and by seeing the clothes that she is wearing, she belongs to a time where single women coudn't have unofficial boyfriends, they had boyfriends imposed by their parents. So it's a very romantic picture.
I love that pictures allow people to interprete what they're seeing, people can make their own stories.
Pedro Lira was one of the founders of the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago, and was the first Chilean artist to paint a retrait from another perspective, from the back of the person.
This artist was really revolutionary in Chilean painting, because he could tell a whole storie, show thousands of emotions without showing the face of the person he was painting. This established that artists don't have to paint faces to send a message.
If you want to see this picture, you need to go to the Museo de Bellas Artes, where the original painting is, and it's free on sundays! I go once in a while to see the new exhibitions and the old paintings like La Carta, that even after many years, I still like, and everytime I see it I find new beautifuls details.
Or you can travel to Concepción to see a copy of it, and you can enjoy a really nice walk around the parks and hills of the Universidad de Concepción, one of the most beautiful university campuses in Chile.Etiquetas: arte |
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I quite agree with you on the mystery in this painting.
Attention: womAn (singular), womEn (plural). And remember, all nationality adjectives are written with a capital (big) initial, ex. Chilean.
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I quite agree with you on the mystery in this painting.
Attention: womAn (singular), womEn (plural). And remember, all nationality adjectives are written with a capital (big) initial, ex. Chilean.