Pentru Ellul, propaganda este eficientă deoarece se bazează pe ceea ce un individ are deja înrădăcinat în sistemul său de valori. Propaganda nu încearcă să schimbe convingerile oamenilor, ci să le exploateze pentru a-i determina să acționeze într-un anumit fel. Autorul oferă o analogie pentru a explica modul în care funcționează propaganda. Acesta...

René Magritte, unul dintre cei mai importanți artiști ai secolului XX, a fost un pictor belgian, reprezentant de frunte al suprarealismului.

Rainer Maria Rilke a fost un poet austriac care a trăit în perioada 1875-1926, fiind considerat unul dintre cei mai importanți scriitori germani ai secolului al XX-lea. Opera sa este caracterizată de eleganța stilului, de sensibilitatea lirică și de profunzimea gândirii.

The Consolation of Philosophy is a philosophical and literary masterpiece composed in 523 AD while he was unjustly imprisoned due to a false charge of treason against King Theodoric. [1] In this work, he reflects on the human condition and the role of philosophy in providing comfort and wisdom in the face of adversity. He presents his thoughts as...

Fondator al neoplatonismului, Plotin definește frumusețea ca fiind o expresie a principiului suprem al realității, Unul. Conform acestuia, "Unul este totul și nimic din toate; nu este o parte din toate, ci este toate, fără să fie nimic din ele. [VI.9.6]. Unul nu este ființă, ci sursa ființei. [VI.9.3]. El nu este frumos, ci mai presus de frumos."...

Henri Biva (23 January 1848 – 2 February 1929) was a French artist, known for his landscape paintings and still lifes. He focused primarily on the western suburbs of Paris, painting outdoors in the plein-air tradition; his style ranged between Post-Impressionism and Realism with a strong Naturalist component. Biva's pictures are characterized...

Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees. The works reflect the influence of...

The Baptism of Christ is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca. Painted in egg tempera on two panels of poplar wood, the dating is controversial – some give it a very early date, perhaps 1439; others much later, around 1460. It is held by the National Gallery, London.

Born in 1744 on the banks of the Bièvre near the Seine, Vallayer-Coster was one of four daughters born to a goldsmith of the royal family et compagnon des Gobelins.[3] One could assume that the artist's family tapestry business had some influence on her interest and skill in the art. Many of her paintings were indeed copied into tapestries by...

Guido Reni (Italian pronunciation: [ˌɡwiːdo ˈrɛːni]; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but also mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome,...

Location: The National Gallery, London

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𝘓𝘰 𝘥ı̀ 𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘰 𝘢' 𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘤𝘪 𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘪 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘰. (𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦)
𝘈𝘮𝘰𝘳, 𝘤𝘰𝘯 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘻𝘰 𝘰𝘨𝘨𝘪 𝘮𝘪 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪! (𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩)
𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶: -
𝘖𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘵, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯,
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴...

Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 - 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best-documented woman painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

Este vorba de bunul meu prieten, domnul Iulian Stancu, unul dintre cei mai enigmatici artiști contemporani români pe care l-aș putea asemăna, oricând, în mod indubitabil, cu Ștefan Luchian sau chiar cu Ipolit Strâmbu (pictori monument despre care am scris, cu multă dăruire, în urmă cu ceva ani).

Fericirea, fără îndoială, poartă însemnele Sacralităţii, determinându-te să te reverşi dincolo de graniţele propriei fiinţe. Flux, continuitate, expansionism, uniune - astfel se caracterizează fericirea. Intuitiv, s-ar putea vorbi atât despre fericirea colectivă, cât şi despre cea individuală, punându-se problema dacă se întrepătrund sau se...

Pieter Claesz (c. 1597 - 1 January 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes. He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620, where his son, the landscape painter Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born.

For all this nyght thou hast me kepe
From the fend and his poste,
Whether I wake or that I slepe.

• https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/