The battle of Steinbeck

This essay is about the romance of John Steinbeck In doubt battle, that I consider a true exemple of American realism, in contest that would be political and ideological, but it is betrayed because author described live, common live of workers with difficulties and poverty, certainly, but ideological question is very marginal, battle of class of workers is alone mentioned some time, nothing is present to a declaration with political intentions; therefore Steinbeck avoids connection with socialism at his time, this is 1936, when certainly socialism was bordered alone in some country, and when economical condition of USA was certainly much precarious, therefore condition of entrepreneurs not was certainly richest; therefore the realism is present to description of human conditions of worker, but Steinbeck, so that his history has sense, he must exaggerate comments and conditions, that certainly could be may in conformity with description of Steinbeck but with much romanticized intent, and finally with very small ideological share; therefore now in Steinbeck follows his realism and description of irrelevant moment of live, that in his romance are part integral his style, that isn’t never thrown to big history or great themes, but contrary he takes always middle and down subject, because he describes with realism that he seen and sees, therefore great question aren’t also in this romance, that from a strike it become a daily description.

Alessandro Lusana             

Anomalous

George entered in office and lighted the light, he seen around strange masks of men with three eyes and two mouths, they seemed cubist painting, George took a paper on the table and red strange characters, strange writes, signs that seem Assyrian very old, strange signs that he red very speed, and after he called his secretary: “Lucy”, and arrived a woman with four hands and snakes on the head, she seemed Medusa, three eyes and a tail; he looked this woman and asked time, and this woman: “Now is half day”, and he seen through window and he seen that dark was very deep, and he answered: “Very good” and she gone out, he took phone and this was silent not rumour or other sign, he begun talk without number and he talked for 35 minutes, and he worked a business very important, after he written on the paper a letter and he used strange signs, a strange language neither European not actual, he called again his secretary and he asked that that letter was send, he called his dog that arrived to call, he has three head like Cerberus, and George given a cookie. Day after George slept in hotel and when he awaked he seen light of day, and he goggle eyes, he got down  by bet, opened window and he seen around and he seen much persons on the road, normal persons, and he called immediately a chambermaid that gone soon and she called orders; he looked chambermaid and much astonish asked time, and she answered: “8:00 AM lord”, and he looked again her and asked breakfast, she gone out and he continued looking around, white wall, bet without cobweb and  holes, he opened very slowly the door and looked passageway and he asked continually himself: “Where do I am now? Here all is strangest”, and he after eaten breakfast he gone out by hotel and he walked on the road and he looked persons with goggle eyes, dog with one head and persons with alone two hands, two eyes and hear. He walked all day and after he gone back to hotel, and he slept all night, day after he opened eyes and he seen dark, opened window and same dark, therefore he calmed and he seen bats and snakes  and women with two or three heads and sex or seven hands, three eyes and other, he entered in office and seen again his habit, therefore called his secretary and asked a drink, she carried it and before gone out she asked: “Excuse me, I have a question”, and George looked her and: “Yes”, and she: “How is the word?”, and he: “Don’t ask, please, don’t ask it! Anomalous, very anomalous!”. 

Alessandro Lusana

                         

To smell

Albert was a person very hurried, he hasn’t time to nothing, to love, to talk, alone to business, to amuse and other, in fact he not was married and he has had alone some rapport with women, but alone to business, and he not would it, he was habited to lead and to command, he not permitted errors and he would that everything was right in conformity with his orders, with women he has very little rapports and he would command also on female sex, he aren’t a male chauvinist, but he would that women were subordinate to men. Like every morning he gone to office, the investments don’t wait certainly Albert, during a night possible that you become very rich or very poor, and Albert known it perfectly, therefore he would be always first in his job, in his task and in gain. A morning he gone back by Europe and he arrived in airport very early, and he thought soon to office and other businesses that were present and important; he entered in office and since was very early nobody was present, he opened his office and closed door but he didn’t see where he was, and he raised eyes and he looked his office, lighted and set, suddenly he smelled a scent, very fragrance and very good, a perfume that he didn’t smelled never; he raise immediately head to follow this perfume and opened door and he looked a female figure that approached to him and looked in the office, this female looked around in the office, looked computer and she asked: “Quid est istum?”, Albert very astonish, above all to dress of woman that seems very distant by his contemporary: very large skirt and white all, large sleeve, he didn’t seen feet, she seems walk without feet; Albert thought that she come there by a fancy dress parade, but language was very strange, in fact he asked: “What do you have asked?”, and woman looked attentively Albert and: “Quid tu demandis?”, Albert begun to worry because he thought that she was a crazy and dangerous, he took his mobile phone and called police, but in phone he had strange answers and with strange language that he didn’t understood, he closed call, and: “What’s your name?”, woman was looking around and asked: “Quid est instrumentum quid habes?”, Albert turned suddenly and he seen that a light and two voices approached, therefore he gone out by office and: “Jeremy and Robert, please here soon, on the contrary now!”, two policemen approached to Albert’s office and he indicated soon woman and: “Arrested immediately this woman”, and policemen: “Yes, but what woman?”, Albert looked two policemen and indicated with high voice: “This”, but policemen looked around and: “Mister, are you good state?”, and Albert: “Certum est istum!”, and policemen: “What?”, and Albert very astonish: “Nothing, excuse me, you can go out”, therefore policemen made it. Albert switch on computer and seen on desktop that woman said: “I am waiting you, do you will move or not?”, Albert goggle eyes, and what do you make there?”, and woman: “Open the door and come here, soon!”, Albert obeyed immediately, he opened the door and he was in a gallery with much painting on the wall with much figures, and woman next him that looked and: “You are true disaster, on the contrary, you are disgust, where do you have bought this dress, so poor and squalid, very popular, Albert looked woman and: “Do you think? I recognize that to fancy dress parade is very elegant and formal”, woman ignored words of Albert and she looked his dress, and: “You are very disgusting, I have hoped that you could be better than so, also your behaviour is very popular, anyway, you are very ignorant; do you know Latin language?” and Albert: “No certainly!”, and woman: “Anyway you must be silent and hear that I will say, do you understand?”, and Albert: “Yes”, and they gone away in the gallery, first figure woman stopped Albert and: “This figure is the Acknowledge, she has four hands and four ears because it means that a wise man must know hear and work, and hear other advices”, they walked away and: “This is the Prudence, she has a gold helmet it  means intelligence of prudent man, with wise advices, the garland mulberry  means that prudent man works ahead and with intelligence, the mirror means that prudent man works his actions after that he known his defect and to right these” , and so they gone to all figure, and when they ended woman opened a door and entered in; Albert felt immediately and great sleep and he failed in the gallery. When he awaked he was in office and had a call by secretary that asked to go immediately to new boss of company; Albert righted his dress and gone immediately, he knocked and entered, boss was set to back and Albert waited orders; she turned and Albert recognized same woman of gallery, he looked goggle eyes and kneeled and with bended hand: “Madame”, and she: “Do you understand information and advices that you have had?”, and Albert: “Yes Madame!” and woman: “Now you can go”, and Albert gone out with great surprise, he walked in front of his secretary that looked him, he stopped before entered in office and he gone back to secretary, that got up immediately, he did hand-kissing his secretary, and: “Madame, good morning”, she looked Albert and: “Are you good state Mister?” and Albert: “Yes Madame, very good; dulce die tibi sit pulchra femina”, and entered in office, secretary called immediately boss and: “Hello, I think that you have exaggerated”, and boss: “Why?”, and secretary: “Because he is very changed, too may”, and boss: “Love, you must advise him, remember that you are the Prudence”.

Alessandro Lusana                        

Antonio Carneo: opposite direction

This essay has to subject a painter very unknown this is Antonio Carneo(1637-1692), a painter that lived in venetian land, and may he come in Rome; this hypothesis is very possible because in his paintings are present some references to Roman painter, Andrea Sacchi(Fig.1) and naturalism that he has seen perhaps in paintings of Caravaggio(Figg.2-4) also Guido Reni(Figg.5-6) and his Emilia naturalism, and we can’t forgotten Giovan Francesco Barbieri called Guercino; Italian critic of art history says that colour of Venetian has influenced painter culture of Emilia Romagna, it is true because Venetian colour has took also Emilia, but now “opposite direction” of title means that the naturalism of Carneo(Figg.7-8) is Roman and Emilian, therefore Venice has given colour to Emilia and also to Rome, but alone to some painters and little time, and Rome and Emilian have given naturalism to Venice, land that has had some moment of natural painter but little naturalist, as Bassano family, painters that used naturalism but they were alone a moment and with same subject fair and animals; more over the brush of Carneo is certainly took by Fetti, Italian painter of 17^th century from Genoa, but some posture is from Andrea Mantegna and Sacchi, the Death of Christ(Fig.9)of Mantegna has inspired certainly posture for Cleopatra, and Saint Ann(Fig10) of Sacchi has inspired posture of Lucretia(Fig.11), and to posture of Madeleine(Fig.12), he has seen posture of Saint Francis(Fig.13) of Luca Giordano in Galleria Colonna, Rome; therefore Carneo takes much models and as each painter he uses in conformity his need.

Alessandro Lusana     

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Egalitè

I hope that French revolutionaries forgive me for this resumption of a saying, that here is very partial, because it should be Libertè Egalitè Fraternitè, principal saying of French revolution at 1789, but I take these words for other motive, this is that equality of title is to political men and their strategy; read of Plutarch this is Advises to political men, is a book at 1th century after Christ, and are very much descriptions of  strategy to policy, first is oratory and Plutarch gives advises about human gender and his reaction about some character of people, one exemple, Plutarch when he says about to people and reaction when somebody wants leads it: the people not wants certainly to lead by somebody, and is very much if this people undergoes voice and figure of leader… and: policy man must ovoid reproaches and scandals because the people is very curious about his private life besides public life , how he eats, and what he eats, how is his marry and his loves…; this seems read a new papers today, and for this question an episode is very remarkable, a Roman political man, Livy Druso that answered to an artisan that has had proposed to open doors to a late of home so that nobody sees his live, and this work would be costed five sesterces, and Livy said: I will give to you then sesterces if you make my home transparent so that everybody cans look my life; and Plutarch adds that: “The people looks also and above all character, thinks, actions and life of men, and their private life is motive to agree and hate and contempt…I don’t think that somebody not hated a policy man alone for this character or defect, therefore political man must be as centuries ago; this is possible because people leaded by a political man is same to every time and century.

Alessandro Lusana  

  

What is art

A judge entered in court and he set on bench and he red some pages, after he seen some town of court and he seen in front, and he seen much persons that were set and he asked: “Who are one part and second part?”, therefore one man with white shirt and long sleeve answered so: “I am one part asserts that art is borne for an economical question, and therefore is also an economical matter, because…”and other person by back: “You are lying, art is alone motive of spirit, and economical question is alone marginal”, and first person commented: “You are right, in fact artist lived alone for air, and somebody abused it and died!”, and other person: “Do you have ended shit?”, therefore other person looked intensely and with goggle eyed answered: “I will take off my knife and I will make dissection”, and first person: “You don’t would manage to cut a tomato, also because you are a smear cloth”, therefore the second person took off a knife and he advanced to first person and he knifed first person that rested on feet and looked his hurt and after looked second person, and: “Do you need of red colour?”, and first person: “Do you have it?”, and other: “Yes you can imitate very intense red of Caravaggio, but you must take this blood otherwise it will finish”.  And other painter: “Yes but Caravaggio eaten sometime?”, and first: “It is possible, because usually who doesn’t eats dies, therefore I think that he has eaten during his life”, and second painter: “Therefore he has bought bread and other, or not?”, and first: “Yes”, and other: “Therefore he has gained with his job and his painting, or not?”, and first: “Certainly! But his job was determined also by his spirit, this is his love to painting; question now if painting is alone job or will and ideal; to your think is present gain alone, but art is other also, and you don’t considering it; painting is certainly a job, but first it is translation of human gender and human idea”, and second: “Yes as literature, poetry and music that in fact are arts”, and first: “Yes, in fact arts are alone translation of human spirit, because all is determined by human spirit”, and first: “What do you mean to spirit?”, and first: “It is conception and think of human gender, that is took alone by society, and by human life, by habit that is determined by spirit; every painter has seen around the society, and has took that was necessary , therefore panting is representation of human habit, human gender with his behaviours and expression, that every artist showed in conformity to his conception and think, therefore arts are social document of century also”, and second: “Why?”, and first: “Because a moment has his think, habit and behaviour, and all is representable, but artist takes alone the necessities for a translation of human gender, but it is also a social document that we can hair, for music, see for painter, and tell for literature and poetry”, and second: “It is very philosophical think, but what do we can eat?”, and first: “Art is passion, spirit and all is intended for gain, but it is second motive, because art is alone translation of human spirit; therefore isn’t alone for money, because other jobs are certainly much profitable but men make also other, and our life is also other”, and second: “Other job?”, and first: “You continue don’t understand, not other job, but alone other spirit, that makes arts and sciences, that much towns in the word is very developed but other not absolutely, because is other towns it isn’t necessary, here is necessary painting, music and poetry also sciences but other towns spirit doesn’t thinks necessary it, therefore arts and science are determined by spirit”. Judge closed discussion and also court.

Alessandro Lusana                           

Guido cagnacci or natural classicism

This essay is very strange because it unifies two words that haven’t sense if they are took together, because in artistic critic it is very strange, nature is contrary always to the classicism, one is ideal form of body and other is very nature also very unsightly, it is sufficient to consider Caravaggio(Fig.1) and Andrea Sacchi(Fig.2), two Italian painters of 17^th century in Rome, and we can see what are differences, very radical for real nature of Caravaggio and beauty of Sacchi, very charming to form and elegance; therefore Guido Cagnacci(1601-1663) unifies these cultural address, he used naturalism with very charming elegance, he painted with much refinement, he paints his body with much definition but, Death of Cleopatra(Figg.3-4) are two version of same episode but they are joined by same think, this is same elegance and natural version of body; light is same and it is possible that Cagnacci seen during his Roman period, he has seen Sacchi and baroque culture of light, he took his of same country Guido Reni, and also Paolo Caliari called Veronese, that he has took to Glory of saints Mercuriale and Valeriano(Fig.5), but to this painting cagnacci used same classical elegance and refuses almost totally nature, although it is present, but it is a very cleaned naturalism, all is fine and figures are clear and very fine to elegance; The kidnapping of Europe(Fig.6) is manifest of this concept, two moments are together, one is natural definition of bull and other is classical body of Europe, two moment but a painting alone, now Cagnacci seems he distinguished two addresses that usually are united, at last to his painter and style. Anyway he has very importance because he made a compensation between classical and natural.

Alessandro Lusana 

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