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Editorial
A smile costs nothing, but it is worth a lot.
Something comes to us that we do not understand through our senses or our imagination. The brain, meeting various requirements (mood, information, training, principles, etc.), processes what we receive and if the neurons decide that it is funny, endorphins are released, we feel pleasure and everything ends in loud laughter, perhaps with gestures and perhaps tears in the eyes; or simply in a wide smile, where many lips are stretched showing the teeth, or with joined lips, or with an internal smile; That is to say, nothing is shown externally, but one enjoys it as if it were.
"Caricature is a way of seeing life with humor and reflection"
Today this section dresses up again. We are going to “dialogue” with a great, among the greats. The Colombian-Spanish cartoonist Omar Figueroa Turcios, or simply “Turcios”, as he signs his works.
Some brief information for the few comedians who may not know him: he has... obtained around 100 international awards and distinctions / held countless exhibitions around the world / published in newspapers and magazines in a few countries / been a jury member and speaker on many occasions.
Growing old with humor – Marcelo Lawry - Argentina
Marcelo Lawryczenco is known by the nickname "Lawry". Born in Laguna Paiva - Santa Fe (1945). The son of immigrant parents (his father is Ukrainian and his mother is Polish), he studied at School No. 688 and the National School. He became interested in drawing and painting and began his first steps as a self-taught artist in humorous drawing.
Visual humor: Sculptures made with scrap metal
I want to tell you about the work of the American artist Brian Mock, based in Oregon, who has an imaginative way of reusing pieces of scrap metal such as screws, nuts, bolts, forks, spoons, among many others, and fusing them to create striking metal sculptures of different shapes. animals. Bears, dogs, cats and many more are reinvented as futuristic life-size statues.
Humors of the world – A world of humors | Ethiopia
Ethiopia is the country that we learned was mystical, because the legendary Prestes João das Indias ruled there, in addition to being the territory where the most primitive version of Christianity persists, however, due to its geopolitical situation it has been a field of multiple battles, sowing misery , horror and oppression. Is there humor there? Of course there is humor where there is a man in his right mind. Will there be cartoons? I discovered that yes, some exiled, others living there, with all the difficulties inherent to oppression. I contacted several but none responded and if I write this chronicle it is with records of interviews found on the internet.
Oh, humor, oh, humor | Praise of the clown
I just had a beer in a bar and the waitress, after I made a joke when paying, gave me, without her knowing it, the best of compliments: “You're a bit of a clown,” she told me affectionately. I say affectionately because there are many who, ignorant of what clown means, use it pejoratively, as a throwing weapon.
Creativity and Humor
In his The Act of Creation (1964), Arthur Koestler suggests that there are three types of creativity:
Type I: Artistic originality:
A work of art is a distortion of reality that ranges from Dadaism to realism, as follows:
Dada | abstract expressionism | Cubism | Surrealism | Impressionism (pointilism) | Expressionism | Realism
Exhibition "Mestizo" by Arístides Hernández (Ares)
It's time to come together
Ares has the constant and imperative need to create, the (quasi) infinite capacity to work. That's why he usually wakes up in the middle of the morning and wastes no time trying to fall asleep, going up to his study and continuing with any of the tasks that he had left unfinished hours before. And so, many times he is surprised by the dawn drawing, painting, sketching, writing, reading, searching for information. Neither awards, recognition or praise cajole him. As far as creation is concerned, it seems that his fate was summed up in the verses of one of Rolling Stone's best-known songs I can't get no satisfaction / 'Cause I try, and I try, and I try , and I try…
Milestones in the History of Humor
Personal caricature
Review: In the visual arts it is a satirical portrait in which someone's features and appearance are deformed, exaggerating their external features and revealing their prominent internal features. Caricature also appears in the design of certain characters in literary works and the performing arts.
Date: He was born in Bologna at the end of the 16th century, in the art school founded by the Carracci. The students of this academy had fun making portraits of visitors in the appearance of animals or inanimate objects. This practice came to be shared by the sculptor and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598—1680). In Spain, certain works by the painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) have overtones of strong caricature.
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"Good humor is, in most happy people, the satisfactory result of tenacious discipline".
(Edwin Percy WIPPLE)
Posthumous Tribute
In this period they have left us:
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