✶⋆ English Version On this “4 the Love of Art” occasion we are going to move from the Palaeolithic era and focus on exploring some fascinating rock art produced by pre-Chango cultures, located in the north of Chile. This rock art style is known as El Médano rock art style because of its location. As you…
Spooky Season’s Stories To Read and Comment • Historias de Halloween Para Leer Y Comentar – #SpookyMonstrousReading
✶⋆ English Version “This is Halloween, this is Halloween Pumpkins scream in the dead of night This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat ’til the neighbors gonna die of fright It’s our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween”. Spooky Season is here! Some of you might be enjoying the chill Autumn…
An observation of Handprints in Cueva de las Manos/ Una Observación de las Pinturas de Manos en Cueva de las Manos
✶⋆ English Version A new month is coming, September is here! And today, 4th, it means that a new post from 4t he Love of Art series is coming out! In this second entry from the series, I want to introduce you to a wonderful rock art archaeological site from South America. We will explore an…
The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob
At Oxonmoot 2020, I gave a talk entitled “The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob”. It aimed at analysing two of the most less considered female characters in Tolkien’s works and their possible reading from a feminist perspective. This was the abstract of my talk: “When…
The Cave of Muted Sounds – A Commentary on the Cave of Chauvet / La Cueva de los Sonidos Mudos – Un Comentario Sobre la Cueva de Chauvet
✶⋆ English Version Welcome to the first post from 4 the Love of Art series! I have dedicated this first post to one of the most important archaeological sites in Europe on parietal art, the Chauvet Cave. We will delve into this wonderful world of the Upper Palaeolithic that could perfectly remind us of some…
4 the Love of Art
✶⋆ English Version Have you ever wonder about the origin of art? It was not the Ancient Greeks who started art as we know it today, unlike many popular belief. Art has been a relevant aspect created and developed by humanity. Nor is an exclusive element of sedentary cultures. Hunter-gatherers can travel miles to find…
Bibliographics / Librografías
July is almost over, but not yet. On Instagram, I have been sharing some infographics I have made with information about different authors and their respective work. This type of post had the main aim to generate more discussion over literature. I’m very glad by the welcoming results and interactions that these graphics have generated…
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Fallen Women
This time we are going to imagine ourselves in the Victorian Era. Let’s walk through the dirty streets in the big cities like Manchester or London. We can think of Charles Dickens’s novels as Hard Times. Now, let’s imagine a society of double moral standards. Morality was supposed to be strict, but in reality, people…
Celebrating World Art Day 2021 With Literature and Art
Did you know that today, April 15th, is World Art Day? I am writing this post to celebrate this special day. Art can be present in our daily lives in different forms: in what we look at, how we dress, in the decorative objects that might be part of our house. Art is also straightly…
J.R.R. Tolkien and the Women of his Imagination
Today, March 8th, we celebrate an important day: happy international women’s day! But at the same time, Middle Earth celebrations have not stopped. I decided to write a post commemorating those two special events. I am going to show you what eight female characters from J. R.R. Tolkien’s works taught me. It has always seemed…
