One hundred years ago….there was a “ jigsaw puzzle of a farmer”
Teaching and learning with Kasimir Malevich – By Francesco Carelli ( and Matteo ), Professor of Family Medicine, Milan , Rome
Foreign Gods . The Faces as between Africa, Oceania and Modernists.
Francesco Carelli, University Milan, Rome At Leopold Museum in Vienna, the exhibition “Foreign Gods” allows African and Oceanic art to enter into a dialogue with select works by protagonists of classical Modernism. The presentation calls to mind Europe’s exotic art adventure and its impact on…
Between Pocahontas and the only one surgeon survived
By prof. Francesco Carelli, University Milan, Rome At its height, the British Empire was the largest empire in history and the most influential global power. Originating with a few overseas possessions and trading posts, it grew to encompass dominions, colonies and protectorates rule and administrated…
Artemisia Gentileschi, leading female painter and female rights leader
By Francesco Carelli , University of Milan Two women are holding a man down on a bed. One presses her fist against his head, so he can’t raise it from the mattress, while her companion pins his torso in place. They are well-built with powerful…
Astonishing Monsters – Apocalypse according to Baj
Francesco Carelli – University Milan, Rome The Italian painter Enrico Baj, born in Milan in 1924, graduated in law while attending Brera Academy, founder of the Nuclear Movement was involved in Italian and international avant-garde movements, and from 1950 exhibited his works regularly in Paris. In…
Vivian Maier : the real in everyday banality
Francesco Carelli “For all the dinners are coke, the plates and cups washed, the children sent to school and gone out into the world. All has vanished.. No biography or history has a word to say about it. “ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s…
Play an instrument? You probably react faster, too
Researchers at UdeM’s audiology school find that musicians have faster reaction times than non-musicians – and that could have implications for the elderly.Could learning to play a musical instrument help the elderly react faster and stay alert?
The Nun of Monza – Ecstasy and Grace
Francesco Carelli, University Milan, Rome “I want now to tell what happened to a person, who although had been immoral in the past, afterwards deserved for many years the name of perfect penitent and no less. Because of her sins and severe punishment, she lived…
Wifredo Lam. Painting as act of decolonisation
Francesco Carelli, University Milan, Rome “My painting is an act of decolonisation ” the Cuban artist stated ” not in a physical sense, but in a mental one “. Lam belonged to an extraordinary generation of artists who examined the place of the individual within…
Medical Research in the Movies:
Michelle Muscat
The Decline and Fall of the Sacra Infermeria
Giovanni Bonello