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L’immaginazione abbraccia il mondo | Laura Polo D’Ambrosio | TEDxEsinoLario


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thanks penis I am very happy with
share my experience with you
change in the professional field
in which I have however the story
of art and in particular reading
picture
now it must be said that my first
encounter with the works of art occurred
at the entrance to the grandparents’ house
there were six pictures of landscape there
which were a 30 cm x 18 in height about
and the interesting thing was that often
they were replaced
now you will clearly think but that
extraordinary collectors were his
grandparents
yes, I confirm they were gods
extraordinary collectors above all
grandma, but with lids of boxes
of chocolates his sister the aunt
ernesta every Christmas sent one
box of chocolates that had one
reproduction of a work of art on the
lid if reproduction was a
landscape framework
well then he would have had the honor of
my grandmother is now framed
it also involved me in choosing the
landscape to be replaced because
strictly they had to be six
squares entrance chiar certainly
you will ask, but which is extraordinary
Critical skills should never have one
lady who had done the second
elementary and a 4-year-old girl
yet for us it was a very serious thing
with the magnifying glass yes
they looked at the small details yes
they evaluated color light and none
of the two I assure you he never came in
mind that in reality we were
looking at the banal perhaps even mario
lives reproductions and yet I am convinced
that I owe to grandma luigia
interest and passion maybe a bit
also the obsession with reading
of the work of art
images that clearly once
arrived in high school I understood to be gods
paintings that were in museums to be in
many places especially the originals
certainly not in the entrance of the house
grandparents in high school to tell the truth there is
was the first change because the
images that I started watching
they were reproduced in the history manual
of art now my old manual of
history of art had images
wonderful patinas a dozen were a
most colors were in white and
black
now try to think which effort one
high school student had to do for
imagine in front of a photograph in
black and white colors of the vault of the
sistine chapel of a picture of
kandinsky caravaggio of pollock
a few years ago I picked up the
my text of art history that
old manual and I found a note
next to a dress of a Madonna in
a scene of the nativity and said this
said pink cyclamen bleached by
light
now it’s not like I had written pink no pink
cyclamen pink cyclamen means that
that rose and full of emotion because
means the cyclamens of the forest the
perfume means tactile effect
of the leaves
In short, I understood one thing in high school
that the artwork look at the work
of art educates the imagination and
especially that look at the work of art
it is absolutely a passage
fundamental because it allows us to
allows our brain to create
of connections and it is with this
belief that I went ahead in the
studies attended the university and in
classroom darkened my eyes my mind
they plunged to look at that bundle
colored that from the projector went on one
towel and I immersed myself in those
extraordinary works of art works of art
which then clearly I went to search
on the books sometimes I also happened to
arrive in front of the artwork with a
sense of waiting evidently
extraordinary and that’s how they are
30 years ago, teaching history
of art and here another change a
another change because obviously
He had to teach others to read them
works of art as a young teacher d d
art had a single belief that
the pupils had to be put in front of them
to the images even if they were gods
images reproduced and that’s how it started
30 years ago just to teach in
a classroom that the students renamed
the bus
now you have a pool ma
inside a eighties coach
there was a room that was the archive a
school two meters wide by 5 of
length two parallel rows of chairs
a narrow corridor between tents
black a projector behind them e
in front of them as if it were the
windshield of a coach yes
they projected the images of the works
art
and clear that their eyes are
they opened up in front of those
extraordinary images and time
weekly history of art was a
moment of total immersion in lights and
colors
and it is so that slowly educates fly
their imagination also evaluated in
a critical way of clearing the works now
it is certainly no longer necessary to go in
advance to school for
select the slides from and put
in the cart now I also use the power
point and there the slides are the
images are already ordered if I can not find them
an image there is no problem
apple internet from quietly today
you often go around with the boys
see so many works in Italy in
europa well say you have arrived the
conclusion of technological changes
today they give us absolute peace of mind
not to need to imagine so much
just one click and even one that does not
we have before our eyes appears
but we are sure that we do not have
need to imagine imagining one
pink cyclamen while ours
eyes are looking at a picture in
black and white because to know
one must imagine
and if what he claimed is true
einstein that knowledge is limited
the imagination instead embraces the
world then we must continue to educate
imagine our imagination and it
last December
I lived an experience that has me
confirmed that the work of art and art
they are definitely tools
particularly powerful to educate
the imagination
in fact I had an experience that has me
said that we are a bit all of the non
blind
it was a meeting of one
project realized by the association
national vision of Milan that yes
entitled describes dendo was a kind of
challenge launched to us seeing because
we had to find images and words for
recount to describe a work
of art and the chosen work of art was
that of de chirico
keep de Chirico’s gladiators
now that description
so it began to start
let’s imagine a large painting of form
rectangular with the longest side in
horizontal high as a person of
medium stature and wide as a sheet
extended marriage we manage to
imagine
you managed to see it
now maybe if we close our eyes, yes
I would like you to close your eyes for a moment
to experience the emotion I felt
precisely last December
and then we close our eyes and start
Imagine seeing one of the three
horses painted by de chirico what
standing in the middle is not a horse
very large and indeed looks more like a pony
on the left it has a gigantic tail
voluminous curly
here we stretch the hand a moment
we can touch from it
feeling like when we get one
we pass a hand through our hair
now the picture is clearly much more
complicated of a horse
also because this horse is in a
tangle of naked bodies of men of
gladiators indeed rather we open the
eyes
let’s see this picture you understand that indeed
now maybe even struggling to look for it
this horse but it is clear the
description was lasted a quarter of an hour is
we thought we looked at this
framework but I can assure you that after
that quarter of an hour of description before
simply to a cloth
Well
even those used to reading le
images had lived an experience
imaginative sensory absolutely
extraordinary, here you are now
come to the conclusion what it is for
me then the change
for me, change means looking
a work of art with the eyes of one
person with sight impairment ie having a new one
different point of view from which to look
the world basically means
just this having another point of
view imagine something that does not
we can not even conceive thanks
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sorry before leaving you wanted
absolutely thank catherine de
sena cles because you’ll never get up
this stage if it was not for her
which also gave me the suggestion
initial for this conversation
thank you so much
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