La sombra del comandante

Sociosemántica de la Amistad, fue presentada por Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo, para su admisión como miembro del Círculo Lingüístico de Medellín. Su lectura se produjo, en diciembre de 1990, dentro de los Coloquios Lingüísticos que se realizaban mensualmente en el Auditorio del Banco de la República, Medellín – Colombia. El texto se publicó en la Revista Coloquios Lingüísticos, 1991.

Originariamente italiano y nacido al calor del sesenta y ocho, el arte povera pronto sintonizó con las corrientes posminimalistas tanto europeas como americanas. El adjetivo povera ha perdurado como indicador de una sensibilidad preocupada por situar al artista en el nexo Naturaleza/cultura; por la valoración de materiales frágiles e inestables; por la energía y el proceso y la huida del artista como productor de artefactos únicos y duraderos. Muchos han sido los artistas que se consideran deudores de su aire conceptual y de su apuesta para que las actitudes y los procesos se conviertan...

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Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s...