Hamlets Vision
by Pedro Americo
Title
Hamlets Vision
Artist
Pedro Americo
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Reproduction
Description
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others." The play was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most-performed, topping the Royal Shakespeare Company's performance list since 1879. It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella.
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Pedro Amrico de Figueiredo e Melo ( Areia , April 29 of 1843 - Florence , October 7 of 1905 ) was a novelist , poet , scientist , art theorist , essayist , philosopher , politician and teacher Brazil , but is most remembered as a of the most important academic painters of Brazil, leaving works of national impact.
Early showed inclination towards the arts, being considered a child prodigy . Still very young designer participated as a dispatch of naturalists in the northeast, and received support from the government to form the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts . Made his artistic development in Paris , studying with renowned teachers, but also dedicated to science and philosophy. Soon after his return to Brazil began teaching at the Academy and initiated a successful career, achieving projection with large paintings of character civic and heroic, inserting the civilizing and modernizing the country program fostered by Emperor Dom Pedro II , which the Imperial Academy was the governor and executive branch in the artistic sphere.
His style in painting , in line with the major trends of his time, blended elements neoclassical , romantic and realistic , and their production is one of the first major expressions of Academism in Brazil in its peak phase, leaving works that remain active today in collective imagination of the nation, as the Battle of Avai , Speech from the Throne , Independence or Death! , and quartered Tiradentes , played to millions of textbooks nationwide. In the second half of his career focused on Orientalia themes allegorical and biblical , rather than personally and whose market was booming, but this part of his work, in his very popular time, quickly went out of fashion, has not received attention from experts recent times and remains little known.
He spent his career between Brazil and Europe, and in both places his talent was recognized, receiving great favors from critics and audiences but also raising passionate polemics and tenacious opponents. For new vanguards Pedro Am�co was undeniably a painter of rare endowments, but above all has become one of the main symbols of everything the academic system had allegedly conservative, elitist and distant from the national reality. Although the modernists have tried to overshadow his star mercilessly - as all academics - his great artistic merits surely make him one of the greatest painters in the country has ever produced, and his immense fame and influence in life, burning that sparked debates in its institutional and political action, cultural, at a critical time for the articulation of a new system of symbols for a country just emerging from colonial status and consolidation of a new system of art on modern methodological and conceptual bases, the stand as a the most important names in the history of Brazilian culture of the late nineteenth century.
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December 1st, 2013
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