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•Art…

•Music

•Fashion

•Family and school•Entertainment

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If the world was clear, art wouldn’t exist Albert Camus

There are two ways to not appreciate art: the first consists in not appreciate it at all, the second is appreciate it judiciously. Oscar Wilde

One uses a mirror to see the face, and art works to see one’s own soulGeorge Bernard Shaw

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth Pablo Picasso

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• The painting kept in the Louvre Museum in Paris (N°779), is well known all over the world as the Gioconda, by Leonardo Da Vinci. It is a painting of 77 x 53 cm, painted on a unique wooden table. Leonardo prepared the table with a thin layer of hard gypsum, because of this there is a light “craquelé”, an effect produced by little cracks.

Gioconda revisited by Cristina

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As proved, the painting became really famous only around the first half of the 19th century, thanks to the works of Théophile Gautier, Arsène Houssaye, Charles Baudelaire and Walter Pater. Mostly because of the description proposed by Théophile Gautier, who has merged the qualities of beauty, grace and mystery suggested by the Gioconda with the cult of everlasting feminine beauty and woman’s superiority, theorized also by Goethe in his novel “Faust” (1831), and particularly with the myth of the “femme fatale”; then superbly explored in the figural universe of Gustave Moreau.

«Une femme mystérieuse/ dont la beauté trouble mes sens,/ se tient debout, silencieuse,/ Au bord des flots retentissants.»

«A mysterious woman/ whose beauty trouble my senses/ stands, in silence/ beside the sounding waves.» [Théophile Gautier, “Caeruli oculi”, 1852]

At the same time, the romantic thinkers were facing the theme of Leonardo Da Vinci as a universal man, and the myth of Leonardo was rising: an erudite man that was almost considered to have supernatural powers, who symbolists would transform into a “super human”, making an anti-historical interpretation, and removing the work from its context.

«The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Here is the head upon which all “the ends of the world are come”, and the eyelids are a little weary. It’s a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty into which the soul with all its maladies has passed!»

[Walter Pater, 1869]

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Icon of feminine beauty, symbol of absolute beauty and immortality in the 18th century, the Gioconda couldn’t turn into anything but object of mockery and aggressive derision. The robbery of the painting, in 1911, and its absence from the Louvre for two years, enhanced its fame. As the name of the Gioconda was on all the newspapers, notoriety generated a feeling of ‘nausea’ for this painting; in fact Bernard Berenson said, in 1916, that the robbery caused in him a sense of liberation and emancipation. The Gioconda became, from that moment, an “illustrious misunderstood”.

But it isn’t possible to illustrate all the cases of offence against the Gioconda during the 19th century, from Duchamps to Dalì, from theatre to photography, from music to nowadays consumism, that offers a Gioconda image on plastic bags repainted like Marilyn Monroe. This lead to put another image of the Gioconda in the history of art , or, in the worst case, to create a commercial phenomenon. L.H.O.O.Q. Duchamps

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La gioconda/Dalì

But who’s really the woman portrayed by Leonardo?

The name Gioconda appeared for the first time in a document from 1525, only discovered in 1990, in the state records of Milan. According to Vasari’s statement, the person portrayed could be Monna Lisa Gherardini, the wife of an important man of Florence, Francesco del Giocondo (from which the name Gioconda). Other witnesses, say that she could be Isabella Gualandi, a noble woman from Naples.

Beauty standards change with the passing of time, and our idea of beauty today does not completely meet Vasari’s one. At that time, physical beauty wasn’t the only thing that had to be portrayed: but also virtue, morality, nobility, chastity, religiousness and, in some cases, the culture and the love for art, that had to be the qualities to show in a portrait. In the painting, according to Vasari, some details haven’t been finished: the columns at the woman’s sides, the parapet, the fingers of the left hand and landscape on the background. However we can say for sure that this work influenced considerably the technique of the following painters, who tried to emulate Leonardo, by painting smiling subjects.

From “Art dossier” written by Pietro C. Marani “Leonardo. La gioconda”

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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

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Details from his most famous work, the “Creation of the world” Cycle(1906)

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Fantastic art is the opposite of realism, even though it is based on a reality that the artist recreates to show the fanciful world he is thinking about.

Fantastic art shows itself when the artist intentionally corrupts reality and, as M. K. Čiurlionis stated, creates another world. Fantastic art is used also to display the “meaninglessness” of reality which can no longer represent the artist's inner thoughts.

«The fantastic is the thin line between the strange and the marvellous. Total incredulity and complete faith take us away from the fantastic; only doubt keeps us within the sphere of the fantastic. » Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction à la littérature fantastique

The first artist to suggest the passage from poetry to painting and music was Baudelaire. He succeeded in expressing the power of his emotions through colour, form and composition and as a result, the object itself depicted in the canvas took on a relative importance.

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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875 -1911) , Lithuanian painter and composer gave his contribution to symbolism and art nouveau and represented the atmosphere of the end of the century. He composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings. Most of his paintings are shown at in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. Modern Lithuanian culture has been considerably influenced by his works.Čiurlionis was a synesthete, which mean he was able to perceived colours and music simultaneously. His paintings were usually given the names of musical pieces: sonatas, fugues, and preludes.

His style could be defined symbolist however according to some it was impressionistic. He almost always impregnates his work with the spirituality derived from traditional Lithuanian folk tradition. His paintings are all done in tempera. During the 20th Century Stalin nationalized his entire collection which is now housed in the M.K. Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania.

We chose two works from each of our countries that was fully representative of its art and that influenced the following tastes, because art can overcome the geographical and mental borders.

This work was meant to show that art is a universal language which unites us and makes mutual understanding possible.

Details from Čiurlionis’ works

Staff:

-Elena Mihalas

- Justas Petrosius

- Lucia Tozzi

- Erika Golubovskyte

- Letizia DiLorenzo

- Sarune Jankauskaite

- Cristina Avram

- Chiara Bigi

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Music and dance!!Music and dance!!

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The history of Italian The history of Italian musicmusic

Italian music offers a wide variety of different genres, from opera and instrumental classical music to

traditional music of different regions to the singer-songwriter tradition.

Italian folk music has kept, as a result of the country’s geographic position and history, elements

of the many peoples that have dominated or influenced the country, including Arabs, the Greek,

Slavic Populations, the French and the Spanish. Many famous composers could be mentioned!

We have chosen…

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Antonio VivaldiAntonio Vivaldi home

Giuseppe Giuseppe VerdiVerdi home

History of Lithuanian music

Lithuanian musical tradition traces its history to pagan times, connected with Neolithic corded ware culture. Lithuania has a long history of folk, popular and

classical musical development. The most famous Lithuanian composer is Mikalojus

Konstantinas Čiurlionis.

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Mikalojus Mikalojus KonstantinKonstantin

as as ČiurlionisČiurlionis

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Italian Folk DancesItalian Folk Dances

In Italy we have a lot of traditional folk dances, like: “Tarantella” and “Saltarello”. The first dance is from Southern Italy and it is danced in couples. The original legend

says that someone who had supposedly been bitten by the tarantula, a spider, had to dance to the fast rhythm of “Tarantella”

to sweat the poison out.

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Some examplesSome examples::Tarantella!Tarantella!

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And …And …

Another popular Italian dance is “Saltarello” and it comes from

central Italy. It is a typical medieval dance and it is very famous here in

Assisi, in fact during the “Calendimaggio”, people enjoy

dancing it .

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This is …Saltarello!This is …Saltarello!

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Lithuanian Folk DancesLithuanian Folk Dances

In Lithuania there are many traditional dances, like

“Polka”, “Klumpakojis”, “Suktinis” and manyothers.

Lithuanian folk dances are very funny, rhythmical

and vivacious.

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Top 10 !!Top 10 !!1. Vasco Rossi - Inediti e

rarità2. Laura Pausini -Laura Live

World Tour 3. Eros Ramazzotti –Ali e

radici4. Claudio Baglioni – Q.P.G.A.5. Marco Mengoni – Dove si

vola6. Elisa – Heart7. Tiziano Ferro – Alla mia età8. Francesco Renga –

Orchestra9. Alessandra Amoroso –

Senza10. Gianna Nannini - Dream

1. VILIJA - Šalna 2. SIMONA - Kai užgęsta

šviesos 3. Ž. ŽVAGULIS - Mano

kiemas 4. M. MIKUTAVIČIUS IR

JUSTAS – ateina ziema5. TABASCO - Diena juk

nuostabi 6. PAULIUS IR STUDENTĖS -

Leisk man 7. 69 DANGUJE - Aš

pasirašau 8. ONSA - Aš liksiu čia 9. PATRULIAI - Žvejas ir

undinė 10.STANO - Sukasi galva

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What kind of music do you What kind of music do you listen to and what is your listen to and what is your favourite singer or band?favourite singer or band?

Laura: I like classical and pop music. My favourite singer is Marijonas Mikutavicius.

Viktorija: My favourite kind of music is pop. And my favourite singers are Michael Jackson and Christina Aguilera.

Lauryna: I like all kinds of music. Classical, rock, pop… But my favourite band is “Metallica”.

Marta: I listen to a lot of different music: dance, house music, R&B

and so on. My favourite singer is Antonello Venditti.

Caterina: I love R&B, pop and classical music. My favourite band is “Coldplay”.

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Our music statisticsOur music statistics

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Pop

Rock

Classic/instrumental

Hip hop

House

Electro

Metal

All sorts of music

Trance

RnB

Soul

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Members:Members:Patarino CaterinaPatarino Caterina

Parrini MartaParrini MartaLaura JakstaiteLaura Jakstaite

Viktorija AndziulyteViktorija AndziulyteLauryna KaniauskaiteLauryna Kaniauskaite

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We interviewed some Italian and Lithuanian students asking them what they like to wear in different situations.

ITALIANSSneakersJeans T-shirtsJumpersPull-over

LITHUANIANSUniform (grey jacket)LeggingsSweatersJeansT-shirtsPulloverJumpers home

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ITALIANS and LITHUANIANS wear the same clothes in their free time: jeans, skirts, T-shirts, shirts, leggings, sweaters, boots, jumpers…there are differences in lifestyle but similarities in the way of dressing in free time!

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Evening clothes are very similar to free time onesfor Lithuanians and Italians.We like wearing dresses, trousers with blouses, high heels or boots.

ITALIAN and LITHUANIAN girls wear the same clothes in these places: dresses, high heels, skirts, leggings and so on…

...however italian boys wear trousers, shirts, waistcoats. Moreover lithuanian boys like t-shirts, also shirt, jeans…

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In what we wear at home there’s a big difference: in Italy we wear shoes or slippers

on the contrary in Lithuania we don’t wear shoes but only slippers or socks…but we have a lot of carpets!!!

There is no fashion at home in Lithuania like in Italy…we just wear comfortable clothes like tracksuits, jeans and above all jumpers…

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In Lithuania the coolest way to wear make up is bright eyes and lightly coloured lips or the opposite…never both!!!

In Italy this winter you’ll look cool if you use simple make up… 50s style: eyeliner, mascara and red lipstick…

made by: CHIARA CONTI

GIULIA CIANETTI

KAMILE KELPSAITE

FELIPPE CEDIRIAN

School and familySchool and family

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Life at school

• School starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m.

• Lessons last 45 minutes.

• The longest day of school is 7 lessons.

• The shortest day of school is 4 lessons.

• School starts at 8.10 a.m. and ends at 1.25 p.m. every day except on Saturday, because we finish 10 minutes before.

• We always have 6 lessons of 50 minutes and on Saturday just 5 60 minute lessons.

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• Every lesson has it’s own classroom.

• Our school week starts on Monday and ends on Friday.

• We have more writing tests than oral tests.

• Students have lunch at the school bar every day.

• In every school in Italy students have their own class and teachers come to teach there.

• The school week is from Monday to Saturday.

• We have a lot of tests. Usually we have at least one every day. There are as many orals as written.

• We never have lunch at school.

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• We are learning physics, history, biology, chemistry, geography and others until Year 10.

• After Year 10 we can choose what subjects we want to learn.

• The main subjects we must learn are Lithuanian, maths, history and English.

• We have to wear grey jackets in the school. From this year on girls can choose to wear a red skirt or black trousers.

• We study 12 different subjects and we can’t choose. They are Italian, maths, history, science, English, German, French, History of art, Latin, Philosophy, Religion, P.E.

• There isn’t a uniform in our school.

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Family life• In families there

are 1-3 children.• We usually don’t

eat breakfast with all the family.

• We have supper at 6-7 o’ clock p.m.

• Families are usually composed of 4 people.

• We always eat breakfast with our families.

• We have supper at 8-9 o’ clock p.m.

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• We usually go with our families to the cinema, restaurants, for picnics, shopping.

• We don’t go to the cinema, shopping, restaurant with our families, but with our friends.

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During the week they study and do homework. But if they get free time they meet the friends or do sport. In Italy they do sport with private associations while in Lithuania teams are arranged by school.

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Neither of them work after school because they have lots of homework.

Teenagers usually spend more time at the computer rather than watching TV.

Laurynas Jokubaitis

Greta Skridailaite

Lara Degli Esposti Alunni

Brigita Siaudvytyte

Giovanna Iosca

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ENTERTAINMENT

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According to the “official” definitions any activity that provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their spare time is called ENTERTAINMENT. There are many forms of entertainment, of course, such as cinema, theatre, sports, games and dance.

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As Italian movie industry is highly developed, Italian movies are plentiful. Theatres also play an important role. Soccer is the main sport entertainment and every town has a soccer club. Reality shows are very popular here too.

Italian entertainment

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Lithuanian entertainment industry is still underdeveloped. Lithuanians enjoy watching movies but due to poor movie industry we depend on foreign ones. Theatres in Lithuania are in a poor state, some even on the edge of collapsing. Despite that, Lithuanians have wonderful actors. Basketball is leading the sports entertainment sector. Other sports, such as volleyball, handball and chess are not forgotten either.

Lithuanian entertainment

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We interviewed both Italian and Lithuanian students. These are the questions we asked:

What kind of entertainment do you enjoy most? Do you practice any sports? Do you often visit theatre?

Do you spend much time watching TV? What kind of movies do you like?

How often do you go to the cinema? Do you read books?

The questions

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Summary of the results

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