IT ALREADY I HAVE LIVED IT BEFORE...

When we are surprised for having attended a conversation, instant, succession of facts or another action that it sounds us very familiar like if we had lived before, this effect is named Dèja vu.

Dejà vu is a phenomenon that happens to us in certains moments in the shape of strong sensation of lived experience. It usually happen in the shape of dream or past recollection but actually this moment is totally new.

In formal studies, 70 % or more of the population affirm to have felt it at least once.

The scientific explanation is very clear: it's fault of the memory. In this effect intervene two types of memory: the short-term memory which is the one that perceives the events that belong to the present, and the long-term memory which is the one that perceives the events that belong to the past.
For example our brain, when any moment passes, has to attend the passed instants (present) and stores it in some empty place of our memory and in this way we can remember it (past), this way of consecutive form.

Our memory with dèja vu effect is when there takes place an anomaly, these actions are altering , proceeding to guard one action, instant, fact... more than one time. As this recollection already exists, gives us the familiar of already having lived it previously.

HENRY MOORE: MY SEARCH (summary with chronological order)

Moore was born in July 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire. He was the seventh child of a mine manager.

1915: He became a student teacher and the next year was teaching in the local elementary school which he had studied in his boyhood.
At seventeen he joined the army but he thought the Fir

st World War wasn’t a traumatic experience for him and said that 'for me the war passed in a romantic haze of trying to be a hero’. The result of this was he finished the war as a physical training instructor.

1919 : He went to Leeds School of Art on an ex-serviceman's grant.

1921: He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. In his first year at the Royal College of Art he went to Paris with his fellow student Raymond Coxon.

1925: He visited Italy on a travelling scholarship which caused a certain creative blockage.

1926: He held his first one man show. He was also commissioned to provide a sculpture for the new London headquarters of the London Underground. The job came to Moore on the recommendation of Epstein

1929: Moore got married with a beautiful Russian, Irma Radetzsky.

1931: He was obsessed with the idea of direct carving. He made his second one man exhibition also. Epstein who wrote the catalogue saying: 'For the future of sculpture in England Henry Moore is vitally important.' His works of art was attacked in more newspapers and periodicals.

1932: Moore was able to move to the Chelsea School of Art, which had already approached him.

1934: He went to live to London. He came together with the group which included Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. Nicholson inclined to Constructivism but Moore was more interested in Surrealism.
He visited the north of the Spain during a touring holiday in 1934 and the powerful and primitive forms he found in the famous cave paintings at Altamira were a tremendous source of inspiration, both immediately in drawings and carvings, and later in bronzes such as Woman 1957-58.

1936: The International Exhibition of Surrealist Art held in London, the year in which his work was first seen in the USA. His works were included in an Cubism and Abstract exhibition of art, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

1939: After the outbreak of the Second World War he began making the first drawings of people sheltering in the London Underground during the Blitz. He show their own feelings in what he had to show them.

Tube Shelter Perspective 1941 (courtesy Henry Moore Foundation; photography Michel Muller)

1943: He was able to return to sculpture, with a figure of a Virgin and Child for the church of St Matthew's, Northampton. This was his first draped figure and a more traditional and accessible image.

1946: A retrospective exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York was a triumphant success.

1954: The shift from direct carving to the modelling was accelerated after 1954 when he had a brief illness. Another reason for reverting to techniques was the fact that he was being offered commissions for works on a massive scale: like the massive Reclining Figure for the Lincoln Center in New York (1961-65) or Reclining Figure made for the Unesco Headquarters in Paris (1957-58). His work became in a works with quasiindustrial lines.

UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957 (LH 416)

The best of his late work is to be found in his drawings but he always seem to have been made with sculpture in mind pictorial rather than sculptural. He can be compared to similar sheets by

Rubens and Van Dyck.

1955: He was made a Companion of Honour in 1955.

1963: Member of the Order of Merit in 1963.

With both mentions the Modernist art had been accepted by the conservative British cultural establishment.

Others…

Working Model for 3 Piece #3: Vertebrae bronze, 1968

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My sister

She’s older than me. She is 31 years old. She looks like my mother. She’s short and thin with black and curly hair. She has brown eyes and white skin. She’s like a doll. She got married four years ago with Antonio, a man who she met in Madrid. She felt in love quickly and in one year they began to live together in Barcelona.

My sister was an excellent student and it made that nowadays she is an intelligent person. She’s capable and constant with her important decisions. She’s shy and self-confident. In her life, she has been able to overcome a lot of problems which perhaps other people (and I) haven’t been able to solve. But I don’t want to talk about this, it’s the past and really it isn’t interesting. The interesting and wonderful things are in the present.
In spite of it we sometimes have discussions, I get on well with her. I think it’s normal. If you argue with someone it is because this person is important for you (Ok! it depends on the kind of argument…but I know you understand me! Oh! It’s complicated to explain…)

My brother-in-law was promoted in his job one year ago. It was good news although in few days this good news became in a sad situation because they had to go to live to Madrid. My sister and I had always been together!! I had always had her support and her help!

Nowadays my sister is pregnant of two babies (two girls). They won’t cufflinks at all because they aren’t in the same bag in her belly for this reason they’ll be different each other. The names have been chosen by the parents: Giorgina and Serina. It’s better not to judge the choice…if their parents think these are a nice name for their children, the others have to accept it… (but I’m someone! I’m their aunt! The aunt of “Gina” and “Rina”… Why these names? Complicated names…).

They’re going to be born about the 15th of January. A happy new year!

In this moment I don’t know what more to say. I’ve a lot of things I’d like to explain! But I’ll do this with patience and I suppose that when I am writing about other people I’ll return to tell more anecdotes of my sister and upside-down. For the present time it’s sufficient.

I begin...

I begin describing my family and other people who are around of me. I thing it can be useful because it can help to you to understand why in my introduction in my blog I said “my complicated life”. On the other hand and if I find a good photo of every one, I’ll try to combine the descriptions and others histories with photos or images. It’ll make the reading easier and less boring.

I need to explain something

Hi!
I'm a young girl, well, I thing. I'd like to explain in this virtual space some things of my complicated life. Mmmm... it isn't a complicated life because I'm happy and if something is complicated it's impossible to be happy... Ok, I know what to say: It's complicated to explain my history but not to live it. But I need time and forces to begin. This one has been my first step.

See you soon.