Madama Butterfly

The Madama Butterfly animation is highly creative and imaginative. It concentrates on a Japanase woman who was impregnated by an American man and then abandoned. He returned much later to retrieve his daughter, leaving the poor woman broken and suffering feeling lost to the point of suicide. The way the story played out was rather interesting because certain ideas and items were used to represent parts of the opera. For example, I found it very creative when a fish poured out of a fish bowl to signify the water breaking and the birth of a new child, or guppy, in this case. While I predicted the following part, I found it clever that the man tore the woman in two by ripping the cord, or bond, she had with her daughter. He ripped her right out of her grasp and whisked awaited child to go live with him and his new wife. After being torn apart and losing everything she ever loved, the main character physically tore herself in two signifying suicide and then was reborn into a beautiful butterfly.

Commercials with Opera

Castrati

Castrato is the Italian art that involves castrated men singing in the pitch of a female soprano. The man is castrated before puberty not allowing them to reach full sexual maturity. Once the boy was castrated, they were then trained to sing a certain way. As they grew older, their bodies matured allowing their lungs to grow to full size. With the large size of the male's lungs and they proper training, the singer was able to hold a note that surfaced anyone's imagination. In fact, there is even a movie based off of this very type of art and music. It is called Farinelli. Farinelli is about the art of opera. It centers around a young man who was castrated as a child not allowing his voice to mature. This action preserved his voice so he could perform in Operas and reach an extremely high pitch that had the ability to make women shed tears due to its beauty, and even faint. As it turns out, his older brother is the verdict for his castration. Farinelli is now seen as one of the most famous opera singers in the world.

Juan Carlos Delgado

Juan Carlos stated off with a generic piece or art and transformed it into a piece of multi media. He was able to control his piece to work alongside time allowing it to become a multi media piece. Multi media, by definition according to Professor Santiago Evecherry, is a series of time controlling tools working together. The piece of art I am referring to is called Cuarto Norte. The sculpture is working with the cold temperature to transform over time in to something completely different. It transformed from a piece of well sculpted copper to something that leaves me at a loss for words. Looking at the two pictures above, nothing but time and cold weather separates the two sculptures. They in fact are the same sculpture, therefore leaving one with the exact definition of multi media.
While the sculpture above represents multi media, the the gallery that the artist created has a much deeper definition. The sculpture is surrounded by nothingness. It is set apart form everything especially the opposing piece of art on the opposite side of the room. Through frozen bars one can see sculpted hands but instead of containing ice like the girl's head, it is holding fire. The hands are the hands of his wife and the fire lights up the room. The hands are warm like the gentle touch of woman and wife. While I do not see an obvious link between the two pieces besides the difference in texture and temperature, they do demonstrate the idea of multi media.

Referenced: http://www.revistaexclama.com/cuarto-norte/5-11/