Record 33rd La Liga Title For The Deserving Los Blancos

In what can be called a perfect goal scoring campaign, finding back of the net in 38/38 fixtures, and breaking the record, for most goal scoring consecutinve matches in history, Real Madrid pipped their bitter rivals FC Barcelona to clinch the La Liga title for a record 33rd time in the club’s history.

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Real Madrid players celebrating with coach Zinedine Zidane after the 0-2 victory over Malaga

Real Madrid’s coach Zinedine Zidane deserves all praise for his tactics and management with the squad. Resting key players like Ronaldo, and getting the best out of, what is called unofficially the B-team in crucial away fixtures, all this contributed for the success of Los Blancos eventually.

Cristiano Ronaldo -The key factor despite being 31 :

Cristiano Ronaldo might no longer be the same left winger as he was back in Manchester United running down the flank and piercing through the defenders, yet, he has massively contributed to the success of the team through his new role, mostly playing in the center forward position. He stepped up and scored goals whenever team needed the most.

Zidane provided Cristiano with adequate rest in order to keep him fresh for vital games and it has magically worked for the team as well as for Ronaldo, as the Portuguese talisman made his goal tally for Real to 400 (across all competitions) . He is now, the 2nd player to score 25 or more liga goals for 8 consecutive seasons after his lone rival Lionel Messi. Despite being 31, he recently hit a 31.5 km/hr sprint in the fixture against Celta Vigo where in he broke the record for highest goalscorer across Europe in terms of league goals, getting past the likes of Jimmy Greaves, the Spurs legend. A lot of individual achievements flourished for the Portuguese this season, making it a memorable one, with also a consecutive UCL title awaiting at Cardiff. Should Real win the finale against the Italian champions Juventus, they will be the first team to retain the Champions League trophy in modern football.

The contribution of Ronaldo in champions league being needless to explain (10 goals this season), is likely to land him with another Ballon d’ Or, provided Los Blancos get things right on the big night, 3rdof June.

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Ronaldo celebrates with teammates after the 0-2 win at La Rosaleda
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Benzema with Ramos after scoring that penultimate brace of the season

“$1.5 Million Dollars”–Starting price for a square !! Really ??? Wait..What’s in it ??

Lately I’ve been watching White Collar, the famous American TV series whilst my leisure. Believe me when I say I was obsessed by the show. It was during this mean time that I happened to incline my interest of exploration towards ART. 

Just out of curiosity, I happened to google the art world. It was evident from the serial that art had some serious considerations in history as well as the present. Artists like Pollock,Raphael,Matisse,Picasso etc. were mentioned in the series.

I came across a slideshow while googling where in a few arts were shown that were actually considered as art despite of containing nothing that appears as art to a normal human eye. That was where I first saw this “BLACK SQUARE” painting. When I first saw the painting captioned $1.5 millions being the starting price for the auction I was like WTF !! That is when I started digging about this particular painting. Here’s what I’ve got to share about it.

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich :
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Kazimir Malevich was a Polish-Russian painter and art theoretician during the period 1878-1935. The black square is his creation..obviously or else why’d I bother about some Russian painter ! He was a pioneer of Geometric Abstract Art and the originator of “Suprematism Movement”.

Wait ! First things first, what are these “geometric abstract art” and “suprematism” about ? That was the question brainstormed in my mind when I looked at those words. Let’s break the ice.

Abstract Art is something that uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world i.e that which uses visual elements for communication. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be slight, partial, or complete. Geometric abstraction in fact is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in a non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions.

Suprematism was an art movement founded in Russia during the First World War, following the developments of Cubist and Futurist painting, in which the natural world was translated into a stark pictorial language of shapes, lines, and angles, The first hints of it emerged in background and costume sketches that Kazimir Malevich designed in 1913 for Victory Over the Sun, a Futurist opera performed in St. Petersburg.Of particular importance is the Black Square, which became the centerpiece of his new movement. He felt it was the supreme suprematist composition. Malevich’s early paintings, like Samovar, were cubist in style. Then he started searching for a means of expression compatible to modern values, to create an art for the new industrial Communist state.Built on cubism and Futurism, it led to a movement called Suprematism.

In 1915, the Russian artists Kseniya Boguslavskaya, Ivan Klyun, Mikhail Menkov, Ivan Puni and Olga Rozanova joined with Kazimir Malevich to form the Suprematist group. Together, they unveiled their new work to the public at 0.10, The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings (1915). Their work feature an array of geometric shapes suspended above a white or light-colored background. ” The variety of shapes, sizes and angles creates a sense of depth in these compositions, making the squares, circles and rectangles appear to be moving in space “.

Russia was one of the primary breeding grounds of pure abstraction, with Wassily Kandinsky doing much to popularize geometric art before gravitating to the gestural camp in later years. But it was Kazimir Malevich who today is often viewed as the forefather of geometric abstraction, beginning with his seminal 1915 paintings of black shapes—a circle, a square—on a white ground, and his legendary white-square-on-white-canvas 1919 monochrome.The problem is, once you’ve painted the perfect painting, what do you do for an encore ? Malevich quit painting and turned to architecture.

Hope I shared something that’s worth knowing.

Will keep posting on different things that come to my mind after thorough searching . Until then take care. 🙂

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