🇬🇧 What inspires me: A good year

In keeping with my goal of focusing on my artistic work, I have chosen to concentrate the blog content on topics related to what inspires me as an artist. Let's figure out together how often I can create content to keep my artistic work as the focus. From today on, I will share movies, books, trips, theater and musical performances, and other experiences that have had, are having, or will have an impact on my artistic work, with my point of view on the topic and, when it makes sense, relating the content to works of art that I have already created, artistic projects that I am developing, etc.

I am Nycka Nunes, a visual artist, graduated in advertising and marketing, with multiple talents. If you were or had been my classmate in school, you would know that I was among the best students in almost everything (in fact, in everything that interested me. I have). I have liked art since I was a child and today I am going to talk about a movie that I love, starring Russell Crowe, and it is not “Gladiator”. I am going to talk about “A Good Year”. The film tells the story of Max Skinner, who, as a child, used to visit his uncle's winery in the south of France. Years later, Max, now a successful financial professional in London, inherits his uncle's winery. The trip to take care of the bureaucratic procedures does not go as expected and the experience changes Max's perception of the purpose of money. Perhaps this has gone unnoticed by some film critics. They are film critics, I am an artist. And the point that shows this change in perception is summarized in two scenes, in the second half of the film, I think. I am writing from memory, without rewatching the film to note details. The first scene is when Max is talking to his boss in London, in the boss's office, after returning from France. On the wall there is a huge Van Gogh. Max makes a comment about the painting. The boss says it is a copy and the original is locked in a safe. Max then asks when the boss appreciates the original. This is perhaps my favorite scene in the film, because of the depth of meaning in such a short scene. Shortly after, the second scene comes, which shows Max arriving at the restaurant with the painting (if I say more than that, it will be a spoiler, so watch the film).

The purpose of money is to allow us and those we love to enjoy the best it can offer us. I learned this from my father. Max, whose uncle owned one of the most awarded wineries in France, certainly also learned this from birth, and perhaps adult life robbed him of the pleasure of certain experiences, and the trip to France made him reconnect with them. Sometimes the rush of work, the pressure (internal or external) to be successful professionally, among other things, take our focus away from what really matters. And life without art, without refinement, without this search for better experiences, is animalized, ugly, vulgar.

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Nycka Nunes