Better wrestler, cleaner striker. Not much more to it honestly. Fought a smart fight against a guy who really likes big movements and beat him with straight punches and good wrestling.
The UFC returns to Australia for the first time since 2019, With Alex Volkanovski looking to become Lightweight Champion when he takes on Islam Makhachev.
The co-main event sees Josh Emmett take on Yair Rodriguez for the Interim Featherweight Championship. Several Aussie fighters Like Jimmy Crute, Tyson Pedro and Jack Della Maddalena will also be in action.
UFC 284
Main Card
Islam Makkachev vs…
Saturn Devouring His Son (1819-1823)
🎨 Francisco de Goya
🏛️ Museo del Prado
📍 Madrid, Spain
The mural paintings that decorated the house known as “la Quinta del Sordo,” where Goya lived have come to be known as the Black Paintings, because he used so many dark pigments and blacks in them, and also because of their somber subject matter. The private and intimate character of that house allowed the artist to express himself with great liberty. He painted directly on the walls in what must have been mixed technique, as chemical analysis reveals the use of oils in these works. The Baron Émile d´Erlanger acquired “la Quinta” in 1873 and had the paintings transferred to canvas. The works suffered enormously in the process, losing a large amount of paint. Finally, the Baron donated these paintings to the State, and they were sent to the Prado Museum, where they have been on view since 1889.
Saturn devouring one of his sons is one of the most expressive images from his Black Paintings. It occupied the wall across from Leocadia Zorrilla on the ground floor of “la Quinta del Sordo.” This mythological god could be the personification of such a human feeling as the fear of losing one´s power. The mural paintings from “la Quinta del Sordo” (the Black Paintings), have been determinant in the modern-day consideration of this painter from Aragon. The German Expressionists and the Surrealist movement, as well as representative of other contemporary artistic movements, including literature and even cinema, have seen the origins of modern art in this series of compositions by an aged Goya, isolated in his own world and creating with absolute liberty.
Climate Activists Glue their Hands to Paintings by Francisco Goya in Spain
The protest at the Prado museum, in which both protesters each glued a hand to the frames, did not damage either painting but caused their frames slight blemishes, the museum said.
Both activists were detained after the incident on Saturday, police said.
They had scrawled “+1,5°C” on the wall between the two artworks in reference to the Paris Agreement target of capping warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
In a tweet, the Prado said: “We condemn the protest that took place in the museum.
“The works have not been damaged but the frames have suffered slight blemishes. We are working to get back to normal as quickly as possible. We reject endangering cultural heritage as a means of protest.”
Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion posted a video online showing the two activists each with a hand fixed on a painting before the museum’s security officials move in.
The group said the two artworks in question were The Naked Maja and The Clothed Maja.
The action was a protest in the face of rising world temperatures which will “provoke an unstable climate with serious consequences for all the planet”, the group said in a statement in Spanish.