{"id":46153,"date":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/archivos\/46153"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:34:52","slug":"editorial-medallas-de-oro-de-las-bellas-artes-gold-medal-of-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/editorial-medallas-de-oro-de-las-bellas-artes-gold-medal-of-fine-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Medallas de Oro de las Bellas Artes \/ Gold medal of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Autor:<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 Alberto L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revista:<\/strong> L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 257<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A finales de octubre tuvo lugar la entrega de las Medallas de Oro al M&eacute;rito en las Bellas Artes correspondientes a 2008 a distintas personas e instituciones en reconocimiento a su labor en pro de la cultura espa&ntilde;ola. El acto, como es tradicional, estuvo presidido por los Reyes de Espa&ntilde;a y se celebr&oacute; en esta ocasi&oacute;n en la ciudad de Santander. De todos los galardonados, el matador de toros Francisco Rivera fue quien recibi&oacute; los mayores aplausos cuando le fue entregada la medalla. Esa ovaci&oacute;n fue una especie de acto de desagravio ante la postura de los toreros Jos&eacute; Tom&aacute;s y Paco Camino, quienes ya hab&iacute;an sido distinguidos con la misma medalla en ediciones anteriores y que anunciaron su intenci&oacute;n de devolverla al considerar que Rivera carec&iacute;a de los m&eacute;ritos necesarios para recibir tal distinci&oacute;n.<\/p>\n<p>El surreal conflicto taurino vuelve a poner de manifiesto la incongruencia de un premio que con el transcurso del tiempo ha ido distanci&aacute;ndose cada vez m&aacute;s del sentido verdadero de la locuci&oacute;n \u00abBellas Artes\u00bb. La Medalla de las Bellas Artes es una distinci&oacute;n creada por el Ministerio de Cultura de Espa&ntilde;a para reconocer principalmente a los miembros m&aacute;s relevantes de las artes esc&eacute;nicas y de la m&uacute;sica, pero es obvio que est&aacute; orientada a adulterar arbitrariamente el concepto \u00abBellas Artes\u00bb hasta incluir bajo su laxo criterio a cocineros y toreros como si estos pudieran equipararse a los genuinos agentes de las artes bellas como son los artistas pl&aacute;sticos, los m&uacute;sicos, los poetas o los cineastas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Como se sabe, las Bellas Artes comprenden la arquitectura, la escultura, la pintura, la m&uacute;sica (el teatro), la declamaci&oacute;n (la poes&iacute;a) y la danza. A estas seis artes se sum&oacute; el cine, hoy conocido como \u00abs&eacute;ptimo arte\u00bb, despu&eacute;s de que esta expresi&oacute;n fuera acu&ntilde;ada por Ricciotto Canudo, primer te&oacute;rico del cine, en 1911. Tambi&eacute;n sabemos que este concepto de las Bellas Artes, de origen cl&aacute;sico y basado en la noci&oacute;n de belleza, se ha ido transformando en otro m&aacute;s ilustrado y acorde con los tiempos, que ampara artes visuales en las que ya no rige necesariamente lo bello. En todos los casos, esta alocuci&oacute;n no incluye nada semejante a lo que pueda llamarse \u00abarte culinario\u00bb o \u00abarte del toreo\u00bb. Es simple de entender.<\/p>\n<p>La vulgarizaci&oacute;n del concepto de arte que delata la lista anual de los personajes reconocidos con la Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes parece apuntar al deseo de alcanzar simplemente el impacto medi&aacute;tico. As&iacute; es como, desde 1996, los toreros y los cocineros galardonados triplican a los historiadores de arte y se igualan en n&uacute;mero a los artistas pl&aacute;sticos reconocidos con la misma medalla. Para ser coherentes, y ya que al Ministerio le resulta tan inc&oacute;moda la aparente impopularidad de las verdaderas Bellas Artes, bastar&iacute;a con cambiar el nombre de este reconocimiento a uno que incluya simplemente el t&eacute;rmino \u00abcultura\u00bb, en el que, ya lo sabemos, hoy caben muchas cosas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold medal of Fine Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2008 Gold Medals of Fine Arts were awarded in late October, recognising people and institutions that have played an important part in promoting Spanish culture. This year&#8217;s event was staged in the city of Santander and was presided, as usual, by the King and Queen of Spain. Among the award-winners, matador Francisco Rivera received the longest applause when he collected his medal. The ovation was a sort of redress to compensate the stance taken by bullfighters Jos&eacute; Tom&aacute;s and Paco Camino, who had received the same medal in previous editions and announced they intended to give it back as they considered Rivera lacked the merit required to receive such a distinction.<\/p>\n<p>The surreal bullfighting conflict once again underlines the incongruity of an award which, over time, has detached itself gradually from the genuine notion of \u00abFine Arts.\u00bb The Medal of Fine Arts is a distinction created by the Spanish Ministry of Culture designed mainly to recognise the most relevant exponents of the stage and music scenes, although it is obviously oriented to arbitrarily adulterate the concept of \u00abFine Arts\u00bb to include chefs and bullfighters under its slack criteria, as if they could be compared to the genuine agents of fine arts, namely plastic artists, musicians, poets or filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that the Fine Arts include architecture, sculpture, paintings, music (theatre), declamation (poetry) and dance. Those six arts subsequently embraced cinema, currently known as the \u00abseventh art,\u00bb after the term was coined by Ricciotto Canudo, the first film theoretician, in 1911. Furthermore, the classical concept of Fine Arts, once based on the notion of beauty, has now transformed to give way to another concept that is more illustrated and fitting to our times, and includes visual arts which are no longer necessarily governed by beauty. In all cases, the allocution does not include anything like a \u00abculinary art\u00bb or the \u00abart of bullfighting.\u00bb It is as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>The vulgarisation of the concept of art denoted by the annual list of people awarded the Gold Medal of Fine Arts seems to harbour the sole desire of creating an impact in the media. Thus, since 1996, the number of bullfighters and chefs triples that of art historians and equals the number of plastic artists. To be coherent, and since the apparent lack of popularity seems to cause the Ministry such discomfort, suffice it to change the name of the award to one that simply includes the term \u00abculture,\u00bb which, as we know, currently comprises a wide range of things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation: Laura F. Farhall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autor: Jos\u00e9 Alberto L\u00f3pez Revista: L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 257 &nbsp;&nbsp; A finales de octubre tuvo lugar la entrega de las Medallas de Oro al M&eacute;rito en las Bellas Artes correspondientes a 2008 a distintas personas e instituciones en reconocimiento a su labor en pro de la cultura espa&ntilde;ola. 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