The role of women as artists in the impressionist movement was one of the fascinating courses taking place during this year’s Adeje Summer University, under the tutelage of Ana Victoria Moruna Rodríguez, a history of art professor. Students explored the world of impressionism from a different perspective, and how women trained in fine art at the time, using examples such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, or Eva González.
There was discussion on the difficulties women often had in finding their proper space within the art world, where they were the artists rather than the models. Students also examined the differences in how women were painting, the use of light and colour in capturing ‘the moment’, long before the use of cameras.
Big data, artificial intelligence in the world of astronomy was another course during the first days of the Adeje Summer University, with Diego Lorenzoni, who said “AI had become a valuable tool for increasing our understanding of the universe”. He pointed out how the advances of AI in the field of astronomy had been particularly significant in, for instance, the detection of celestial bodies, the classification of galaxies, predicting astronomic events and the interpretation of astronomical data”.
Lorenzoni pointed out that AI had been evolving since the 1940s and is an intelligence “designed to make human lives easier unlike synthetic intelligence, which seeks to substitute humans”.
(PHOTO: Young Mother Sewing (1900), oil on canvas, by Mary Cassatt, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
