Bullfighting

Lucas ServentiENG 101

Section 36090

THESIS

BLOOD SPORT OR FINE ART?

ORIGINS

• Prehistoric bull worship and sacrifice

ORIGINS

• SPAIN: 711 A.D.

• Originally for the aristocracy• Originally took place on horseback.

ORIGINS• BANNED ARISTOCRACY • 1724: Commoners dodging bulls

on foot and unarmed • SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE

THE FIGHT(THREE PARTS)

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THE FIGHT(THREE PARTS)

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THE FIGHT(THREE PARTS)

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THE FIGHT(THREE PARTS)

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THE FIGHT(THREE PARTS)

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THE FIGHT-RESULTS

ANIMAL RIGHTS

• 250,000 bulls die annually

• Pius V: “Spectacles” such as bullfights are “removed from Christian piety and charity.” He wished that “these cruel and base spectacles of the devil and not of man” be abolished and he forbade attendance at them under the penalty of excommunication.

ANIMAL RIGHTS

• BARCELONA “ANTI-BULLFIGHTING CITY”• 38 Catalan municipalities followed• January 2012: Catalonia officially ban

bullfighting• RTVE no longer broadcasts bullfights• 2006: 72% of Spaniards show no interest

• 31% in 1990s

ANIMAL RIGHTS

• INTEREST Mexico & Portugal• Beijing, China: “fears of the country’s image”• 1,200 government funded bull ranches• Dozens of state-sponsored bullfighting

schools in Spain.

THE MATADOR & THE BULL

“ESCUELAS DE TAROMAQUIA”

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

• "Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honour."

Works Cited• Spanish Flag: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/graphics/flags/large/sp-lgflag.gif• Portuguese Flag: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/graphics/flags/large/po-lgflag.gif• French Flag: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/graphics/flags/large/fr-lgflag.gif• Latin American Map: http://english.safe-democracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/latin_america.gif• Background Image: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/338/3/3/wallpaper_red_bull_by_lool705-d4i5lcr.jpg• Blood Sport Image: http://banbloodsports.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/bullfight1.jpg• Picasso Painting: http://www.postergiant.com/P123.jpg• Cave Painting: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsu7buDURP1r47wi5o1_500.jpg• Alfonso VIII: https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYUK7a0ODCHSQGZ6c--HQCrryvnhbV-CROPoFYj5HE2_Uunml4lQ• Horse Image: https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7AbIgJyQ8-MULCoWIxp09u-tzJmskgeJq1CpF9_dDHNu_eYxfqQ• King Felipe V: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Felipe_V_de_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg/478px-Felipe_V_de_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg• Picador 1: http://www.banbloodsports.com/images/media/bullfight6.jpg• Picador 2: http://www.banbloodsports.com/images/media/bullfight7.jpg• Banderillero 1: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/1916079840_b1118393ac.jpg• Banderillero 2: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Banderillero.JPG• Matador: http://banbloodsports.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/bullfight5.jpg• Results 1: http://www.banbloodsports.com/images/media/bullfightfr1.jpg• Results 2: http://www.banbloodsports.com/images/media/bullfight3.jpg• Pope St. Pius V: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/El_Greco_050.jpg• Barcelona Flag: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_Barcelona.svg/300px-Flag_of_Barcelona.svg.png• RTVE: http://www.advanced-television.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/rtve.png• Mexican Flag: https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmfcET2Wn05QvOJlUYX2GIhoQ52XUbE_BJAA6w83_j-mdh-KEi• Julio Aparicio Diaz: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xrr8k4zndlg/S_68t-zKRcI/AAAAAAAABo0/ek6MP6XN8Vk/s1600/juli+aparicio.jpg• Bullfighting School: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4427/bllfight1adh5.jpg• Hemingway: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Ernest_Hemingway_1923_passport_photo.TIF.jpg/220px-

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