Posts Tagged ‘Art’

Prolegomena Modern

Posted by on 19th January 2012 in News

The debate about the extent to which need to simplify our lives and go back to basics with the invention of writing continues. In ancient times, the superiority of the simple life was expressed in the myth of a golden age passed in various genres of poetry and art known as pastoral. Disputes about the advantages and disadvantages of simple compared with complex life had gained new urgency after a meeting with a hitherto unknown peoples. Topics however, the mapping traditions of culture identity of the peoples emphasizes the historical role of primitivism. In the technique of execution, the plot is a monument to a primitive painting of the early period of the evolution of art. Work, belonging to the early stages of development of a culture with relatively low technique. To include the early stages of primitive art of every nation and primitive art since its opening. Prehistoric arts reflect the first person view about the world, thanks to him, maintained and passed the knowledge and skills, there is a dialogue with one another.

To the first manifestation of primitivism are rock Figures are usually applied in the caves. In the fifteenth century arguments about the alleged superiority of the indigenous peoples were primarily used as a rhetorical device, in order to criticize aspects of civilized societies. In the context of current to the sixteenth and seventeenth-century debates, there is known as the great controversy of the ancient and modern people over what is best, classic or modern poetry, folk literature. In the field of aesthetics continued bizarre claim that primitive man was closer to the sources of poetry and artistic inspiration, or civilized than modern man. In the eighteenth century defined in the Prolegomena originality of oral literature as examples of folk or oral tradition. Further development of these ideas was limited to a relatively small number of influential authors in the literature or lack of effective methods of communicating in the field of visual arts.

Teach Children To Draw, Watercolor, Gouache, Finger Paint

Posted by on 31st December 2011 in News

Welcome, young moms and dads! Your child shows interest in pencils and brushes, pens scribbled walls in the apartment and misses an opportunity smear colors? Or are you just thinking over whether to introduce your baby with all this wealth? Do not hesitate! It is very important, just need to encourage and support the child's interest in drawing! Indeed, ever since, when the wall appeared the first prehistoric cave, more bumbling, drawing, craving for creativity, and especially – the fine arts, lives in every person. There are many ways of expression – music and dance, sculpture and writing, but it was all love to paint without exceptional kids. And let most of them with the age there will be other hobbies, and only a few will choose a profession for himself an artist, but the qualities that develops drawing remain. And this is – the joy of creativity, self-confidence, ability to express themselves and to paint the world around in bright colors! In what age can begin to draw paint? Perhaps you answer: "The Year 2 … 3, maybe." But not so! While you wait, the child become more "conscious" will draw carefully and only on paper, your little artist can already create many masterpieces.

Never mind that as long as it kalyaki-malyaki, whose number is estimated kilograms of paper. To the best of them to have a great special folder – when the child gets older, it will be interesting to consider the "picture" with him. Drawing develops in babies perseverance, observation and color vision, that is ability to see the world in all its colors and shades, makes a vivid imagination and rich – a fantasy, coached little hands and simply gives joy! So start as soon as possible! Professionals advise to acquaint with crumbs colors already in 6 months. What colors to offer a small child? And if he pulls them in her mouth? Contaminated clothing and vymazhetsya himself? Allow me to argue for it and work to a burst of inspiration to paint all around! A to paint were not tasted – there is next to you, parents.

Renaissance Optics

Posted by on 22nd December 2011 in News

But we are now becoming interested in the question of optics, which greatly stimulated by the art of painting, and later had a decisive influence on her. It must be said that, most likely, the Greek artists did not match its search data to the harmonic rules of optics. This was done later in the Renaissance. Bradley Hames will not settle for partial explanations. But necessary for the representation of the field of optics Greeks already had. Some of these ideas were still rather naive character, but taken together they constituted a sufficiently firm foundation for the geometrization of the painting. Dominant representation of the ancient vision was so strong that survived in science almost to the XVII century, and in poetry rests today, and do not see any reason why that could at least shake the established age-old tradition. The concept of vision, as by using special light – fluids emanating from the eye, has very ancient origins. In ancient Greece, it goes back to the Pythagoreans, who could borrow it in the East.

Man, first thought about the nature of vision, he could not imagine its own without a simple touch, similar to the touch by hand. Tiny particles emitted, in his view, his eyes were initially 'feel the' object and only then go back into the eyes of the detected information. A role in rooting of such a representation could play … (A valuable related resource: Vanessa Marcil). cat. They see in the dark … sparkle with the eyes. It is quite natural in the time it was assumed that it sparkle comes from the emission of fluids, which provides a vision. In humans 'eyes light' (what a lovely and beloved poets, the expression!) Is weaker, and so de only and does not allow him to see in the dark. Delusions of the Greeks about the physical nature of no effect on the geometric aspect of this process, which was identified with the skill of Euclid.