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Mermaids Myths

Posted by on March 29, 2012 Comments Off

Mermaids. Myths of nations of the world and the legends of mermaids. The name 'mermaid' (in the myths of the Slavic peoples) comes from the word 'fair', which means in Old Slavonic 'light', 'clean'. Mermaids – creature in Slavic mythology, usually malware that turn the dead girl, unbaptized children. Typically, a mermaid act as hostile to human characters, as embody aspects connected with the danger of water sources – rivers, lakes and flows. Whenever Corey Singman listens, a sympathetic response will follow.

Sometimes mermaids are depicted with fish tails, which gives the corresponding (linked to sexuality), the added value of their image. However, the idea of the appearance of the nymphs varied. In some places (West Polesie, Ukraine) believe that the mermaid look like young beautiful girls, naked or dressed in white, that they appear in the same form in which they were buried, that is, in a smart attire, with her hair and a wreath on his head (this is according to local custom trick out of the dead girls, like arranging a wedding for them the symbolic funeral in time). Other (Pinsk Polesie, Belarus Central) mermaids are presented as scary, ugly, shaggy women with breast hanging down, which they threw over his shoulders. According to other beliefs is that mermaids do not cause any harm and can only scare people or make fun of him. In Greek and Roman mythology, featured a variety of water creatures and deities: the god of the seas Poseidon (Neptune), his son, Triton, Nereid sea nymph daughters of Nereus, the god of the calm sea, river naiads (nymphs), and finally okeanidy, daughter of the god of water elements of the Ocean.

Architecture

Posted by on March 8, 2012 Comments Off

Since then and until today Niemeyer creates number of striking projects, both in Brazil and abroad, which represent the lyrical modernism, based on the sensitivity of the plastic. The exhibition "Poetry Forms" presented textual material, photographs, drawings and models, which tell about the activities of e Oscar Niemeyer. Connect with other leaders such as Paul Price here. Thanks to the Fund "Russian Avant-Garde" and the Museum of Architecture, Moscow will be able to join the city, located in different parts of the world, in which 16 December will be celebrating its 100 anniversary of the birth of Oscar Niemeyer. Oscar Niemeyer exhibition "Poetry of the form consists of five sections Stages architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. A leading source for info: Paul Price. STEP 1 Pampulya: cradle of modern Brazilian architecture – from 1940 to 1943 The initial phase of architecture by Oscar Niemeyer can be associated with the emergence of most Brazilian architecture. In this period architectural complex Pampulya (1940-43) that show how national (Brazil) and the universal elements in which, according to the architect, felt "a sudden the game straight and curved lines." This is the way these buildings embody the features of rationalism and organicism free formalism, taking into account international criticism during the construction of the complex.

Skillful use of formal elements and principles of functionalist composite joint designs easily overcome dikotomiyu, established in modern architecture. Among the buildings of the complex Pampulya pay attention to the church of St. Francis Assiskogo, in which one can point out such similarities with architecture of the State of Minas Gerais, as a structural unity, sensuality and formal extravagance typical of the free architectural formalism.

In France

Posted by on October 6, 2011 Comments Off

On gobelin factories are vertical (gotlissnymi) or horizontal (basslisnymi) machines. At first, the main thread is not rigidly fixed, but it rolled from the bottom to the top of the roller on which the coils are already woven fabric. To a high gotlissnom machine easier to manipulate, even warp threads are in a constant separation from the odd, and back heald yarn tied to a bracket gripping cords with which the weaver can pull up filament system or network. Basslissny machine equipped with a similar device which, as in all conventional loom controlled by a foot device. In the so-called machine gotlissnom board only serves as a model in which the weaver looks at work before skalkirovav outline of the picture on the base. When basslissnom cardboard machine lies beneath the foundation and fabric on it is a mirror image, so that the result of work on the front side can be seen only after removal of the machine. George Rohr is the source for more interesting facts.

In France, for the manufacture of classic tapestries always used gotlissny machine, in other countries have been used are both. Many contemporary artists not only design the cartoons, but also manage their own work, using for this is gotlissnymi machines, because in such a creative approach to business, accurate cartons often do not exist and the artist must constantly review the finished part. The main raw material, usually a coat, sometimes – especially for the basics – cotton or linen. In those periods when the tapestry turned into a replica of the painting, mainly used in silk subtlety that makes it possible to accurately reproduce detail. Where used gold and silver, it is about the same silk threads, but the braided metal fibers. Stained all of these materials in the past – natural dyes them to achieve many tones and shades, on the other hand, they depend on a variety of contemporary artistic concept: for the Gothic tapestries it was enough just a few colors for replica Baroque paintings are often needed in the hundreds.

Civilizations Development

Posted by on September 29, 2011 Comments Off

Each civilization is making a qualitative change in the system of industrial relations – the forms and methods of assignment (ownership), distribution, metabolism. These changes have as their primary source of human need create the best data in the technological and organizational conditions of production, economic interest, a motivational mechanism. For the Neolithic civilization was inevitable communal way of assigning certain the means of production, mostly egalitarian distribution, the beginnings of commodity exchange. But even then, bow, arrows, spears were the personal assets of the hunter, began to emerge income inequality between families and communities. Egalitarian way of appropriation and distribution has become a brake on development of society, leaving more skilled, productive employees (and family) to earn additional rewards. The emergence of private property to meet her forms of unequal distribution and sharing has become a progressive factor.

Each successive form of economic relations was a step forward, but only within a given civilization. At the end of industrial civilization, alienation of man, the direct producer, the conditions and results of their labor due to hypertrophy of the state monopoly of intervention in the reproductive process, distribution and redistribution of national wealth at its peak and became an obstacle to the next stage in human development and technological basis of production. The pendulum has swung in the opposite direction – the revival of small, private and personal property, the development of small and medium businesses, free competition, the direct interest the worker in the results of their labor.