Engraving as compared with painting is a popular art; many printings can be made from one plate or block and at comparatively slight cost, so that the artist’s work reaches a great number of persons. It is easy to see how this might affect the character of his work: leading him to choose subjects with which the people were familiar; to treat them in a way that should secure their interest – that is to say, with simple directness and precision, and with dramatic earnestness that should appeal
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No doubt it is true that genius is born, not made. But while it is a mistake to try and discover reasons for a man being a genius, it is proper and most interesting to note how his genius has taken on a certain shape and direction as a result of his environment.
Now, Durer was born a German; Leonardo an Italian. A great deal of the difference between the ways in which the genius of these two men manifested itself may be summed up in this statement. The Italian race, under
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This is my first serious step in interpreting for the Ryazan art school. This article is about two very famous artists: Leonardo Da Vinchi and Albreht Durer. It was written in 1978.
How instantly these two masterpieces, Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks and Durer’s Adoration of the Magi, seize our attention; yet how differently each claims our interest. In a general way, the difference consists in this, that one is full of mystery, the other of clear statement. Leonardo has imagined
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The most interesting epoch is of course ancient times. Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and so on gave the beginning to modern art, architecture and culture itself.
If i ask you a question about what are the symbols of Egypt, you will tell me for sure that these are pyramids. But not only pyramids symbolize this country. Of course the life of Egyptians was dedicated to their life after the death. That is why there is such a notion in art as a cult of the next world. When a pharaoh died,
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Russian music is clearly enjoying huge popularity. The most popular kind of instruments in Russia were string instruments such as gusli, balalayka, other popular instruments were buben, treshchotka. Though a few people can play these instruments nowadays, Russian people don't forget russian traditions and let this kind of music survive to the present days. One of the most famous kind of music now is classical music. Such russian composers like Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Rakhman
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Nowadays egg carving became very popular among designers. It is a unique hobby that makes people slaves because it is very fascinatingly. Egg carving is a delicate, elaborate art, not for the faint of heart. Egg carvers create designs on eggs that range from the size of tiny quail eggs to emu eggs, roughly the size of a cantaloupe. The designs these artists carve are as different as they eggs upon which they are produced. Simple designs might include a ribbon design or stenciled hearts, while el
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Not so long time ago I had an interview with one famous artist in Ryazan – Sergei Vladimirovich Chitaev. Just a short comment about him: Sergei Vladimirovich Chitaev – an artist-aquarellist, works in Ryazan art School, teaches special disciplines from 2002.
Alexandra Zotova: Good morning. Sergei Vladimirovich tell us, please, about your art career. How did it begin? Sergei Chitaev: To be honest, an art is my life, I do it during the whole my life. Well, I was born in 1972 and then whe
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Megastarosta has already writtne a lot concerning food art, for example about food sculptures. But this theme seems to be unbounded and we always can find something new concerning food art. This happened to me while I was surfing the Internet trying
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Hohloma ́ — the ancient Russian national craft which was born in a XVII-th century in district of Nizhni Novgorod.What is this type of art? Hohloma represents a decorative list of wooden plates and the furniture, executed black and red (and sometimes green) colour on a golden background. The silvery tin powder is put on wood at list performance not gold, but. After that the product becomes covered by special structure and three- or even four times is processed in t
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What was the last picture you saw? As for me, the last picture i saw was a "Morning flowers”. The picture was made in our Ryazan art school in water colour technique. Water colour technique developed mostly in China and only in XII century be
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Food became the best thing for creation. More than that, there are a lot of different competitions and exhibitions all over the world. One of the most outstanding food designers is Jim Victor. He likes to work with butter. Every week he spends hours and hours making different interesting statues from butter. Not so long ago an interesting exhibition was held in America where Jim presented his works from butter, chocolate, spices,
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Today we will speak about graffiti. I know that we discussed it a lot two years ago but the theme about graffiti is still popular. Well, here we wont discuss whether graffiti is a kind of vandalism or not. Here I will tell you about different styles of graffiti and show them. May be some of you remember my report about graffiti that i made in our English classes a year ago. But i didnt have a chance to tell you everything that i wanted. so, let's begin.
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Actually my blog is about dances and art, so i decided to talk about art today. first of all i want to ask you what is art for you, how do you find extraordinary art? The theme about art is really big and i will spend days talking about it. First of all, lets decide what is art. Of course you will give me a lot of meanings, but according to the Wikipidia - Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. As we all know art c
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Well, I know that you may have got lost in different break's styles but i decided to continue speaking about this kind of dance. And today will be the last post about the styles of break dance) Today I want to describe the last three styles - Slowmo, Boog (boogaloo) and Popping. Slowmo - (reduction from " slow motion "— a slowed down movement). This is an imitation of video in the slowed down reproduction. If you do this kind of break dance perfectly, it will look very and very effective
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Well, I think you will probably ask me why i am still writing about the break dance and nothing more. But there are so many different styles of it that's why i write about it a lot. Well, today i will describe another four styles - Hitting/Ticking; Strutting; Saccin' (Sacramento style); Filmore. So, the first technique is - Hitting or Ticking. These both terms means the fixing. It means a sharp reduction of muscles and as a result - a push, but not very hard.But some people think, that "h
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Well, u already know some of techniques in beak dance, but of course it is not the end.There are a lot of different types and styles in break dance. And today I will tell you about some more techniques in break dance. First of all, i want to speak about 3D - style. Well, there is not much information about this style, but is known that 3D style is the same with the strobe waving style, but the difference between them is that the dancer move 3 parts of his body step by step and he needs to
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Well, today we will continue speaking about Breaks. And today want to tell you about different techniques in this sort of Hip-Hop dance. The first sort is - Animation. This type of breaks became popular after a number of movies about Sindbad where was used the special technique -claymation. Actions are irregular. In other words each action was divided into many pieces with stops. One of the type of animation calls Sindbad style. Animation is very similar to strobing and dimestop. But the
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Well, years passed and I decided to begin my section:) So, here you will find some interesting facts about Hip-Hop culture, especially bout dance and all sorts of Hip -Hop dances and i'll tell you about modern art, especially about drawing n sculpture. Here I will show you some of my works and i hope some videos how to dance perfectly. I think its no time to wait anymore and in this month i'm going to tell you about such kind of Hip-Hop dance as BREAKDANCE or in other words BREAKS.
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