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From Modernism to 1950s, National Gallery of Norway

From Modernism to 1950s (room 21 to room 24) is the fourth part of the exhibition “Dance of Life”. A comprehensive chapter with paintings by – among others – Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso, offers a background for the development of Norwegian art after 1914. Many…

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Snail Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

The Museo del Caracol (History Gallery), known for its spiral form of sea snail, was conceived as a didactic and expressive museum for children and young minors. It has twelve rooms in descending form that are equivalent to two floors of exhibition. The museum offers the opportunity to approach the…

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Alure

An alure (O. Fr., from aller, “to walk”) or allure is an architectural term for an alley, passage, the water-way or flat gutter behind a parapet, the galleries of a clerestory, or sometimes even the aisle itself of a church. The term is occasionally written valure or valoring. It may…

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Esenin Museum of Moscow, Russia

The Esenin Museum of Moscow opened in 1995. The event was timed to coincide with the poet’s 100th birth anniversary. The main exhibition, covering the life and career of the most-read Russian poet worldwide (according to UNESCO), was created by a group of volunteers and then presented to Moscow —…

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Organic abstraction

Organic abstraction is an artistic style characterized by “the use of rounded or wavy abstract forms based on what one finds in nature.” Although another case of not constituting an actual art movement, the use of rounded or wavy abstract forms based on what one finds in nature is a…

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Hong Kong Book Fair 2019, China

The 30th Hong Kong Book Fair, as a highly regarded annual event, last from July 17-23 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) in Wan Chai. The seven-day Hong Kong Book Fair attracted close to 1 million visitors in 2019, giving members of the public the chance to…

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North Wing of the Noble Residential Floor, Valentino Castle

While the work for the expansion and architectural renovation of the residence was being carried out under the supervision of Carlo and Amedeo di Castellamonte, following the wish of Cristina of France, the decoration of the two first floor apartments on the Noble Residential Floor progressed. The apartments are identical…

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Fourth dimension in art

New possibilities opened up by the concept of four-dimensional space (and difficulties involved in trying to visualize it) helped inspire many modern artists in the first half of the twentieth century. Early Cubists, Surrealists, Futurists, and abstract artists took ideas from higher-dimensional mathematics and used them to radically advance their…

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Estanquillo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

The Estanquillo Museum is located in the Historic Center of Mexico City, Mexico. The museum accommodates the personal collection of the writer Carlos Monsiváis that includes paintings, photography, toys, albums; Calendars, advertising and books. The Estanquillo Museum Collections Carlos Monsiváis is a public trust created by the Government of the…

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Umbrellas around the world, China Umbrella Museum

In some areas outside China, umbrellas have appeared very early. In ancient Egypt, the umbrella was part of the Pharaoh’s ceremonies; in ancient Greece, the umbrella was a special device for the aristocratic women’s sunshade. In the long medieval period, in addition to the Holy See retaining the umbrella of…

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North American collegiate sustainability programs

North American collegiate sustainability programs are institutions of higher education in the United States, Mexico, and Canada that have majors and/or minors dedicated to the subject of sustainability. Sustainability as a major and minor is spreading to more and more colleges as the need for humanity to adopt a more…

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Ultra-Romanticism

Ultra-Romanticism (in Portuguese, Ultrarromantismo) was a Portuguese literary movement that took place during the second half of the 19th century and later arrived in Brazil. Aesthetically similar to (but not exactly the same as) the German- and British-originated Dark Romanticism, it was typified by a tendency to exaggerate, at times…

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