The 58th international art exhibition, entitled May You Live In Interesting Times, directed by Ralph Rugoff, took place from 11th May to 24th November 2019. The title is a phrase of English invention that has long been mistakenly cited as an ancient Chinese curse that invokes periods of uncertainty, crisis…
The hierarchical perspective (sometimes called “symbolic” although the whole representation in perspective goes through symbolization) is the representation of the graphic perspective in which the characters have a dimension that varies according to their importance. Hierarchical proportion is a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which…
A solar mirror contains a substrate with a reflective layer for reflecting the solar energy, and in most cases an interference layer. This may be a planar mirror or parabolic arrays of solar mirrors used to achieve a substantially concentrated reflection factor for solar energy systems. See article “Heliostat” for…
Windsurfing, also known as sailboarding, funboarding or wave-sailing, is a popular sport activity involving a sail and surfboard to move above the water. Although it is a recognized Olympic sport since 1984, it mainly remains a non-competitive past-time in coastal areas. Obviously, windsurfing distinguishes itself from traditional surfing primarily through…
Indianism is a Brazilian literary and artistic movement that reached its peak during the first stages of Romanticism, though it had been present in Brazilian literature since the Baroque period. While in the European continent the romantics idealized the medieval knight, in this indigenous nation, since in Brazil the historical…
Tour cycling or bicycle touring is cycling for long distance transportation (outside a single city or settlement), rather than urban cycling, sport, or exercise. Cycling has many advantages as a form of travel, as it is the fastest way to travel by human power, and slow enough to allow the…
YPbPr or Y’PbPr, also written as YPBPR, is a color space used in video electronics, in particular in reference to component video cables. YPbPr is the analog version of the YCbCr color space; the two are numerically equivalent but YPbPr is designed for use in analog systems while YCbCr is intended for digital…
Siberian Baroque is an architectural style common for ambitious structures in 18th-century Siberia, where 115 stone churches in Siberia were recorded in 1803, most of which were built in this provincial variant of the Russian Baroque, influenced by the Ukrainian Baroque and in some cases even incorporating lamaist motifs. Most…
A colour triangle is an arrangement of colours within a triangle, based on the additive combination of three primary colors at its corners. An additive colour space defined by three primary colors has a chromaticity gamut that is a color triangle, when the amounts of the primaries are constrained to…
Strawberry box houses or Strawberry-box bungalow was a style of homes built during World War II and into the 1950s to 1960s and found throughout Canada. The style utilizes a square or rectangular foundation and named due to the similarity with boxes used to hold strawberries. History During World War…
Religious art or sacred art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual. Sacred art involves the ritual and cultic practices and practical and operative aspects of the path of the spiritual realization within the artist’s religious tradition. Christian…
Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art. By May 2017 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries. Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos. The…
Collage film is a style of film created by juxtaposing found footage from disparate sources. The term has also been applied to the physical collaging of materials onto film stock. Surrealist roots of collage film The surrealist movement played a critical role in the creation of the collage film form.…
Sino-Portuguese architecture (Chinese: 中葡建築, Thai: สถาปัตยกรรมจีน-โปรตุเกส or ชิโนโปรตุกีส) is a hybrid architecture style incorporating Chinese and the Portuguese architecture styles. The style was traditionally common in wealthy urban centers where Chinese settlers lived in southern China and the Malay Peninsula, with a myriad of examples found across present day Peninsular…
Aigues-Mortes is a French commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie region of southern France. At the time of Louis IX the city was a thriving port where the Crusaders embarked for the Holy Land. Nowdays, Aigues-Mortes is 6 km from the sea and has the face of a…
Frontierland is one of the “themed lands” at the many Disneyland-style parks run by Disney around the world. Themed to the American Frontier of the 19th century, Frontierlands are home to cowboys and pioneers, saloons, red rock buttes and gold rushes. Frontierland is home to the Pinewood Indians band of…
The Mikhail Prishvin Memorial Museum was opened in 1980 at the behest of the widow of the writer Valeria Prishvina. The museum exposition consists of the restored rooms of the writer: a dining room, an office, rooms of the writer’s wife and a veranda, as well as a library. Biography…
Art Nouveau architecture in Riga makes up roughly one third of all buildings in the centre of Riga, making the Latvian capital the city with the highest concentration of Art Nouveau architecture anywhere in the world. Built during a period of rapid economic growth, most of the Art Nouveau buildings…
During the Edo period, play such as Kabuki became popular, and when the clothing of the actors was introduced in Nishikie and Ukiyo-e, the attire of the common people became more gorgeous and gorgeous. In addition to short sleeves, kimonos and strikes of the Edo period, we will exhibit the…
Aigues-Mortes is a French commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie region of southern France. At the time of Louis IX the city was a thriving port where the Crusaders embarked for the Holy Land. Nowdays, Aigues-Mortes is 6 km from the sea and has the face of a…
Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases, the direct construction…
For any mobile device, the ability to navigate in its environment is important. Avoiding dangerous situations such as collisions and unsafe conditions (temperature, radiation, exposure to weather, etc.) comes first, but if the robot has a purpose that relates to specific places in the robot environment, it must find those…
The Foundation for Art and Culture Bonn (German: Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V.) has since served as a think tank, and as a driver and organiser of activities embracing the entire spectrum of contemporary visual art, which launched as a private sector initiative in 1986. Its main focus lies…
In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors (typically red, green, and blue primary colors). An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific colors – particularly neutral colors – correctly. Hence, the general method is sometimes called gray balance,…
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Venice Biennale of Art 2019, Exhibition Venues Around the Town, Italy
The 58th international art exhibition, entitled May You Live In Interesting Times, directed by Ralph Rugoff, took place from 11th May to 24th November 2019. The title is a phrase of English invention that has long been mistakenly cited as an ancient Chinese curse that invokes periods of uncertainty, crisis…
Read moreHierarchical proportion
The hierarchical perspective (sometimes called “symbolic” although the whole representation in perspective goes through symbolization) is the representation of the graphic perspective in which the characters have a dimension that varies according to their importance. Hierarchical proportion is a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which…
Read moreSolar mirror
A solar mirror contains a substrate with a reflective layer for reflecting the solar energy, and in most cases an interference layer. This may be a planar mirror or parabolic arrays of solar mirrors used to achieve a substantially concentrated reflection factor for solar energy systems. See article “Heliostat” for…
Read moreWindsurfing tourism
Windsurfing, also known as sailboarding, funboarding or wave-sailing, is a popular sport activity involving a sail and surfboard to move above the water. Although it is a recognized Olympic sport since 1984, it mainly remains a non-competitive past-time in coastal areas. Obviously, windsurfing distinguishes itself from traditional surfing primarily through…
Read moreIndianism
Indianism is a Brazilian literary and artistic movement that reached its peak during the first stages of Romanticism, though it had been present in Brazilian literature since the Baroque period. While in the European continent the romantics idealized the medieval knight, in this indigenous nation, since in Brazil the historical…
Read moreTour cycling guide
Tour cycling or bicycle touring is cycling for long distance transportation (outside a single city or settlement), rather than urban cycling, sport, or exercise. Cycling has many advantages as a form of travel, as it is the fastest way to travel by human power, and slow enough to allow the…
Read moreYPbPr
YPbPr or Y’PbPr, also written as YPBPR, is a color space used in video electronics, in particular in reference to component video cables. YPbPr is the analog version of the YCbCr color space; the two are numerically equivalent but YPbPr is designed for use in analog systems while YCbCr is intended for digital…
Read moreSiberian Baroque
Siberian Baroque is an architectural style common for ambitious structures in 18th-century Siberia, where 115 stone churches in Siberia were recorded in 1803, most of which were built in this provincial variant of the Russian Baroque, influenced by the Ukrainian Baroque and in some cases even incorporating lamaist motifs. Most…
Read moreColor triangle
A colour triangle is an arrangement of colours within a triangle, based on the additive combination of three primary colors at its corners. An additive colour space defined by three primary colors has a chromaticity gamut that is a color triangle, when the amounts of the primaries are constrained to…
Read moreStrawberry box houses
Strawberry box houses or Strawberry-box bungalow was a style of homes built during World War II and into the 1950s to 1960s and found throughout Canada. The style utilizes a square or rectangular foundation and named due to the similarity with boxes used to hold strawberries. History During World War…
Read moreReligious art
Religious art or sacred art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual. Sacred art involves the ritual and cultic practices and practical and operative aspects of the path of the spiritual realization within the artist’s religious tradition. Christian…
Read moreStuckism
Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art. By May 2017 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries. Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos. The…
Read moreCollage film
Collage film is a style of film created by juxtaposing found footage from disparate sources. The term has also been applied to the physical collaging of materials onto film stock. Surrealist roots of collage film The surrealist movement played a critical role in the creation of the collage film form.…
Read moreSino-Portuguese architecture
Sino-Portuguese architecture (Chinese: 中葡建築, Thai: สถาปัตยกรรมจีน-โปรตุเกส or ชิโนโปรตุกีส) is a hybrid architecture style incorporating Chinese and the Portuguese architecture styles. The style was traditionally common in wealthy urban centers where Chinese settlers lived in southern China and the Malay Peninsula, with a myriad of examples found across present day Peninsular…
Read moreAigues-Mortes, Gard, Occitania, France
Aigues-Mortes is a French commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie region of southern France. At the time of Louis IX the city was a thriving port where the Crusaders embarked for the Holy Land. Nowdays, Aigues-Mortes is 6 km from the sea and has the face of a…
Read moreGuide Tour of Frontierland, Disneyland Park, California, United States
Frontierland is one of the “themed lands” at the many Disneyland-style parks run by Disney around the world. Themed to the American Frontier of the 19th century, Frontierlands are home to cowboys and pioneers, saloons, red rock buttes and gold rushes. Frontierland is home to the Pinewood Indians band of…
Read moreHouse-Museum of Mikhail Prishvin, Moscow, Russia
The Mikhail Prishvin Memorial Museum was opened in 1980 at the behest of the widow of the writer Valeria Prishvina. The museum exposition consists of the restored rooms of the writer: a dining room, an office, rooms of the writer’s wife and a veranda, as well as a library. Biography…
Read moreArt Nouveau architecture in Riga
Art Nouveau architecture in Riga makes up roughly one third of all buildings in the centre of Riga, making the Latvian capital the city with the highest concentration of Art Nouveau architecture anywhere in the world. Built during a period of rapid economic growth, most of the Art Nouveau buildings…
Read moreEdo period costume and Ukiyoe print, Tokyo National Museum
During the Edo period, play such as Kabuki became popular, and when the clothing of the actors was introduced in Nishikie and Ukiyo-e, the attire of the common people became more gorgeous and gorgeous. In addition to short sleeves, kimonos and strikes of the Edo period, we will exhibit the…
Read moreAigues-Mortes, Gard, Occitania, France
Aigues-Mortes is a French commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie region of southern France. At the time of Louis IX the city was a thriving port where the Crusaders embarked for the Holy Land. Nowdays, Aigues-Mortes is 6 km from the sea and has the face of a…
Read moreDesign
Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases, the direct construction…
Read moreRobot navigation
For any mobile device, the ability to navigate in its environment is important. Avoiding dangerous situations such as collisions and unsafe conditions (temperature, radiation, exposure to weather, etc.) comes first, but if the robot has a purpose that relates to specific places in the robot environment, it must find those…
Read moreFoundation for Art and Culture, Bonn, Germany
The Foundation for Art and Culture Bonn (German: Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V.) has since served as a think tank, and as a driver and organiser of activities embracing the entire spectrum of contemporary visual art, which launched as a private sector initiative in 1986. Its main focus lies…
Read moreColor balance
In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors (typically red, green, and blue primary colors). An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific colors – particularly neutral colors – correctly. Hence, the general method is sometimes called gray balance,…
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