Ekta from No Limit Street Art Borås, Sweden Daniel Gotesson left Sweden at 18 to pursue a skateboarding and artistic career in London where he immediately got involved in graffiti scene. After returning home 9 years after he founded ORO gallery in Göteborg with 6 other artists. Just recently Daniel’s…
Virtuality is a concept in philosophy elaborated by French thinker Gilles Deleuze. The virtualization is the passage of current to the virtual. For Pierre Lévy the virtual is not the opposite of the real, but a continuation of it. There are several types of virtualization, such as the virtualization of…
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization. In addition to describing a particular form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental consequences associated with this…
The origin of Venetian cuisine is conceived under the long and glorious historical and cultural background of this unique city. Gourmet cuisine often comes from the surrounding environment, which also happens to be the most special place in Venetian cuisine. Geographically, there is a lack of land around the lagoon,…
Unit Pengelola Museum belongs to The Department of Tourism and Culture of the Special Capital Province of Jakarta, one of the provincial government agencies of DKI Jakarta. This service is responsible and responsible for all matters related to culture and tourism in Jakarta and Kepulauan Seribu. Jakarta Art Museum is…
FAUNO from Estilo Libre, Buenos Aires, Argentina Somos un equipo de artistas, amantes del graffiti y la cultura urbana. Profesionales de Artes Visuales, Diseño, Comunicación, y emprendimientos sociales, consideramos que la expresión artística en el espacio público contribuye a la transformación social. Creemos que la conformación y consolidación de un…
Octagon on cube (also octagon on the quadrangle) is a type of architectural composition, in which a building is designed so as the upper octagon-shaped part is placed on the lower cube-shaped part. This composition has been mainly used to design Russian orthodox churches. History Initially, this architectural solution became…
Established in 1999, the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is the world’s leading organisation for Live Art, producing specialized projects, opportunities, resources and publications for those who make, watch, research, study, teach, produce, present, write about and archive Live Art, and creating conditions in which diversity, innovation and risk in…
Pera Museum is an art museum in the Tepebaşı quarter of the Beyoğlu (Pera) district in Istanbul, Turkey, located at Meşrutiyet Avenue No. 65 (adjacent to İstiklal Avenue and in close proximity to Taksim Square.) It has a particular focus on Orientalism in 19th-century art. The Pera Museum opened its…
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the term of…
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, was held from February 9 to 13, 2016. Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is the world’s largest meeting place for Scandinavian design. It has the most comprehensive selection of furniture, office furnishings, lighting, design objects, textiles and other interior furnishing for both homes and public…
Cistercian architecture is a style of architecture associated with the churches, monasteries and abbeys of the Roman Catholic Cistercian Order. It was headed by Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), who believed that churches should avoid superfluous ornamentation so as not to distract from the religious life. Cistercian architecture was…
Speech recognition is the inter-disciplinary sub-field of computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech to text (STT). It incorporates knowledge and research in…
This specialized article lists the recurring themes of Romanticism in Art and Literature. Thematically, in the time of Romanticism, there was above all a renewed interest in landscape painting. The intense experience of nature and the wonder about her grandeur were central. However, landscapes were not the only thing, on…
Ca ‘Giustinian is a palace in Venice, located in the San Marco district, is a gothic palace overlooking the Grand Canal, with spaces for conferences, concerts & exhibitions. Following the restoration of the palace, since 2010 Ca ‘Giustinian has been hosting all the organizing offices of the Venice Biennale. Overview…
Amsterdam Impressionism was an art movement in late 19th-century Holland. It is associated especially with George Hendrik Breitner and is also known as the School of Allebé. These Amsterdam painters distinguished themselves from the Hague and Laren Schools mainly because of their choice of subject, which of course focused on…
Ernst Fries (born June 22, 1801 in Heidelberg, Kurpfalz, dead October 11, 1833 in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden) was a German landscape painter in the transition from Romanticism to realism. He was buried in his native town of Heidelberg. His brother, Bernhard Fries, was a landscape painter of note.…
The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the early 20th century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city’s poorer neighborhoods. The most famous artists working in this style…
The School of Ferrara was a group of painters which flourished in the Duchy of Ferrara during the Renaissance. Ferrara was ruled by the Este family, well known for its patronage of the arts. Patronage was extended with the ascent of Ercole d’Este I in 1470, and the family continued…
Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes garden products from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the mainland, game, and polenta. Venice is not known for a peculiar cuisine of its own: it combines local traditions with influences stemming from age-old contacts with distant countries. These include…
Eastern Orthodox church architecture constitutes a distinct, recognizable family of styles among church architectures. These styles share a cluster of fundamental similarities, having been influenced by the common legacy of Byzantine architecture from the Eastern Roman Empire. Some of the styles have become associated with the particular traditions of one…
The 6th arrondissement of Marseille is one of the 16 arrondissements of Marseille. It is part of the fourth sector of Marseille. It is part of one of the wealthiest districts of Marseille with the 8 th and 7 th, which it borders on the south and west. It is…
As we all know, Xu Beihong’s greatest contribution to Chinese art was that after studying in France in 1919, he introduced oil painting and sketching systems to China through schooling, education, and communication, and established a modern art education system. The exhibition established the artistic standpoint of Xu Beihong’s oil…
Fidel Aguilar i Marcó (Jul 20, 1894 – 1917) va ser un precoç escultor gironí que tot i morir amb només 22 anys va aconseguir un cert reconeixement en l’àmbit de l’escultura. He was born 20 of July of 1894 in the street of the Cort Reial of Gerona, although…
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Ekta from No Limit Street Art Borås, Sweden Daniel Gotesson left Sweden at 18 to pursue a skateboarding and artistic career in London where he immediately got involved in graffiti scene. After returning home 9 years after he founded ORO gallery in Göteborg with 6 other artists. Just recently Daniel’s…
Read moreVirtuality in philosophy
Virtuality is a concept in philosophy elaborated by French thinker Gilles Deleuze. The virtualization is the passage of current to the virtual. For Pierre Lévy the virtual is not the opposite of the real, but a continuation of it. There are several types of virtualization, such as the virtualization of…
Read moreUrban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization. In addition to describing a particular form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental consequences associated with this…
Read moreTravel Guide of Venetian Culinary Journey, Italy
The origin of Venetian cuisine is conceived under the long and glorious historical and cultural background of this unique city. Gourmet cuisine often comes from the surrounding environment, which also happens to be the most special place in Venetian cuisine. Geographically, there is a lack of land around the lagoon,…
Read moreUnit Pengelola Museum Seni, Indonesia
Unit Pengelola Museum belongs to The Department of Tourism and Culture of the Special Capital Province of Jakarta, one of the provincial government agencies of DKI Jakarta. This service is responsible and responsible for all matters related to culture and tourism in Jakarta and Kepulauan Seribu. Jakarta Art Museum is…
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FAUNO from Estilo Libre, Buenos Aires, Argentina Somos un equipo de artistas, amantes del graffiti y la cultura urbana. Profesionales de Artes Visuales, Diseño, Comunicación, y emprendimientos sociales, consideramos que la expresión artística en el espacio público contribuye a la transformación social. Creemos que la conformación y consolidación de un…
Read moreOctagon on cube
Octagon on cube (also octagon on the quadrangle) is a type of architectural composition, in which a building is designed so as the upper octagon-shaped part is placed on the lower cube-shaped part. This composition has been mainly used to design Russian orthodox churches. History Initially, this architectural solution became…
Read moreLive Art Development Agency (LADA) London, United Kingdom
Established in 1999, the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is the world’s leading organisation for Live Art, producing specialized projects, opportunities, resources and publications for those who make, watch, research, study, teach, produce, present, write about and archive Live Art, and creating conditions in which diversity, innovation and risk in…
Read morePera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Pera Museum is an art museum in the Tepebaşı quarter of the Beyoğlu (Pera) district in Istanbul, Turkey, located at Meşrutiyet Avenue No. 65 (adjacent to İstiklal Avenue and in close proximity to Taksim Square.) It has a particular focus on Orientalism in 19th-century art. The Pera Museum opened its…
Read moreNavigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the term of…
Read moreReview of Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, was held from February 9 to 13, 2016. Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is the world’s largest meeting place for Scandinavian design. It has the most comprehensive selection of furniture, office furnishings, lighting, design objects, textiles and other interior furnishing for both homes and public…
Read moreCistercian architecture
Cistercian architecture is a style of architecture associated with the churches, monasteries and abbeys of the Roman Catholic Cistercian Order. It was headed by Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), who believed that churches should avoid superfluous ornamentation so as not to distract from the religious life. Cistercian architecture was…
Read moreSpeech recognition
Speech recognition is the inter-disciplinary sub-field of computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech to text (STT). It incorporates knowledge and research in…
Read moreThemes of Romanticism
This specialized article lists the recurring themes of Romanticism in Art and Literature. Thematically, in the time of Romanticism, there was above all a renewed interest in landscape painting. The intense experience of nature and the wonder about her grandeur were central. However, landscapes were not the only thing, on…
Read moreCa ‘Giustinian, Venice, Italy
Ca ‘Giustinian is a palace in Venice, located in the San Marco district, is a gothic palace overlooking the Grand Canal, with spaces for conferences, concerts & exhibitions. Following the restoration of the palace, since 2010 Ca ‘Giustinian has been hosting all the organizing offices of the Venice Biennale. Overview…
Read moreAmsterdam Impressionism
Amsterdam Impressionism was an art movement in late 19th-century Holland. It is associated especially with George Hendrik Breitner and is also known as the School of Allebé. These Amsterdam painters distinguished themselves from the Hague and Laren Schools mainly because of their choice of subject, which of course focused on…
Read moreErnst Fries
Ernst Fries (born June 22, 1801 in Heidelberg, Kurpfalz, dead October 11, 1833 in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden) was a German landscape painter in the transition from Romanticism to realism. He was buried in his native town of Heidelberg. His brother, Bernhard Fries, was a landscape painter of note.…
Read moreAshcan School
The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the early 20th century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city’s poorer neighborhoods. The most famous artists working in this style…
Read moreSchool of Ferrara
The School of Ferrara was a group of painters which flourished in the Duchy of Ferrara during the Renaissance. Ferrara was ruled by the Este family, well known for its patronage of the arts. Patronage was extended with the ascent of Ercole d’Este I in 1470, and the family continued…
Read moreVenice Cuisine, Food of the Water City, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO
Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes garden products from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the mainland, game, and polenta. Venice is not known for a peculiar cuisine of its own: it combines local traditions with influences stemming from age-old contacts with distant countries. These include…
Read moreEastern Orthodox church architecture
Eastern Orthodox church architecture constitutes a distinct, recognizable family of styles among church architectures. These styles share a cluster of fundamental similarities, having been influenced by the common legacy of Byzantine architecture from the Eastern Roman Empire. Some of the styles have become associated with the particular traditions of one…
Read more6th arrondissement of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
The 6th arrondissement of Marseille is one of the 16 arrondissements of Marseille. It is part of the fourth sector of Marseille. It is part of one of the wealthiest districts of Marseille with the 8 th and 7 th, which it borders on the south and west. It is…
Read moreOil Painting: Concern to People’s Livelihood, Xu beihong: Living Art Forever, China Central Academy of Fine Arts
As we all know, Xu Beihong’s greatest contribution to Chinese art was that after studying in France in 1919, he introduced oil painting and sketching systems to China through schooling, education, and communication, and established a modern art education system. The exhibition established the artistic standpoint of Xu Beihong’s oil…
Read moreFidel Aguilar Marcó
Fidel Aguilar i Marcó (Jul 20, 1894 – 1917) va ser un precoç escultor gironí que tot i morir amb només 22 anys va aconseguir un cert reconeixement en l’àmbit de l’escultura. He was born 20 of July of 1894 in the street of the Cort Reial of Gerona, although…
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