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POPSStreet Art (II) not only walls and murals, many examples and tips how to humanize cold urban environment
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POPS Oil painting 'invented in Asia, not Europe' A dozen out of the 50 caves were painted with oil painting technique, using perhaps walnut and poppy seed oils, conclude Ms Yoko Taniguchi from the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Tokyo. "This is the earliest clear example of oil paintings in the world, although drying oils were already used by ancient Romans and Egyptians, but only as medicines and cosmetics", explains Ms Taniguchi, leader of the team. The results showed a high diversity of pigments as well as binders and the scientists identified original ingredients and alteration compounds. Apart from oil-based paint layers, some of the layers were made of natural resins, proteins, gums, and, in some cases, a resinous, varnish-like layer. The paintings are probably the work of artists who travelled on the Silk Road.
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POPSThe Corn Palace ("corn-septual art" and "ear-chitecture") The original Palace was established in 1892. The third and present building was completed for its first festival at the present location in 1921. 604 North Main, Mitchell, South Dakota 57301 http://www.cornpalace.org/index.html more photos: http://flickriver.com/search/+Corn+Palace%2C+Mitchell%2C+South+Dakota+/interesting/ more corn-related clips: queerty's clip: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/84D625B9-958C-4720-B2EF-EA740734AF3E/ aribeth's clip: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E6BAFF50-FE60-435E-AB21-199687768D80/ amgumen's clip: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/898F8A3E-F14D-4BF7-A6D1-F2DE378A3DF1/ boozich's clip: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6A28772F-993A-4260-9C69-38C917C6C1C4/
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POPSThe Matisse Chapel, France In 1941, Matisse, who lived most of the year in Nice in the south of France, developed cancer and underwent surgery. During the long recovery he was particularly helped by a young part-time nurse, Monique Bourgeois, who had answered his ad seeking "a young and pretty nurse" and who took care of Matisse with great tenderness. Matisse asked her to pose for him, which she did, and several drawings and paintings exist. In 1943 Monique decided to enter the Dominican convent in Vence, a nearby hill town to Nice, and she became Sister Jacques-Marie.
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POPSThe Blue Train, Paris Le Train Bleu is a far cry from Paris' crowded, noisy brasseries where clients have to squeeze in between tiny bistro tables. And its priceless ambience is well worth a splurge, at least once.
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POPSDIEGO RIVERA - December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957
Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato. Studied painting in Mexico before going to Europe in 1907. While in Europe he took up cubism and had exhibitions in Paris and Madrid in 1913; he then had a show in New York City in 1916. In 1921 he returned to Mexico, where he undertook government-sponsored murals that reflected his communist politics in historical contexts. He married Frida Kahlo in 1929, and their tempestuous marriage got to be as famous as their art. In the 1930s and '40s Rivera worked in the United States and Mexico, and many of his paintings drew controversy. His 1933 mural for the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan featured a portrait of Communist Party leader Lenin, the resulting uproar led to his dismissal and to the mural's official destruction in 1934. Similarly, a 1948 mural for the Hotel de Prado in Mexico that included the words "God does not exist" was covered and held from public view for nine years.
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