History of oil painting

The history of oil paint.
I think first of all, we, need to learn about oil paint to be able to understand the process of oil painting
The oldest Mediterranean civilization, Greek, Roman or Egyptian have extensively used painting techniques based on mixtures of encaustic (probably rich in bee wax), mineral pigments (iron, copper, manganese oxides) and tempera. Vegetal oils, such as flax, walnut or poppyseed oil were known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks or Romans, but no precise indication of their use in painting may be found. Learn and read more about oils

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Oil paints are one of the great classic media. Although the technique of oil painting, as it is used today (with some modifications), was brought to life in Europe in the 15th century by Jan van Eyck, the art of mixing oils and pigment was around during the Greek civilization. Da Vinci, Titian and then Ruben continued to hone the recipe, each bringing improvements to the technique and formula, with each generation of painters adding to its richness. Learn more about art

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Paintings are the products of a certain time and certain place, and art history naturally attempts to place these works in their larger setting. Anyone studying western art, for example, will learn to recognize the styles of the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods, and to understand the complex interplay of thought, patronage, society and economic issues that the paintings represent. It is to such an understanding that art critics refer when they insist that art today must engage with contemporary issues.source

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Modern Art in New York

Living in New York City, I have the opportunity to visit a few Art Museums. I like modern Art.

Modern Art Modern art is a general term, used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. (Recent art production is more often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art). Modern art refers to the then new approach to art where it was no longer important to represent a subject realistically — the invention of photography had made this function of art obsolete. Instead, artists started experimenting with new ways of seeing, with fresh ideas about the nature, materials and functions of art, often moving further towards abstraction.

The notion of modern art is closely related to Modernism...
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If you ever visit New York City. Here are few of the museums, you should try to visit:

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Photography appreciation. ( China's country side)

I do appreciate the arts as well photography, I'm very fun of good picture taken. A good friend of mine have shared these beautiful pictures from her native China. Her country has gorgeous country side. Hope you can appreciate these scenery great shots. You will see how beautiful China's country side is. Thanks to my friend you have the opportunity to see pictures you will rarely see posted on the internet (American's websites). Jiuzhaigou's Delightful scenery, China's fairyland... Enjoy!!!

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Jiuzhaigou is a deep valley of stunning natural beauty located in north Sichuan that covers about 620 square kilometers and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. The name Jiuzhaigou refers to the 9 Tibetan villages that are situated here. The valley has a wide variety of inspiring scenery that includes lakes, waterfalls, snowy mountains and lush green forests. The lakes, of which there are more than 100, vary in size and shape and sparkle with color in the brilliant sunlight.

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Arts for Transit, MTA New York City!

I have been living in New York City for the last eight years. I haven't really appreciated much the Art there is available on the tunnel of the NYC Subway system. Where noisy trains go fast, where people seen to crowded, every time I go to take the train. I guess the reason I haven't appreciated the Art is 'cause I've paid to much attention to the negative things, I don't like about the subway system in New York City. There are beautiful Art on many trains stations. Just to mention a couple The one on 42th and 86th streets. I like these two, they are petty good. You will find display of the Arts all over the tunnels that make the Subway here in NYC. There are awesome displays, you will enjoy...

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Arts for Transit .presents changing exhibits of photographs in the MTA Network in New York City. eThe photographs are exhibited in four exhibition centers throughout the year.
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Trainscape

MTA Arts for Transit presents Trainscape, by Ellen Jaffe, an exhibit of photographs taken from the windows of a train.
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What love is?

After chatting with my beautiful friend about these subjects I realized it would be nice to review the meaning of these intriguing subjects. She is very interested on these subjects. Sure why not? I'm posting these entries because of her. Thank you beautiful!

What love is?Definition of love: The word Love is from Old English lufu, connected with Sanskrit lubh, 'to desire' and Latin lubere, 'to please'.

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Dictionary's definition of love: Love is a strong liking for someone. It's a strong passionate affection for another person. love01

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Biblical definition of love: 1 Corithians
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things; believes all things; hopes all things; endures all things.

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Love has many meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that food") to something one would die for (patriotism, pairbonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional
state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its large psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art. The majority of modern movies have a love story and most pop music is about love.

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What nature is?

Dedicated to an Austrian princess! Should we talk philosophy? Sure, why not? I have few subjects, I will like to discuss by approaching them from a philosophical perspective...

What Nature is?
Also called the material world, the material universe, the natural world, and the natural universe... is all matter and energy Energy, especially in its essential form. Nature is the subject of scientific study. In scale, "nature" includes everything from the universal to the subatomic. This includes all things animal, plant, and mineral all natural resources and events (hurricanes , tornadoes, earthquakes) It also includes the behaviour of living animals and processes associated with inanimate objects

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I would like to share some quotes about nature:

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
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The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright:

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What Digital Art is?

Today, I was chatting with a nice young lady, I just met. Out of curiosity " What Digital Art is?" She said, I shared my definition. This is the result of this interesting meeting, then, I said to myself, Wow! What a "brilliant idea" for entry blog. Many may be intersting on learning a bit more about Digital Art. This is an interesting subject, besides I'm familiar with it, Why not post an entry to discuss What Digital Art is? This is the general definition I found online:
What Digital Art is?
Branch of the electronic arts that takes place or it is assisted by digital means, like digital painting, digital or digitized photography, modeling, digital video, animation, interactive programs and web pages

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Specially I'd like to discuss Digital Painting

Digital Painting; Digital Painting is created on a computer in digital form. The followings are examples of art computer generated as well the use of various software graphic applications were used to create these pieces

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Wormholes unlikely to allow time travel

I'm fascinated with Black Holes. they do real exist on my world.

The idea of the existence of Wormholes it is fascinating, I hope they do exist. It will be awesome to learn more about them. Researchers are saying, the idea of using Wormholes to travel from one place in the galaxy to another, It is a star trek idea whose time may never come. I truly hope so these guys are wrong.

I put much attention to professor Hawking latest news. On this article he is making news; "Wormholes unlikely to allow time travel".

. I found a very interesting a definition of what wormhole is Wormholes:

A wormhole is a pathway from one part of space and time to another more distant location. You might think of it as a shortcut through space that saves you from having to travel the normal distance between two points.

A worm hole is a mathematical solution to Einstein's relativistic equation for gravity in which two parts of space-time may be joined together. Unlike black holes, they have no singularities at least in the 'vacuum solution', but certain rotating 'Kerr-Nordstrom' black holes may serve the same worm hole-like function.

Many science fiction authors like to use them to allow spacecraft to travel quickly from place to place in our universe. But all of these ideas are based on 'pure math' descriptions of how they might work, and as you know, nature is often much messier than any idealistic, abstract rendering of it. There are no perfectly straight lines in the universe, and there are not likely to be wormholes either.
Here is another definition of wormholes this one make more sense to me. I really hope wormholes exist.
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Warmholes! (by Andrew Trapp)

Wormholes are essentially gateways between different parts of the universe and are made by linking a pair of black holes.According to this definitions it probable they exist

These astronomical phenomenon are awesome!

History of Modern painting in New York City

I would try to give a brief introduction to the history of Modern painting in New York.
For more than two centuries, artist have captured New York's harbors,skylines,festivities streets scenes, and buildings in paintings that shed brilliant light on aspects of the city's history.
In 1804 New York was a prosperous little city of about seventy thousand people. It extended two miles north from the battery to Houston Street.

In 1930, at age eighteen, Pollock moved from Los Angeles to New York City, settling in Greenwich Village. He immediately enrolled at the Art Students League, where he studied drawing and painting for five semesters with the American Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton, who soon became his mentor and friend.

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In 1936 Pollock joined the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop, in New York, where he became aware of unorthodox mediums and techniques that he later adapted in his large drip paintings. In the late 1930s Pollock worked for the Easel Division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.

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By bringing together emerging artists from Mexico City and New York City, the series of show "Cambio," curated by Kenny Schachter, introduced the work of several artists into new contexts. For those of us in New York, the artists from Mexico City

Fortunately for them, New York has had an ongoing fascination with Mexican art since the late 1920s. While artists should be aware that the interest in contemporary Mexican art

Black Holes do not exist???

Acording to an article poeted it on the first weekend of April an article Black Scientists are saying. Holes do not exist??
Scientists from California are challenging Stephen Hawking theory of the existence of Black Holes. My personal opinion is: Yes, Black Holes exist and they're very real they may sound like Science fiction 'cause of its fenmenal existence. Here is the statement rom this article:Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed can not exist. Read
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J. McClintock, the author of this article, does not buy this reasoning. Among the observations that hint at the reality of black holes are the X-ray binaries. In a typical X-ray binary, prodigious, flickering fluxes of X-rays reveal the presence of an ultradense star and an orbiting companion. The rapid orbital motion of the companion star tells us that the central X-ray star has a mass of more than three suns. General Relativity assures us that such a star can only collapse further to form a black hole. Therefore, black holes must exist.

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Do, Black Hole exist
Yes. You can't see a black hole directly, of course, since light can't get past the horizon. That means that we have to rely on indirect evidence that black holes exist.

Suppose you have found a region of space where you think there might be a black hole. How can you check whether there is one or not? The first thing you'd like to do is measure how much mass there is in that region. If you've found a large mass concentrated in a small volume, and if the mass is dark, then it's a good guess that there's a black hole there. There are two kinds of systems in which astronomers have found such compact, massive, dark objects: the centers of galaxies (including perhaps our own Milky Way Galaxy), and X-ray-emitting binary systems in our own Galaxy.

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