11 Monday Mar 2019

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Petrovaradinska tvrđava, Novi Sad, Srbija

Petrovaradin Fortress nicknamed “Gibraltar on the Danube” is a fortress in the town of Petrovaradin, itself part of the City of Novi Sad, Serbia. It is located on the right bank of the Danube river.

 

Decebalus

08 Friday Mar 2019

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The rock sculpture of Decebalus is a 42.9 m in height and 31.6 m in width carving in rock of the face of Decebalus, the last king of Dacia, who fought against the Roman emperors Domitian and Trajan to preserve the independence of his country, which corresponded to modern Romania. The sculpture was made on a rocky outcrop on the river Danube, at the Iron Gates, which form the border between Romania and Serbia. It is located near the city of Orșova in Romania. It is the tallest rock relief in Europe.It was commissioned by Romanian businessman Iosif Constantin Drăgan and it took 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, for twelve sculptors to finish it.

Đerdap

03 Sunday Mar 2019

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P3670666Golubački grad /Cetatea Golubăț /The Golubac Fortress

Medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River, 4 km downstream from the modern-day town of Golubac, Serbia. Marks the entrance to the Đerdap national park. It is strategically located on the embankment of the Danube River where it narrows to form the Iron Gate gorge. The name of the fortress and the modern town in its vicinity can be translated as the “Pigeon city” or the “Dove city”. Myth tell about beautiful Serbian girl named Golubana. A local Turkish pasha fell in love with her, but she loved a young Serbian man and rejected all the proposals and expensive gifts from the pasha. Angered, he took her down in a boat and either imprisoned her in the only cone-roofed tower, or tied her to the rock above the river and left her there until she died.

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Temišvar /Timișoara

15 Friday Feb 2019

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Piaţa Victoriei – Catedrala Mitropolitană din Timișoara / Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral
The Orthodox cathedral was built between 1936 and 1946. It’s unique for its Byzantine influenced architecture, which recalls the style of the Bucovina monasteries. At 83m, the dome is the highest in Romania.

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Brancusi

16 Wednesday Jan 2019

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Constantin Brancusi, Endless Column

Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was commissioned by the Women’s League of Gorj to honor the soldiers who defended Târgu-Jiu against a German force during World War I. The sculpture is a 30 meter high, column of zinc, brass-clad, cast-iron modules threaded onto a steel spine, and is part of a three-sculpture ensemble along with two travertine monuments called Gate of the Kiss and Table of Silence.

Brancusi

14 Monday Jan 2019

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Constantin Brâncuși, The Table of Silence, Târgu Jiu

Circular stone table surrounded by twelve hourglass-seats, which symbolize time. The Table of Silence represents the moment before the battle on which the combatants were going to participate. Nevertheless, the seats are not located close to the edges of the table.

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echo XIV

04 Wednesday Jul 2018

Da, tudi ti si Nit v Preprogi Dneva, / in tudi tebe Noč z užitkom pije, / a preden te posrka, te prelije / Roka v nov Plamen, da te razodeva … // Morda ne srečaš svojega Odseva / v Pokrajini Zrcal, a vse so tvoje / Oči, in vsakdo tvojo Pesem poje, / in vsakdo v tebi svojo Pot najdeva … // V Morju Trav si krhka Bilka Trave, / krog tebe šepeta si Bilk nešteto, / iz iste Zemlje kličete v Višave, / isto Nebo nad vami je razpeto … // Šotor Ljubezni zeleni v Tišini, / nešteto Bilk prepeva v Ednini …

Šotor Ljubezni / Nežnost, Jaka Košir, 2004

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Krašovec

04 Friday May 2018

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Metka Krašovec, akvarel, februar, 2009

»Metka Krašovec premore v svojih predalih obilico malih akvarelov, ki nastajajo že leta in so v resnici intimne meditacije na temo. Mali utrinki, pomisleki ali samo vprašanja, ki jih Metka zapisuje na papir. To so hitri zapisi, včasih že kar podzavestni. Človeške figure delujejo skoraj kot grafični znaki, ki plešejo nenavadno koreografijo v breztežnostnem stanju. A vsaka podoba ima svojo jasno likovno sporočilo. Enostavnost potez, s katerimi so upodobljene figure, zapleta govorica teles. Ta je tisti fokus slik, ki jih dela nenavadne in gledalcu zastavlja fine “uganke”. Mogoče celo avtorici sami. Ali pa so to že nekakšni odgovori, ki jih je treba le še dešifrirati. Lahko pa si to serijo slik razlagamo tudi kot izsek iz dnevnika čustev, nekakšen ples duha,« je zapisal likovni urednik Pavle Učakar.