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Hrastovlje / Cristoglia

10 Sunday Jan 2021

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Ime naselja naj bi izhajalo iz ogljarskih dejavnosti takratnih prebivalcev (s korenom besede »hrast-oglje«) ali pa preko italijanskega poimenovanja romarske poti Via del Cristo, iz katere naj bi se razvila beseda Cristovia, nato Hrastovia in nazadnje Hrastovlje.

Mednarodno prepoznana je vas postala leta 1949, ko je domačin, kipar Jože Pohlen, v lokalni cerkvi Svete Trojice, enem izmed najstarejših objektov v Istri, razkril freske Mrtvaški ples.

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O’Keeffe

16 Wednesday Dec 2020

Georgia O’Keeffe, Music – Pink and Blue No.1, 1918

While painting, O’Keeffe occasionally listened to music, translating her emotions onto paper. She herself was not very musical, she loved to sing but acknowledged that she couldn’t – so she painted.

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Arvo Pärt Centre

02 Wednesday Dec 2020

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Arvo Pärdi Keskus, Laulasmaa, Estonia

The Arvo Pärt Centre is a foundation responsible for maintaining the personal archive of classical composer Arvo Pärt and operating as an information centre on the composer and his works. The centre is located in the coastal village of Laulasmaa in Lääne-Harju Parish, Estonia, about 35 kilometres to the west from Tallinn. It was established in 2010 by the Pärt family. In October 2018 the new building of the centre, designed by Spanish architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, was opened to the public.

Chagall

26 Thursday Nov 2020

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Marc Chagall, La Vie, 1964

The painting incorporates all the themes that characterized his work. In a pyrotechnical burst of color, it depicts the painter’s youth and Hebraic inspiration, his fabulous imaginary world peopled with clowns, musicians and acrobats, his fairytale animals, maternity – in short, an ode to life.

Gertler

09 Wednesday Sep 2020

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Jana Gertler, Minstrel, 1980

The bright atmosphere of the Minstrel camouflages the monologue-like musical appearance. In the luminous nostalgic state of after-break cover, David himself contemplates us. The quietude and the state of calmness make the unheard melody vibrate even after the violin bow is silent. The gingery asperities of the works have savour, and the dense texture of the burnt granules must be felt in ancient key. The mythical figure of the young man, conceived as if from the dust of Petra, is torn from the mysterious legends of the past. I do not know why they give me the impression that he just sang for the righteous.
Adrian Buga, Jana Gertler, Imagini din spatele frunţii /Images from behind the forehead, 2013

Rodin

23 Sunday Aug 2020

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Auguste Rodin, Calaijski meščani /The Burghers of Calais /Les Bourgeois de Calais

The Burghers of Calais, commemorating an episode during the Hundred Years’ War between England and France, is probably the best and certainly the most successful of Rodin’s public monuments. Rodin closely followed the account of the French chronicler Jean Froissart stating that six of the principal citizens of Calais were ordered to come out of the besieged city with heads and feet bare, ropes around their necks, and the keys of the town and the castle in their hands. They were brought before the English king Edward III, who ordered their beheading. Rodin portrayed them at the moment of departure from their city led by Eustache de Saint-Pierre, the bearded man in the middle of the group. At his side, Jean d’Aire carries a giant-sized key. Their oversized feet are bare, several have ropes around their necks, and all are in various states of despair, expecting imminent death and unaware that their lives will ultimately be saved by the intercession of the English queen Philippa. The arrangement of the group, with its unorthodox massing and subtle internal rhythms, was not easily settled.

La Fontana Maggiore

08 Monday Jun 2020

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The Fontana Maggiore is a monumental medieval fountain located between the cathedral and the Palazzo dei Priori in the city of Perugia in Italy. It was made between 1277 and 1278 by sculptors Nicola Pisano and Giovanni Pisano.

Raffaello

15 Friday May 2020

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Scuola di Atene /The School of Athens, Palazzi Apostolici, Stato della Città del Vaticano

Zenone di Cizio, Epicuro, Federico II Gonzaga, Severino Boezio, Averroè, Pitagora, Telaugue, Alcibiade, Antistene, Kalokagathia greca, Eschine, Parmenide, Socrate, Eraclito, Platone, Arisotele, Diogene di Sinope, Plotino, Euclide, Claudio Tolomeo, Apelle, Protogene

Michelangelo

13 Wednesday May 2020

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Michelangelo Buonarroti, La Cappella Sistina, Musei Vaticani, Roma, 1508-1512

Named after Pope Sixtus IV, the Sistine Chapel is perhaps the most famous chapel in the world. It is renowned both for its function as the Papal Conclave and for its incredible artwork. The ceiling and western wall of the Sistine Chapel are adorned with some of the most astonishing paintings in the world created by the famous artist. The middle section depicts nine stories from the Book of Genesis, including the renowned ‘Creation of Adam’ where the hand of God is seen reaching to Adam to instill him with life. Despite being one of the most celebrated works of art in history, Michelangelo was originally hesitant to paint the ceiling of the chapel for he considered himself as more of a sculptor than a painter.

 

Giotto

14 Tuesday Apr 2020

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Giotto, St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, 1295-1300, Fresco, St. Francis Upper Church, Assisi, Italy

Najvišji, vsemogočni, dobri Gospod, / tebi hvala, slava in čast in ves blagoslov. / Tebi, najvišjemu, edinemu pristoji / in nihče ni vreden tebe imenovati. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, z vsemi tvojimi stvarmi, / posebno s soncem, velikim bratom, / ki razsvetljuje dneve in nas. / Lepo je in v velikem sijaju žari. / Tebe, Najvišji, odseva. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v sestri luni in zvezdah; / ustvaril si jih na nebu jasne, dragocene in lepe. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v bratu vetru in zraku, / v oblačnem in jasnem, / sploh vsakem vremenu, / s katerim ohranjaš svoje stvari. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v naši sestri vodi; / mnogo koristi ponižna, dobra in čista. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v našem bratu ognju, / v katerem nam noč razsvetljuješ; / lep je in vesel in krepak in močan. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v naši sestri zemlji, / ki nas kakor mati hrani in nam gospodinji, / in prinaša različno sadje / in pisane rože z zelenjem. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v onih, / ki zaradi tvoje ljubezni odpuščajo, / in prenašajo slabosti in trpljenje. / Blagor njim, ki ostanejo v miru, / zakaj ti, Najvišji, jih boš kronal. // Hvaljen, moj Gospod, v naši sestri smrti, / ki ji nihče v življenju ne uide. / Gorje njim, ki umrjejo v smrtnem grehu, / a blagor njim, ki počivajo v tvoji najsvetejši volji, / zakaj druga smrt jim ne bo mogla storiti žalega. // Hvalite in poveličujte mojega Gospoda in zahvalite se mu in služite mu / v veliki ponižnosti.

Sončna pesem, Sveti Frančišek Asiški

Monet

28 Saturday Mar 2020

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 Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise

This work was painted at Le Havre in 1873. It was one of the nine works that he showed at the First Impressionist Exhibition of 1874. Of all those displayed there, this is probably the most famous picture, not so much because of any crucial status within Monet’s oeuvre, but rather for the criticism it attracted from the reviewers, which gave rise to the name of the movement.

Kobilica

21 Saturday Mar 2020

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Ivana Kobilica, Oton Župančič, 1922

O, da mi je priti do svoje podobe! / Da bi jo zagledal jasno pred seboj! // Mračna je znotraj v meni mračnem, / vsega prešinja me, vsega prebada, / razprezajoča se v svojo rast… / In navznoter jo tipljem, / z vsem bitjem, slepec, tipaje, / in rastem ž njeno rastjó, / ž njo vred tavaje, / kam, sam ne vem… // O, da mi je priti do svoje podobe! / Da bi jo zagledal pred seboj! // Glej: Ali ni človek kakor drevo, ki bi raslo iz svojega semena, iz svoje srede na štiri strani… / pa ga bije vihar / in mu veje kodrá in krivenči, / da izgreši svoje štiri smeri / in ne more do svoje podobe? … // O, da mi je priti do svoje podobe! / Da bi jo zagledal pred seboj! // Je: kdor je šel od konca s smerjó, / kdor sméri ostàl je do kraja zvest // in ves se pognàl je v samo rast: / tak, kadar nazadnje razpnè roké / kot mož, ki se pretegne v dan, / merèč tkanino večnih sanj, / pokaže nam svojo podobo: križ… // O, da nam je priti do svoje podobe, / i meni i tebi, narod moj!

Oton Župančič, Podoba, V zarje Vidove

Lindgren

22 Sunday Dec 2019

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Nina Lindgren, Cardboard Heaven

“I use almost exclusively used cardboard. I collect it from the recycling center in my apartment building, from stores and sometimes I find it on the street. I really appreciate the sustainable, earth friendly aspect of reusing a recyclable material. Cardboard also has a lot of expressions. It varies in thickness, hue, color, texture. A bunch of cardboard means so many possibilities to me, when it to others may just be rubbish.”                                                                                                                                                                        Interview by The Raw Book

 

guba

14 Saturday Dec 2019

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Valoviti karton je matrial, ki mu v resnici ne posvečamo veliko pozornosti. Iz njega je izdelana večina transportne embalaže. Ob nakupu kateregakoli izdelka ovojno embalažo iz kartona običajno zavržemo, ne da bi se zavedali, da gre za izjemno zanimiv material z optimalnimi mehanskimi lastnostmi, ki je večinoma 100% recikliran. Valoviti karton je trajnostni material prihodnosti z majhnim ogljičnim odtisom.

Grad Rajhenburg – 2.do 5. letnik Fakultete za arhitekturo, Univerze v Ljubljani – DS Smith Brestanica

Zimoun

08 Sunday Dec 2019

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Studio Zimoun

“The components used in Zimoun’s work are simple, functional and raw, whereas only aesthetically high-level and purposefully chosen elements and materials are used in minimalist fashion. Through radical reduction, Zimoun creates works of art which allow for a plethora of associations without being pinned down to a specific direction. Radical abstraction functions rather like a code in the background of things, thus elegantly avoiding an insinuation of direct, concrete attribution.” – Amanda Neumann

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Montraker

09 Saturday Nov 2019

29. međunarodna studentska kiparska škola

Podno gradića Vrsara na zapadnoj obali Istre smjestio se ljupki poluotok Montraker, a na njemu i stari kamenolom istog imena. Kamenolom, odavno napušten, danas odiše posebnom atmosferom Mediterana i prošlih vremena, a svakog ljeta iznova oživi dinamikom umjetničke kreacije.

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Penone

14 Sunday Apr 2019

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Giuseppe Penone, Spazio di Luce /Space of Light (2012)

“La concezione del tempo che ha una farfalla, un fiore, un albero, un animale un uomo, una pietra, una montagna, un fiume, un mare, un continente, un atomo, produce la varietà infinita del pensiero e delle forme dell’universo.”

“The conception of time that has a butterfly, a flower, a tree, an animal, a man, a stone, a mountain, a river, an ocean, a continent, an atom, produces the infinite variety of thought and forms of the universe.”

Koščak

24 Sunday Mar 2019

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Lučka Koščak, Podvodni angel /Underwater angel, 26.maj 2018

Kip, ki so ga poimenovali Podvodni angel, so potopili v Svetem Juraju na Hrvaškem ob otočku Lisac na globino 15 metrov. Akcijo je vodil Miro Potočnik, potapljač in direktor Vivera, potaplaškega kluba. Snemalec in videopriredba Tone Stojko.

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.

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.