🎨 Today, let's celebrate the beauty of color blending in art! Whether it's the soft gradient in a sunset painting or the vibrant clash in abstract pieces, color can evoke emotions and tell stories that words often can't. Embrace the palette! 🌈 #ArtAppreciation #ColorTheory

What is Retro-futurism?

• Retro-futurism can be summarized as the future seen from the past, though sometimes it also incorporates the notion of past seen from the future.
• Sometimes, retro-futurism becomes a sort of “faux nostalgia” — a nostalgia for a future that never happened.
• It is a way to envision how different world designs could look like.
• It works as a retrospection for our society but also often leads to new creative ideas.

Macrina The Younger (330-379 CE)

• She was the eldest in a family of ten who was influential and well-educated from Cappadocia;
• She had a wide knowledge and understanding of philosophy, scripture, and the physical sciences;
• Through her sharp mind, strong will, and devout soul, she transformed her ancestral estate into a successful community of ascetics of both sexes; and
• She was commemorated by her brother through a biography, Life of Macrina, and philosophical dialogue, On the Soul and Resurrection, which talked about death.

Why I Do It

Some things we do and we wonder why
We wish we could say why we did it
If you think about it you already know
You just don't want to admit it
You climb so high and wish to come down
When you're down you wish you were up
The worst feeling you could imagine
Wait till your down and you want back up
Pray to forget your life one more minute
It's all you need to get through the day
Kill yourself inside when you think
Wanting to be there all day
You're there and you wonder why
Why is this what you want
You're down and it kills you inside
And you realize it's all you want
Let me forget you, let me forget everything
I know its killing me, everything is
I hurt myself one way or the other
Right now, it doesn't matter what it is

🎨✨ What role does art play in shaping our understanding of different cultures? Can a single piece transcend boundaries and create a bridge between diverse communities? Share your thoughts and favorite artworks that represent cultural exchange! #ArtDiscussion #CulturalConnection

Heritage in Lebanon is not just about aesthetics; it is about truth https://t.co/syDGqmbDTP

Choose alternatives to the screen

While spending your time on Facebook or having video conferences on Zoom might seem the best idea for the days when you stay at home, there are actually other activities even more enriching that would make you happy.

Reading books or magazines, working on a puzzle are just a few examples: try to combine your need of staying on the phone with activities that relax both your eyes and brain.

🎨 Let's spark some creativity! 🌟

If you could only use one color for the rest of your art journey, which would it be and why? 🤔✨ Share your thoughts and let's discuss how color influences our emotions and creativity! #ArtCommunity #ColorTheory #Creativity

Feeling insecure, are we?

we stay within the confines
of our bodies and the concrete;
we communicate
with simple greetings
while we hurry on
to more important things
...classes, appointments, critical meetings...

Hello there.
(do you see my face?)
       (don’t be alarmed
        dear, it isn’t really mine,
        this is only stage make-up...
        and I put it on sometimes,
        when I want to hide
        or pretend to be
        anyone but me...
        You understand, don’t you?)

Hello there.
(do you hear my words?)
       (I fancy them passionate purple and red,
        but you disagree
        claiming they’re deceitful green.
        and when they float
        from my mouth
        dear, you’ll find they buzz
        around your ear,
        until they decide
        it is safe to crawl in.
        next, the decision is your's alone
                will you chew on them for the time being
                savoring what they have to offer,
                will you find them true
                and better than all that saccharin shit
                you’ve been eating up till now?
                will you be finicky, as you usually are,
                will you go in unwillingly,
                and find they are rotten
                will you spit them on the sidewalk
                and run quickly away?
                will you mold my words...
                like jell-o...or play-doh
                ...or kids with mashed potatoes...
                and then, when your new sculpture is complete
                ...a masterpiece in its own right...
                will you hand it back to me
                ...well, by then, it's not the same
                ...words switched, meaning’s changed)

Hello there.
(do you see me stroll away?
...and I seem confident inside these confines...
it’s as though self and sidewalk have no effect on me)
       

Heart and Soul

verse 1
I’ve put my life on the line
In the search to find true happiness
On a dream is where I’d dwell
I had my life on the line
It was all on hold and colourless
The darker spirits had cast a spell

I’ve placed a trust in myself
My life will not be lead in loneliness
The streaming tears must float away
I had a trust in myself
Life can’t remain so passionless
Until that time I am a stray

chorus
One can’t just force the emotion
Force it to a place,
Where it can’t blossom proud and true
It lays low then attacks
Attacks when it finds someone
Connecting strong with you

I put my heart and soul
To find the one who’d show me heaven
There were few who took me high
Heaven never heard my cry
My efforts were for nothing I could tell
And whenever fortune approached
I’d be brought down to serve in hell

Verse 2
I felt so blind to the truth
Naïve and young I wanted it
Because my life was bland and blue
I was so blind to the truth
Seeking all who I connected with
It wasn’t real love I knew

I’ve got a fire in my heart
Warm and raging, still alive
I’m alone, but I’m complete
I had a fire in my heart
It swung around, then learned to live
It’s independent to the heat

chorus

Bridge
The error of my ways was to
Seek compassion from another
My flaw in the day was to
Reciprocate from my lover
Yet all I ever needed was to love myself
With all my heart, from within my soul

Life’s just a series of moments
Mortal, null, and full of stress
A break to being must unfold
Life is a series of moments
Learn not to waste and self confess
So seize yours, don’t be told

Final Chorus
I have my heart and soul
I am the one who’ll show me heaven
With the one’s who took me high
Heaven never heard my cry
My efforts had been for nothing, I could tell
Now whenever fortune approached
I’m not brought down to serve in hell

🎨 Every brushstroke tells a story, each color captures a feeling. Art isn't just about what we see; it's about how it makes us feel. Let's celebrate the power of creativity and the magic of expression! #Art #Creativity #Inspiration

Mmmm

Mmmm - I feel good….

With a ‘Breath of fresh Ayr’
To start your day,
And 'Honest Men'
Along the way,
'Bonnie Lasses'
To help you stay,
Aye, Ayr’s the place,
To be today…

© ali-p 2003

John Tain has been appointed as the director of curatorial affairs at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh https://t.co/48OoijXbno

🎨 Embrace the beauty of creativity! Every brushstroke tells a story, and every color evokes emotions. Let your imagination flow and transform blank canvases into vibrant expressions of your soul. #Art #Creativity #Inspiration

Shakespeare's effect on the Modern Man

Shakespeare's most famous play, Hamlet, exhibits the man's inner workings, being agonized by complex strife with himself and his own desires. 

It is a lurid event of post-renaissance drama in which psychology is articulated through brilliant poetry. 

Shakespeare articulated both to the high and low culture his existential vision of human frailty.

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Six reasons to build a beautiful balcony architecture building

This season two vivacious boys from the School of American Ballet make their debuts as the Prince in New York City Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker.” https://t.co/iTjcx20BNR

Visionary designs

Leading engineers of that time were more focused on visionary designs. The "visual boasting" was aimed to make an impression on prospective or actual employers. Many of Leonardo's most famous designs fall into this category, such as the "tank", designed to shoot across the battlefield.

Other famous designs have been misread. The "helicopter" or airscrew is a device of technological entertainment. The same applies to the spring-driven "car".

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🎨 Embracing creativity is a journey that transforms not just our work, but ourselves. Every brushstroke, every shade, tells a story waiting to be discovered. Let your art speak, and watch the world listen. #ArtInspiration #CreativeJourney

Children as objects

It took thousands of years for the European culture to realise that a child is not an object but a human being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in Emile, or On Education (1762), that "nature wants children to be children before they are men." He did not see children as humans but appealed to parents to look after their offspring. However, he did not take his own ideas to heart and abandoned his offspring at birth.

Portrait Print by Naomi Vona, Neon on Paper, 11.7 x 16.5 in - Conceptual Original Artwork For Sale on Saatchi Art. photo%20artistic

This year's Venice Biennale has closed and its in-figures report released, revealing a decrease it ticket sales in comparison to 2022. https://t.co/RGsMDxtKkv

“Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.”

The most important sentence in any writing: the first one

• If it doesn’t induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your work is dead. Of such a progression of sentences, each tugging the reader forward until he is hooked, a writer constructs that fateful unit, the “lead.”


• Do not count on the reader to stick around. Readers want to know very soon what’s in it for them.

"But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.”