10/12/2014

Artist Alvaro Castagnet - watercolor

 




Artist Alvaro castanets (Alvaro Castagnet)
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1983, immigrated to Australia. At an early age his father Alvaro sent him to the National Art School in Montevideo. After Alvaro studied at the University of Fine Arts, where the instructor in painting he was Miguel Angel Pareja.

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After graduation, he went to Australia, where he was appointed artistic director of the Latin American Festival of Melbourne (Art Director of Melbourne's Latin American Festival). He traveled extensively in the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and Australia, and it helped him to find the motives for pictures.

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To date, he has taught watercolor for beginners as well as for professional watercolors, and helps each student, is able to inspire and reveal his abilities. Engaged in carrying out creative workshops throughout Australia and overseas. He teaches in the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and Australia.
Alvaro Castagnet is a member of watercolor societies, such as: Old Watercolor Society

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British artist Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1953)




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Frank Moss Bennett was born: Liverpool (England) November 15, 1874. In 1892 he studied at home Browns, Clifton College in Bristol. In 1892 - 1894 years of continued his studies at the Slade School of Art in London with Henry Tonks (1862-1937), Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). In 1894 he studied at the School of Art, St. Johns Wood (London) and graduated in 1896 at the Royal Academy of Arts (London). Wrote mainly genre paintings in the style of "good old England", which enjoyed success. During the Anglo 'golden age'. who prefer to portray in his paintings Frank Bennett, ladies dressed in crinolines, with lots of ribbons, bows and other decorations. It was, in general, monotonous, although very krasivo.V 1898 - 1928 years, his work exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899 - 1932 the men also exhibited at the Art Gallery in Liverpool.

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Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1953). Squire (Mr.)

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Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1953). Rare wine.

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Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1953). Address to the critics.

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«Impromptu»

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Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1953). A friendly conversation.

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- Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1953). Interesting move.

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Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1953). Fish stories.

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Frank Moss Bennett: Bennett Frank Moss landlords Story

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Frank Moss Bennett: an entertaining game

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Abstract Expressionism

09/12/2014

Paraskeva-Pyatnitsa - Bab'ya zastupnitsa

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Pamyat': 28 oktyabrya / 10 noyabrya

 

 

Svyataya muchenitsa Paraskeva, narechennaya Pyatnitseyu, zhila v III veke v Ikonii v bogatoy i blagochestivoy sem'ye. Roditeli svyatoy osobenno pochitali den' stradaniy Gospodnikh - pyatnitsu, poetomu i nazvali doch', rodivshuyusya v etot den', Paraskevoyu, chto v perevode s grecheskogo i oznachayet - Pyatnitsa. Vsem serdtsem vozlyubila yunaya Paraskeva chistotu i vysokuyu nravstvennost' devstvennoy zhizni i dala obet bezbrachiya. Ona zakhotela posvyatit' vsyu svoyu zhizn' Bogu i prosveshcheniyu yazychnikov svetom very Khristovoy. Na etom pravednom puti suzhdeno bylo Paraskeve, nosivshey v imeni svoyem pamyat' o dne velikikh Strastey Iisusovykh, priobshchit'sya i v zhizni Strastyam Khristovym cherez telesnyye muki. Za ispovedaniye pravoslavnoy very ozlobivshiyesya yazychniki skhvatili yeye i priveli k gorodskomu vlastitelyu. Zdes' yey predlozhili prinesti bogomerzkuyu zhertvu yazycheskomu idolu.

 

Mucheniye sv. Paraskevy ognom. Kleymo zhitiynoy ikony

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S tverdym serdtsem, upovaya na Boga, otvergla prepodobnaya eto predlozheniye. Za eto ona preterpela velikiye mucheniya: privyazav yeye k derevu, muchiteli terzali yeye chistoye telo zheleznymi gvozdyami, a zatem, ustav ot muchitel'stva, vsyu iz"yazvlennuyu do kostey, brosili v temnitsu. No Bog ne ostavil svyatuyu stradalitsu i chudesno istselil yeye isterzannoye telo. Ne vrazumivshis' etim Bozhestvennym znameniyem, palachi prodolzhali muchit' Paraskevu i, nakonets, otsekli yey golovu.

Grecheskaya ikona useknoveniya glavy sv. Paraskevy Rimskoy

(Mikhail Damaskin, XVI vek)

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Svyataya Paraskeva Pyatnitsa vsegda pol'zovalas' u pravoslavnogo naroda osoboy lyubov'yu i pochitaniyem. S yeye pamyat'yu soyedinyayetsya mnozhestvo blagochestivykh obychayev i obryadov. V drevnikh russkikh mesyatseslovakh i svyattsakh imya muchenitsy pishetsya tak: "Svyataya Paraskeva, narechennaya Pyatnitsa". Khramy vo imya svyatoy Paraskevy nazyvalis' v drevnosti Pyatnitsami. Naimenovaniye Pyatnits poluchali v starinu na Rusi nebol'shiye pridorozhnyye chasovni. Prostoy russkiy narod nazyval muchenitsu Paraskevu Pyatnitsey, Pyatinoy, Petkoy. Ikony svyatoy Paraskevy osobenno pochitalis' i ukrashalis' nashimi predkami. Russkiye ikonopistsy obyknovenno izobrazhali muchenitsu surovoy podvizhnitsey, vysokogo rosta, s luchezarnym venkom na golove. Ikony svyatoy muchenitsy okhranyayut semeynoye blagopoluchiye i schast'ye.

Yey zhe molyatsya o pokrovitel'stve semeynomu ochagu; v supruzheskom besplodii; o dostoynykh zhenikhakh.

 

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Lichnoye prosheniye svyatoy muchenitse Paraskeve Pyatnitse

 

O, svyataya i preblazhennaya muchenitse Khristova Paraskevo! Svyatymi tvoimi molitvami budi pomoshchnitsa nam greshnym (imena), khodataystvuy, da tvoimi molitvami spodobimsya (soderzhaniye prosheniya), i kupno s toboyu da slavoslovim i vospevayem Ottsa i Syna i Svyatago Dukha, nyne i prisno i vo veki vekov. Amin'.

 

Po tserkovnomu verovaniyu, svyataya Paraskeva - pokrovitel'nitsa poley i skota. Poetomu v den' yeye pamyati prinyato prinosit' v tserkov' dlya osveshcheniya plody, kotoryye khranyatsya potom kak svyatynya do sleduyushchego goda. Krome togo, svyatoy Paraskeve molyatsya o sokhranenii skota ot padezha. Svyataya muchenika - tselitel'nitsa lyudey ot samykh tyazhelykh dushevnykh i telesnykh nedugov.

Ona okhranyala semeynoye blagopoluchiye i schast'ye, pokrovitel'stvovala torgovle (otsyuda izvestnyye v prezhniye vremena pyatnitskiye yarmarki), schitalas' pokrovitel'nitsey vody: yeye obraz neredko chudesno yavlyalsya na reke ili v kolodtse, posle chego voda priobretala tselebnuyu silu. Dazhe seychas yeshche stavyat ikonu Paraskevy pri istochnikakh, nad klyuchami i kolodtsami.

 

Odalisque with Magnolia, 1923-1924