Egold
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egold
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An image from the “Smokers” series. / This time in Art Nouveau style. I love that epoch… / Art Nouveau, also known as Jugendstil , is an international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890–1905). A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it is characterized by organic, especially floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as highly-stylized, flowing curvilinear forms. Art Nouveau is an approach to design according to which artists should work on everything from architecture to furniture, making art part of everyday life… Japanese wood-block prints, with their curved lines, patterned surfaces, contrasting voids, and flatness of visual plane, also inspired Art Nouveau. Some line and curve patterns became graphic clichés that were later found in works of artists from all parts of the world…
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One more image from the “Smokers” series. / This time in caribbean style. I love caribbean people for their optimism, ability to be always happy, always ready to joke and in a same time to feel the sadness. I love them because they always are ready to help other people. / And of course I love caribbean women – beautiful, bright, and very emotional. / I call this picture just ironically “Caribbean Voodoo” ...
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One more image from the “Smokers” series. / This time in “street prophecy” style… last May in San Remo… The narrow streets run up to the hill… / I met him right at the corner of street market. He was smoking and talking, may be to himself, may be to the people passing by him. His speech was very important to him but not to others. And only one listener – his dog… / Perhaps it was the prophecy… Sometimes God sends very important message using these people – street prophets… Who knows…
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It says: All World is a big Theatre and we all are just actors there. True. Going through the life we playing many different roles… We participating in different plays, sometimes tender, sometimes cruel. But very seldom we playing our best… Only when all spectators leaving us alone, we transforming to ourself. This is our best role… But no spectators, no applause… just us and our own spirits… / I met this street performer two years ago in Rome near Piazza Navona. It was early evening, not so dark. He was very sad and probably didn’t make any money that day… No people around him, just cigarette as a best friend and spirits, spirits, spirits… What he’s thinking about? Who knows…
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Mask (noun). / 1. Covering for all or part of the face as a disguise or for protection. / 2. Some kind of behaviour for pretension to be, passing oneself of as, impersonating, simulating or posing as. As long time Japanese antique collector I took masks of old Japanese theatre Noh and Kyogen for definition of this word… The date of man’s invention of masks is unknown, their use is certainly several thousands years old. It’s a fact that masks in one form or another have made their appearance in every culture shows how important role they have played in a human life. With the development of dance and true drama, masks became less primitive and more artistic. Immobility of a mask, which seems such a disadvantage when compared with the living human face, makes about it a certain air of the supernatural and fantastic, that’s why masks are widely used up to the present day. Among the people of the world who still actively use masks, the Japanese are in many ways outstanding. Let’s go back to 14th century when theatre No and Kyogen begins his history and the masks of this show became one of the finest dramatic masks the world has ever seen. I try briefly summarize the characteristics of the Noh and Kyogen masks. Mask of Noh is a mask of tragedy, mask of the Kyogen is the mask of comedy. A typical present-day No performance consists of five Noh plays, divided of three comic interludes of Kyogen, both the tragic and the comic elements being heightened in effect for the best contrasting result. Good and evil in Noh drama reflects these both sides of real life… In real life you also making choice between good and evil. Many people wearing masks covering their real personality, as a artists playing roles not really belonging to them and as final result ruining the life of themselves or others. Make a right choice between good and evil, take a right mask or even take it off, throw it away and be yourself.
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WORLD (noun) / 1. the universe or all that exists; everything. / 2. the earth, or a planetary body like it. / 3. secular interests and affairs. / 4. the earth, it’s countries and their inhabitants, all people. / 5. the earth as known or in some political respect. Some ancient beliefs that the world is born through the universe on the back of one or more enormous animals (such as a turtle in Native American creation myth), though these myths do not necessarily include an infinity aspect or multiple/endless layers of animals. In Asian religious mythology, the Earth was born by three elephants / which stood on the back of a giant turtle, symbol of the primitive oceans. In Hindu myth, the tortoise Chukwa supports the elephant Maha-pudma, which in its turn supports the world. In Chinese myth the tortoise also supports the world, its four feet being the four corners of the earth. Here is my modification of that old legends. World is all around us, around me. It’s my country and my beloved city. / So… it’s my world.
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Addiction (noun) / 1. The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma. / 2. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something. It’s about my addiction, addiction to collecting antiques. As any other addiction it takes you all, you don’t see anything around except antiques. You live in your own world and recognize only your treasures or things you need. / Like a mollusk you live in your shell, getting out just for short time, to catch something and get back to your habitation. When you, shell-fish, staying alone, you as The Merchant of Venice, Shylock can look at your treasures again and again, count them through the hours. So… addiction to collecting is a sickness, some kind of disease… but so pleasant disease. Thanks to: / skydancer_stock from deviantart.com for the “collector” / pacsaman from deviantart.com for the beautiful female image; / Lorivintage55stock from deviantart.com for the “jeweled elephant”;
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BEAR (noun) / 1. any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails. / 2. a gruff, burly, clumsy, bad-mannered, or rude person. / 3. a person who believes that market prices, esp. of stocks, will decline (opposed to bull ). / 4. a player at cards who rarely bluffs. Almost everybody saw bears in Zoo. Somebody even met them in real life… / A lot of different kinds of bears live on Earth: brown bear, American black bear, grizzly, polar bear, panda and many more… But not everyone knows that somewhere near the highest mountains in Europe is the city of bears, the place you can see bears everywhere… The name of this city is Bern, the capital of Switzerland. Duke Berchtold V of Zähringen founded the city on the River Aare in 1191 and allegedly named it Bern after a bear (Bär in German) he had killed. It was made an Imperial Free City by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in 1218 after Berthold died without an heir. In 1353 Bern joined the young Swiss Confederation, becoming a leading member of the new state. It invaded and conquered Aargau in 1415 and Vaud in 1536, as well as other smaller territories, thereby becoming the largest city-state north of the Alps. It was occupied by French troops in 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars, when it was stripped of most of its territories. In 1831 the city became the capital of the Canton of Bern and in 1848 it additionally became the Swiss capital. The Bear is a symbol of this city and you can see his depictions or sculptures everywhere – on a walls, road and street signs, on Zytglogge (the oldest towerclock of 15-16 centuries) in it’s mechanical figures, on 11 historical fountains of 16 century. One of them Zähringerbrunnen (1535) has a bear in armour holding the standard of Berthold von Zähringer, Bern’s founder. / Since the 16th century, the city has had a bear pit (the Bärengraben), when you can see those bears alive.
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Score (noun). / 1. A usually numerical record of a competitive event; / 2. The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain; / 3. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction; / 4. The written form of the composition for orchestral or vocal parts; / 5. The music written for a movie or a play; / And many other definitions in our life… Life is a competition. And in this competition, in this game with a name LIFE everyone has a SCORE. Sometimes your score is even more important than you. For some individuals your score is only a characteristic of your personality… Look around and you see what’s going on… Here is the mirror. It doesn’t like you and says: Get out, don’t look at me! Here are the people. They don’t like you and say: Get away, you’re damaging our landscape! Here is the person. He doesn’t know you and not talking to you. He has no any interest to you because he doesn’t know your LIFE SCORE… But somewhere are different mirrors, and different people, and different person. They will be able to see the most important things in your personality. And they will say: How wonderful are you, stay with us… Just find these people – it’s not so difficult… Life… competition… game… numbers… score… What’s more important than you, yourself, for yourself, and all around you… Thanks to: / 57mannequins from deviantart.com for this “little man” / thatestock from deviantart.com for the “torso mannequin”; / Falln_Stock from deviantart.com for the antique piano from the Texas museum. / The middle mannequin – from last Christmas window decoration of Bergdorf & Goodman store in New York
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Another one from my “Humans and Mannequins” series… Pygmalionism (noun) / Pygmalionism, (from the myth of Pygmalion) which describes a state of love for an object of one’s own creation. / Pygmalionism is a love attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin… Pygmalion was a legendary figure of Cyprus. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion is a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has made. / In Ovid’s narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. He called that statue Galatea (“she who is milk-white”) According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides prostituting themselves, he is ‘not interested in women’, but his statue is so realistic that he falls in love with it. He offers the statue presents and eventually prays to Venus (Aphrodite). She takes pity on him and brings the statue to life. They marry and have a son… happy end… / It was commonly rumored in Roman times that Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos, the cult image in her temple was so beautiful that at least one admirer arranged to be shut in with it overnight… In a human life sometimes the love has no happy end: John loves Mary, Mary loves Steve, Steve loves Kathy, and… / long line in an end of which may be somebody loves John… may be in a next life… / So… be creative. Make an art. Pray to God, look for your Galatea in your creations and… be happy. Thanks to: / 57mannequins from deviantart.com for this “little man” / tarnishedhalo from deviantart.com for the “fashionable man”; / x_xLithiumx_x from deviantart.com for the “torso mannequin”; / DarkBorder from deviantart.com for the beautiful woman’s hat. / The middle mannequin – from last Christmas window decoration of Bergdorf & Goodman store in New York.
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Mannequin (noun). / Dummy, lay figure, manikin, artificial person, model of the body, “little man”. The word comes from the Dutch/German word “manneken” , literally meaning “little man”. “Mannequin” is the French form… I always knew that artificial people have their own secret life, hidden from our eyes. Like among us their life is a challenge. Everyone wants to achieve something, get a first place in life competition… But it’s a long line of competitors on that way and only one wins the first prize – the place in shop-window. May be it will be the best in line… may be not… Thanks to 57mannequins from deviantart.com for this “little man”. / The middle mannequin – from last Christmas window decoration of Bergdorf & Goodman store in New York.
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Magnification (noun) / 1. Enlargement, / 2. Increase. / 3. Amplification. / 4. Enhancement. / 5. Buildup. / 6. Strengthening. So many definitions just for looking inside yourself… May be it helps to find something interesting under upper layer… your skin.
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TIME (noun) / 1. indefinite continued progress of existence, events, etc., in past, present, and future, regarded as a whole. / 2. opportune occasion or moment. / 3. expressing multiplication etc… It’s pretty cold now… have no idea how many degrees but everything around me looks motionless or frozen… Even substance you can’t touch, like time, is also frozen – comes to a halt and waiting for something… / I understand, it’s winter now, so… it should be normal… but something else, something happens in a world… / The clocks show different time in different places. Yes, the time is different for everyone on a globe but something joining us, keeps together, guess what… Thanks to Jane Siet for wonderful texture.
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SHE (pronoun) / 1. woman or girl previously named or in question; / 2. thing regarded as female… Just imagine… Summer… France…Nice… / I’m on Place Massena shooting around… The Place Masséna is the main square of the city. Before the Paillon River was covered over, the Pont-Neuf was the only practicable way between the old town and the modern one. The square was thus divided into two parts (North and South) in 1824. With the demolition of the Masséna Casino in 1979, the Place Masséna became more spacious and less dense and is now bordered by red buildings of Italian architecture and seven white statues (representing seven continents) by spanish artist Jaume Plensa. / The Place Masséna has always been the spot for great public events. It is used for concerts, and particularly during the summer festivals, the Corso carnavalesque (carnival parade) in February, the military procession of July 14th (Bastille Day) or other traditional celebrations and banquets… But it’s the history… So, I’m shooting here, on this wonderful place. The sitting on the very high poles white figures make this view absolutely surrealistic… Suddently, instead of a tram (I forgot to tell I was standing on a tram way), right in front of my camera appears another wonder… / SHE… As soon I made a shot, SHE disappeared… /
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The dictionary is a text book containing translations, interpretations or explanations of something… I’m creating my own dictionary… dictionary of image, pictorial guide… for every month.
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Indifference /noun/... / ...absence of feeling, apathy, small importance, dispassion, disinterest… / to all what’s going on around her – all these definitions I saw from “Niagara-gull” / and (of course) full ignorance of me and what I’m really doing there with my camera…
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Purity (noun). Cleanness, clarity, chastity, innocence… Created for my set Dictionary of image.
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Roller (noun) / 1. a person or thing that rolls. / 2. a cylinder, wheel, caster, or the like, upon which something is rolled along. Summer… France…Nice… Hotel Negresco. Inaugurated in 1913, and listed as a National Historic Monument, this Belle Époque palace is located on the seafront promenade overlooking the Bay of Angels. Hotel furnished throughout with a unique collection of antiques and contemporary works of art. Among others these sculptures paid my attention. They were standing and moving in a same time, rolling somewhere… The spanish sculptor Franck R. Tassi offers a representation of a mixture of various elements resulting from his concern about the relation of man in front of the universe, the society or technology. His style of expression shows man as creator as well as victim and often prisonner of his technology and even slave of his own inventions… It’s from the official description of his sculptures Mechanic Dancer (Cyborg M.M.) and Jeanne De Loulu… I use here my shots of these sculptures and an interior of Hotel Negresco to define the word “roller” as a symbol of our life. We all run, move, roll somewhere… We don’t know where we go… Tomorrow is unpredictable but we’re rolling there, we all are the Rollers… Created for the set dictionary of image. /
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On the south side of Zurich’s Münsterhof square is the Fraumünster Kirche (Church of Our Lady), a three-aisled pillared basilica with a Gothic nave (13th-15th C.), an Early Gothic transept and a pointed spire. / It’s not known when the church was founded, but on July 21, 853, King Ludwig the German signed over to his daughter Hildegard a convent which already stood on the site. In 874, Hildegard’s sister Bertha consecrated what was probably a simple, towerless basilica, and built a crypt beneath to house the relics of Felix and Regula. During the eleventh century, the abbesses of the convent gained the title of imperial princesses and considerable rights in the town, and the present structure was built during the thirteenth century. The convent was suppressed under Zwingli’s Reformation, and in 1524 all the icons, ornaments and the organ were destroyed. During the following centuries, the minster became the place of worship for Veltliner and Huguenot refugees, was temporarily a Russian Orthodox church, and – between 1833 and 1844 – hosted both Catholic and Protestant services. There was much renovation around the turn of the century, and again in 1960, when the Romanesque choir was reopened as an integral part of the building. In 1967, Marc Chagall – then 80 – accepted the commission to make new stained glass for the five 10m-high choir windows. The stunning artistry of the windows he produced makes them one of the highlights of Zürich.
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Walking through this amazing old city I found absolutely fantastic place – Augustinergasse. / Augustinergasse is a small street off the Bahnhofstrasse (to which Joyce dedicated a poem), and takes its name from the nearby St Augustine church. / A gently ascending, picturesque lane with beautiful guildhouses that date from 14th-18th century. Of particular interest are the ornate bay windows and intricately painted facades of the lane’s period buildings.
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Everywhere in Vaduz can be seen great art pieces. This city is a museum of modern sculpture. / Here are "Tre Cavalli" (2002) statues of horses by Swiss born world famous artist and sculptor Nag Arnoldi in front of the Vaduz Town Hall. / Nag Arnoldi was born in Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, in 1928. Following his artistic training, he was awarded a diploma of theatre costume and dress design in Milan. Exhibitions devoted to Pablo Picasso and the German expressionists helped Arnoldi develop his own personal artistic vision. Painting, graphics, ceramics and glass became the means used in a relentless quest which found its ultimate expression in sculpture.
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Sometimes birds don’t fly away even when the door of the cage is open – they used to be in their prison…
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From the series “Secret life of the trees”. /
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