Portraits
What is p
Portrait?
A Portrait is an
image of a particular person. A portrait is not simply an accurate record of
the shapes that make a face; rather it tells us something about the person
behind the face. It catches the personality as well as looks. We usually think
of a painting but portraits can also be sculptures. Drawings, prints or
photographs.
Portraits are
fascinating as works of art. They are of great interest as historical records .
several countries have a National Portrait Gallery that collects and displays
images of its famous men and women. The Greeks and Romans were the first great
portraitists. Very few paintings from ancient times have survived, but
fortunately there are vivid portrait sculptures of such famous personalities as
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
During the
Middle Ages, when almost all art was religious, hardly any portraits were
produced, but portraiture became popular again, during the Renaissance. At
first only high ranking people had their portraits painted or sculpted. A king
would want the artist to make him look powerful and perhaps rather
frightening-someone who was a fit and proper person to govern. He would dress
very splendidly to stress his wealth and position. Gradually however,
portraiture spread to others ranks of society and became much more varied.
The
self-image of the sitter Most Portraits are commissioned buy the sitter
rather than done for the artist’s own satisfaction. Therefore, the artist has
to bear in mind how the sitter wants to appear to the world. Some portraits
show the sitters recognizably , but make them look more handsome or elegant
than they are in real life.
Jigsaw Puzzles
The first known
published crossword puzzle was created by a journalist named Arthur Wayne from Liverpool ,
and he usually credited as the inventor of the popular word game. it appeared n
a Sunday newspaper , the New York 21 December 1913
Jigsaw Puzzles
were first made in the 1760s when European mapmakers posted maps onto wood and
cut them into small pieces. This dissected map’ became a very successful
education tool. It had been used in many schools to help children with their
geography.
The 18th
century inventors of jigsaw puzzles would be amazed to see the transformations
of the last 230 years. Children’s puzzles have changed from educational toys to
entertainment, showing different subjects such as animals, nursery rhymes and
modern tales of super heroes and Disney. But the biggest surprises for the
early puzzle makers would be how adults have taken to puzzles over the last
century. Puzzles for adults started about 1901 and by 1908 they had become a
full –blown craze. However, would puzzles were expensive and now jigsaws are
made from printed paper pasted onto cardboard. Courtesy wisdom
Quote from
the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
I find this
formula applies all the way. The more concentrated and quieted the mind becomes
the finer it become the finer this universe appears to be. A time comes when your
mind attains to a great state of calmness and becomes very fine in its nature;
the whole universe then seems to have come together into one entity with the
thread of divine presence passing though all the forms just as it says in the
Bhagavad-Gita. You find that God comes so close to you that He saturates
everything every where, lie the insinuating presence of a perfume. And as
regards yourself, you no longer feel identified with the body and the mind. The
sense of time and space begins to dissolves away you walk ten miles and it seems
as if you have walked only half a mile. Time passes and you do not recognize
that many houses have gone. Similarly, the things you do no longer have the
same tiring effect. Altogether you find the tempo of the universe has changed.
Night and day, the passing of the seasons, the condition of the weather -none
of these have the same effect on you at all. You are no longer tied down to
changes into the outside world. Courtesy
A view of Vedanta, When the many become one
But, if He
exists?
I drive joy There
was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for
mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One
day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he
had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not
exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am
afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes
rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I
derive 4m.
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