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Andy Warhol

 

Warhol in 1977

Birth name Andrew Warhola

Born August 6, 1928(1928-08-06)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Died February 22, 1987 (aged 58)

New York City, U.S.

Nationality American

Field Painting, Cinema

Training Carnegie Mellon University

Movement Pop art

Works Chelsea Girls (1966 film)

Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966 event)

Campbell's Soup Cans (1962 painting)

 

Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.

 

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." In his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.

 

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market." $100 million is a benchmark price that only Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt and Willem de Kooning have achieved.[1]

 

Contents [hide]

1 Childhood

2 Early career

3 1960s

4 Attempted assassination

5 1970s

6 1980s

7 Sexuality

8 Religious beliefs

9 Death

10 Works

10.1 Paintings

10.2 Films

10.3 Factory in New York

10.4 Filmography

10.5 Music

10.6 Books and print

10.7 Other media

10.8 Producer and product

11 Dedicated museums

12 Movies about Warhol

12.1 Dramatic portrayals

12.2 Documentaries

13 See also

14 References

15 Further reading

16 External links

 

Childhood

 

Warhol's childhood home at 3252 Dawson Street in the South Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaAndy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2] He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (died 1942)[3] and Julia (nee Zavacka, 1892-1972),[4] whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their migration to the U.S. His parents were working-class immigrants from Mikó (now called Miková), in northeastern Slovakia, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. Warhol's father immigrated to the US in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Andy Warhol's grandparents. Warhol's father worked in a coal mine. The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.[5] The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church. Andy Warhol had two older brothers, Ján and Pavol, who were born in today's Slovakia. Pavol's son, James Warhola, became a successful children's book illustrator.

 

In third grade, Warhol had chorea, the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness.[6] He became a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors. Often bed-ridden as a child, he became an outcast among his school-mates and bonded strongly with his mother.[7] At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed. Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences. When Warhol was 13, his father died in an accident.[8]

 

Early career

Warhol showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (now Carnegie Mellon University).[9] In 1949, he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising. During the 1950s, he gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements. These were done in a loose, blotted-ink style, and figured in some of his earliest showings at the Bodley Gallery in New York. With the concurrent rapid expansion of the record industry and the introduction of the vinyl record, Hi-Fi, and stereophonic recordings, RCA Records hired Warhol, along with another freelance artist, Sid Maurer, to design album covers and promotional materials.[10]

  

Campbell's Soup I (1968)1960s

His first one-man art-gallery exhibition as a fine artist[11][12] was on July 9, 1962, in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles. The exhibition marked the West Coast debut of pop art.[13] Andy Warhol's first New York solo Pop exhibit was hosted at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery November 6–24, 1962. The exhibit included the works Marilyn Diptych, 100 Soup Cans, 100 Coke Bottles and 100 Dollar Bills. At the Stable Gallery exhibit, the artist met for the first time John Giorno who would star in Warhol's first film, Sleep, in 1963.[citation needed]

 

It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American products such as Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Taylor. He founded "The Factory", his studio during these years, and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He began producing prints using the silkscreen method. His work became popular and controversial.

 

Among the imagery tackled by Warhol were dollar bills, celebrities and brand name products. He also used as imagery for his paintings newspaper headlines or photographs of mushroom clouds, electric chairs, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. Warhol also used Coca Cola bottles as subject matter for paintings. He had this to say about Coca Cola:

 

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.[14]

New York's Museum of Modern Art hosted a Symposium on pop art in December 1962 during which artists like Warhol were attacked for "capitulating" to consumerism. Critics were scandalized by Warhol's open embrace of market culture. This symposium set the tone for Warhol's reception. Throughout the decade it became more and more clear that there had been a profound change in the culture of the art world, and that Warhol was at the center of that shift.[citation needed]

  

Campbell's Tomato Juice Box (1964)A pivotal event was the 1964 exhibit The American Supermarket, a show held in Paul Bianchini's Upper East Side gallery. The show was presented as a typical U.S. small supermarket environment, except that everything in it – from the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc. – was created by six prominent pop artists of the time, among them the controversial (and like-minded) Billy Apple, Mary Inman, and Robert Watts. Warhol's painting of a can of Campbell's soup cost $1,500 while each autographed can sold for $6. The exhibit was one of the first mass events that directly confronted the general public with both pop art and the perennial question of what art is (or of what is art and what is not).[citation needed]

 

As an advertisement illustrator in the 1950s, Warhol used assistants to increase his productivity. Collaboration would remain a defining (and controversial) aspect of his working methods throughout his career; in the 1960s, however, this was particularly true. One of the most important collaborators during this period was Gerard Malanga. Malanga assisted the artist with producing silkscreens, films, sculpture, and other works at "The Factory", Warhol's aluminum foil-and-silver-paint-lined studio on 47th Street (later moved to Broadway). Other members of Warhol's Factory crowd included Freddie Herko, Ondine, Ronald Tavel, Mary Woronov, Billy Name, and Brigid Berlin (from whom he apparently got the idea to tape-record his phone conversations).[15]

 

During the '60s, Warhol also groomed a retinue of bohemian eccentrics upon whom he bestowed the designation "Superstars", including Edie Sedgwick, Viva, Ultra Violet, and Candy Darling. These people all participated in the Factory films, and some – like Berlin – remained friends with Warhol until his death. Important figures in the New York underground art/cinema world, such as writer John Giorno and film-maker Jack Smith, also appear in Warhol films of the 1960s, revealing Warhol's connections to a diverse range of artistic scenes during this time.

 

Attempted assassination

On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya at Warhol's studio.[16] Before the shooting, Solanas had been a marginal figure in the Factory scene. She founded a "group" called S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) and authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist attack on patriarchy. Over the years, Solanas' manifesto has found a following.[17] Solanas appears in the 1968 Warhol film I, A Man. Earlier on the day of the attack, Solanas had been turned away from the Factory after asking for the return of a script she had given to Warhol. The script, apparently, had been misplaced.[18]

 

Amaya received only minor injuries and was released from the hospital later the same day. Warhol however, was seriously wounded by the attack and barely survived (surgeons opened his chest and massaged his heart to help stimulate its movement again). He suffered physical effects for the rest of his life. The shooting had a profound effect on Warhol's life and art.[19][20]

 

Solanas was arrested the day after the assault. By way of explanation, she said that Warhol "had too much control over my life." She was eventually sentenced to three years under the control of the Department of Corrections. After the shooting, the Factory scene became much more tightly controlled, and for many this event brought the "Factory 60s" to an end.[20] The shooting was mostly overshadowed in the media due to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy two days later.

 

Warhol had this to say about the attack: "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television." [21]

 

1970s

 

Andy Warhol and Jimmy Carter in 1977Compared to the success and scandal of Warhol's work in the 1960s, the 1970s proved a much quieter decade, as Warhol became more entrepreneurial. According to Bob Colacello, Warhol devoted much of his time to rounding up new, rich patrons for portrait commissions– including Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, his wife Empress Farah Pahlavi, his sister Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, John Lennon, Diana Ross, Brigitte Bardot, and Michael Jackson.[22][citation needed] Warhol's famous portrait of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong was created in 1973. He also founded, with Gerard Malanga, Interview magazine, and published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975). An idea expressed in the book: "Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."[cite this quote]

 

Warhol used to socialize at various nightspots in New York City, including Max's Kansas City; and, later in the '70s, Studio 54.[23] He was generally regarded as quiet, shy, and a meticulous observer. Art critic Robert Hughes called him "the white mole of Union Square."[24]

 

1980s

Warhol had a re-emergence of critical and financial success in the 1980s, partially due to his affiliation and friendships with a number of prolific younger artists, who were dominating the "bull market" of '80s New York art: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, David Salle and other so-called Neo-Expressionists, as well as members of the Transavantgarde movement in Europe, including Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi.

 

By this period, Warhol was being criticized for becoming merely a "business artist".[25] In 1979, unfavorable reviews met his exhibits of portraits of 1970s personalities and celebrities, calling them superficial, facile and commercial, with no depth or indication of the significance of the subjects. This criticism was echoed for his 1980 exhibit of ten portraits at the Jewish Museum in New York, entitled Jewish Geniuses, which Warhol – who exhibited no interest in Judaism or matters of interest to Jews – had described in his diary as "They're going to sell."[25] In hindsight, however, some critics have come to view Warhol's superficiality and commerciality as "the most brilliant mirror of our times," contending that "Warhol had captured something irresistible about the zeitgeist of American culture in the 1970s."[25]

 

Warhol also had an appreciation for intense Hollywood glamour. He once said: "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're so beautiful. Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."[26]

 

Sexuality

Warhol never married or had children.[27] Many people think of him as asexual and merely a "voyeur"; however, it is now well-established that he was homosexual (see biographers such as Victor Bockris, Bob Colacello,[28] and art historian Richard Meyer[29]). The question of his sexuality aside, Warhol stated in a 1980 interview that he was still a virgin.[30] The question of how Warhol's sexuality influenced his work and shaped his relationship to the art world is a major subject of scholarship on the artist, and is an issue that Warhol himself addressed in interviews, in conversation with his contemporaries, and in his publications (e.g. Popism: The Warhol Sixties).

 

Throughout his career, Warhol produced erotic photography and drawings of male nudes. Many of his most famous works (portraits of Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor, and films like Blow Job, My Hustler, and Lonesome Cowboys) draw from gay underground culture and/or openly explore the complexity of sexuality and desire. Many of his films premiered in gay porn theaters. That said, some stories about Warhol's development as an artist revolved around the obstacle his sexuality initially presented as he tried to launch his career. The first works that he submitted to a gallery in the pursuit of a career as an artist were homoerotic drawings of male nudes. They were rejected for being too openly gay.[31] In Popism, furthermore, the artist recalls a conversation with the film maker Emile de Antonio about the difficulty Warhol had being accepted socially by the then more famous (but closeted) gay artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. De Antonio explained that Warhol was "too swish and that upsets them." In response to this, Warhol writes, "There was nothing I could say to that. It was all too true. So I decided I just wasn't going to care, because those were all the things that I didn't want to change anyway, that I didn't think I 'should' want to change... Other people could change their attitudes but not me".[32][33] In exploring Warhol's biography, many turn to this period – the late 1950s and early 1960s – as a key moment in the development of his persona. Some have suggested that his frequent refusal to comment on his work, to speak about himself (confining himself in interviews to responses like "Um, No" and "Um, Yes", and often allowing others to speak for him) – and even the evolution of his Pop style – can be traced to the years when Warhol was first dismissed by the inner circles of the New York art world.[34]

 

Religious beliefs

 

Images of Jesus from The Last Supper cycle (1986). Warhol made almost 100 variations on the theme, which the Guggenheim felt "indicates an almost obsessive investment in the subject matter."[35]Warhol was a practicing Byzantine Catholic. He regularly volunteered at homeless shelters in New York, particularly during the busier times of the year, and described himself as a religious person.[36] Several of Warhol's later works depicted religious subjects, including two series, Details of Renaissance Paintings (1984) and The Last Supper (1986). In addition, a body of religious-themed works was found posthumously in his estate.[36]

 

During his life, Warhol regularly attended Mass, and the priest at Warhol's church, Saint Vincent's, said that the artist went there almost daily,[36] although he never took communion or made confession and sat or knelt in the pews at the back.".[30] The priest thought he was afraid of being recognized; Warhol said he was self-conscious about being seen in a Roman Catholic church crossing himself "in the Orthodox way" (right to left instead of the reverse).[30]

 

His art is noticeably influenced by the eastern Christian iconographic tradition which was so evident in his places of worship.[36]

 

Warhol's brother has described the artist as "really religious, but he didn't want people to know about that because [it was] private." Despite the private nature of his faith, in Warhol's eulogy John Richardson depicted it as devout: "To my certain knowledge, he was responsible for at least one conversion. He took considerable pride in financing his nephew's studies for the priesthood".[36]

 

Death

Warhol died in New York City at 6:32 a.m. on February 22, 1987. According to news reports, he had been making good recovery from a routine gallbladder surgery at New York Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden post-operative cardiac arrhythmia.[37] Prior to his diagnosis and operation, Warhol delayed having his recurring gallbladder problems checked, as he was afraid to enter hospitals and see doctors. His family sued the hospital for inadequate care, saying that the arrhythmia was caused by improper care and water intoxication.[38]

  

Warhol's grave at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic CemeteryWarhol's body was taken back to Pittsburgh by his brothers for burial. The wake was at Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home and was an open-coffin ceremony. The coffin was a solid bronze casket with gold plated rails and white upholstery. Warhol was dressed in a black cashmere suit, a paisley tie, a platinum wig, and sunglasses. He was posed holding a small prayer book and a red rose. The funeral liturgy was held at the Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church on Pittsburgh's North Side. The eulogy was given by Monsignor Peter Tay. Yoko Ono also made an appearance. The coffin was covered with white roses and asparagus ferns. After the liturgy, the coffin was driven to St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, a south suburb of Pittsburgh. At the grave, the priest said a brief prayer and sprinkled holy water on the casket. Before the coffin was lowered, Paige Powell dropped a copy of Interview magazine, an Interview t-shirt, and a bottle of the Estee Lauder perfume "Beautiful" into the grave. Warhol was buried next to his mother and father. Weeks later a memorial service was held in Manhattan for Warhol on April 1, 1987, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.

 

Warhol's will dictated that his entire estate – with the exception of a few modest legacies to family members – would go to create a foundation dedicated to the "advancement of the visual arts". Warhol had so many possessions that it took Sotheby's nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million. His total estate was worth considerably more, due in no small part to shrewd investments over the years.[citation needed]

 

In 1987, in accordance with Warhol's will, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was founded. The Foundation not only serves as the official Estate of Andy Warhol, but also has a mission "to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process" and is "focused primarily on supporting work of a challenging and often experimental nature."[39]

 

The Artists Rights Society is the U.S. copyright representative for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for all Warhol works with the exception of Warhol film stills.[40] The U.S. copyright representative for Warhol film stills is the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.[41] Additionally, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has agreements in place for its image archive. All digital images of Warhol are exclusively managed by Corbis, while all transparency images of Warhol are managed by Art Resource.[42]

 

The Andy Warhol Foundation released its 20th Anniversary Annual Report as a three-volume set in 2007: Vol. I, 1987–2007; Vol. II, Grants & Exhibitions; and Vol. III, Legacy Program.[43] The Foundation remains one of the largest grant-giving organizations for the visual arts in the U.S.[44]

 

Works

Paintings

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By the beginning of the 1960s, Warhol was a very successful commercial illustrator. His detailed and elegant drawings for I. Miller shoes were particularly popular. These illustrations consisted mainly of "blotted ink" drawings (or monoprints), a technique which he applied in much of his early art. Although many artists of this period worked in commercial art, most did so discreetly. Warhol was so successful, however, that his profile as an illustrator seemed to undermine his efforts to be taken seriously as an artist.

 

Pop Art was an experimental form that several artists were independently adopting; some of these pioneers, such as Roy Lichtenstein, would later become synonymous with the movement. Warhol, who would become famous as the "Pope of Pop", turned to this new style, where popular subjects could be part of the artist's palette. His early paintings show images taken from cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips. Those drips emulated the style of successful abstract expressionists (such as Willem de Kooning). Warhol's first Pop Art paintings were displayed in April 1961, serving as the backdrop for New York Department Store Bronwit Teller's window display. This was the same stage his Pop Art contemporaries Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg had also once graced.[45] Eventually, Warhol pared his image vocabulary down to the icon itself – to brand names, celebrities, dollar signs – and removed all traces of the artist's "hand" in the production of his paintings.

 

To him, part of defining a niche was defining his subject matter. Cartoons were already being used by Lichtenstein, typography by Jasper Johns, and so on; Warhol wanted a distinguishing subject. His friends suggested he should paint the things he loved the most. It was the gallerist Muriel Latow who came up with the ideas for both the soup cans and Warhol's dollar paintings. On 23 November 1961 Warhol wrote Latow a check for $50 which, according to the 2009 Warhol biography, Pop, The Genius of Warhol, was payment for coming up with the idea of the soup cans as subject matter.[46] For his first major exhibition Warhol painted his famous cans of Campbell's Soup, which he claimed to have had for lunch for most of his life. The work sold for $10,000 at an auction on November 17, 1971, at Sotheby's New York – a minimal amount for the artist whose paintings sell for over $6 million more recently.[47]

 

He loved celebrities, so he painted them as well. From these beginnings he developed his later style and subjects. Instead of working on a signature subject matter, as he started out to do, he worked more and more on a signature style, slowly eliminating the hand-made from the artistic process. Warhol frequently used silk-screening; his later drawings were traced from slide projections. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and variations.[48]

 

In 1979, Warhol was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 4 race version of the then elite supercar BMW M1 for the fourth installment in the BMW Art Car Project. Unlike the three artists before him, Warhol declined the use of a small scale practice model, instead opting to immediately paint directly onto the full scale automobile. It was indicated that Warhol spent only a total of 23 minutes to paint the entire car.[49]

 

Warhol produced both comic and serious works; his subject could be a soup can or an electric chair. Warhol used the same techniques– silkscreens, reproduced serially, and often painted with bright colors – whether he painted celebrities, everyday objects, or images of suicide, car crashes, and disasters, as in the 1962–63 Death and Disaster series. The Death and Disaster paintings (such as Red Car Crash, Purple Jumping Man, and Orange Disaster) transform personal tragedies into public spectacles, and signal the use of images of disaster in the then evolving mass media.

 

The unifying element in Warhol's work is his deadpan Keatonesque style – artistically and personally affectless. This was mirrored by Warhol's own demeanor, as he often played "dumb" to the media, and refused to explain his work. The artist was famous for having said that all you need to know about him and his works is already there, "Just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it." [50]

 

His Rorschach inkblots are intended as pop comments on art and what art could be. His cow wallpaper (literally, wallpaper with a cow motif) and his oxidation paintings (canvases prepared with copper paint that was then oxidized with urine) are also noteworthy in this context. Equally noteworthy is the way these works – and their means of production – mirrored the atmosphere at Andy's New York "Factory". Biographer Bob Colacello provides some details on Andy's "piss paintings":

 

Victor... was Andy's ghost pisser on the Oxidations. He would come to the Factory to urinate on canvases that had already been primed with copper-based paint by Andy or Ronnie Cutrone, a second ghost pisser much appreciated by Andy, who said that the vitamin B that Ronnie took made a prettier color when the acid in the urine turned the copper green. Did Andy ever use his own urine? My diary shows that when he first began the series, in December 1977, he did, and there were many others: boys who'd come to lunch and drink too much wine, and find it funny or even flattering to be asked to help Andy 'paint.' Andy always had a little extra bounce in his walk as he led them to his studio...[51]

Warhol's first portrait of Basquiat (1982) is a black photosilkscreen over an oxidized copper "piss painting".

 

After many years of silkscreen, oxidation, photography, etc., Warhol returned to painting with a brush in hand in a series of over 50 large collaborative works done with Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1984 and 1986.[52][53] Despite negative criticism when these were first shown, Warhol called some of them "masterpieces," and they were influential for his later work.[54]

 

The influence of the large collaborations with Basquiat can be seen in Warhol's The Last Supper cycle, his last and possibly his largest series, seen by some as "arguably his greatest,"[55] but by others as “wishy-washy, religiose” and “spiritless."[56] It is also the largest series of religious-themed works by any U.S. artist.[55]

 

At the time of his death, Warhol was working on Cars, a series of paintings for Mercedes-Benz. [57]

 

Films

Warhol worked across a wide range of media – painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. In addition, he was a highly prolific filmmaker. Between 1963 and 1968, he made more than 60 films [58], plus some 500 short black-and-white "screen test" portraits of Factory visitors.[59] One of his most famous films, Sleep, monitors poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours. The 35-minute film Blow Job is one continuous shot of the face of DeVeren Bookwalter supposedly receiving oral sex from filmmaker Willard Maas, although the camera never tilts down to see this. Another, Empire (1964), consists of eight hours of footage of the Empire State Building in New York City at dusk. The film Eat consists of a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes. Warhol attended the 1962 premiere of the static composition by LaMonte Young called Trio for Strings and subsequently created his famous series of static films including Kiss, Eat, and Sleep (for which Young initially was commissioned to provide music). Uwe Husslein cites filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who accompanied Warhol to the Trio premiere, and who claims Warhol's static films were directly inspired by the performance.[60]

 

Batman Dracula is a 1964 film that was produced and directed by Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. It was screened only at his art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol's movie was an "homage" to the series, and is considered the first appearance of a blatantly campy Batman. The film was until recently thought to have been lost, until scenes from the picture were shown at some length in the 2006 documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.

 

Warhol's 1965 film Vinyl is an adaptation of Anthony Burgess' popular dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Others record improvised encounters between Factory regulars such as Brigid Berlin, Viva, Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Ondine, Nico, and Jackie Curtis. Legendary underground artist Jack Smith appears in the film Camp.

 

His most popular and critically successful film was Chelsea Girls (1966). The film was highly innovative in that it consisted of two 16 mm-films being projected simultaneously, with two different stories being shown in tandem. From the projection booth, the sound would be raised for one film to elucidate that "story" while it was lowered for the other. The multiplication of images evoked Warhol's seminal silk-screen works of the early 1960s.

 

Other important films include Bike Boy, My Hustler, and Lonesome Cowboys, a raunchy pseudo-western. These and other titles document gay underground and camp culture, and continue to feature prominently in scholarship about sexuality and art.[61][62] Blue Movie – a film in which Warhol superstar Viva makes love and fools around in bed with a man for 33 minutes of the film's playing-time – was Warhol's last film as director. The film was at the time scandalous for its frank approach to a sexual encounter. For many years Viva refused to allow it to be screened. It was publicly screened in New York in 2005 for the first time in over thirty years.

 

After his June 3, 1968, shooting, a reclusive Warhol relinquished his personal involvement in filmmaking. His acolyte and assistant director, Paul Morrissey, took over the film-making chores for the Factory collective, steering Warhol-branded cinema towards more mainstream, narrative-based, B-movie exploitation fare with Flesh, Trash, and Heat. All of these films, including the later Andy Warhol's Dracula and Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, were far more mainstream than anything Warhol as a director had attempted. These latter "Warhol" films starred Joe Dallesandro – more of a Morrissey star than a true Warhol superstar.

 

In the early '70s, most of the films directed by Warhol were pulled out of circulation by Warhol and the people around him who ran his business. After Warhol's death, the films were slowly restored by the Whitney Museum and are occasionally projected at museums and film festivals. Few of the Warhol-directed films are available on video or DVD.

 

Factory in New York

Factory: 1342 Lexington Avenue (the first Factory)

The Factory: 231 East 47th street 1963-1967 (the building no longer exists)

Factory: 33 Union Square 1967-1973 (Decker Building)

Factory: 860 Broadway (near 33 Union Square) 1973-1984 (the building has now been completely remodeled and was for a time (2000–2001) the headquarters of the dot-com consultancy Scient)

Factory: 22 East 33rd Street 1984-1987 (the building no longer exists)

Home: 1342 Lexington Avenue

Home: 57 East 66th street (Warhol's last home)

Last personal studio: 158 Madison Avenue

Filmography

Main article: Andy Warhol filmography

Music

In the mid 1960s, Warhol adopted the band the Velvet Underground, making them a crucial element of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia performance art show. Warhol, with Paul Morrissey, acted as the band's manager, introducing them to Nico (who would perform with the band at Warhol's request). In 1966 he "produced" their first album The Velvet Underground & Nico, as well as providing its album art. His actual participation in the album's production amounted to simply paying for the studio time. After the band's first album, Warhol and band leader Lou Reed started to disagree more about the direction the band should take, and their artistic friendship ended.[citation needed]

 

Warhol designed many album covers for various artists starting with the photographic cover of John Wallowitch's debut album, This Is John Wallowitch!!! (1964). He designed the cover art for the Rolling Stones albums Sticky Fingers (1971) and Love You Live (1977), and the John Cale albums The Academy In Peril (1972) and Honi Soit in 1981. In 1975, Warhol was commissioned to do several portraits of Mick Jagger, and in 1982 he designed the album cover for the Diana Ross album Silk Electric.[citation needed] One of his last works was a portrait of Aretha Franklin for the cover of her 1986 gold album Aretha, which was done in the style of the Reigning Queens series he had completed the year before.[63]

 

Warhol was also friendly with many recording artists, including Deborah Harry, Grace Jones, Diana Ross and John Lennon (with whom he posed for an infamous photograph[64]) - he designed the cover to Lennon's 1986 posthumously released Menlove Ave. Warhol also appeared as a bartender in The Cars' music video for their single "Hello Again", and Curiosity Killed The Cat's video for their "Misfit" single (both videos, and others, were produced by Warhol's video production company).[citation needed] Warhol featured in Grace Jones' music video for "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)".

 

Warhol strongly influenced the New Wave/punk rock band Devo, as well as David Bowie. Bowie recorded a song called "Andy Warhol" for his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Lou Reed wrote the song "Andy's Chest", about Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Warhol, in 1968. He recorded it with the Velvet Underground, but this version wasn't officially released until the VU album appeared in 1985. He recorded a new version for his 1972 solo album Transformer, produced by Bowie and Mick Ronson.[citation needed]

  

Cover of copy no. 18 of 25 Cats Name [sic] Sam and One Blue Pussy by Andy Warhol given in 1954 to Edgar de Evia and Robert Denning when the author was a guest in their home in the Rhinelander Mansion.[citation needed]Books and print

Beginning in the early 1950s, Warhol produced several unbound portfolios of his work.

 

The first of several bound self-published books by Warhol was 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy, printed in 1954 by Seymour Berlin on Arches brand watermarked paper using his blotted line technique for the lithographs. The original edition was limited to 190 numbered, hand colored copies, using Dr. Martin's ink washes. Most of these were given by Warhol as gifts to clients and friends. Copy #4, inscribed "Jerry" on the front cover and given to Geraldine Stutz, was used for a facsimile printing in 1987[65] and the original was auctioned in May 2006 for US $35,000 by Doyle New York.[66]

 

Other self-published books by Warhol include:

 

A Gold Book

Wild Raspberries

Holy Cats

After gaining fame, Warhol "wrote" several books that were commercially published:

 

a, A Novel (1968, ISBN 0-8021-3553-6) is a literal transcription– containing spelling errors and phonetically written background noise and mumbling– of audio recordings of Ondine and several of Andy Warhol's friends hanging out at the Factory, talking, going out.[citation needed]

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) (1975, ISBN 0-15-671720-4)– according to Pat Hackett's introduction to The Andy Warhol Diaries, Pat Hackett did the transcriptions and text for the book based on daily phone conversations, sometimes (when Warhol was traveling) using audio cassettes that Andy Warhol gave her. Said cassettes contained conversations with Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk) and former Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello.[citation needed]

Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980, ISBN 0-15-672960-1), authored by Warhol and Pat Hackett is a retrospective view of the sixties and the role of Pop Art.

The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989, ISBN 0-446-39138-7), edited by Pat Hackett, is a diary dictated by Warhol to Hackett in daily phone conversations. Warhol started the diary to keep track of his expenses after being audited, although it soon evolved to include his personal and cultural observations.[67]

Warhol created the fashion magazine Interview that is still published today. The loopy title script on the cover is thought to be either his own handwriting or that of his mother, Julia Warhola, who would often do text work for his early commercial pieces.[68]

 

Other media

As stated, although Andy Warhol is most known for his paintings and films, he has authored works in many different media.

 

Drawing: Warhol started his career as a commercial illustrator, producing drawings in "blotted-ink" style for advertisements and magazine articles. Best known of these early works are his drawings of shoes. Some of his personal drawings were self-published in small booklets, such as Yum, Yum, Yum (about food), Ho, Ho, Ho (about Christmas) and (of course) Shoes, Shoes, Shoes. His most artistically acclaimed book of drawings is probably A Gold Book, compiled of sensitive drawings of young men. A Gold Book is so named because of the gold leaf that decorates its pages.[69]

Sculpture: Warhol's most famous sculpture is probably his Brillo Boxes, silkscreened ink on wood replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes (designed by James Harvey), part of a series of "grocery carton" sculptures that also included Heinz ketchup and Campbell's tomato juice cases.[70] Other famous works include the Silver Clouds– helium filled, silver mylar, pillow-shaped balloons. A Silver Cloud was included in the traveling exhibition Air Art (1968–69) curated by Willoughby Sharp. Clouds was also adapted by Warhol for avant-garde choreographer Merce Cunningham's dance piece RainForest (1968).[71]

Audio: At one point Warhol carried a portable recorder with him wherever he went, taping everything everybody said and did. He referred to this device as his "wife". Some of these tapes were the basis for his literary work. Another audio-work of Warhol's was his "Invisible Sculpture", a presentation in which burglar alarms would go off when entering the room. Warhol's cooperation with the musicians of The Velvet Underground was driven by an expressed desire to become a music producer.[citation needed]

Time Capsules: In 1973, Warhol began saving ephemera from his daily life– correspondence, newspapers, souvenirs, childhood objects, even used plane tickets and food– which was sealed in plain cardboard boxes dubbed Time Capsules. By the time of his death, the collection grew to include 600, individually dated "capsules". The boxes are now housed at the Andy Warhol Museum.[72]

Television: Andy Warhol dreamed of a television show that he wanted to call The Nothing Special, a special about his favorite subject: Nothing. Later in his career he did create two cable television shows, Andy Warhol's TV in 1982 and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes (based on his famous "fifteen minutes of fame" quotation) for MTV in 1986. Besides his own shows he regularly made guest appearances on other programs, including The Love Boat wherein a Midwestern wife (Marion Ross) fears Andy Warhol will reveal to her husband (Tom Bosley, who starred alongside Ross in sitcom Happy Days) her secret past as a Warhol superstar named Marina del Rey. Warhol also produced a TV commercial for Schrafft's Restaurants in New York City, for an ice cream dessert appropriately titled the "Underground Sundae".[73]

Fashion: Warhol is quoted for having said: "I'd rather buy a dress and put it up on the wall, than put a painting, wouldn't you?"[cite this quote] One of his most well-known Superstars, Edie Sedgwick, aspired to be a fashion designer, and his good friend Halston was a famous one. Warhol's work in fashion includes silkscreened dresses, a short sub-career as a catwalk-model and books on fashion as well as paintings with fashion (shoes) as a subject.[citation needed]

Performance Art: Warhol and his friends staged theatrical multimedia happenings at parties and public venues, combining music, film, slide projections and even Gerard Malanga in an S&M outfit cracking a whip. The Exploding Plastic Inevitable in 1966 was the culmination of this area of his work.[74]

Theater: Andy Warhol's PORK opened on May 5, 1971 at LaMama theater in New York for a two week run and was brought to the Roundhouse in London for a longer run in August, 1971. Pork was based on tape-recorded conversations between Brigin Berlin and Andy during which Brigid would play for Andy tapes she had made of phone conversations between herself and her mother, socialite Honey Berlin. The play featured Jayne County as "Vulva" and Cherry Vanilla as "Amanda Pork".[citation needed] In 1974, Andy Warhol also produced the stage musical Man On The Moon, which was written by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.

Photography: To produce his silkscreens, Warhol made photographs or had them made by his friends and assistants. These pictures were mostly taken with a specific model of Polaroid camera that Polaroid kept in production especially for Warhol. This photographic approach to painting and his snapshot method of taking pictures has had a great effect on artistic photography. Warhol was an accomplished photographer, and took an enormous amount of photographs of Factory visitors, friends.[citation needed]

Computer: Warhol used Amiga computers to generate digital art, which he helped design and build with Amiga, Inc. He also displayed the difference between slow fill and fast fill on live TV with Debbie Harry as a model.[75] (video)

Producer and product

Warhol had assistance in producing his paintings. This is also true of his film-making and commercial enterprises.[citation needed]

 

He founded the gossip magazine Interview, a stage for celebrities he "endorsed" and a business staffed by his friends. He collaborated with others on all of his books (some of which were written with Pat Hackett.) He adopted the young painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the band The Velvet Underground, presenting them to the public as his latest interest, and collaborating with them. One might even say that he produced people (as in the Warholian "Superstar" and the Warholian portrait). He endorsed products, appeared in commercials, and made frequent celebrity guest appearances on television shows and in films (he appeared in everything from Love Boat to Saturday Night Live and the Richard Pryor movie, Dynamite Chicken).[citation needed]

 

In this respect Warhol was a fan of "Art Business" and "Business Art"– he, in fact, wrote about his interest in thinking about art as business in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again.[citation needed]

 

Dedicated museums

Two museums are dedicated to Andy Warhol. The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is located at 117 Sandusky Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the largest American art museum dedicated to a single artist, holding more than 12,000 works by the artist.[citation needed]

 

The other museum is the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, established in 1991 by Andy's brother John Warhola, the Slovak Ministry of Culture, and the Warhol Foundation in New York. It is located in the small town of Medzilaborce, Slovakia. Andy's parents and his two brothers were born 15 kilometres away in the village of Miková. The museum houses several originals donated mainly by the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York and also personal items donated by Warhol's relatives.[citation needed]

 

Movies about Warhol

Dramatic portrayals

 

Warhol (right) with director Ulli Lommel on the set of 1979's Cocaine Cowboys, in which Warhol appeared as himselfIn 1979, Warhol appeared as himself in the film Cocaine Cowboys.[76]

 

After his passing, Warhol was portrayed by Crispin Glover in Oliver Stone's film The Doors (1991), by David Bowie in Basquiat, a film by Julian Schnabel, and by Jared Harris in the film I Shot Andy Warhol directed by Mary Harron (1996). Warhol appears as a character in Michael Daugherty's 1997 opera Jackie O. Actor Mark Bringleson makes a brief cameo as Warhol in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). Many films by avant-garde cineast Jonas Mekas have caught the moments of Andy's life. Sean Gregory Sullivan depicted Warhol in the 1998 film 54. Guy Pearce portrayed Warhol in the 2007 film, Factory Girl, about Edie Sedgwick's life.[77] Actor Greg Travis portrays Warhol in a brief scene from the 2009 film Watchmen.

 

Gus Van Sant was planning a version of Warhol's life with River Phoenix in the lead role just before Phoenix's death in 1993.[78]

 

Documentaries

The 2001 documentary, Absolut Warhola was produced by Polish director Stanislaw Mucha, featuring Warhol's parents' family and hometown in Slovakia.[79]

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a reverential four-hour 2006 movie by Ric Burns.[80]

Andy Warhol: Double Denied is a 52 minute movie by lan Yentob about the difficulties in authenticating Warhol's work.[81]

 

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Triest - Kathedrale

 

seen from Castello di San Giusto

 

gesehen vom Castello di San Giusto

 

Trieste Cathedral (Italian: Basilica cattedrale di San Giusto Martire), dedicated to Saint Justus, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Trieste, in northeastern Italy. It is the seat of the Bishop of Trieste.

 

In 1899, Pope Leo XIII granted it the status of a basilica minor.

 

History

 

The first religious edifice on the site was built in the 6th century on a Roman propylaea, using part of the existing structure. Perhaps the entrance to a monument, this was commonly known as the Capitoline Temple, as a pyramidal altar with the symbols of the Capitoline Triad (Jupiter, Juno and Minerva) had been discovered inside it.

 

In the main hall, the original remains of part of the mosaic floor is integrated into the present-day floor, which contains markings of the outer walls of the early Christian building. Soon after it was opened for worship, the church was destroyed in the Lombard invasion.

 

Between the 9th and 11th centuries, two basilicas were erected on the ruins of the old church, the first dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and the second, the cathedral, to Saint Justus (San Giusto). The original design of the latter building was subsequently lengthened. In the 14th century, the two basilicas were joined by means of the demolition of one nave of either basilica and the construction of a simple asymmetrical façade, dominated by a delicately worked Gothic rose window, as ornate as the new bell tower, using the Romanesque debris stones found on the site and friezes of arms.

 

Carlist mausoleum

 

The Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo serves as the burial chapel for the family of the Carlist claimants to the throne of Spain. It contains the tombs of:

 

Infante Carlos, Count of Molina (Carlos V)

Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal, first wife of the Count of Molina

Teresa, Princess of Beira, second wife of the Count of Molina

Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin (Carlos VI)

Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, wife of the Count of Montemolin

Juan, Count of Montizón (Juan III)

Infante Fernando of Spain, brother of the Count of Montemolin and the Count of Montizón

Carlos, Duke of Madrid (Carlos VII)

Archduke Franz Josef of Austria, Prince of Tuscany

 

Works of art

 

Among the works of historical interest in the cathedral are the apsidal mosaics depicting Our Lady of the Assumption and Christ between Saints Justus and Servolus, laid by master craftsmen from Veneto in the 12th-13th centuries. The small 14th-century church of San Giovanni (Saint John), the old baptistry on the left and San Michele al Carnale on the right, by the entrance to the museum, complete a fine medieval churchyard.

 

In the square in front of the church is an altar commemorating the consecration and laying down of the arms of the 3rd Army. There is also a column with a halberd and a monument to those who died in the First World War.

 

Archaeological excavations carried out here in the 1930s laid bare the remains of the Roman forum and civic building constructed on two colonnaded floors with two apses. Two lower-floor columns have been reconstructed.

 

The 5 bells are tuned in scale of G major.

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die Kathedrale San Giusto in Triest ist die Kathedralkirche des Bischofs von Triest mit dem Titel einer Basilica minor. Gewidmet dem Schutzpatron der Stadt, dem hl. Justus, überragt der Dom als eines der Wahrzeichen Triests die Stadt auf dem kapitolinischen Hügel. Der heutige romanische Bau geht auf das 14. Jahrhundert zurück. In ihm sind Reste der heidnischen, christlichen und weltlichen Gebäude eingeschlossen, die an dieser Stelle seit der Römerzeit aufeinander folgten.

 

Geschichte

 

Vorgeschichte

 

Auf dem Boden der heutigen Kathedrale befanden sich bereits zur Römerzeit ein Propylon, eine römische Basilika und vermutlich ein kapitolinischer Tempel.

 

Das Propylon ist das älteste Gebäude und wurde um 80 n. Chr. erbaut. Seine Errichtung wurde vermutlich von Publius Palpellius Clodius Quirinalis initiiert, der seine Laufbahn als Centurio der Legio XX Valeria Victrix begann und als Präfekt der Flotte von Ravenna unter Nero beendete. Das 17,20 Meter lange und 5,30 Meter breite Propylon befand sich am Ende der Hauptstraße, die vom Meer auf den Hügel San Giusto führte und in etwa der heutigen Via della Cattedrale entspricht. Reste des Propylons sind unter dem Vorplatz der Kathedrale sichtbar, im Campanile des heutigen Gotteshauses integriert oder im nahe liegenden Lapidarium ausgestellt.

 

Das Propylon diente vermutlich als Vorhalle oder Zugangstor zu einem dahinter liegenden kapitolinischen Tempel. Der Tempel war den drei römischen Hauptgöttern Jupiter, Juno und Minerva geweiht, wie eine aufgefundene Altarpyramide bestätigt. Allerdings ist von dem Tempel außer der Altarpyramide nichts Weiteres erhalten geblieben oder überliefert. Seine genaue Positionierung ist somit unklar.

 

Links neben dem Propylon befinden sich die Säulen und Überreste der römischen Basilika. Fragmente verschiedener Inschriften lassen darauf schließen, dass das Gebäude auf Veranlassen von Quintus Baienus Blassianus erbaut wurde, der im 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. lebte und unter anderem Präfekt von Ägypten unter Mark Aurel war. Das 75 Meter lange, 23 Meter breite und 20 Meter hohe Gebäude war Sitz des Kommunalrats (decuriones) und diente als Ort für öffentliche Versammlungen sowie den Gerichts- und Geschäftsverkehr.

 

Nachdem ein Großteil des Propylons und des kapitolinischen Tempels verfallen war, wurde im 5. Jahrhundert an derselben Stelle eine primitive, frühchristliche Basilika errichtet, deren Mosaik bruchstückhaft im Boden der heutigen Kathedrale erhalten ist. Der im 6. Jahrhundert unter dem Triestiner Bischof Frugiferus erweiterte Bau wurde Mitte des 11. Jahrhunderts durch eine wesentlich kleinere Marienkirche ersetzt. In der gleichen Periode wurde parallel dazu auf der Südseite eine kleine, viereckige Gedächtniskapelle mit Kuppel errichtet. Sie war der Verehrung von lokalen Märtyrern geweiht, insbesondere der Reliquien des Heiligen Justus.

 

Baugeschichte

 

Im 14. Jahrhundert wurden beide Gebäude vermutlich auf Veranlassung des Triestiner Bischofs Rodolfo di Pedrazzano (1302–1320) zu einer einzigen, fünfschiffigen Kirche vereinigt, wie sie heute noch besteht. Dazu riss man damals die beiden nebeneinander liegenden Seitenschiffe ab. Das an ihrer Stelle entstandene große, neue Mittelschiff wurde mit einer Decke in Form eines Schiffskiels und einer neuen Apsis versehen. Dazu kam eine neue, einfache Fassade aus Sandstein, geschmückt mit einer Fensterrosette aus weißem Karstmarmor.

 

Zwischen 1337 und 1343 wurde der Glockenturm um einen bereits bestehenden romanischen Glockenturm errichtet.

 

Links des Glockenturms befindet sich das im Jahre 1380 errichtete und Johannes dem Täufer geweihte Baptisterium mit sechseckigem Taufbecken aus dem 9. Jahrhundert. Rechts der Kathedrale steht die kleine Kirche „San Michele al Carnale“, die lange Zeit als Kapelle des Friedhofs diente, der sich dort befand, wo heute das Lapidarium der Stadt liegt.

 

Nach der Fertigstellung des Gebäudekomplexes erfolgte die Einweihung des Gotteshauses am 27. November 1385 durch Bischof Heinrich von Wildenstein.

 

Architektur

 

Fassade

 

Die asymmetrische, mit einem Dreiecksgiebel abschließende Fassade aus Sandstein von dem benachbarten Muggia wird dominiert von einer großen, gotischen Fensterrosette mit zweifachem Strahlenkranz mit insgesamt 36 Strahlen aus weißem Karstmarmor. Radfenster entstand gegen Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts, als die beiden Kirchen vereint wurden. Restauriert wurde das Fenster 1932 von dem italienischen Architekten und Denkmalpfleger Ferdinando Forlati.

 

Für die 3,30 Meter hohen Torpfosten des zentralen Portals wurde ein römisches Grabmal mit den Porträts von sechs Mitgliedern der Familie Barbi aus dem 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. in zwei Hälften zersägt, wobei das Bildnis der befreiten Sklavin Tullia durch Beifügen eines Heiligenscheins und der Triestiner Hellebarde in das des Heiligen Sergios umgeändert wurde. Es ist eigentlich keine Hellebarde, sondern ein Hakenspieß. Sergios wird als einer der wichtigsten Märtyrer der Stadt verehrt. Die alten Portalflügel aus Holz wurden 1990 und 1992 durch neue aus Bronze ersetzt.

 

Links über dem Hauptportal befindet sich eine Nische, in der ursprünglich eine Holzstatue von Johannes dem Täufer aufgestellt war, die heute im Castello di San Giusto untergebracht ist. Daneben befindet sich ein Relief mit den Insignien und Wappen von Enea Silvia Piccolomini, der von 1447 bis 1450 Bischof von Triest und später Papst Pius II. war. Unter dem Basrelief ist eine Inschrift in lateinischen Hexametern angebracht, die den humanistischen Pontifex feiert, der Triest während der Belagerung durch die Republik Venedig 1463 unterstützte und vor der Zerstörung bewahrte.

 

Auf einem Vorsprung über dem Hauptportal ist eine Bronzebüste von Papst Pius II. angebracht, direkt gefolgt von den Büsten zweier weiterer Triestiner Bischöfe: dem Humanisten Andrea Rapicio (1567–1573) und Rinaldo Scarlicchio (1622–1630), der die Reliquien des Heiligen Justus entdeckte, wie in der lateinischen Inschrift unter seinem Wappen neben dem Hauptportal zu lesen ist (1630). Die drei Bronzebüsten sind das Werk von Alberto Brestyanszky (1862).

 

Eine weitere Inschrift erinnert an den Angriff der Österreicher und Engländer gegen die Soldaten Napoléons, die sich 1813 im benachbarten Schloss und dem Kirchturm verschanzt hatten.

 

Campanile (Glockenturm)

 

Zwischen 1337 und 1343 wurde der Glockenturm um einen bereits bestehenden romanischen Kirchturm errichtet, der wiederum auf die Grundmauern des römischen Propyläums gesetzt worden war. Das Fundament des romanischen Bauwerks wurde 1816 von Pietro Nobile freigelegt und ist heute unter den Bögen des Erdgeschosses sichtbar. Außerdem sind die Säulen des romanischen Bauwerks sowie eine Greifenabbildung im Treppenhaus zur Glockenstube zu sehen.

 

Die Achtung vor der Antike zeigt sich auch in dem römischen Gesims, das von dem benachbarten römischen Propyläum stammte und das in die Außenfassade des Campanile integriert wurde. Über dem Gesims befindet sich unter einer spitzbogigen Ädikula eine Statue des Heiligen Justus aus dem 14. Jahrhundert. Der Schutzheilige von Triest ist mit einer stark gefalteten Tunika bekleidet und hält ein Modell der Stadt und einen Palmenzweig in seinen Händen, das Zeichen des Martyriums.

 

Den Abschluss des Kirchturms bilden die einbogigen Fenster der Glockenstube. Dort hängen 5 Kirchenglocken. Die älteste (und zugleich kleinste) Glocke wurde 1497 von einem Glockengießer mit Namen Giorgio da Lubiana gegossen (Schlagton: dis1). Die größte Glocke, die im Volksmund Campanon genannt wird, wurde 1829 gegossen; die dafür verwendete Bronze stammt von Kanonen, die von Napoleon zurückgelassen wurden; sie hat den Schlagton g0. Die drei anderen Glocken stammen aus dem Jahr 1953; sie wurden von dem Glockengießer Lucio Broili (Udine) gegossen und sind mit Reliefs von Carlo Sbisà geschmückt; ihre Schlagtöne sind a0, h0 und cis1.

 

Auf dem Dachgiebel des Kirchturms befand sich ursprünglich ein grob gerippter Aufsatz, den die Triestiner wegen seiner Form Melone nannten und zu einem der Wahrzeichen ihrer Stadt machten. Auf der 1,13 Meter hohen Steinskulptur befindet sich die eiserne Hellebarde des Heiligen Sergios, ebenfalls ein Wahrzeichen der Stadt. Bei einem Blitzschlag 1421 wurde der Dachstuhl zerstört und die Melone entfernt. Im darauf folgenden Jahr wurde sie auf einer Säule aufgestellt, die direkt auf dem Platz vor der Kathedrale errichtet wurde. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde die Melone schließlich im Schloss San Giusto untergebracht.

 

Ausstattung

 

Im Schrein des Altars der Pietà-Kapelle steht eine farbig gefasste Pietà aus Lindenholz.

 

Im Reliquienaltar der Schatzkapelle sind barocke, silberne Büstenreliquiare und die Hellebardenspitze des hl. Sergius zu sehen. Der barocke, zweisäulige Ädikula-Altar der Josefs-Kapelle mit einer Marmorskulptur des Schöpfers im Giebel wurde 1704 errichtet. Sein Gemälde zeigt die Verlobung Marias mit Josef.

 

Bemerkenswert ist auch das Taufbecken in der Johannes-Kapelle. Der Fuß des sechseckigen, romanischen Beckens aus griechischem Marmor ist ein Teilstück einer römischen Säule. Der barocke, hölzerne Aufsatz ist farbig gefasst und wird von einer kleinen Figur Johannes des Täufers bekrönt.

 

Seitlich befindet sich unter einer halben Fensterrose ein Polyptychon von Paolo Veneziano aus dem 14. Jahrhundert. Darüber drei Bilder: Der junge Justus von W. Falzari von 1947, der Heilige Sergius von C. Wostry von 1935 und der Heilige Nikolas von T. Agujari von 1864.

 

Orgel

 

Die Orgel auf der großen Empore wurde 1922 von der Orgelbaufirma Mascioni erbaut und in den 1970er Jahren überarbeitet. Das Instrument hat Register auf drei Manualen und Pedal. Die Spiel- und Registertrakturen sind heute elektrisch (vormals: elektropneumatisch).

 

Grablege

 

In einer Seitenkapelle rechts des Kirchenschiffs sind die Gräber vierer carlistischer Prätendenten des spanischen Throns – nämlich Carlos (V.), Carlos (VI.) und Carlos (VII.) sowie Juan (III.) – zu finden, welche ihr Exil in Triest verbrachten. San Giusto wird deshalb gelegentlich auch als „carlistischer Escorial“ bezeichnet. Weiters begraben sind hier die zwei Gattinnen des Carlos V. – Maria Francisca von Portugal und Maria Theresia von Portugal – sowie der Enkelsohn Carlos VII., Franz Josef von Österreich-Toskana, der ebenso als carlistischer Prätendent auftrat.

 

(Wikipedia)

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Mellat Park, Tehran

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Many thanks, Günther, for your really lovely work!!!

Flickr don't allow to upload pps, therefore I uploaded it to my blog.

 

At the end of a really fantastic 12 km hike around the Feisnecksee (a really lovely landscape situated near Waren, Müritz National Park), on the meadow at the parking lot next to the street there fluttered a few butterflies. I wanted to catch one.

 

While I photographed the one above with my camera in both hands, he suddenly flew to me and sat down on the forefinger of my left hand. I didn't want to expel him, but still made another macro of him. It was not so easy, the butterfly on my left hand and now the camera only in my right hand. But I think I managed it pretty well ;-). You can see the best additional photos in my comment.

 

The Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) is a well-known colourful butterfly, found in temperate Europe. There are a few records from New York City which, however, are believed to have arrived human-assisted.

 

This is a species often found in gardens. The caterpillars feed on nettles, as do those of several Nymphalidae butterflies.

 

The adult is striking, with its dark body and red and yellow wings, which have a row of blue dots around the rear edge. However, the underwings are dull, which helps to conceal stationary or hibernating individuals. When threatened, resting individuals rapidly open their wings, presenting the dramatic display of colors. This can frighten away young or inexperienced birds (Stevens 2005).

 

The butterfly is abundant in most areas of the United Kingdom and Ireland. However, its availability often varies yearly. Its commonness may often depend on the status of the common wasp in that particular season, as the wasp is known to feed on the Tortoiseshell's pupae.

 

The Corsican Small Tortoiseshell Aglais (urticae) ichnusa looks very similar; whether it is a subspecies or a distinct species is yet to be determined. More in en.Wikipedia

 

Recommended to view Large On Black

 

Also in my set: Insects

 

Am Ende einer wirklich herrlichen 12 km Wanderung um den Feisnecksee (auch (die) Feisneck genannt, gelegen am Stadtrand von Waren im Müritz-Nationalparkes), flatterten auf der Blumenwiese am Parkplatz etliche Schmetterlinge. Sehr gerne wollte ich einen erwischen.

Während ich noch mit meiner Kamera in beiden Händen fotografierte setzte er sich plötzlich auf den Zeigefinger meiner linken Hand. Ich wollte ihn nicht vertreiben, sondern noch ein Makro davon machen. Es war gar nicht so einfach, den Kleinen Fuchs auf meiner linken Hand mit der Kamera nunmehr nur in meiner rechten Hand aufzunehmen. Doch ich denke, es ist mir ganz gut gelungen ;-). Die Fotos davon seht ihr in meinem Kommentar.

 

Der Kleine Fuchs (Aglais urticae; Syn.: Nymphalis urticae) ist ein Schmetterling (Tagfalter) der Familie der Edelfalter (Nymphalidae). Der Name Aglais urticae leitet sich ab von lat. Aglaie, oder gr. Aglaia, der ältesten der drei Grazien und lat. urtica, die Nessel und beschreibt die grazile Gestalt sowie die Brennnessel als Futterpflanze.

 

Die Falter erreichen eine Flügelspannweite von 40 bis 50 Millimetern. Ihre Flügeloberseiten haben eine orange Grundfärbung, wobei der Flügelansatz, besonders der Hinterflügel dunkelbraun ist. Sie tragen am Vorderrand der Vorderflügel ein schwarz, gelb und weißes Fleckmuster und dicht am dunkelbraunen Flügelaußenrand beider Flügelpaare einen blauen Fleckensaum, der dunkel umfasst ist. Auf den Vorderflügeln befinden sich je zwei kleinere und ein großer schwarzer Fleck, am Hinterflügel je nur ein großer schwarzer Fleck, der am dunkelbraunen Basalteil anschließt.

 

In Mittel- und Hochgebirgslagen sind die Falter häufig größer und haben eine hellere Färbung. Im nördlichen Europa sind sie eher kleiner und dunkler.

 

Die Raupen werden ca. 30 Millimeter lang. Die Raupen sind schwarz, fein weiß gefleckt und besitzen zwei unterbrochene, gelbe Seitenlinien. Unterhalb der Seitenlinien ist der Körper purpurbraun und gelegentlich mit einer rötlichbraunen Zeichnung zwischen den gelben Seitenlinien versehen. Der Raupenkörper trägt auf dem Rücken und an den Seiten Stachel, die schwarz oder gelblich sind. Der Raupenkopf ist schwarz.

 

Die Tiere kommen in ganz Europa und Asien, östlich bis an den Pazifik vor. Man findet sie normalerweise bis in eine Höhe von 3.000 Meter, gelegentlich werden Falter auch bis in Höhen von 3.500 Meter gefunden. Sie leben in verschiedensten Lebensräumen (Ubiquist), weswegen sie weit verbreitet sind und sehr häufig vorkommen.

 

Mehr in Wikipedia

 

© 2010 Ursula Sander - All rights reserved.

 

Dedicated to **El-Len**,

 

Hustle and bustle of people going about their early morning business, light filtering through the smokey atmosphere, Fort Kochi, Kerala India

 

please view on black

1. Our First View of Chatsworth, 2. Through the Garden Door, 3. Early One Morning, Just as the Sun Was Rising...........(view in the original size to "count the sheep"), 4. All Saints Church, Bakewell, Derbyshire., 5. Saturday Morning in the Park, 6. Greek Revival in Charleston, South Carolina, 7. The Dovecote House in Madison, Georgia, 8. Approaching Seven Sisters from Seaford Head on a Windy July Afternoon,

 

9. The Joys of Childhood and Summertime, 10. Duck Island Cottage in London's St. James Park, 11. Outside the South Cottage at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, England, 12. Looking Hopefully Ahead to Springtime, 13. Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, England, 14. A View of the Oast Houses from the Tower at Sissinghurst, 15. Caption?, 16. St. James Park, London, on a May Afternoon,

 

17. Through the Wisteria at Sissinghurst, 18. The Tower at Sissinghurst, 19. Sissinghurst Castle Garden, 20. Blue Gate and Irises at Sissinghurst, 21. Sheffield Park, 22. The National Trust Garden at Nymans, East Sussex, 23. Sheffield Park, East Sussex, 24. The Colors of Springtime - or is that "Colours"?,

 

25. White Doves for a Peaceful New Year for Everyone, 26. A Tranquil Afternoon in May at Sheffield Park, 27. ... wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger..., 28. Merry Christmas to Everyone in Flickrdom, 29. Lady Lucy at the River, 30. Merry Christmas from Savannah, 31. Winter in the Atlanta Botanical Garden, 32. Buxom Beauties Bathing II,

 

33. Looking Back to Summer - a July Morning in Green Park, London, 34. A Saturday Morning Walk in Windsor Great Park, 35. Happy Holidays from Savannah!, 36. Happy Holidays from Savannah!, 37. A Walk in Windsor Great Park, 38. The "Copper Horse" Statue of George III in Windsor Great Park, 39. Windsor Castle as seen from the Copper Horse Hill (really only works viewed large), 40. Savannah Street Scene,

 

41. The Savannah Cotton Exchange, 42. The House at the End of the Road, 43. For Sunday - a Church in North Georgia, 44. Is It Really "Morning in America" This Time?, 45. A Symbolic Image on the Eve of the Election in America, 46. Cycling in Pleasant Valley, Union County, Georgia, 47. Red Maple and Grazing Cattle in North Georgia, 48. Red Maple and Blue Sky in North Georgia,

 

49. White Farmhouse and Beautyberry Bush, 50. Old Farmhouse and Waning October Moon in North Georgia, 51. Zinnias and Quince from our North Georgia Garden, 52. Scene from a Private Garden in the Cotswolds, 53. The London Eye on A Sunday Afternoon, 54. Punting on the River Cherwell in Oxford, England, 55. The Oxford Botanic Garden on a Grey Afternoon, 56. For Sunday - The Noah's Ark Window in Tissington, Derbyshire,

 

57. Blenheim Palace and Gardens, 58. In the Italian Garden at Blenheim Palace, 59. Newly Rethatched Roof in Chipping Campden, Cotswolds, 60. Between the Afternoon Showers in the Cotswolds, 61. Hidcote Manor Garden in the Cotswolds, 62. The Famous Red Border at Hidcote in the Cotswolds, 63. Well Behaved Chickens at Bourton House Garden in the Cotswolds, 64. Closing Time at Bourton House Garden in the Cotswolds,

 

65. The view of Henry James' Garden at Lamb House, Rye, 66. Walk from Rye to Camber Castle, 67. Rose Cottage Bed and Breakfast, Alfriston, Sussex, 68. A perfect place to walk the dog on a Sunday morning., 69. View from the South Downs Way above Wilmington, Sussex, 70. Seven Sisters from Seaford Head, 71. The Rose Garden at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 72. Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

 

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Schneider National Freightliner Columbia mid-roof with a Goodyear Tires dedicated trailer(GYA999908) parked in Chicago, IL in October 2013.

Dedicated to Paul Armstrong and inspired by his amazing work. Sorry for this knockoff.

After seven months of growing I decided to give myself a shave but also to chronicle this.

Firefighters Memorial

 

Minnesota State Capitol Grounds

75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard., St Paul, MN 55155, US

Dedicated to my dear friend Please! Don't Smile. (Khashi)

 

HORMOZGAN GATHERING, DAY 4:

 

This is Haghany jetty, when we came back to BandarAbbas from Hormoz island.

 

This shot is related to my day by day itinerary of our journey to Hormozgan, during 7th Iranian Flickr Gathering: Hormozgan.

Wait for more photos of each day of journey at upcoming near future ;)

 

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Added to Flickr Explore (interestingness) page of 27 June 2008.

Title.

Silver. White. Blue.

 

(LUMIX G3 shot)

 

Manhattan. New York. USA. 2017. … 10 / 13

(Today's photo. It is unpublished.)

  

Images.

Toshiki Kadomatsu ( 角松 敏生 )- Magic Hour

youtu.be/UVB5oNTZ2PY?si=eZsH8F_PD-KYHLsk

  

::Link photo music and iTunes playlist::

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Important Notices.

 

I have relaxed the following conditions.

I will distribute my T-shirt to the world for free.

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Exhibition in 2024

  

theme

Goodbye , Photo .

  

Images

Ai Otsuka ( 大塚 愛 ) / Goodbye photo ( 恋愛写真 )

youtu.be/B2XfJCQ2Dy0?si=WN3UePWye5N03yi4

 

Live 1.

youtu.be/MjBYxuVgj70?si=K3TyYOGqa3Y8BdAt

 

Live 2.

youtu.be/Dccv85TarHs?si=BI-f4JfrihO3CTXD

  

Mitsushiro - Nakagawa

  

Sponsored by

design festa

designfesta.com

 

place

Tokyo Big Site

www.bigsight.jp

  

schedule

November 16 and 17, 2024.

 

exhibition.mitsushiro.nakagawa@gmail.com

  

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Notice regarding "Lot No.402_”.

  

From now on # I will host "Lot No.402_".

 

The work of Leonardo da Vinci who was sleeping.

That is the number when it was put up for auction.

No sign was written on the work.

So this work couldn't conclude that it was his work.

However # as a result of various appraisals # it was exposed to the sun.

A work that no one notices. A work that speaks quietly without a title.

I will continue to strive to provide it to many people in various ways.

 

October 24 2020 by Mitsushiro - Nakagawa.

  

Mitsushiro Nakagawa belong to Lot No. 402 _.Copyright©︎2024 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.

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Profile.

In November 2014 # we caught the attention of the party selected to undertake the publicity for a mobile phone that changed the face of the world with just a single model # and will conclude a confidentiality agreement with them.

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Interviews and novels.

About my book.

 

I published a book a long time ago.

At that time # I uploaded my interview as a PDF on the internet.

Its Japanese and English.

 

I will publish it for free.

For details # I explained to the Amazon site.

 

How to write a novel.

How to take a picture.

A sense of distance to the work.

 

All of these have something in common.

I wrote down what I felt and left it.

 

I hope my text will be read by many people.

Thank you.

 

Mitsushiro.

 

1 Interview in English

 

2 novels. unforgettable 'English version.(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

 

3 Interview Japanese version

 

4 novels. unforgettable ' JPN version.

 

5 A streamlined trajectory. only Japanese.

 

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iBooks. Electronic Publishing. It is free now.

 

0.about the iBooks.

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1.unforgettable '(ENG.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

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2.unforgettable '(JNP.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

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3. Streamlined trajectory.(For Japanese only.)

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My Novel : Unforgettable'

 

(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

  

Synopsis

Kei Kitami, who is aiming for university, meets Kaori Uemura, an event companion who is 6 years older than her, on SNS.

Kaori's dream of coming to Tokyo is to become friends with a famous artist.

For that purpose, the radio station's producer, Ryo Osawa, was needed.

Osawa speaks to Kaori during a live radio broadcast.

"I have a wife and children. But I want to meet you."

Rika Sanjo, who is Kei's classmate and has feelings for him, has been looking into her girlfriend Kaori's movements. . . . .

   

Mitsushiro Nakagawa

All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .

www.fotolog.net/yuming/

  

images.

U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related

  

Main story

 

There are two reasons why a person faces the sea.

One to enjoy a slice of shine in the sea like children bubbling over in the beach.

The other to brush the dust of memory like an old man who misses old days staring at the shine

quietly.

Those lead to only one meaning though they do not seem to overlap. It’s a rebirth.

I face myself to change tomorrow a vague day into something certain.

That is the meaning of a rebirth.

I had a very sweet girlfriend when I was 18.

After she left I knew the meaning of gentleness for the first time and also a true pain of loss. After

she left # how many times did I depend too much on her # doubt her # envy her and keep on telling lies

until I realized it is love?

I wonder whether a nobody like me could have given something to her who was struggling in the

daily life in those days. Giving something is arrogant conceit. It is nothing but self-satisfaction.

I had been thinking about such a thing.

However I guess what she saw in me was because I had nothing. That‘s why she tried to see

something in me. Perhaps she found a slight possibility in me # a guy filled with ambiguous unstable

tomorrow. But I wasted days depending too much on her gentleness.

Now I finally can convey how I felt in those days when we met.

  

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Fin.

  

images.

U2 - No Line On The Horizon

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Title of my book : unforgettable'

Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa

Out Now.

ISBN978-4-86264-866-2

in Amazon.

Unforgettable’ amzn.asia/d/eG1wNc5

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The schedule of the next novel.

Still would stand all time. (Unforgettable '2)

(It will not go away forever)

Please give me some more time. That is Japanese.

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My Works.

 

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2 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48078949821/in/dateposted...

3 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48085863356/in/dateposted...

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Do you want to hear my voice?

:)

 

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

 

1

About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. First type.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

 

2

About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. Second type.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=443

 

3

About when I started Fotolog. Architect 's point of view.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=649

 

4

Why did not you have a camera so far?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=708

 

5

What is the coolest thing? The photo is as it is.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=776

 

6

About the current YouTube bar. I also want to tell # I want to leave.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=964

 

7

About Japanese photographers. Japanese YouTube bar is Pistols.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1059

 

8

The composition of the photograph is sensibility. Meet the designers in Milan. Two questions.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1242

 

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What is a good composition? What is a bad composition?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1482

 

10

What is the time to point the camera? It is slow if you are looking into the viewfinder or display.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1662

 

11

Family photos. I can not take pictures with others. The inside of the subject.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1745

 

12

About YouTube 's photographer. Camera technology etc. Sensibility is polished by reading books.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2144

 

13

About the Japanese newspaper. A picture of a good newspaper is Reuters. If you continue to look at useless photographs # it will be useless.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2305

 

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About Japanese photographers. About the exhibition.

Summary. I wrote a novel etc. What I want to tell the most.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2579

 

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I talked about how to make a work.

 

About work production 1/2

youtu.be/ZFjqUJn74kM

  

About work production 2/2

youtu.be/pZIbXmnXuCw

 

1 Photo exhibition up to that point. Did you want to go?

 

2 Well # what is an exhibition that you want to visit even if you go there?

 

3 Challenge to exhibit one work every month before opening a solo exhibition at the Harajuku Design Festa.

 

4 works are materials and silhouettes. Similar to fashion.

 

5 Who is your favorite artist? What is it? Make it clear.

 

6 Creating a collage is exactly the same as taking photos. As I wrote in the interview # it is the same as writing a novel.

 

7 I want to show it to someone # but I do not make a piece to show it. Aim for the work you want to decorate your own room as in the photo.

 

8 What is copycat? Nowadays # it is suspected to be beaten. There is something called Mimesis?

 

ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimesis

kotobank.jp/word/Mimesis-139464

 

9 What is Individuality? What is originality?

 

www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/

 

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Explanation of composition. 2

 

1.Composition explanation 2 ... 1/4

youtu.be/yVbvneBIMs8

 

2.Composition explanation 2 ... 2/4

youtu.be/LToFez9vOAw

 

3.Composition Explanation 2 ... 3/4

youtu.be/uTR0wVi9Z7M

 

4.Composition Explanation 2 ... 4/4

youtu.be/h2LjfU6Vvno

 

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My shutter feeling.

 

youtu.be/3JkbGiFLjAM

 

Today's photo.

It is a photo taken from Eurostar.

 

This video is an explanation.

 

I went to Milan in 2005.

At that time # I went from Milan to Venice.

We took Eurostar into the transportation.

 

This photo was not taken from a very fast Eurostar.

When I changed the track # I took a picture at the moment I slowed down.

  

Is there a Japanese beside you?

Please have my video translated.

:)

 

In the Eurostar to Venice . 2005. shot ... 1 / 2

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Miles Davis sheet 1955-1976.

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flickr.

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/

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instagram.

www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/

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Pinterest.

www.pinterest.jp/MitsushiroNakagawa/

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YouPic

youpic.com/photographer/mitsushironakagawa/

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twitter.

twitter.com/mitsushiro

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facebook.

www.facebook.com/mitsushiro.nakagawa

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threads.

www.threads.net/@mitsushiro_nakagawa

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Blue sky.

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Amazon.

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my statistics. (As of February 7, 2024)

What is the number of accesses to Flickr and U-Pik?

Flickr 21,694,434 Views

Youpic 7,003,230 Views

 

What is the number of accesses to Flickr and YouPic?

(As of November 13, 2023)

Flickr 20,852,872 View

Youpic 6,671,486 View

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Japanese is the following.

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Title of my book unforgettable' Mitsushiro Nakagawa Out Now. ISBN978-4-86264-866-2

 

Mitsu Nakagawa belong to Lot No. 204 _ . Copyright©︎2020 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.

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Title.

シルバー。ホワイト。ブルー。

  

( LUMIX G3 shot )

  

マンハッタン。ニューヨーク。アメリカ。2017年。 … 10 / 13

(今日の写真。それは未発表です。)

  

Images.

Toshiki Kadomatsu ( 角松 敏生 )- Magic Hour

youtu.be/UVB5oNTZ2PY?si=eZsH8F_PD-KYHLsk

  

::写真の音楽とiTunesプレイリストをリンク::

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/photo-music/pl.u-Eg8qefpy8Xz

  

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重要なお知らせ。

 

僕は以下の条件を緩和します。

僕はTシャツを無料で世界中へ配布します。

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2024年の展示

  

テーマ

Goodbye , Photo

  

Images

大塚 愛 ( Ai Otsuka ) / 恋愛写真 ( Goodbye photo )

youtu.be/B2XfJCQ2Dy0?si=WN3UePWye5N03yi4

 

Live 1.

youtu.be/MjBYxuVgj70?si=K3TyYOGqa3Y8BdAt

 

Live 2.

youtu.be/Dccv85TarHs?si=BI-f4JfrihO3CTXD

  

Mitsushiro - Nakagawa

  

主催

デザインフェスタ

designfesta.com

 

場所

東京ビッグサイト

www.bigsight.jp

  

日程

2024年11月16日。17日。

 

exhibition.mitsushiro.nakagawa@gmail.com

 

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” Lot No.402_ ” に関するお知らせ。

  

今後、僕は、” Lot No.402_ ”を主催します。

 

このロットナンバーは、眠っていたレオナルドダヴィンチの作品がオークションにかけらた際に付されたものです。

作品にはサインなどがいっさい記されていなかったため、彼の作品だと断定できませんでした。

しかし、様々な鑑定の結果、陽の光を浴びました。

誰にも気づかれない作品。肩書がなくとも静かに語りかける作品。

僕はこれから様々な形で、多くの皆様に提供できるよう努めてゆきます。

 

2020年10月24日 by Mitsushiro - Nakagawa.

 

Copyright©︎2021 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.

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プロフィール

2014年11月、たった1機種で世界を塗り替えた携帯電話の広告を請け負った選考者の目に留まり、秘密保持同意書を結ぶ。

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インタビューと小説。

僕の本について。

 

僕は、昔に本を出版しました。

その際に、僕のインタビューをPDFでネット上へアップロードしていました。

その日本語と英語。

 

僕は、無料でを公開します。

詳細は、アマゾンのサイトへ解説しました。

 

小説の書き方。

写真の撮影方法。

作品への距離感。

 

これらはすべて共通項があります。

僕は、僕が感じたことを文章にして、残しました。

 

僕のテキストが多くの人に読んでもらえることを望みます。

ありがとう。

 

Mitsushiro.

 

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

  

1 インタビュー 英語版

 

2 小説。unforgettable’ 英語版。

 

3 インタビュー 日本語版

 

4 小説。unforgettable’ 日本語版。(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)

(四百字詰め原稿用紙456枚)

 

 あらすじ

 大学を目指している北見ケイは、SNS上で、6歳年上のイベントコンパニオン、上村香織に出会う。

 上京してきた香織の夢は、有名なアーティストの友達になるためだ。

 そのためにはラジオ局のプロデューサー、大沢亮の存在が必要だった。

 大沢は、ラジオの生放送中、香織へ語りかける。

 「僕には妻子がある。しかし、僕は君に会いたいと思っている」

 ケイの同級生で、彼を想っている三條里香は、香織の動向を探っていた。。。。。

  

本編

 

人が海へ向かう理由には、二つある。

 ひとつは、波打ち際ではしゃぐ子供のように、今の瞬間の海の輝きを楽しむこと。

 もうひとつは、その輝きを静かに見据えて、過ぎ去った日々を懐かしむ老人のように記憶の埃を払うこと。

 二つは重なり合わないようではあるけれども、たったひとつの意味しか生まない。

 再生だ。

 明日っていう、曖昧な日を確実なものへと変えてゆくために、自分の存在に向き合う。

 それが再生の意味だ。

 

 十八歳だった僕には大切な人がいた。

 

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

  

5 流線形の軌跡。 日本語のみ。

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

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iBooks.電子出版。(現在は無料)

 

0.about the iBooks.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

 

1.unforgettable’ ( ENG.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216576828?ls=1&...

For Japanese only.

 

2.unforgettable’ ( JNP.ver.)(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216584262?ls=1&...

 

3.流線形の軌跡。

itunes.apple.com/us/book/%E6%B5%81%E7%B7%9A%E5%BD%A2%E3%8...

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僕の小説。英語版 

My Novel Unforgettable' (This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

 

Mitsushiro Nakagawa

All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .

www.fotolog.net/yuming/

   

1/9

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9/9

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Fin.

  

images.

U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related

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Title of my book : unforgettable'

Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa

Out Now.

 

ISBN978-4-86264-866-2

in Amazon.

Unforgettable’ amzn.asia/d/eG1wNc5

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僕の作品。

 

1 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48072442376/in/dateposted...

2 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48078949821/in/dateposted...

3 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48085863356/in/dateposted...

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あなたは僕の声を聞きたいですか?

:)

 

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

  

1

フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。1種類目。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

 

2

フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。2種類目。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=443

 

3

Fotologを始めた時について。 建築家の視点。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=649

 

4

なぜ、今までカメラを手にしなかったのか?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=708

 

5

何が一番かっこいいのか? 写真はありのままに。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=776

 

6

現在のユーチューバーについて。僕も伝え、残したい。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=964

 

7

日本人の写真家について。日本のユーチューバーはピストルズ。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1059

 

8

写真の構図は、感性。ミラノのデザイナーに会って。二つの質問。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1242

 

9

良い構図とは? 悪い構図とは?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1482

 

10

カメラを向ける時とは? ファインダーやディスプレイを覗いていては遅い。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1662

 

11

家族写真。他人では撮れない。被写体の内面。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1745

 

12

ユーチューブの写真家について。カメラの技術等。感性は、本を読むことで磨く。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2144

 

13

日本の新聞について。良い新聞の写真はロイター。ダメな写真を見続けるとダメになる。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2305

 

14

日本の写真家について。その展示について。

まとめ。僕が書いた小説など。僕が最も伝えたいこと。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2579

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作品制作について 1/2

youtu.be/ZFjqUJn74kM

 

作品制作について 2/2

youtu.be/pZIbXmnXuCw

  

1 それまでの写真展。自分は行きたいと思ったか?

 

2 じゃ、自分が足を運んででも行きたい展示とは何か?

 

3 原宿デザインフェスタで個展を開くまでに、毎月ひとつの作品を展示することにチャレンジ。

 

4 作品とは、素材とシルエット。ファッションと似ている。

 

5 自分が好きなアーティストは誰か? どんなものなのか? そこをはっきりさせる。

 

6 コラージュの作成も写真の撮り方と全く同じ。インタビューに書いたように小説の書き方とも同じ。

 

7 誰かに見せたい、見せるがために作品は作らない。写真と同じように自分の部屋に飾りたい作品を目指す。

 

8 パクリとは何か? 昨今、叩かれるパクリ疑惑。ミメーシスとは?

 

  https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ミメーシス

  https://kotobank.jp/word/ミメーシス-139464

  

9 個性とはなにか? オリジナリティってなに?

 

おまけ 眞子さまについて

 

という流れです。

お時間がある方は是非聴いてください。

:)

 

www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/

 

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構図の解説2

 

1.構図の解説2 ... 1/4

youtu.be/yVbvneBIMs8

 

2.構図の解説2 ... 2/4

youtu.be/LToFez9vOAw

 

3.構図の解説2 ... 3/4

youtu.be/uTR0wVi9Z7M

 

4.構図の解説2 ... 4/4

youtu.be/h2LjfU6Vvno

 

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僕のシャッター感覚

 

youtu.be/3JkbGiFLjAM

 

In the Eurostar to Venice . 2005. shot ... 1 / 2

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/49127115021/in/dateposted...

 

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Miles Davis sheet 1955-1976.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

 

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flickr.

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/

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YouTube.

www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/

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instagram.

www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/

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Pinterest.

www.pinterest.jp/MitsushiroNakagawa/

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YouPic

youpic.com/photographer/mitsushironakagawa/

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fotolog

www.fotolog.com/stealaway/

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twitter.

twitter.com/mitsushiro

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facebook.

www.facebook.com/mitsushiro.nakagawa

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threads.

www.threads.net/@mitsushiro_nakagawa

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Blue sky.

bsky.app/profile/mitsushironakagawa.bsky.social

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Amazon.

www.amazon.co.jp/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHSKI3YMYPYE5UE...

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僕の統計。(2024年2月7日現在)

フリッカー、ユーピクのアクセス数は?

Flickr 21,694,434 View

Youpic 7,003,230 View

 

僕の統計。(2023年11月13日現在)

フリッカー、ユーピクのアクセス数は?

Flickr 20,852,872 View

Youpic 6,671,486 View

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Japanese is the following.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

 

Title of my book unforgettable' Mitsushiro Nakagawa Out Now. ISBN978-4-86264-866-2

 

Mitsushiro Nakagawa belong to Lot no.204_ . Copyright©︎2020 Lot no.204_ All rights reserved.

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” Lot No.402_ ” に関するお知らせ。

  

今後、僕は、” Lot No.402_ ”を主催します。

 

このロットナンバーは、眠っていたレオナルドダヴィンチの作品がオークションにかけらた際に付されたものです。

作品にはサインなどがいっさい記されていなかったため、彼の作品だと断定できませんでした。

しかし、様々な鑑定の結果、陽の光を浴びました。

誰にも気づかれない作品。肩書がなくとも静かに語りかける作品。

僕はこれから様々な形で、多くの皆様に提供できるよう努めてゆきます。

 

2020年10月24日 by Mitsushiro - Nakagawa.

 

Copyright©︎2024 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.

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dedicated to the ones i love the most because we can get through anything TOGETHER

 

i love you

 

(Explore #411)

Thanks!

 

Created with www.dumpr.net - fun with your photos

Dedicated for my grandmother.

Dedicated to Theodoros Pantazis, a good friend and an outstanding Fashion photographer, in Athens, Greece.

Αφιερωμενη στον Θοδωρο Πανταζη, καλο φιλο και καταξιωμενο φωτογραφο Μοδας, στην Αθηνα.

 

Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανασης Φουρναρακος

Professional Photographer, retired

 

Plaka, Athens, Greece.

Standing on the northern foothills of the Acropolis, the picturesque Plaka district still retains the atmosphere of old Athens.

 

© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

None of my images may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, manipulated or used on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission. THANK YOU!

 

dedicated to all Martyrs and Victims of extremism & endless wars.

 

mixed media

series in progress ....

 

bricalu.blogspot.com

dedicated to cloudy mountain

Those flowers dedicated to Gautama Buddha @ the Buddha Temple..

 

Preface _ Three Hundred Sixty Five Project : 33/365

 

BANGLADESH, a Land of Fertility and Dhaka is the capital city a Country of Land, boat /river , hills and sea, The Longest sea beach Cox Bazar and Famous Mango groves Sundorban is the tourist attraction with heritage of Old days makes One Nostalgic. BANGLADESH is born out of series of political movements ,Those Started with Language movement in 1952 , followed by Non cooperation Movement in 1969 and finally ended up with Liberation war in 1971,

Jute , The Golden Fiber of Bangladesh is world wide famous while now Garmentsbecame the economical backbone of the country, Bangladesh has a Long rich cultural and Literatures heritage, with our noble Laurent Poet Nobel Laurent Rabindranath Tagore., Followed by Kazi Nazrul Islam and Jibanananda Das.

 

The country BANGLASDESH is a land of fertility for Agriculture, while Livestock’s are the main driving force for the rural life, Education had been the prime concerned for people of these days . Bangladesh has the glory to Inaugurate ICC World cup Cricket in 2011 at Mirpur stadium,

Season has Lot of credit in photography , along with the landscape. Heritage. Rivers cape, and Life style, People here enjoy festival in Bangladesh almost every month, Sometimes they are religious an most of the time seasonal, thus allow good subjects for Image capturing,

Let’s we EXPLORE Our Beautiful BANGLADESH.

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Dedicated to Nate ;)

 

Shot with a mamiya c330s

Dedicated to M. Kamran

Thanks M. Kamran for his hospitality and TIPS for birding photography

...all my friends ^_^

dedicated to Zentatsu Baker Roshi

Dedicated to Mamede for making my eyes blur!

 

Found this critter after having stolen a can of opened beer. This was the effect after having drunk from the can. Messy fellow this one is! It must have loved the drink! LOL!

Dedicated to the Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski

 

Model: Valentina

 

Inspired by: "The double life of Veronique" (K. Kieslowski, 1991)

   

The Cathedral of Monreale is one of the greatest extant examples of Norman architecture in the world. It was begun in 1174 by William II, and in 1182 the church, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III, elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral. The church is a national monument of Italy and one of the most important attractions of Sicily.

The archiepiscopal palace and monastic buildings on the south side were of great size and magnificence, and were surrounded by a massive precinct wall, crowned at intervals by twelve towers. This has been mostly rebuilt, and but little now remains except ruins of some of the towers, a great part of the monks' dormitory and frater, and the splendid cloister, completed about 1200. The latter is well preserved, and is one of the finest Italian cloisters both for size and beauty of detail now extant. It is about 2200 m2, with pointed arches decorated with diaper work, supported on pairs of columns in white marble, 216 in all, which were alternately plain and decorated by bands of patterns in gold and colors, made of glass tesserae, arranged either spirally or vertically from end to end of each shaft. The marble capitals are each carved with foliage, biblical scenes and allegories, no two being alike. At one angle, a square pillared projection contains the marble fountain or monks' lavatorium, evidently the work of Muslim sculptors. The church's plan is a mixture of Eastern Rite and Roman Catholic arrangement. The nave is like an Italian basilica, while the large triple-apsed choir is like one of the early three-apsed churches, of which so many examples still exist in Syria and other Oriental countries. It is, in fact, like two quite different churches put together endwise. The basilican nave is wide, with narrow aisles. Monolithic columns of grey oriental granite (except one, which is of cipolin marble), on each side support eight pointed arches much stilted. The capitals of these (mainly Corinthian) are also of the classical period. There is no triforium, but a high clerestory with wide two-light windows, with simple tracery like those in the nave-aisles and throughout the church, which give sufficient light.

The other half, Eastern in two senses, is both wider and higher than the nave. It also is divided into a central space with two aisles, each of the divisions ending at the east with an apse. The roofs throughout are of open woodwork very low in pitch, constructionally plain, but richly decorated with color, now mostly restored. At the west end of the nave are two projecting towers, with a narthex (entrance) between them. A large open atrium, which once existed at the west, is now completely destroyed, having been replaced by a Renaissance portico by Giovanni Domenico and Fazio Gagini (1547–1569).

It is, however, the large extent (6,500 m2) of the impressive glass mosaics covering the interior which make this church so splendid. With the exception of a high dado, made of marble slabs with bands of mosaic between them, the whole interior surface of the walls, including soffits and jambs of all the arches, is covered with minute mosaic-pictures in bright colors on a gold ground. The mosaic pictures are arranged in tiers, divided by horizontal and vertical bands. In parts of the choir there are five of these tiers of subjects or single figures one above another. The half dome of the central apse has a colossal half-length figure of Christ, with a seated Virgin and Child below; the other apses have full-length figures of St Peter and St Paul. Inscriptions on each picture explain the subject or saint represented; these are in Latin, except some few which are in Greek. The subjects in the nave begin with scenes from the Book of Genesis, illustrating the Old Testament types of Christ and His scheme of redemption, with figures of those who prophesied and prepared for His coming. Around the lower tier and the choir are subjects from the New Testament, chiefly representing Christ's miracles and suffering, with apostles, evangelists and other saints. The design, execution and choice of subjects all appear to be of Byzantine origin, the subjects being selected from the Menologion of Basil II drawn up by the emperor Basil II in the 10th century.

The tomb of William I of Sicily (the founder's father), a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy, and the founder William II's tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof. The tombs were rebuilt, and the whole of the injured part of the church restored a few years after the fire. The present organ, revised in 1967 by Ruffatti, has six manuals and 102 stops.

On the north of the choir are the tombs of Margaret of Navarre, wife of William I, and her two sons Roger and Henry, together with an urn containing the viscera of Saint Louis of France, who died in 1270. The pavement of the triple choir, though much restored, is a specimen of marble and porphyry mosaic in opus alexandrinum, with signs of Arab influence in its main lines. The mosaic pavement of the nave was completed in the 16th century, and has disks of porphyry and granite with marble bands intermingled with irregular lines.

Dedicated to RhinoSkin.

Dedicated to Jerry, who left us May15th, 2009. Explore #414

This image is dedicated to Mr. Pete Gordon and Mr. Dick Mann. They are the guys who are employed as Light Operators for the Niagara Falls Illumination Board. They have a combined 78 years of dedicated service.

 

Peter Gordon is 79 years old and in 2010 celebrated his 50th year of service.

Dick Mann is 77 years old and in 2010 celebrated his 28th year of service.

 

Both men work on alternating nights every day of every year, no matter the weather. They are the true artists who control the lights which shine upon the falls. The colors the Illumination lights use are white, red, amber, green, and blue.

 

There is no automated program which dictates the colour sequences that shine upon the Falls. The operator working creates the kaleidoscope of colours by calling upon their experience and artistic talents.

 

The Niagara Falls Illumination Board currently employ two operators on staff to conduct the nightly illumination of the Falls. The light show is controlled by a single operator, who changes colour of the lights by changing the combination of the coloured gelatins in front of each light. The standard colour of each light is white.

 

The entire operation is run from a small control panel in an elongated room overlooking the illumination lights with a vista of the American Falls and Horseshoe Falls. The operator will change the lights every five to ten minutes.

 

Until the Falls of 2009, the operator changed the light colours by manually turning a series of four colour coded (red, blue, green, yellow) round shaped toggle switches for each of the twenty-one lights. With each turn of any of these switches, a large coloured panel (or any combination of the four panels) housed in the section above the actual light drops down in front of the lights or rises as the case maybe in order to create the rainbows of colour shining upon the Falls.

 

In late 2009, the rectifier/control room was modernized. New modern and much smaller rectifiers were installed. These rectifiers are used to transform alternating current to direct current for the light projectors. The former light control panel was replaced with modern computerized "touch screen" activated screens. Touching the colours on the new computer screens automatically changes the gelatin colour panels in the light projectors.

 

The four primary gelatin colour panels (red, blue, purple, amber) are secured to 4 feet by four feet square metal panels within each projector light. It takes less than 30 seconds to change the colour of any light. The gelatin colour panels are replaced approximately four times a year and cost about $25 each.

 

The operator also controls the battery of three Xenon lights that were built to shine directly on the American Falls from a location along the Ontario Power Company access road on the Canadian by remote control.

 

Power is supplied by the City of Niagara Falls (Ontario) Hydro Commission. It is estimated that the cost of illuminating the Falls including the services of an operator is approximately $85 per hour.

 

More information can be found here:

www.niagarafrontier.com/illuminationlights.html

factoidz.com/niagara-falls-at-night-with-lights/

www.niagarafallstourism.com/

 

View on black

 

Canon 7d and 15-85 Lens Vanguard Tripod

Better viewed in large size..

Not quite what it appears at first glance, EJR 791 owned by Hunter's of Seaton Delaval was rebodied with a Plaxton Panorama body in 1966, being some fourteen years old at the time. Originally the vehicle, a Leyland PSU1 (Royal Tiger) had carried a Burlingham Seagull body. An all new vehicle with similar bodywork was delivered in 1967 but on an AEC Reliance chassis (LJR 749E). After service with Hunter's EJR was sold to OK Motor Services of Bishop Auckland. (Collection).

happy heavenly father's day...

^i^

 

You kissed the feet of a holy man

You climbed the mountain and now you're back again

And did he give you a master plan?

Some bad advice, an acount in Switzerland?

 

Say your prayers, crawl on your

Hands and knees, bow down to

Your God, not mine

Save your temple and save your

Den of thieves, it belongs to

Your God, not mine

 

Now you're launching some mystical messages

Misguided missiles like birds into the blue

Drifting over a promised land

A trail of smoke and they disappear from view

Somewhere over the borderline

Negotiations... a waste of precious time

 

Say your prayers, crawl on your

Hands and knees, bow down to

Your God, not mine

Save your temple and save your

Den of thieves, it belongs to

Your God, not mine

 

Call all the faithful to attention

Stand at ease, hear the word of

Your God, not mine

Up against the wall, True believers,

Welcome home, give it up to

Your God, not mine

 

I hear you're feeling better now

(Stange that none of this ever bothered you before)

And now that you've made your apologies

All is forgiven, made clean and comfortable

Mission completed, a job well done

Packed up and ready, and quite prepared to go

 

Say your prayers, crawl on your

Hands and knees, bow down to

Your God, not mine

Up against the wall, True believers,

Welcome home, give it up to

Your God, not mine

 

* Your God, not mine* ~ by Icehouse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNi2tJ7H7FM&playnext=1&li...

This picture was possible due my friend Ron that taught me how to get this using my zoom camera, this avoid the butterfly to go away when we get close to take a macro. Thank you so much my friend!!

Dedicated to the small children killed yesterday at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut, USA

 

Para as crianças que forem matadas ontem no Connecticut , USA

Ils ne fêteront plus jamais Noël

Newtown Connecticut

www.flickr.com/groups/newtownct/

 

ARTIST Tetka Rhu

 

Dedicated to ART and ARTists #blog written by Artist: Tetka Rhu

 

via Lady Picasso Tetka Rhu 's pinterest at ift.tt/2fds03N ladypicasso.me/

Dedicated To My Travelmate Iqbal Khatri. We Had Spend A Great Time There. Happy Birthday To You Too

This shot is dedicated to my dear Flickr pals hms_chic and MPObrien because their love of church photos rivals my own. :)

 

I shot all the standard angles of this ornate, baroque spectacle in marble, gold leaf and gesso known as the Chiesa del Sacro Nome di Gesù but in keeping with my less-than-usual photo theme for the trip, I decided to post this viewpoint shot wide and wonky. I think seeing it at 10mm helps make this place feel a little less somber plus I like the way the barrel distortion worked out on the marble figures in the lower left. :)

 

Happy Thursday!

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