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The
Dark Beauty of Gustave Klimt Michael Sones: Klimt was apparently
interested in the more perverse aspects of human sexuality. Many of his
paintings have a femme fatale motif or are darkly suggestive
in other ambiguous ways. He was clearly attracted to the beauty of women
and once said of himself that he was not an interesting person but that
women were. However, there is a darker and more sinister side to women's
beauty in Klimt's paintings....
Food and Taste Hunger
is one of the most powerful natural drives and it is only when we are certain
we will get enough to satisfy that hunger then taste, the preference of
one food over another, becomes important.
Food
In Ancient Times What and how much did our ancestors eat? Ancestral
man was a hunter-gatherer. Remains from sites excavated by archaeologists
indicate animals, bird, fish, and shellfish were the primary diet.
Sight
and Color Nature is beautiful and the perception of colour is essential
to enjoy this beauty. This is an overview of
of the adaptive use of colour by plants and animals in Nature.
Chocolate There
is no question that chocolate is one of the most beautiful and
sensuous of foods with profound associations with both romance and the
comforting of broken hearts. Made from the cacao beans of the cacao
tree. The scientific name for this tree is "theobroma
cacao" with theobroma meaning "food of the gods."
Form
and Symmetry Christy
Turlington, a supermodel and acknowledged as one of the most
beautiful
women in the world, has attributed much of her success as an advertising
icon to the perfect symmetry of her lips. Proportion and symmetry
in an object seem to be always essential to our visual perception
and experience of that object as being beautiful.
Alphonse Mucha Alphonse
Mucha was a Czechoslovakian artist who epitomized the Art Nouveau movement
which flourished in Europe around the turn of Twentieth Century and took
its name from a shop, L'Art Nouveau, opened in Paris by Siegfried Bing
in 1895. One of the characteristics of this movement is the attempt to
make everything art and erase the division between art and life.
Sublime:
New Works by Ling Jian The Berlin based Chinese artist Ling Jian is
having an interesting exhibition of his work at the Courtyard Gallery in
Beijing. In his portraits of androgynous, religious-secular, Asian-European
figures he seems to be an artist for our times.
Beauty and the Care of Mature Skin News Canada: This article has some ideas about caring for mature skin with reference to products from Olay.
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