...Dwarika’s Story The history of The Dwarika’s Hotel is intertwined with the life and times of its founder, Dwarika Das Shrestha. Dwarika Das Shrestha was an extraordinary human being – a true visionary who was acutely aware of his own identity, the changing world around him and his responsibility towards it. His story is one of inspiration borne out of struggle and torment, the relentless pursuit of an aesthetic ideal, and one man’s determination to make a difference. Early beginnings Being born into a relatively affluent Newar family, Dwarika Das Shrestha was sent to school in India at the tender age of six. With less than one percent of the Nepali population being literate, in the early 1950s, as Nepal took its first steps towards democracy, it was ill equipped to face the challenges of modernisation. It stood at a position where it could neither fully embrace the dramatic changes that modernity brought, nor fully comprehend the value and potential of its ancient cultural heritage. Dwarika Das Shrestha completed his education with a degree in law and commerce in the early 1950s, and returned to Nepal with the dream of helping Nepal regain its past glory. His first business was the establishment of the first hotel in Nepal, Paras Hotel, in 1952, at a time when Nepal was yet to establish itself as a tourist destination. The hotel’s primary patrons were Indian and Nepali pilgrims who came to visit the Pashupati Temple. Back then, charging religious pilgrims for shelter was considered...
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...capability to work and increase productivity has been a subject of study for some time in view of the ever The direct impact of nature and environment of man’s capacity to work and increase productivity has been a subject of study for some time in view of the ever pressing need to improve working environment. Ergonomics has been defined as the scientific study of the relationship between man and his working environment. The African continent has one of teh richest resources of art tradition in the world. Archeological excavation has therown more light on the history, culture and art of the people of Africa. The yoruba people of Nigeria must have had many more wood carvings than any other Nigerian people. Indeed, perhaps, no people in the world have done as much wood carvings as they have. Thier principal gods or Orisa are carved specially in woods and these carvings are used by thier worshippers during regious and annual festivals. In the olden days the doors and varanders posts of important houses were carved. Some of these ancient carvings can still be found in very old houses. The Yorubas are also rich in ivory carving and thier works rank among the best you can think of. In the northern part f Nigeria, wood carving is virtually non-existent. This is so principally because of the Absence of suitable wood for carving. These are however, somecarvings of domestic utensils and drums. The part of ghe country is predominatly savannah forest. Wood carvings...
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...Paper Sarcophagus with Scenes of Bacchus A sarcophagus was a method of cremation and burial that was widely popular in the later Republican Period. It was most commonly carved in a block of stone, or in this case a marble, where the body was usually placed. The ‘Sarcophagus with Scenes of Bacchus’, being one of the exquisite Roman funerary arts in the 1800s, showed remarkable detail in their marble work. Especially seeing how small the real object was in-person, it did surprise me on how much the sarcophagus was ornamented. This certain sarcophagus is evident that it was from the Roman period because of the style that it portrayed. It was usually made with marble and had full-length relief sculptural portraits of the deceased that were halfway wrapped around the block. The portraits on this sarcophagus are very precise and comprehensive, yet very smooth on the lines. It is clear that the sculptor did take a lot of time and energy on this piece, knowing that a wealthy and powerful person could only have purchased these funeral receptacles. As for the process of the carving, I would have to say, based on the decorativeness and compacted size, the tools were similar to what a traditional sculptor would use to carve marble, but a much smaller size. Some basic implements used for marble were tooth chisel, point chisel, the drill, and a rasp. There were also other techniques that might have been used to smooth out the overall sculpting, which was to sand it. The contrast of depth...
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...Paris, he was welcomed by the community of artists and intellectuals brimming with new ideas.[3] He worked for two years in the workshop of Antonin Mercié of the École des Beaux-Arts, and was invited to enter the workshop of Auguste Rodin. Even though he admired the eminent Rodin he left the Rodin studio after only two months, saying, "Nothing can grow under big trees."[1] After leaving Rodin's workshop, Brâncuși began developing the revolutionary style for which he is known. His first commissioned work, "The Prayer", was part of a gravestone memorial. It depicts a young woman crossing herself as she kneels, and marks the first step toward abstracted, non-literal representation, and shows his drive to depict "not the outer form but the idea, the essence of things." He also began doing more carving, rather than the method popular with his contemporaries, that of modeling in clay or plaster which would be cast in metal, and by 1908 he worked almost exclusively by carving. His work became popular in the U.S., however, and he visited several times during his life. Worldwide fame in 1933 brought him the commission of building a meditation temple in India for Maharajah of Indore, but when Brâncuși went to India in 1937 to complete the plans and begin construction, the Mahrajah was away and lost interest in the project when he returned. When Constantin Brancusi first created the abstract style in 1900s, he could not have realized how it affected the process of modern sculpture...
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...Evan Galleto AB POLITICAL SCIENCE 2A JEFFREY BALLARET INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES 101 September 19, 2013 Table of Contents Objectives of the Study - - - - - - - 2 SCUPLTURE - - - - - - - 3 MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES- - - - - - - 3 Carving - - - - - - - 3 Modelling - - - - - - - Objectives of the Study * To further understand the importance of sculpture. * To know more about the different kinds of sculpture. * SCUPLTURE Sculpture (Latin sculpere, “to carve”), three-dimensional art concerned with the organization of masses and volumes. The two principal types have traditionally been freestanding sculpture in the round and relief sculpture. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Sculpture can be made from almost any organic or inorganic substance. It puts together into a beautiful, meaningful shape such materials as wood, stone, metal and other hard materials. The processes specific to making sculpture date from antiquity and, up to the 20th century, underwent only minor variations. These processes can be classified according to materials—stone, metal, clay, and wood; the methods used are carving, modelling, and casting. Carving A procedure dating from prehistoric times, carving is a time-consuming and painstaking process in which the artist subtracts, or cuts away, superfluous material until the desired form is reached. The material is usually hard and frequently weighty; generally, the design is compact and is governed by...
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...Dirk Hagner is a printmaker who often works in woodcut. He works large-scale, using sheets of wood that have a grain that is intact – he doesn’t use MDF or any other processed types of wood because he wants the grain to be a part of his artwork. He considers woodcut to be a collaboration between the artist and the materials, he lets the wood guide his gauges so that the image flows. In the specific work I chose (Portrait of Jacques Prevert) Hagner uses contrasting thicker lines and thinner lines and rounded cuts as well as some cross hatching to create depth and highlights, he also leaves the background completely exposed to the ink as he prints darker and darker so that the imagery fades into the background. His process for printing doesn’t...
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...African art constitutes one of the most diverse legacies on earth. Though many casual observers tend to generalize African art, the continent is full of peoples, societies, and civilizations, each with a unique visual special culture. The definition also includes the art of the African Americans. Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa. The origins of African art lie long before recorded history. African art has a long and surprisingly controversial history. Up until recently, the designation African was usually only bestowed on the arts of black Africa, the peoples living in Sub-Saharan Africa. The non-black peoples of North Africa, the people of the Horn of Africa, as well as the art of ancient Egypt, generally were not included under the rubric of African art. Recently, however, there has been a movement among African art historians and other scholars to include the visual culture of these areas, since all the cultures that produced them, in fact, are located within the geographic boundaries of the African continent. The notion is that by including all African cultures and their visual culture in African art, laypersons will gain a greater understanding of the continent's cultural diversity. Since there was often a confluence of traditional African, Islamic and Mediterranean cultures, scholars have found that drawing distinct divisions between Muslim areas, ancient Egypt...
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...principles and concepts as applied to food service professionals. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | List and discuss the duties of the different job responsibilities of food servers, caterers/banquet servers, room service attendants, beverage servers and bartenders, as well as various management positions in food & beverage. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | Compare and contrast the management elements of American, French and Russian service. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Perform the different skills in napkin folding, table skirting, flower arrangement, and fruit carving. |...
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...Researching a Work of Art: Gathering the Basics Use this paper as a guide in the analysis of each of your works of art. You may want to make two copies of this sheet – one for each work. Artist: Maurits Cornelis Escher Year born/year died: 1898-1972 Influences? Architecture, perspective and impossible spaces Style associated with this artist: lithographs wood cuts, wood engravings and general drawing and sketching Title of work: SKY AND WATER Background info on work: Critical Analysis of the Work: Line: The piece SKY AND WATER uses directional implied lines to show the direction of travel of the fish and birds in the artwork. It also uses hard lines that transcend into soft lines on different levels of the artwork. Edge lines are also used to create the image of a phenomenon referred to as figure ground reversal. Shape/Form: The artwork SKY AND WATER has the geometric shape of a diamond for the general content of the work. The artwork also has organic shapes in the form of fish and geese making up the content inside of the diamond shape. Color: The color is neutral in that a flat black and white are used.but due to the thought that black and white are actually not colors one would assume it had no color. Value: Texture: The texture of SKY AND WATER seems as though it would be rough considering it is a wood carving Space: There isn’t much space or depth represented in SKY AND WATER other than the border hashing overlapping the fish...
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...and responsible who is also Zeus’ companion. While Sedah, the eldest, the very compassionate and simplest but the most impatient and the least favorite of their father among the three, maybe because he is skinny for his age and a little bit weird. He is always having a dream about a man suited in a black wrinkly hood who calls his name inversely which becomes “Hades”. One day, a typhoon hit their house. Zeus, who was outside by that time, ran home as fast as he can. Rhea welcomed him home with a warm embrace but when her skin touched her son’s skin, she knew he was sick. He is also sneezing and coughing which alarmed everyone in the family except Sedah, who was working on a new statue which was ordered by an old man. He’s focused on carving because he needs to finish it for the weekend. Rhea did everything to make her son calm but nothing worked but his father’s hot soup. It made him a little better. “Sedah!” Called Rhea “Go to the forest and get your brother a medicine.” She commanded Sedah heard everything but pretended to hear nothing and kept himself busy on his sculpture. “Sedah, go to the forest and get your brother a medicine.” She repeated Unbelievably, Sedah stood up with a grumpy face and...
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...Unsolved Mysteries: Easter Island Approximately 1200 years ago the Rapa Nui, or Easter Island people, arrived at one of the most isolated islands in the world. Almost as soon as they arrived they began carving massive stone heads without a known explanation ("Mysterious Places: Explore Easter Island in Words and Pictures."). When the Europeans arrived, there were very few people and almost no resources. However, there were numerous amounts of giant stone carvings. Nobody really knows why they are there and how they were made, but there are many modern theories to explain it. With these theories also come unanswerable questions to disprove them. 1. Facts Easter Island was formed by many huge volcanic explosions ("Easter Island -- World Heritage...
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...Both countries have historically shared the superstition of gods, spirits and other aspects of mythology. And, like Norse carvings, ancient Maori carving share a rare survival. Because the people would submerge works of carved art, including canoe prows in swamps during non-peaceful times, some very rare examples were inadvertently preserved. It is thought that the Maori people are descended from areas of eastern Polynesia as they share similar stylistic traits. Over time though, the Maori have developed put their own spin on the traditional Polynesian carving and is now known as the classic Maori style. The classic Maori style is more intricate, bold and is also three-dimensional where the Polynesian carvings were more sparse and simplistic. A difference between the Maori and the Norse and their mythological beliefs is that Maori mythology indicates that the carved posts are representative of people who became were turned into a carved wooden form versus the mythological serpent but both are believed to make the ship or canoe more powerful....
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...St Sernin Church The Basilica of Saint Sernin in Toulouse, France was constructed between 1070 and 1120 and attracted many pilgrims on the route to Santiago de Compostela in the early 11th century. The Basilica that is remarkable for its architecture and important medieval sculptures was dedicated to the first bishop of Toulouse, Saturninus, who in 250AD was dragged through streets because he refused to worship pagan gods. St. Sernin is the largest Romanesque church in Europe and it reflects the religious traditions and spiritual symbols of its time. Devout Christians would undertake long pilgrimages in order to visit and venerate the relics of saints and martyrs. These large numbers of people traveling created standard routes from one monastery to another also known as "Pilgrimage Roads". The pilgrims believed that taking journeys to visit these sites would act as a penitence or honor for them. The St Sernin monastery was a wonderful choice for those who could not travel to Jerusalem or Rome. The monastery also housed the relics of saints, donated by the Charlemagne. It became a major cultural factor of the Romanesque period that each chapel would have different relics funded by wealthy donors To accommodate the large number of visitors, the churches changed their designs. The Romanesque style concentrated mainly on achieving massive proportions, rounded vaulted bays, the round arch, the wall buttress, cylindrical apse and chapels, and towers. With double aisles and with...
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...south American metropolises, This type of art often reflects societal organizations based on the village that is rural and self-sufficient and continues from generations past to generations future with little change. They use this art to express the believes and values of the native people. The sculptures are a way of showing the traditions and customs of the history of their society. On example of non-western art is, African art. African art is an art that was used as an everyday art piece to symbolize prayers, festivities, ceremonies, and religious rituals. The primary subject for this art is humans and animals, it is also used as a animal of human behavior. African state out in South Africa in the caves. The majority of this work is made out of wood, bronze, terra-cotta, and ivory. The Muslim religion was a strong influence on this art style. Another example of a place who specializes in Non-western art is the oceanic region. They are mainly on the contents of Australia and the islands of New Guinia and New Zealand to The Gilberts, Tahiti, and Easter island. These places are divided into the cultures of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. The Polynesia’s are known for their...
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...at the label, I perceived this to be a cast bronze work. I was astounded to discover that it was not in fact bronze, but rather wood. The attention to detail combined with the luxurious, buttery smoothness achieved by the artist is like no other that I have seen in other culture’s wood works. Prior to reading the label, I suspected this sculpture to a part of Japan’s Buddhist history. The figure is decorated with typical Buddhist attributes, such as many arms, bracelets, the urna, and a mudra. The Bosatsu (also known as a Bodhisattva, or Buddha to be) sits upright in a meditative position of dhyanasana against an elaborate mandorla. The mandorla is made of three circles with cut-outs and decorative spikes that jut out in all directions. Underneath the Bosatsu is a giant stepped lotus flower base, which rests on a larger, more ambiguous base. Upon first look, this base may just be a glorified rock, but upon closer inspection from the...
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