Teneisha Johnson
He said I’m his Masterpiece: Call him Master B He loves the way I bus it! “ i be surfing with my Skat8board!”
Vision is so much a part of us that we tend to take it for granted.
According to anthropologist Carleton S. Coon, “sharp-focusing eyes” are among the five physical gifts that have allowed human beings to rise to their present dominance of this planet.
Think about it? What if you had never seen one of the most natural phenomenon called the rainbow.
Some people say it’s one of the most beautiful sights our eyes can behold and it has been singled out in Genesis as a reminder of God’s mercy after the great flood.
There is another facet of human vision that has led not only to scientific knowledge of the way the visual system works but also to a global activity that is part art form and a money-making industry.
Motion Pictures!
Great art has been created in motion pictures and television.
Studio Productions like Warner Bros(WB), Columbia Pictures, 20 Century Fox…… just to name a few, and people like Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg…..have enriched our lives over many years.
Even Walt Disney and other motion picture cartoonists offer a clear example of timeless art in all its stages and glory!
One of the most famous works of Egyptian art, was the limestone bust of Nefertiti which was discovered in 1912 by German archeologist Ludwig Borchardt near the modern Egyptian town of Tell el-Amarna.
According to my research, Nefertiti was the most important queen of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who ruled Egypt from 1353 to 1335 BC.
The bust of Nefertiti can be seen today at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
It remains not only one of the best-known works of Egyptian art but also a model of feminine beauty, given new significance to Nefertiti’s name, which translates to “the beautiful one is come”.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is also universally recognized as one of history’s greatest creative geniuses.
Excelling in a variety of disciplines-painting, sculpture, architecture, music, engineering, and physical sciences- he is often deemed the quintessential Renaissance man. Wow!
He is famously known for paintings The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa.
The Mona Lisa, it is one of the most famous paintings in the world, despite its relatively small size and simple composition.
The work which is painted in oil on a popular panel, measures thirty-one by twenty-one inches.
Another interesting fact that I found out is Mona is a contraction of ma donna, Italian for “my lady” Love it!
Due to his genius and fame, da Vinci has served as a continuous inspiration for many artists.
In more recent times, he has appeared as a character in a wide range of fictions, from the television series Star Trek to the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code which also became a movie.
Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance artists five centuries ago also began using what was called the camera obscura (or pinhole camera) as an aid to drawing.
Some four centuries later, two Frenchmen, Joseph Nicephore Niepce and Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, hit upon the idea of placing a plate containing light-sensitive chemicals at the back of a camera obscura.
Photography was then born, and to this day we call the instrument we use for making photographs after the old Latin word for “chamber”: camera.
Photography has since then quickly found use in journalism, art, science etc.
Photographs record the everyday world and allows the general public to see faces, places and scenes from virtually anywhere in the world.
Photography brings us images of war and beauty, famine and high fashion, art and nature, love and romance.
Fundamentally vision provides ten times as much information as hearing and compliments the famous saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words”.
However, none of what I’ve stated above, would have been possible without the above- mentioned people having an actual vision.
BULGARIA
Bulgaria’s Rose Valley stretches for about 87 miles across a narrow interval between the Balkan mountain range, dressing up in pink every May and June.
Once known for making pistols, ammunition, and automatic weapons under Communism, now the region is famous as one of the world’s biggest sources of an oil likened to “liquid gold.” Rose oil earned the nickname for a reason:
It takes more than 3,180 pounds of roses to produce just one pound of rose oil, valued between 3,468 and 6,000 dollars.
Today the roses’ edible, highly fragrant flowers are idolized as Bulgaria’s national symbol of pride, but economic pressures and changing climate make their future unclear.
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