Oct
20
2010
karen
The artistic work, which in fact is totally flat, recreates a scenario pre-Columbian of Peru, with 3D effects, in which people can enter as if it were a model.
The painting is considered the world’s largest because it measures 832 meters square and beat the record achieved last year in Germany, as anamorphic painting measured 750 square meters, so the artists hope that the work ican be included in the Book Guinness Record.
This remarkable painting was made by seven young artists group “Applied Art”, under the direction of artist Cesar Paredes, who last year made a pavimental painting (on pavement) on Machu Picchu and Chan Chan, the same technique anamorphosis, will be on display at the mall parking lot Megaplaza and will remain until Sunday 24 October with the objective that children and adults can interact with it and take pictures with this work that recreates a prehistoric landscape elements.
Cesar Paredes, an artist who led the preparation of this work is unprecedented in our country, said the objective of this work is to strengthen our cultural identity and place in the eyes of the world.
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Source: www.terra.com.pe/buenas-noticias/noticias/acc2673/artistas-peruanos-hacen-pintura-3d-mas-grande-mundo-mega-plaza.html
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Aug
31
2010
luis
The quipu (Quechua: khipu, ‘knot’) was a mnemonic system using wool or cotton ropes and knots
of one or more colors developed in the Andes. Although it is known that it was used as an accounting system by officials of the Inca Empire, could have been used as a form of writing, a hypothesis that says the engineer William Burns Glynn.
Were used by the quipu kamayoc (khipu kamayuq), sages of the Inca empire.
The quipus formed a mnemonic system by which record the necessary information. It could be news census, amounts of products and keeps stored in state warehouses.
Quipus instruments are still used as mnemonics in the Indian villages where they serve to register the products of crops and animal communities.
The Inca emperor, had 30 people in big cities take charge of the accounts, then bring them to the emperor’s messengers who had specialized staff in the interpretation of the quipu.
It is believed that the position of the knots in the cord could be interpreted as a decimal system of mathematics. For example, counting from the tip, find the knot is equivalent to 10,000, then 1,000, 100, and ultimately drives.
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Aug
21
2010
luis
The famous colonial Cusco School of Painting, is characterized by its originality and high artistic value, which can be seen as a result of the confluence of two powerful currents: the Western artistic tradition on the one hand, and the desire Indians and mestizos painters to express their reality and their world view, on the other.
The Spanish contribution, and in general European Cuzco School painting, is given from very early times, when it starts building the great cathedral of Cusco. Is the arrival of the Italian painter Bernardo Bitti in 1583. Continue reading
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