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Ikebana.
The Japanese decorate their home, home, place of work and leisure with great art and taste. In Japan, there is the word "ikebana". The most elementary explanatory dictionary of language gives the following explanation: "Ikebana is the art of putting flowers and branches in flower vessels". The special skill is to find the right place for flowers and ornamental plants, to choose a unique combination of shades and patterns of different colours, to choose the appropriate vase or flower bed. These are not vases and flower bowls, but flower pots...
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"The plum blossoms, the smell is good, the cherry blossoms, you can't tear your eyes off."
"The plum blossoms, the smell is good, the cherry blossoms, you can't tear your eyes off." Says the Japanese proverb. Here, as at an art canvas, it is necessary to step back a few steps from a subject of admiration to see its proportions, to embrace an eye all frame of live creation. Many people are attracted to these joyful hours by secluded places, mountain peaks, protected corners of pristine nature, where their imagination can be excited by a sudden vision of their favourite spectacle. Nowhere is there a cult as unique and almost as popular as the cherry tree cult in Japan...
5 лет назад
Peonies. Narcissus.Lotus.Sakura.
Peonies. No less common flowers in Japan are also numerous varieties of peonies. They are the most popular decorative flowers. The brightness of colours, elegance and fragrance distinguish this flower from other plants. While the loach always serves as the embodiment of the feminine image in poetry and painting, the peony is always masculine, masculine. Therefore, peony is often called "husband" or "king" among flowers. In Japan, where the cultivation of these flowers began about 1400 years ago, there are several hundred varieties of this amazing flower...
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Flowers are the favourite plot of Japanese painting.
Live flowers have always been one of the favourite themes of Japanese artists, masters of famous mosaic works and frescoes, woodcarvers and jasper carvers. And it can be seen that since ancient times in the minds of the Japanese people to live flowers associated with the thoughts of the beautiful and sublime, with the aspirations for a better, perfect life, the triumph of life force and justice. Flowers are the favourite plot of Japanese painting. It is interesting to note that this direction had its specific designation - "flowers and birds"...
5 лет назад
Flower cult in Japanese culture. Part 2.
A lot of attention and diligence is invested by the Japanese in the cultivation of new interesting varieties of flowers, improving their shape and colour, improving the variety. Japanese flower growers strive to ensure that live flowers grow and bloom continuously throughout the four seasons of the year and that it does not disrupt a certain pattern, carpet, woven by nature itself of the most beautiful colours of flowers and their combinations. It is not surprising, therefore, that throughout this...
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Flower cult in Japanese culture.
Among the national peculiarities of the Japanese people, which cannot fail to attract attention when visiting Japan, one can see the deep commitment of the Japanese to live flowers, to growing, breeding, care and wide use of them in the form of jewellery. It is rare to see such an extreme and almost universal commitment to flowers and flora in Japan. This art of Flora, which is considered in Roman mythology to be the goddess of flowers and spring, is a kind of cult of flowers, which can be called one of the characteristics of life and life of the Japanese people without exaggeration...
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Psychological characteristics of grey colour.
The intermediate grey is neither coloured nor light or dark. It does not cause any excitement and is free from any mental tendency. Grey is neutrality, it is not a subject or object, it is not external or internal, it is not tension or relaxation. Grey is not the territory where one can live; it is only a border: the border is like a no man's strip, the border is like a contour, as a dividing line, as an abstract division for the division of opposites. If grey as a border is put in the first place...
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Psychological characteristics of the brown colour.
Brown is a darkened yellow-red. It comes from orange, for example, which is mixed with black. The impulsive vitality of red in brown, due to darkening, darkened, restrained, or, as artists say, "freezes". Brown loses the active expansive impulse and the impact force of red. In brown remains only the vitality that has lost activity. Therefore, the brown colour expresses the vital, sensual sensations of the body, instinctive in its management. The attitude towards brown informs about the attitude towards one's own body...
5 лет назад
Psychological characteristics of yellow. Part 2.
Yellow is the main colour. It expresses the basic mental need to open up. In the development and disclosure of the individual meaning of all changes is laid down. They contain hope, desire for joy and happiness. Yellow is chosen by people who are looking for a changed, liberating relationship to defuse the expected way of exciting tension and be able to open up, to achieve the desired. They hope for relief by relieving them of the load that oppresses them like an addiction. Pregnant women who are trained for "fearless" labour tend to prefer yellow, according to statistics...
5 лет назад
Psychological characteristics of yellow. Part 1.
In nature, the sun is rarely yellow, we see it as dazzling light or shining orange if it is above the horizon. Still, the concept of yellow is easily linked to the sun, as are children who draw the sun in yellow. The yellow colour is perceived by us as the sun, light and shining. Yellow is light, shining, exciting and therefore warm. After white, it is best to reflect the falling yellow light. It seems as if the light is sliding on a light surface and does not penetrate the dark inner depths. On...
5 лет назад
Psychological characteristics of green colour. Part 2.
Blue - green. Bright blue, - green, or turquoise - the coldest of all colours. For this reason, it is most appropriate to use it where it is necessary to create a refreshing coolness optically. It is desirable in hot countries, in hot factory halls, in premises with suffocating and heavy smell. This colour effect is used in refreshing drinks, refreshing cigarettes or menthol toothpaste. It easily seems that in the icy cold blue, all biological organisms, and therefore bacteria, should die green...
5 лет назад
Psychological characteristics of green colour.
Green does not have kinetic energy acting outward but contains the potential energy contained in itself. But this "charged" energy does not rest in the literal sense of the word, but reflects the internal stress state and does not go out. The latent energy "charged" in all solids can have, depending on the density of the molecule, different stress, hardness or resistance. The same applies to green. The more it is complemented by green darkening blue, the stronger, colder, more intense, stricter and more stable the psychological effects of colour...
5 лет назад