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I'm an author, novelist. My first novel ‘Message From The Garden’ is story of a woman, a child of a failed marriage, who hates men en masse and lives a fenced life.
I write short stories involving the characters facing strange types of odds in their life.
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- Rubens - Painting Nude Females With Sensuality and Voluptuous Bodies
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] His paintings had an aroma of counter revolutionary spirit, perhaps. As an advocate of an extravagant Baroque, Rubens had emphasized movement, color, and sensuality in his paintings.
- Tribal Tattoos on Backs of Women
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Tattoos] We can find find these tattoos inked in all colours. While inking such tattoos, the artists use small needles. This sharp instrument does its work by piercing the skin. It colours a selected part. At the end this needle creates a creative design.
- How to Do Corpse Pose - The Shavasana Yoga Posture
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] The activities of mind keep us away from concentrating on the body. The functions of our body remain unnoticed. For most of the time, we are in the state of ignorance about our body.
- Explore India - Travelling in Trains, Indian Railways
[Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] The service of Indian Railways is important for the Indian people. It is are like veins in body of Indian economy. This institute is the single largest employment provider in India.
- India - Visit the Land of Sun Sand and Seashores
[Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] Snow clad mountain peaks, ever-flowing rivers, green fields, dense forests, and the wonderful deserts are trade mark of Indian land. If you want to enjoy all of these beauties of the Mother Earth in a single country, then a visit to India should be your first choice.
- How to Paint in the Impasto Style of Painting
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Impasto is the technique of putting the colours on canvass that it gives texture to the painting. The style of painting known as 'Impasto' has its own advantages over the other styles.
- Painting Nude Females - A Perspective With Natural Beauty
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Painting the human body, especially female nudes, has remained a favourite model for the artists since the primitive age. While choosing a model for the art, the artist of various fields do it for many purposes. The painters choosing human bodies as their models keep certain theories in their minds.
- Conflict - How to Avoid Divorce
[Relationships:Divorce] There is hardly an aspect your life where the incident of divorce does not affect badly. It has implications on your children, finances, routine life, psychology, and even your behaviour.
- Indian Miniatures - Painting Secular Lifestyle of Medieval India
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Where would the history of Indian painting, especially of it medieval period, stand without the broad mention of Mughal Miniatures? It would be hard for an art critique to paint a complete picture of cultural and artistic journey of India without putting the miniature paintings on record; these were the exotic and beautiful pieces of art that the artist did under the helping umbrella of the Mughal emperors who ruled most part of India from sixteenth to eighteenth century.
- Rajasthan Style of Paintings - Kangra Paintings
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] If we look at the work of Miniature paintings of India done in the medieval period, we can see that the artists have skillfully adorned the natural beautify of female figure in their artworks. With active support and financial help from the Emperors and Kings, the Mughal Style of painting had flourished in these days.
- Salvador Dali - Painting the Imagination and Individuality of an Artist
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Dali, A Spanish artist, was one of the most skilled artists of twentieth century. His images were striking and the shapes he painted looked bizarre; but he had invented a brand new style of painting. Though he belonged to a clan of the artists known as surrealists, he had carved out his individual space in the world of art of painting
- Yoga - Lose Weight and Burn Stress by Yoga Postures
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] It is needless to add that the yoga postures are not only the set of physical exercises. The postures are devised to deliver more than that. The yoga asanas are one of the best successful devices used to decrease the mental stress.
- How to Rescue Marriage From Financial Blunders
[Relationships:Marriage] It is not a secret that the financial issues become the main reason for the couples to take divorce. Otherwise such a couple might be good for each other to live together forever. If it happens only due to the mismanagement of the home finances, it can be termed as blunder of life.
- Ashtanga Yoga - Various Schools Teaching Yoga
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] In simple words, the yoga postures are various positions of our body. But these postures or Yoga Asanas are not merely the position given to our body. In addition of provide good exercise to our physical self, the body, yoga postures provide us with opportunities to create or it is an attempt synthesizing our mind and body. It is just like a fusion of human mind and human physical strength.
- How to Attract a Dating Partner - The Rules of Attraction
[Relationships:Dating] Suddenly it happens that you start taking keen interest in these things; and the reason for such dramatic change is a person whom you like to see again and again. This factor that has put life in your activities is called the 'attraction' towards a particular person.
- Dating - How to Make Dating a Relationship, a Lasting One
[Relationships:Dating] Those who have met by an unplanned meeting or with the help of dating sites would tend to be relatively unknown to each other. But once they have come into contact their desire to meet frequently may rise. Here the possibilities of converting the dating into a long lasting relationship emerge.
- Art Materials - Van Gogh H2Oil Color
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Oil Paint is a medium which hardly has any near alternative. But while using these colours we face certain odds. Many artists find it difficult to cope up with the smell of turpentine. The Van Gogh H2Oil is a colorful solution for them.
- Edouard Manet - Adding Beauty to Nude Female Figure
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] May it be the portrait of Berthe Morisot or L'Inconnue, Manet had used the positioning of the eyes of model very crucially, adding much value to the meaning of the painting. In his nude paintings of Suzanne Leenhoff, too, the artist had painted the straight look involving the attention of the viewer directly to the focal point.
- Khajuraho Temples - Sex and Sex Education Were Not Taboo in India
[Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] The temples of Khajuraho are very ancient, ranging from one thousand and more years. The carvings on the inner and outer walls of these temples depict the lessons in sex education. However these temples also contain the idols of Gods and Goddesses, too. This proves beyond doubt that in ancient India, sex was regarded as inherently noble, and the sexual rapture was regarded as something like the spiritual bliss.
- Nude Female Paintings in Photo Realistic Style by William Adolphe Bouguereau
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Bouguereau's style of working was not less than the traditional one. He made the detailed pencil studies and he prepared primary oil sketches of his paintings before going on to a final canvass.
- Paintings - Showing the Difference Between Nude and Naked
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] If we look at the painting by the master artists we would not fail to mark the difference between a naked body and a nude body. Here the people being painted seem to be feeling quite comfortable with their position and the depiction of natural beauty.
- Body Painting Art - Nude Female and Male Body Painting
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] In fact we are fond of painting our bodies since prehistoric times. In past we were used to paint our bodies with materials like natural dyes, paints and pigments. In some cases we used ash, and clay, too. The markings that the people make on their bodies are thought to have magical powers with which one could ward off evil spirits or the tribal enemies.
- Nude Female Paintings - Understanding the Meaning of Nude Painting With New Perspectives
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Looking to a fine art nude is a respectable activity; whereas viewing similar photographs depicting merely sex is not. We can say it like this: when the element of sex is removed from an artwork, it is fine art nude, enjoyable as an art piece.
- Edgar Degas - Painting Nude Females in Action
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Unlike other impressionist painters of his time and the other artists with whom he worked, Edgar Degas preferred working indoors. He depended upon his memory and the female models that he called to appear in his studio.
- Jacques Louis David - Painting Male Nudes, Depicting the Robust Male Body
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Painter David, Jacques-Louis David is one of the most famous painters. His works can be classified as neoclassical paintings. When the mighty Napoleon had fallen from her fame, the artist David went into exile. During this period he lived in Brussels.
- Francois Boucher - Painting Natural Beauty
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] With the flow of the time river, the skill of painting the nudes, especially the female nudes, had become a true test of an artist's painterly skills. Thus most of the famous painters who did concentrated on other subjects, too, had adopted the subject of painting nudes for some of his or her paintings. François Boucher (1703 - 1770), a French painter was among this class of the painters.
- Nude Females - Celtic Painting and Tattoos Creating Sensual Atmosphere
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The Celtic art is one of the most ancient artforms. Many paintings and drawings are now used as tattoos. People like these Celtic symbols as tattoos on their body parts.
- Paul Gauguin - Painting Nude Females
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Were we to make a list of the main post-Impressionist painters, the name of Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin would be on top of the list. He is known for his innovative and bold experimental use of colours.
- Albert Moore - Painting Grace and Beauty of Womanhood
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Albert Joseph Moore (1841 - 1893) was an English painter who was born in York. He is known for the paintings of gorgeous woman in which he used to depict beauty and grace of the model. The women he panted looked almost dreamy, sitting or sleeping in a lazy mood. But in most of the paintings he did, the set the luxury and decadence of the classical world in his frames.
- Genre Artists - Painting Nude Female Bathers
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The genre paintings have gone through constant change. It has occurred due to the change of lifestyle of the people and accepting newer themes of paintings by the artists. The art of genre painting has developed through these changes. It has got new work and the fresh perspectives with the passing of time.
- Painting the Landscape Nude, Without Vegetation
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Landscape painting is an art of painting the greenery on earth: the trees, the meadows, the green valleys, rain and the snowfall. But there had been painters who had painted the Mother Earth in her every shade, in every form. The greenery is a cover on earth, the beautiful clothes our mother earth has put on her.
- Women Artists - Painting Nude Females and Males With a Changed Perspective
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] When we go to the exhibitions of figurative paintings, we find mostly the artworks that depict nude females. And surprisingly most of the painters who paint these nudes are men. In most of these paintings the curvy parts of female bodies are depicted for visible purpose of attracting the attention of viewers.
- Learn Pencil Drawing - Nude Female and Male
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] If you want to draw nude bodies, especially the nude women, you should have some prior knowledge of pencil drawing, lining and shading work. It would help making your nude drawings more realistic and more pleasurable to the eyes of art lovers.
- Ingres - Painting the Female Natural Beauty
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] If we are to select any genre of painting that has got favour and protest in equal proportion, surely it would be the art of figurative painting. Especially the paintings of women in their natural beauty have remained the cause of concern for the society, the artists and the viewers.
- Live in Relationship - A Waiting Room For Marriage Registration
[Relationships:Dating] The newly found system of Live-in Relationship is subjected to social denial from some sections, too. Mainly the protests come from the religious groups. There are people who still believe the 'out of marriage' sex as sin. In addition to this orthodox section of society, some of the feminists groups also believe that this system is one type of exploitation of the women.
- Dating - First Step For a Serious Relationship
[Relationships:Dating] With online dating services available at a distance of a throw of a stone, one can find tons of prospective dates. Previously you were to find such information from your own sources. However before you make your first foray into online dating or take the help of other dating agencies, you should have some basic knowledge and ideas about what is really the 'Dating' is and what type of changes it can infuse into your life.
- Friendship - A Relationship of Support and Affection
[Relationships:Friendship] Were we to define the word 'friendship', one of the greatest relationships in the world, we can summarize it in just two words. These words are 'Supportive Affection'. No relationship would survive if there is absence of affection between or among the persons involved. When affection is qualified with the factor of active 'support', there the real friendship emerges.
- Painting Landscapes - Exploring the Potential of Colours
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The clan of artists is a group of persons who amazingly strange relationship with the colours. They would love to see all the colours applied with all of their hues. These artists know and respect the value of all the colours they use and upload on their papers and canvases.
- Urdva Dhanuasana - How to Do Reverse Bow Pose, Wheel Pose
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Meaning of the word Dhanur, a Sanskrit word, is 'bow-shaped.' Here we should know that it's shape is like the reverse of the bow. While doing this asana, the postures of our body looks like a 'Reverse Bow.'
- Healthy Sex - Helping to Create a Healthy Relationship
[Relationships:Sexuality] The experts in the field of sex and health always keep experimenting on core issues. They might differ on many issues, but they agree on one point that the act of 'sex' produces certain types of hormones that bring happiness to the mind and body of the people involved. And these helping hormones help make human bodies more fit and the minds healthier.
- Married Life - A Platform For Humorous and Happy Life
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] My life partner, my wife, remains always alert in cutting the extra costs. Last year, after finding herself turning from fat to fatter, she was worrying much. I still do not understand why the innocent fat gathering around their waists, the hands, legs, and at other places bother the women so much. But it bothered my wife.
- Health Secrets - Be Social and Avoid Diseases, Socialise Yourselves For the Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] If you are a loner; if you are a single man or a single woman; then you would find it difficult to watch over your diet. You are bound to miss your daily quota of the exercises, too. Is there any solution for this problem of watching over the diet and the exercises for keeping you fit and healthy? Yes there is a golden path to follow.
- Gulmerg - India's Skiing Resort
[Travel-and-Leisure:Ski-Resorts] If you are in search of touring the unexplored valleys; if you are fond of being among the company of snow-packed mountains and glaciers; and if you are fond of skiing; then a visit to Gulmerg (Kashmir), India. The snow-packed mountain peaks of the Himalayan range at Gulmerg have all facilities providing you with the thrills of adventure and joy of excitement.
- Married Life - How to Live With Humour and Happiness
[Relationships:Marriage] I strongly believe that getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. First you order what you want. And then your eyes wander from plate to plate of the other diners. Once you start eating your plate, you start thinking that you should have ordered the plate the other person is having on his table.
- Rules of a Relationship - How to Build a Lasting Relationship
[Relationships:Commitment] There are three important words for keeping a relationship live. These three words are 'commitment, commitment and commitment'.
- Rules of a Relationship - Basics of a Lasting Relationship
[Relationships:Enhancement] When we go for purchasing a car or a bike we surely choose a company, a good company. We desire to select its model and finally we look at the durability of the engine. Like wise while choosing a partner we are expected to go for more homework.
- Turner - The Painter of Light, Making Landscape Paintings Brilliant and Lively
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] When a landscape painter like Turner wants painting a landscape, he or she desires creating harmonious relationship between the vast canvass of the Mother Earth and the palates in his or her hand. Here the artist keeps in mind trying to recreate the feel and smell of the earth.
- Learn Portrait Drawing - Stage Four
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] In this series of four short articles, I have tried to point finger to those things which are important in portrait making. But one and the most important aspect of learning the art of drawing or painting is the presence of artistic fire within a person.
- Landscape Paintings - Adoring the Mother Earth
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The landscape painting is a subject as wide as the Mother Earth itself. These paintings can have endless beauty and infinite number of subjects. Under the umbrella of Landscape Paintings, we can have paintings of countryside, the sea-scape and sky-scape.
- Learn Portrait Drawing - Stage Three
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Though the portrait drawing is not an easy venture, the level of patience and constant efforts pay a rich dividend. After completing the Stage Two, you can now proceed on to draw the whole portrait. The residual features of the portrait are to be inserted into frame. Here you will consider the shape of ears, the size of chin, and the position of hair.
- Learn Portrait Drawing - Stage One
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Portrait painting or portrait drawing is a genre of painting and drawing. Here the intention of an artist is to depict visual appearance of the subject or the person whose portrait is to be made. Here are some basic rules to observe while drawing a portrait.
- Yoga Postures - How to Do Yogasana
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Yoga is not only the set of rules narrating how the human body can remain healthy and live long with happiness. It goes further and instructs how to practice what has been told in the yoga theories. The 5000 ancient knowledge of Yoga system can be an important tool for healing several adamant diseases, which makes our life miserable.
- Abstract Painting - Artists Exploring Characteristics of Subjects
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The word 'abstract' literally means 'to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances'. The artist who paints the abstract paintings does the same. These abstract artists, while standing before a blank canvas, think apart from the concrete reality of an object they are going to paint.
- Travel India - Car Rental Services in India
[Travel-and-Leisure:Car-Rentals] If you want to have the joy of seeing the cities of India, then you should take the services of the Car Rentals. These services are available in all the metro cities of Mumbai...
- Yoga Postures - Yogic Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Our food is very much important in shaping the quality of our thoughts. Yoga system strongly believes and advocates that our mental development and spiritual state is linked with the food we consume. So there are theories in Yoga system and Ayurved, the ancient system of healing, narrating how the purity of diet helps us becoming peaceful and spiritually aware.
- Yoga Postures - Dhanurasana, Bow Pose
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Meaning of the word Dhanurasana, a Sanskrit word, is 'bow-shaped.' While doing this asana, the posture of our body looks like a 'Bow.' Thus it is named so.
- Yoga Asanas, The Yoga Postures - How to Do Varjasana, The Diamond Pose
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Vajrasana is one of the simplest Yoga Asanas. Anyone can do it without putting more stress on the parts of his or her body. There are certain benefits we can get by doing this asana.
- Yoga Postures - Mayurasana, Peocock Pose
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] As it is one of the difficult type of asanas, you should have prior knowledge about other easy asanas. You can sit in Vajrasana and start doing Mayurasana. This is a difficult type of postures. So practice it slowly and avoid remaining for more time in this posture in the beginning.
- Genre Painters - Painting the Joy and Life of Common People
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Unlike the other types of paintings like landscapes, portrait paintings, the paintings based on historical or religious themes, the genre paintings depict the life of common people. When an artist of genre painting takes brush and colour-loaded palate in hand, he or she has no big imaginations in mind. These artists do not paint dramatic scenes or memorable great events. Nor they try idealizing the great virtues that had occupied canvases of the painters in past.
- Learn Pencil Drawing - Stage Two
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] In this stage of portrait drawing, we shall discuss how to progress on the face where eyes are already located and nearly drawn. The drawing of nose and mouth would be our next agenda.
- Ajanta Caves - India's Buddhist Art and Architecture
[Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] The Ajanta Caves are situated in the state of Maharastra in India. The site is near to Bombay. We can reach at the caves from the city of Jalagoan, too. This city is just 25 miles away from the caves. Another city is Aurangabad. We can go to that city and reach Ajanta by traveling by road.
- Paul Cezanne - Painting Stability and Density of Forms
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Cezanne was attached with both the major artistic movements called impressionism and cubism. It was not a surprise that painters like Metisse and Picasso used to say that "Cezanne is father of us all". These painters were in fact influenced by the artworks done and the painting style practiced by Cezanne.
- Corot - Depicting Space and Fleeting Effects
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] While painting a landscape, the pivotal issue is how to depict the feeling of space. It is not a design where the viewers would be looking for flat surfaces of trees, mountains and rocks. They would expect feeling that they are standing among the objects painted on canvas.
- Claude Monet - Painting With Spontaneous Brushwork
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Impressionism is not only the painting in open air. On part of the impressionist artists, the element that makes their work so beautiful is in their determination to paint the reality before their eyes. They do not paint mere reality, but they do also reveal how they see the reality. It is the factor of judgment that creeps into the paintings of these artists. And that makes the paintings of impressionists so attractive.
- Landscapes of the Four Seasons of the Year
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] We look at the landscape paintings hanging on the walls of museum of displayed in the galleries as art lovers or as artists. We love to see the master pieces painting which the artists had invested their lifetime labour. These beautiful landscapes on the walls of art galleries tell us the stories of the time and the challenges the painters might have faced while executing the paintings.
- Ragamala - Painting Raga Bhairav, The Song of Lord Shiva
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Though the Ragamala is a musical composition, it has been used since centuries for creating the series of paintings based on various ragas. These paintings based on various ragas and raginis are known as Ragamala Paintings.
- Kalighat Painting - Depicting Social Movement and Mythologies
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The artwork of the artists who had resided around the area known a Kalighat in present day Kolkata (Calcutta) is known as 'Kalighat' paintings. These artists, due to historic reasons of the British people taking over the rule of this region, have migrated to this place. Thus the roots of these paintings are in the Bengal of nineteenth century.
- Edouard Manet - Painting the Non-Traditional Subjects
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Manet (1832 - 1883) was one of the frequent travellers of the European countries for artistic purpose. But his work was generously inspired by the Dutch and Spanish painters. We can see these masters' influence in Manet's work. His pool of inspiration was the Spanish paintings of seventeenth century. The painters like Frans Hals, Goya and Velasquez were among those who stirred the artist in Manet.
- Symbolism in Art
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Every painting, more or less, is a pictorial representation of emotions and ideas the artist had in his or her heart or mind. An artist conceives an idea and then tries to express it onto the frame as an artwork. There are subjects which can be expressed simply by depicting them on the canvas or paper if it is painted in watercolor.
- Alfred Sisley - Painting the Effects of Changing Lights
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Alfred Sysley (1839 - 1899) was born to British parents but he passed his life in the environment of France. He was an impressionist painter who mainly painted landscapes. He held the grand tradition of the artist like Turner and Constable dear to his heart. In his paintings we can observe the scale and dexterity of these great painters.
- Indian Miniature Paintings - Phad, Kangra, Pahadi and Deccan Paintings
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The Phad painting is popular style of folk painting. The painting under this style is done on a piece of cloth. This is one of the painting styles practiced in northern India since the ancient time.
- Hudson River Valley Painters - Thomas Cole
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] There is no exaggeration in considering the landscape paintings by the artists of Hudson Valley School as artistic treasure for the cultural history of America. Among this pool of the artists, Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) was the painter who is regarded as pioneer of the Hudson River School of paintings, one of the pioneer art movements in America.
- Live-In Relationship - Problems in Desiring a Child
[Relationships:Conflict] In a working relationship, the desire of having a child desired by either of the partners may crop up a problem. It might give rise to misunderstanding between the partners, too. While talking about raising a child, another partner might take it as an additional burden to come.
- India - The Destination For Health Tourism
[Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] The hospitals in India provide affordable health care options. India is the second largest developing country in the world. While the Indian economy has done well in all the sectors of production and services, it has gone very far in developing and providing the facilities of Medical and Surgical services to the people.
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands - The Receptacles of Beauty and Peace
[Travel-and-Leisure:Budget-Travel] The Andaman and Nicobar Islands were buried under the heap of non-attention, as they were inaccessible for one or other reason. These islands are receptacles of beauty, presenting a landscape full with picturesque extravaganza.
- Relationship - Give Time and Get Love
[Relationships:Commitment] Giving sufficient time to your partner or spouse is essential in maintaining a good relationship. In its absence you might find some odd problems. Davis, a football player of his district, had cultivated close relationship with Internet surfing. He had almost everything what a woman could want in a husband. Besides being elder-like kind he was a good provider. He checks her car for the petrol and tires for air; he reminds her umbrella while there could be rain outside. Beyond doubt he has earned a right to be respected by his wife.
- Managing Step Children
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] The presence of Step children should not be a problem in a family of level-headed persons. However such problems crop-up in certain families. Let us see this problem by taking an example.
- Relationships - Syndromes and Break-Ups
[Relationships:Conflict] In a relationship, it is not only the vices that spoil things. Sometimes the virtues, too, play their unintended role. It would sound strange, but yes, certain types of goodness can create problems, the difficulties that would not be easy to solve.
- Khajuraho Temples - Educating About Sex With Worshiping the Gods
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The work of sculpture and carvings are on the wall of the temples. Central point of these sculptures and carvings of Khajuraho temples is to depict the detail of an ancient book Kamsutra, the book of knowledge about sex and sexual relationship.
- Learn Pencil Drawing of Cats and Dogs Using Black and Colour Pencils
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The art of portrayal is relatively difficult, compared to the other drawings and paintings. While doing all types of paintings or drawings, an artist enjoys a poetic license, a license to use his or her artistic freedom.
- Gustave Courbet - Painting Winter Shapes
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Gustave Gourbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who came from an affluent family; but preferred to be among the life of the common men. He had emerged as a force in modern painting.
- Portraits - Painting the Beauty and Modesty of Women and the Role of Models
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Portrait painting is a subtle communication of a set of expressions on the face of a model or the person sitting for his or her portrait. The artists while making portrait of a person mostly require him or her in front canvass. However some painters prefer working on the base of photographic references, especially when the model is a child. Here are some of the portraits of ladies, depicting their beauty and modesty.
- Indian Miniatures - Nude Females, Natural Nudes in Rajasthan Paintings
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] In the medieval period, the Indian miniature painters had attempted depicting female nudes. Miniature Painting style had evolved in India before centuries. It carried with it the influence of other cultures, too. The miniature artists depicted their art on paper, the ivory articles, wooden furniture, and other pieces made from leather and marble. They used even cloth and walls as their canvasses. For conveying reality that was beyond specific vantage point, the Indian artists employed multiple perspectives while doing their work on various mediums.
- How to Make Pencil Portraits
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The portrait drawing is an art and a technique. The beginner should first define the outlines of face of the person whose portrait is to be made. After the rough sketch is done, then you start adding the details.
- Portraits - Painting the Beautiful Women
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Portrait painting- by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, using bright and subdued colours. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 -1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. In his initial career he was used to paint what a beginner painter would do.
- My Name is Red - A Novel by Orhan Pamuk
[Book-Reviews:Fiction] The story of the Novel 'MY NAME IS RED' revolves around the Turkey of sixteenth century. At first look it seems to be a historical novel. In fact it is a novel with a very old subject, the subject of art lovers and the kings. But Orhan Pamuk narrates the subject as a recent one.
- Retired Men's Life, Living in a Pavilion
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] If our life is a curve, first rising and then falling, then we, the men and women in fifties, are on the wrong side of it-the slope side. And mind well, every slope is dangerous. Before two days I met one of my friends in garden, flinging his newly purchased stick. I asked him, ''How do you really feel? I mean you're 57. Tell me honestly.''
- Van Gogh - Impressionist Painter of Emotional Brush
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] In his private life, Van Gogh had passed through a turbulent road that was enough to make him restless. In this painting, his feeling of the restlessness has crept out and had taken the route of expression through the brush strokes looking almost chaotic. We can witness this technique of using the hyperactive brush in his other works, too, where he had succeeded in creating wonderful variety in expressive textures.
- Female Nudes With Unusual Shapes
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani had two things in the fullest intensity: one was the art of painting and another his poverty. Both played vital roles in his short and artistic life. The contemporary painters like Toulouse-Laytrec, Georges Rouault, Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso were his favourite and had influenced his art.
- VAN GOGH - Painting European Landscapes
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Vincent van Gogh, the name does not require any detailed introduction. Van Gogh is one of the most popular artists of all time; so far as the field of painting is concerned. It was a matter of pity, for the artist like him, that his famous paintings were hardly recognized as master pieces during his life time.
- Impressionist Painter Renoir - The Master of Lively Strokes
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Renoir was considered as the leader among the Impressionists. He earned that title for his portrayal of luminous colour, dexterously mixed brushstrokes. He formed warm sensuality by nuances of light and shadow that his brush strokes put on the canvasses.
- Pencil Drawing - First Step to Learn Drawing Nude Males and Females
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Pencil drawing explains some important principles an artist must know. It teaches these aspects step-by-step instruction, moving from observation to simple aspects of drawing, and then to drawing difficult work like figurative painting.
- Pencil Drawing - The A B C D of Painting
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] In doing life drawing with a pencil, the artist has to keep certain technicalities in mind, the proportion of the various parts of the body of the model being the foremost. While executing a pencil drawing of a model, a clothed one or a nude model, the artists use line and tone in the ways that will give their drawings movement and life. If this were done with care it would deepen the awareness of the body structure of the sitting or reclining nude model before the artists' eyes.
- Mughal Miniatures - The Paintings of Elegance
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The Mughal era of miniature paintings owns a noteworthy page in the history of art of paintings in India. The Mughals - descendants of Timur and Genghiz Khan with strong cultural ties to the Persian world - became rules of north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent.
- Vermeer - A Master of Genre Paintings
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] In the style of the paintings known as Genre paintings the artists make pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets and domestic settings. Vermeer's paintings speak the language of cool observation, involving the viewer in an experience of deepening relation and visual discoveries painted in the acts of daily life.
- Indian Films Are Not Woman-Friendly
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Indian films have played a great role in building national spirit. Hindi songs are now pan Indian phenomena and the dancers of southern India are 'homely names'. But the themes and underlined messages emanating from these films are not encouraging for women. In these sex and violence packed movies, neither the women are shown in their true perspective nor they get their due share of importance in society. And as cinema is the most powerful medium for cultivating views, the biased attitude has resulted in huge setback in honouring the freedom of women in India.
- Watercolor Paintings - Adding Light and Rhythm
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] In watercolor paintings, the light adds rhythm to the whole frame of the painting. The stock of the energy supplied by the presence of the light falling on the objects help enhancing the value of painting. The artist can fill the liveliness only because of the proper and balanced use of light.
- Watercolor Painting - The Play and Magic of Light
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] WATERCOLOUR GALLERIES : Watercolour paintings include fresco, tempera, aquarelles, gouache types of paintings. Watercolour paintings and the artists enjoy several advantages by using the watercolours. These advantages lie in the colours' quickness of its application and the transparent effects achievable. The brilliancy of watercolour gives to the paintings is also one of the major attractions to use. As the watercolours have certain advantages over other colours the artist have turned the watercolors painting technique to their advantage.
- Andrew Wyeth - Painter Of The People
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Andrew Wyeth who has recently passed away at the age of 91 was a self-taught artist. It would be proper for me, as a person who has something to do with colours and canvasses, to remember the great painter of our time. Andrew Wyeth started his artistic journey earlier, say from the cradle. Under his father cooperation and guidance he started his artistic journey at very young age.
- What is Really Wrong in Kashmir Valley?
[News-and-Society:International] It is written on the walls, perhaps that parts of Kashmir have become just like the integral parts of India and Pakistan, the countries that hold the disputed region of Kashmir in part. The referendum was to be held in united Kashmir. It is a matter of debate why both the nations, Pakistan and India had not held the agreed referendum till the date. Though from our side we can say that we have successfully held free and fair elections in Kashmir.
- Pakistan - Save Thyself
[News-and-Society:International] After the Marriott Bomb blast it would be a fallacy to think that the fire of terrorism is limited to the Fata border of Pakistan. The present incidence can be taken as the extension of the incidences of Lal Mosque and assassination of Ms. Bhutto.
- Boiling Oil Prices Vs Buyers Cartel
[Business:International-Business] Cartel is a formal agreement among the members of the group forming it. Under the arrangement of cartel, the members decide to act cooperatively in the matters of sale and purchase of a particular commodity. They agree on volume of its stock and level of production of a particular commodity. Formerly such cartels were formed by the producers who wanted to create 'near the monopoly' situation in respect of the goods they produced.
- Poverty-The Real Terror In South-East Asia
[News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] The terrorist activities, mainly, have their roots in the economy. In the countries that have gotten freedom during last five decades, the poverty has become the root cause for discontent against the state machineries.
- South-East Asia And The War On Terror
[News-and-Society:Politics] This part of the earth has seen foreign-troop intrusions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But there can't be any worse time than the present one to invade any country, any Muslim country.
- Pakistan-The Undefined Ground
[News-and-Society:Politics] US President Bush had made a statement before two months. He whispered about sending troops into Pakistan for catching Bin Laden. If done so, it would be an embarrassment for the people of South Asia in general and the state of Pakistan in particular.
- War On Terror-Is it in Afghanistan or Iraq?
[News-and-Society:Politics] The situation in Afghanistan is in no way near to the dream, which its citizens had seen while the last regime was ousted.
- The Afghan War Bill
[News-and-Society:Politics] It is the hugest bill paid by USA, UK, and their friendly countries.
- Rev. Pope And Islam
[News-and-Society:Religion] Rev. Pope Benedict XVI is known for his reasoned behavior. But his statement about Islam religion has set the chain of reactions on.
- War On Nuclear Terror
[News-and-Society:Politics] Iran and North Korea are almost a nuclear power now. Once getting the nuclear hardware in their hands, the rulers of these countries are bound to be more powerful.
- The Nuclear Terror
[News-and-Society:Politics] The war on terror has got a limited success till the date. But now a day the world has been thrown in a situation where we have to declare a war on nuclear terror, too.
- US - India Nuclear Deal
[News-and-Society:Politics] India and US were believed to be the best friends in the days of Mr. John F. Kennedy. Mr. Nehru was prime Minister of India in those days of fifties and early sixties.
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