The Virgin and child with Saint John and Angels reminds first that art is made by people. We don’t know why this was left unfinished. It may have been at a patron flaked or that a more interesting opportunity arose. Artists are not like Geniuses who are fundamentally different from us, but human beings who live in time and space like any of us. Great artists are both making history and being subjected to it. Like us. They fail to finish things because they get bored or because they discover a problem they can’t figure a way around, or because they received word that a loved one is sick and they must abandon work to care for them. Still, there can be so much wonder and beauty to unfinished art. The figures to our left are just coming into being almost sculptural. In their outline in the center of the picture, Mary is trying to hold a book away from the baby Jesus, which 16th century dealers would have known to be part of the book of Isaiah that foretells of a Messiah pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities. Even when your kid is the son of God, I guess he still want to protect him from suffering other times. The historical significance of an artwork is not so much the work itself as its context. Like in the United States, we have a tradition of the official presidential portrait and with the major exception of candy, wiley’s portrait of President Obama, most of these portraits are. I’ll put this charitably. Competent but uninteresting. It’s like I’m touching papers. I’m also touching papers. I prefer holding my paper, as Do I. I’m touching papers, ball, holding my place in a book, and so on. Anyway, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s official presidential portrait is exactly as you’d expect. It’s you know, competent, but by far my favorite painting of FDR. The unfinished watercolor painted by the Russian American artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff in April of 1945, FDR was seated at a card table and Shoumatoff had only been painting for a little while. When the president said. I have a terrific pain in my head and collapsed. He died later that afternoon. She would have never completed the painting, but she did later make a finished portrait based from memory and in that finished portrait. Of course the president is holding paper. Both portraits romanticize a frail old man. I mean, the day before Roosevelt looked like in a photograph, but anyway, shoumatoff’s unfinished portrait is more arresting and powerful than her completed one. It’s a fierce and riveting reminder that to quote the last words of another US President, We are all going. The unfinished painting power is partly in its historical context. Of course. I mean, if the artist had because she had a hand cramp, the picture wouldn’t mean as much. But then all art is context dependent. Really, all everything is context dependent. In a similar vein, I love Benjamin West’s unfinished painting Treaty of Paris, which was supposed to commemorate the treaty ending the US Revolutionary War leaders of the American independence movement, including Benjamin Franklin are depicted here, but the British delegation refused to pose for a picture commemorating their defeat. Other times work goes unfinished because the artist dies. Such was the case with horror nights. Unfinished portrait of Vijayalakshmi Pandit, former president of the UN General Assembly, or the Gustav Klimt’s painting called the bride, which was left incomplete when Clint died in 1918. As a result of a global flu pandemic and then there is the gut wrenching story behind Ford Maddox Brown’s painting. Take your son, Sir, which showed his wife Emma holding their newborn son, Arthur Brown, abandoned the painting in 1857 when Arthur died at just ten months old. In this way an unfinished painting can be a kind of memorial to an unfinished life.

Unfinished paintings can also be important to curators and conservators trying to understand our history, like take, for example, Perino Del vaga’s painting of the Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist. You can see the map the artist laid out, known as underdrawing, and in doing so, clips some of the techniques used to construct perspective and facial features. As met curator Kelly bomb. Put it. An unfinished painting is almost like an X Ray, which allows you to see beyond the surface of the painting. To what lies behind earlier versions preparatory sketches, all the underlying architecture, which is normally disguised and suppressed in that sense, unfinished paintings can become a kind of archaeology like almost 2000 years ago, plenty the elder wrote in his Natural History. The last works of artists and their unfinished pictures are more admired than those which they finished because in them are seen. The preliminary drawings left visible and the artists actual thoughts and then of course, unfinished. Ness can also be an artistic choice as it is in the portrait by Kerry James Marshall, where there is no black in the artist’s palette. And the paint by numbers work in the background remains unfinished. The tradition of intentionally not finishing something, sometimes known in art history circles as the non finito is widespread in art history. The art historian Carmen Baumbach has argued, for instance, that the astonishing portrait was considered complete if unfinished, by Leonardo Davinci, and this gets at a complex question in art and in life. Does something have to look finished to be complete?

The Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided that a single exam will be conducted to fill vacancies for all Central Government jobs. This exam will be called Common Eligibility Test (CET) and will be conducted by National Recruitment Agency.

According to secretary of Department of Personnel and Training, C. Chandramouli there are around 1.25 lakh vacancies in Central government jobs for which almost 3 crore aspirants sit every year. For now CET will be conducted for group B and C non technical jobs. Till now the central government jobs were conducted by Staff Selection Commission, Railway Recruitment Board and Institute of Banking Personnel Selection. The national recruitment agency will have representatives from all three agencies mentioned. The CET exam will be conducted once a year for three different levels which are for 10th pass, 12th pass and graduates. The CET will be just preliminary examination and if the agency wants they can conduct the specialised tier examinations.

CET will be conducted online. It has been planned that every district will have an examination centre for this and special focus will be given 117 aspirational selected districts. It will be conducted in 12 different languages so that more and more candidates can apply. the marks obtained in the seat will be valid for a period of three years.

HEAD ON (2004)

Head On is about two Turkish immigrants living in Hamburg. Sibel wants to get married because she wants freedom so she doesn’t want to live with her family. Cahiit is a guy in his 40s who’s addicted to booze and drugs. Sibel meets him at a mental institution and asks him if he would marry her. They would just be labelled as married but ehy would not be actually behave like a married couple.They will just have to live together, but they could see other people. But soon they develop feelings for each other, and things don’t go right.

This is a great meditation on two characters, and nicely shows how these two different people find themselves in the midst of their so called marriage. They face many emotional ups and downs, and its all portrayed in a very poignant way. I also liked the style that Fateh Akin has adopted, the first half is more of a not so intense drama filled with music. The music often playing an instrumental role in taking the story further. The second half is way more intense, with characters facing consequences for their actions and coming to understand themselves better.

The performances are excellent, I felt like I was myself experiencing the despair that they went through. The characters are so well fleshed out that you actually relate with them. Birol Unel is great as this alcoholic, he’s kind of this rough nihilistic guy in his 40s. Sibel Kekilli is as good, her arc is way more tragic.

I was really impressed by the bleak and unsettling story, it affected me deeply. It’s bitter to watch but everything is shown really beautifully. It’s also very human and realistic, and very different from most mainstream love stories. In the end, Head On is a great piece of filmmaking. It’s poignant, moving, unsettling and one of the best tragedies I’ve ever seen.

THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939)

The Roaring Twenties (1939) is about Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) who returns to America after fighting in the first world war. America is under the prohibition law which bans manufacture and sale of alcohol. Eddie gets into the bootlegging business and his business flourishes. The film is basically about his rise and fall, shown in the span of twenty years.

The Roaring Twenties has inspired most gangster films that you see today.The layered screenplay with cracking dialogues and one liners make this a massively entertaining film. James Cagney as Eddie carries the film with such ease. He’s so charismatic as this character, it was amazing seeing him. This film is one of Bogart’s earliest roles and he kills it as this short tempered and sadistic world war vet. I loved the way they’ve shown characters turning against each other and all the mindless gun slinging. Even the love triangle in this movie was really well done, and unique for that time period.

The film immaculately portrays the roaring twenties, a time when the U.S. prospered a lot, also a time when there was the prohibition law. It was a time of modernisation and I just loved how the film captures it in the background. I also really liked the music along with the jazzy score, adding to the glamour of that time period. Raoul Walsh has directed this epic time period very gracefully.

All in all, The Roaring Twenties is a slick gangster flick, with great writing and one of the best performances ever given by James Cagney.

1. O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU (2000)

O Brother, Where Art Thou is set in 1937 Mississipi, and it’s about Ulysses Everett who escapes from prison with his two companions Pete and Delmar. Their goal is to now find the treasure that Ulysses had buried, without getting caught by the authorities. And we are shown all the problems and chaos that they encounter on the way. It’s based on the greek poem Odyssey by Homer.

I like what Coen brothers have done with this movie, they have nicely captured the depression era. There’s a lot of attention to detail to create a sense of that time period. The extensive use of the sepia tint adds to it. The characters are all whacky and nicely done. Our leads George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson are excellent as these convicts. Even the minor characters made me laugh as they are all eccentric, like the scene with Coen’s long time collaborator, John Goodman was the most memorable because of how surreal and funny it was.

As always, the writing is really fine. Coen Brothers know how to create a clever southern crime comedy. It’s really funny and entertaining. And it’s all very unique! I’ve never seen anything like this.

I really liked how they’ve used folk and country music. The music is important to the film as it precedes the story. The film would not have been the same without the music.

All in all, O Brother, Where Art Thou is one of the many perfect films made by the Coen Brothers. It’s odd, unpredictable, hilarious, and original.

2. RUN LOLA RUN (1998)

In Run Lola Run, Lola needs to bring 100 grand marks under 20 minutes or her boyfriend would have to face some consequences from his employer. We are shown three different scenarios, on how Lola secures the money.

This is no brain entertainment at it’s best. The film is thrilling and fast paced. It does a great job at creating tension. The fast editing is really cool and I even liked the use of animation. The high beat techno music elevates the tension. The film just begins without introducing the main characters, indicating that we have no time to breathe. I’d like to praise the director for how innovatively he has used fast takes, quick cuts, slow motion and panning to create this adrenaline filled experience. I also liked how well put together all the little elements of the plot were. All three scenarios tie together perfectly.

The film is basically about how every small decision we take affects our life. The movie shows this in three different scenarios. A lot of details are used to show how if one little thing had not happened to a particular character, his/her life would have been different. It also portrays the importance of time. For an entertaining thriller, it portrays all this quite effectively.

I’d highly recommend this movie, it’s a well made film that is easy to watch. It’s a fun fast paced thriller.

Today 19 Aug is World Photography Day. And who does not love getting pictures clicked. it is not necessary that you need to have a professional camera to get good pictures. If we keep some things in mind we can even use a smartphones camera to get some amazing pictures. Here are some tips

• When you choose the subject of your photography it is not necessary that your focus remains on the subject always. Try making such a composition that the surroundings of the subject enhances the subject.

• Try playing with dark and light, it helps in in bringing out the emotions. A kind of picture where everything is dark and just the subject has some source of light or the light is coming from behind the subject.

•Lessen the shutter speed and also lessen the ISO. You can reduce the noise in the picture if the ISO is less. And if the light coming in the picture is less it can be edited afterwards easily.

•Using the natural setting you can click good picture in places where there is less light. For this increase the ISO and decrease the shutter speed.

•When you have to focus on a subject touch the screen to set focus and then only click for the picture. When the subject will be appropriately exposed then the photo will be clear.

•When clicking images of people at night try using artificial light rather than the flashlight of the camera phone. If you use the flashlight its reflection can ruin photo.

In case you don’t have a tripod make sure that your phone does not shake while you click picture. To avoid shaking your hands hold your breath for sometime.

“When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatic effects. I think life is the same.”- Hiroko Sakai

It is a style of painting that was created mostly by tribal people of Maharashtra. They were drawn on the wall of huts, caves and roadside. It comprises of different geometrical shapes symbolizing nature elements. Male gods are unusual among the Warli and are frequently related to spirits that have taken human shape.

Central aspects depicted in many Warli paintings is the Tarpa dance. A mixture of red sandstone and brick is used to create the background along with chalk powder which completes the painting.
Walls are painted only to mark special occasions such as weddings, festivals, or harvests.
Today, small paintings are done on cloth and paper but they look best on the walls or in the form of huge murals that bring out the vast and magical world of the Warlis.
Warli painting is specially designed by certain households to sell in fair and shops of handmade goods are set up. You could also found warli on the walls of big households and firms.

Warli art to some extent makes us think of being environmentally conscious and finding joy in simple things of life. The art had spread to regions of Rajasthan and Odisha as well.
Jivya Mashe was awarded the Padma Shri in 2011 for making the art form popular in international circuits. This helps to keep the traditional culture alive.

Every art form has its own beautiful significance which helps to keep our culture eternal.

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games has been played by millions around the world. They have been amazing. In such games majority of trade is done through a plan to plan trading system where one player window shade with another player for the sale of an item and they both plans would engage in a hand to hand virtual trade. This is so truly unique and resembles the functionality of an economy from a time period that represented. There are a lot of assumptions made about training in traditional academic economics. The big ones are that people will act rationally when making their competition. We always have perfect access to all of the information that we need to make that decision. That we are ultimately have unlimited one, but learning limited resources in which to fill those ones in video games like Eve online, for example, these assumptions actually kind of hold up. The market system is pretty sterility. Players have access to all the information that they need and they can just click and buy the cheapest option available to them for the item. They have determined that they need. This makes it pretty textbook. Next time clip different. There was no huge market tablet pricing information. It was just good old school personal person training and this meant that sidewalk in the economy had to step outside the comfort zone of these perfectly consumption and stepped into the world of business.

Promotion had to get the word out about your item place. Where can people go by? What are you actually selling? Body will. Do what you say well now. Typical video game market. Most of these points are really matter. People know when I’m tired and for the most part there are likely many, many, many identical copies of exactly the same item on the game server somewhere. And if you right click show invoke, it gives you all the information you need as to what does, so there goes the product and promotion. OK market with some other purchase’s items directly into place inventory so they don’t have to worry about the placement of an item. Minor really what it comes down to is knowing what you need. Open up the market. I like it. I want it. I got it conference paper applied on this more limiting play the plan training model. Though the 40s were much more important. Players would make sure they position well in trading swings and would refine their shouts into fantastic products they had to offer. Reputation was important to scan for prevalent and price with a bit of shopping, dark and ultimately it came down to. Good old-fashioned handling right there and then. This kind of old school exchange-based trading system was amazing. Unfortunately it was much much harder to monitor professional players that would harvest ruins back Golden Valley game items using automatic aimbots and trade them for Real Money and prices well below what the game developer for this kind of activity was of course not permitted by the game filters but nearly flew under the radar is kind of player to player trading system. So, if 2007 MMORPGs had slowly adapted a trading system for similar to these textbook market places that we see in other video games. This is not the same. Incredibly interesting point to note though, as I was conducting research on this account, you reached out to me and Rectal paper that he had written by inflation computer games with the case study specifically on MMORPGs. But these are so this paper is that rotates markets and more specifically its market prices, but just as dependent on real world influences as markets for cars or oil or shares, but highly recommend that anybody can read this paper, the main focal point of view is the study of the relationship between MMORPGs gold US dollars and we’re expecting which don’t actually have that much in common with real world bonds in ours. They just use given account premium subscriptions again for 14 days. Bonds can be purchased using real world money and then creating game for God. So, the game is legitimate market for gold. Basically, have a foreign exchange market with a real-world currency through these bonds just as they were foreign exchange analyst for real world currency exchanges. The relationship between US dollars at the MMORPGs gold market in a very particular instance in late 2018. Opening to get the game through his more engagement platform. This initially sorry huge spike. Open the game. This would have been a reasonable assumption if it were not for one major motorcycle. Mobile players were more open to the idea of Microtransactions and paying your money not to get ahead in the game. Instead of riding the Golden ring payment by bringing attention bond with them, they would actually rather pay real money for these bonds and stuff in the game. Forgot to get a head start over? Regular players would have to earn this goal in game. This ultimately sort huge downturn. Comparatively more valuable than one relationship.