Wanted Sculptures in the modern World!

Sculpture 1390, from L. sculptura "sculpture," from pp. stem of sculpere to carve, engrave, back-formation from compounds such as exculpere, from scalpere "to carve, cut," Sculptor is first recorded 1634, from L. sculptor, from sculpere. 

 1. The Great Sphinx, Cairo, Egypt

The story of sculpture spans pre-historic and ancient nobilities to the contemporary, from the utilitarian and religious to Modernist abstraction, and conceptual manifestations of both form and content.

2. David by Michelangelo, 1501 - 1504; 

Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy

 3. Venus de Milo 130 - 100 BC;
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Such works of art collectively means ‘Sculpture’ has been mainly in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent century’s large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. 

4. The Thinker by Auguste Rodin,
1902; Musée Rodin, Paris, France

5. The Kiss by Auguste Rodin, 1889;
Rodin Museum, Paris, France

Those the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.
 

 6.  The Statue of Liberty
by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, New York, US

7. Christ the Redeemer
By Paul Landowski Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing one or more people or animals, normally full-length, as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size, or larger. Its primary concern is representational.
 

 8. Tian Tan Buddha, Hong Kong, China

9. The Bronze Horseman by Étienne Maurice Falconet
1782; Saint Petersburg, Russia

The definition of a statue or trophy or memorial is not always clear-cut; sculptures of a person on a horse, called Equestrian statues, are certainly included, and in many cases, such as a Madonna and Child or a Pietà, a sculpture of two people will also be. A small statue, usually small enough to be picked up, is called a statuette or figurine.

10. Apollo and Daphne by Bernini, 1622-1625; Galleria     Borghese, Rome, Italy

11. Little Mermaid at Langelinie in Denmark

 

Sculpture is valuable or substantial form of public art. A collection of sculpture in a garden setting may be referred to as a sculpture garden.
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created means develop in mind or physically by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer ("plastic") materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals. The term has been extended to works including sound, text and light.
Statues are amongst the wonders or marvel, astonishment, amazement of the world, with the Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the Moai of Easter Island among the wonders of the modern world.

A difficult life of Arab women

Erasing individuals or groups by stereotyping them is not a new phenomenon. It is difficult to imagine a society or a period of history completely devoid of this particularly cruel method of robbing people of their humanity; an individual who could live an entire life without being a victim or villain in the process of stereotyping. Can anyone honestly claim they have never said things like: "Arabs are devious," "Jews are stingy, " "Blondes are dumb (or have more fun)," "Redheads are hot tempered,"

 

 

Still, my own experience with stereotyping makes me hopeful. People usually have no real investment in wiping away the unique qualities of another person. When one becomes aware of an individual's special characteristics, and the full richness of the culture and environment that nurtures their growth, a stereotype begins to crumble like any facade. Unless one has a need to keep another in an inferior position, he realizes that prejudice imprisons the attacker as well as the victim, 

 

 

As a result of Western misinformation and lack of awareness, Arab women are unfortunately, victims of the stereotyping process. There is little understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives. Like other maligned groups, we do our best to understand these misperceptions and, in our own way, to confront them. I know of no Arab woman who underestimates the difficulty of changing Western assumptions. The stereotypes of Arab women, "imprisoned behind a veil of powerlessness," will not be eradicated in our lifetime.

 

While we are often shocked into numbness by the depth of the misunderstanding, we know that each epoch of awareness is a new beginning and a new opportunity for us and for our daughters. 

This great empire eventually declined but not before it had given hard-won knowledge like threads from the rich fabric of its culture, threads that are readily discernible in the tapestry of Western culture, politics and thought. Instead of one great empire, it was divided into countries and caliphates that became smaller and smaller as time went by. This fragmenting environment produced the right climate for the successful invasion of colonialism. For Arabs, sheer survival replaced creativity as a primary goal.

Later the cycle began to change again. There was a new Arab awakening. A new independence was in the air and with it a growing evolution toward emancipation, first of men and then of women. The stirrings of this new emancipation started by the end of the 19th century in most Arab countries.

Arab and Moslem women have been a viable entity for a long time; they have struggled, realized and enjoyed emancipation in their daily lives for centuries. As for the Moslem woman, no one can take the Word of God through his Messenger from her. Her evolution is her own and she knows she can accomplish her emancipation on her own.  

The Arab woman appreciates the concern of her Western counterparts. She understands the excitement that Western women feel having so recently discovered their own freedom. The Arab woman knows however that she must go at her own pace, on her own terms and within the finite reality of her own culture in its particular historic moment.

World Tiger Day

World Tiger Day today

The theme of the day is "Save Sundarbans, Save Tigers."

Bangladesh will observe the day amid various programmers with a view to creating awareness among people to preserve the tigers.

A programme to enhance thenumber of tigers double across the globe by 2022 has been taken.

Ministry of Environment and Forests has taken elaborate programme to observe the day. As part of the programme, rally will be broughtout from in front of National Museum at Shahbagh thismorning.

State Minister for Environment andForests Dr Hassan Mahmud said the present government was implementing "Tiger Action Plan" (TAP) to protect the tigers. The project costing about Tk 276 crore will be completed by 2017, he said.

Bangladesh,India, Nepal and Bhutan are working together toimplement the TAP. 

According to a survey carried out in 2004, the number of tigers in the Sundarbans is 440.

Wilde Life Institute of India and World Nature Institute, 70 per cent tigers was declined in the lastdecade while the number of tigers were reduced from 100,000 to 3,200 in thelast century.