Archive for February, 2014

Patagonian

The province of Mendoza is one of the regions of the planet that enjoys more natural beauty. In recent times the place has been a huge tourist development, offering the possibility of offering valid alternatives for all tastes, enjoying Mendoza holiday in luxury accommodation, campsites, hotels boutique, or cabins and vacation rentals hotels. Routes and roads improvements make it possible to reach true pieces of paradise nestled in the cordillera de los Andes. One of the regions of incredible beauty is the area of Malargue. This town is located southwest of the province, and shares an extensive border with the Republic of Chile.

One of the most important characteristics of this region is its respect for wishful thinking by the natural life, so eco-tourism located in Malargue indicated stage to appreciate the rich biodiversity of the area. Malargue has several nature reserves, extensive areas protected by national and provincial laws that seek to preserve the flora and fauna of the place. One of these reserves is La Payunia. Distant 160 km of Malargue, is accessed directly by provincial route 40. It is an immense plain punctuated by large amount of volcanic cones which reflects accurately the Patagonian ecosystem. There are more than 800 volcanoes in La Payunia, making it in the region of the planet with highest density of active peaks.

Due to the characteristics of the volcanic rocks, with strange and appealing colors, the area would be the perfect scenario to shoot a movie set on the moon. One of the most outstanding contingencies that provides this natural reserve is the realization of photographic safaris, seeking to capture the magic of this strange landscape. It is equally possible horseback, hiking, or make voyages 4 X 4. But Malargue has much more. The Molles is a town famous for its thermal baths, of excellent quality for its high content of sulfur and other minerals. Here it is possible to ski, as well as in Las Lenas, distant only 18 km from this place. Holidays in Mendoza would not be complete without tasting the exquisite Patagonian chivito. For this purpose it is recommended to attend the national feast of the goat, which takes place between January and February. Here it will be possible to taste this traditional Argentine cuisine than dish prepared with simplicity and wisdom is a true feast for the palate.

Sketch Nature

Landscape problem: how to transfer sunlight, shadows, reflections on the foliage and bodies, the refraction of light in the fast jet stream, as naturally place the figures of people concerned about the nature of many artists. Landscape was even at the core of Impressionist painters, and led to radical changes in art in general: lightening of color, artistic development deep, real space, to the fragmented composition to the addition of a new method of writing – "alla prima". Finally, a landscape sketch was of the school, which honed their art of painting for several generations artists. However, one should distinguish between landscape and landscape painting Sketch. Etude, which is written directly from nature, usually quickly, in one or more sessions is not intended to create a complete image of nature.

The beauty of the Etude in swiftness, escaped into the accuracy of individual observations in the true state of the transfer of instant landscape, emotional paintings. Landscape painting is created in the studio more often, as works of other genres, is a complete, carefully and thoughtfully made (not to be confused with the thoroughness of detail drawing), the expression a general idea about the nature of work. Each movement in art given their similarities in landscape and in understanding the landscape of space. Until the last century Landscape space was built primarily on the basis of the theatrical scene with the romantic foreground illumination, scenes, and a flat long-range plan, in the painting was dominated by dark colors. It is true that some major artists (eg, Brueghel), we meet with an amazing realism to the concept of space, but the real flowering of landscape painting, accounted for nineteenth, early twentieth century. We say that English painters Gainsborough, Turner, Constable, famous Russian landscape painter Vasilyev and S. Shchedrin, a galaxy of French Barbizon School and later currents. Artists are making high art in the transfer of real movement that occurs in nature, interference of light and air, atmospheric conditions, solid images and the fusion of a human figure with the landscape.