In mid-summer, the memories completely captured the imagination of the poet.

At first it became spotty in places, then darkened, weighed down, its leaden hue turned purple-blue, and later it was as if a black curtain had been drawn over it. As my grandmother told me as a child, Santa Claus began to joke, some intricate antics turned in his head.

Indeed, in half an hour, feathers fell from the celestial mantle of Santa Claus. It was a real miracle: small grains of ice were born in the heights, overgrown with thorns of crystals, weighed down and fell down. Wings and tendrils grew on them from the damp air of the earth, and now those droplets became like graceful butterflies circling over houses, roads, and trees, clinging to branches, shimmering with silvery-white light. Or maybe the stars that the old magician shook from the heights?

For some reason, artists love to draw pentagonal snowflake stars on their Christmas cards. But in nature (and in Santa’s purse) there are none. For the most part, they are in the shape of hexagons, fern twigs, pyramids, and so on. Scientists have collected a collection of 5,000 micro-photographs of snowflakes. Surprisingly, all these unique creations of winter are completely different on them. 

According to the “People’s Calendar” (174 words)

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What does the pysanka tell about

Pysanka is a small miracle created by talented craftswomen or painted by hand.

There is no doubt that the pysanka has its roots in pre-Christian times. This is evidenced by its symbolic code, ie ornament.

Pysanka is an absolutely unique work of folk genius. It has always condensed in itself a figurative and symbolic meaning. From time immemorial, it had many functions: https://123helpme.me/buy-compare-and-contrast-essay/ it was given as a sign of truce, wishes of health, strength, harvest, beauty. It was believed that pysanka cures various diseases, fear, gossip, rocked on the ground to be fertile. And they put it under the hives so that the bees would carry fragrant honey infused with herbs.

By the way, from an artistic point of view, the pysanka impresses with the elegance of the painting on such a small plane, as well as the perfection of the compositional and ornamental elements. This little miracle organically combines different colors: black, crimson-red, golden-brown, dark green, blue, white, orange and many others. All of them are endowed with a certain symbolic meaning. Each region of Ukraine has its own traditions associated with the manufacture of Easter eggs, but everywhere it is a festive event, shrouded in a special holiness.

It is no exaggeration to say that pysanka is a world-famous business card of Ukraine.

By V. Manko (160 words)

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Modern heraldry

Modern logos are extremely different. There are no uniform rules, and it all depends on the specifics of the activity. Law firms, for example, always place the name of the institution on the logos, as many firms bear the name of the owner. This tradition dates back to ancient times: merchants called their stores and industries by their own names so that people would know who they were dealing with. According to psychologists, this is the right move. The client, having just read the name, has some idea of ​​management.

By the way, you need to create a logo. First, it’s just a good tone. Secondly, it is one of the means of forming the status of the firm, which indicates certain facts: wealth, influence, organization, and so on. In addition, the trademark forms not just a positive, but an emotionally colored halo, making the company recognizable.

The psychology of logo perception is quite complex. It is necessary to take into account both what people are used to and the new, to which they are almost ready. It is very important to understand exactly how your logo should work, what qualities it will symbolize: solidity, reliability, stability, innovation, etc. The oldest legal logos usually use traditional symbols, namely: scales, shield, sword, Themis.

By N. Guzenko (160 words)

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Ivan Marchuk

He was born in 1936 in the Ternopil region in the village of Moskalivka in the family of a weaver. Then he graduated from the Faculty of Ceramics of the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts. Belongs to the artistic context of the sixties, author of more than four thousand paintings. For a long time the artist worked abroad: in Australia, Canada and the United States.

By the way, the world-famous artist was twice not admitted to the Union of Artists of Ukraine: he was accused of nationalism and formalism. But he did not care, because he had the main thing: the infinite world and his vision of this world. Philosophical orientation, extremely diverse stylistics of works, landscapes and abstractions, cosmic visions and historical metaphors – everything in his works is fascinating. Ivan Marchuk is a stunning experimenter. The author divides his works into ten cycles, namely: “Landscape”, “Color Preludes”, “New Expressions”, “Portraits” and more.

The International Academy of Contemporary Art “Rome” accepted Ivan Marchuk to the ranks of the honorary “Golden Guild”. He is currently a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, lives and works in Kyiv. “For me, art is life and revelation, I work 365 days a year,” says the artist.

According to the exhibition (158 words)

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The glorious city of Leo (increased difficulty)

Modern Lviv, the center of Lviv region, is rightly considered the industrial, spiritual and cultural capital of Western Ukraine. The city, with a population of over 900,000, is also the largest open-air museum, with more than 2,000 historical and cultural monuments. The old center of Lviv is included in the World Heritage List, and therefore recognized as the greatest value on a global scale.

Founded in the middle of the 13th century by Prince Danylo Romanovych Halytsky, Lviv was named after his son and heir Lev. In a few decades, it became a successful trade and craft city, the religious and cultural center of Galicia. For centuries, Lviv has maintained its previous planning, which has not changed over the years.

It is a world-famous museum city – a unique fusion of architectural and artistic traditions of Eastern Europe and the creative heritage of Italy and Germany. By the way, from ancient times people living here belong to different cultures and religions. Many styles were mixed in the architecture of modern Lviv: Gothic and Renaissance, romantic style and luxurious Rococo, majestic empire and constructivism. What at first glance seems incompatible and contradictory here has created a surprisingly harmonious unity that everyone who comes to this city feels.

According to A. Klimov (170 words)

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“Forest Song”

Lesya was reminded of her native land in those distant times, when she visited Volyn villages with her mother, brother and sister Olga. It was a long time ago, and now the beautiful pictures, full of moonlight of the night, when she, enchanted by Polissya legends, secretly ran to the forest, hoping to meet a real moth, are in front of her eyes.

In mid-summer, the memories completely captured the imagination of the poet. Often invisible wings picked up Lesya and carried her into the wonderful fairy-tale world of childhood. As soon as she is left alone, they emerge from the forest thickets, from the depths of the clear water, from the meadow mists, quietly approach, surround her in a semicircle and look into her eyes with either pity or reproach.

Uncle Lev died, and all the water, forest, field power, with which he once introduced Lesya, now came to her to immortalize her, to give her immortality. Thus was born the majestic work “Forest Song”, which caused astonishment and astonishment of contemporaries.

It is unlikely that in another work the poet has achieved such skill and beauty as in “Forest Song”. Here the poem is like a beautiful net woven with stars on a silver base.

By A. Kostenko (170 words)

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Wind (increased complexity)

The land shrouded in night darkness did not sleep. For the third day, a hurricane-like wind blew over its white savannah-like expanses, covering everything in its path with snow. And the land, exhausted by the struggle, seems to have vanished, trembling under the strong, unstoppable gusts of wind. And he flew above the ground, lifted a myriad of snowflakes into the sky like a tornado, and when the dim yellow lights were barely visible below, he rushed down with all his might, forcing the old houses and high street lamps to creak. With a whistle, he swept through the deserted streets of the city and, breaking out on the outskirts, rushed to the winter forest, which moaned like a man, under its mighty gusts.

Bending small trees to the ground at the edge of the forest, the wind finally blew into the field and, not encountering obstacles in its path, whirled to the horizon.