A creative friendship

Pablo Picasso and Henry Matisse met for the first time in 1906 in Paris. Matisse was 37 and already a successful artist. He was self assured but rather reserved. Picasso was 25 passionate decisive and ambitious. He was at the start of his career but already famous for his great talent.

In 1907 Matisse and Picasso began a powerful dialogue through there art. They often did paintings of similar subjects.

if you look at the works of these artists at the beginning of the career they are completely different. Picasso wrote very traditionally.

The French man inspired Picasso to use color. And paintings that you know now by Picasso appeared because of Matisse.

Picasso inspired Matisse to experiment with style. Picasso said that no one has looked at my paintings more carefully than Matisse and no one has looked at his more carefully than I am. The first joint exhibition of their works was in Paris. Since then there have been two major exhibitions about artists very special and creative relationship. People have often described as the two are just as rivals who were jealous of each other’s work but Matisse said their had disagreements were always friendly.

After the Second World War Picasso moved to the south of France where Matisse lived and the two artists spent a great deal of time together.

Average uk men

Adult Quetelet was a Belgian mathematician in the 20th century who was especially interested in statistics and the human population.

He’s work was very influential in the world of statistics.

He was the first who invented the average men characteristics. The average man has exactly average night and weight and average life and every chance of being a criminal and an average number of children.

The average man is boring however Quetelet believed that average man symbolize a perfect individual. If somebody had all those characteristics they would be ideal.

Anybody who didn’t have all of those average characteristics was an error according to his theory. Of course average man doesn’t really exist but this hasn’t stopped people from looking for the perfectly average person.

In 2007 one uk tv program looked for the average Britain. And that’s what they did. The average uk man is 40 years old. He is marriage have 1.8 children he has size 10 feet

He owns 22 pairs of socks he thinks he’s a good driver. He has 8 to 14 good friends. He drinks free cups of tea a day does less than 30 minutes exercise a week. He works more than 40 hours a week and can cook at least four meals.

Photography and optical illusion

as a person who likes to use the instagram, photographs occupy a fairly large part of my life. and I even edit them.

Recently, because of such movements as a body-positive mass media constantly raise the topic of manipulating with photos.

Manipulation is not new for our time. in the first days of the stern-white photos, the first businessmen in this field have already appeared. first photoshoppers.

The famous photo of US president Abraham Lincoln is an in fact a combination of two photos. Lincolns head was put onto the body of southern politician John Calhoun.

In 1982 in the National Geographic magazine cover story on Egypt the great Pyramids of Giza were squeezed together to feed them magazines vertical format. Director of photography at National Geographic after the cover was manipulated stated that we regarded that afterwords as a mistake and we wouldn’t repeat that mistake today.

Once one French magazine altered at photograph of the French president by removing some body fat.

You can also find many old photos with ghosts on them on the Internet. This was a very popular topic in the 19th century. photographers put together two photos: their clients and their recently deceased relatives. such photographers even gave thieves to steal photographs of these relatives from the clients' house.

Now it’s kind of art.

Optical illusions. Is created by the shape and structure of our eyes our mind or a combination of both. What we see is not always what exists in 19th there was a great interest in optical illusion‘s in the world of mathematics physics and science. Mini classic optical illusion’s were discarded then and optical illusions also became popular in art. While scientist are still interested in optical illusions to help understand human vision most people simply enjoy looking at them.

For example the Herman Grid illusion. He was a physiologist. It’s a series of white lines on the black background. If you look at the image you will notice light gray spots at the intersection of the white lines.