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5 most famous cinemas of the world 1. Electric Cinema, Notting Hill, London, England. This beautifully restored Grade II listed cinema on London’s iconic Portobello Road is easily the most luxurious and comfortable place to catch a movie in the British capital. Patrons sit in sumptuous leather armchairs, each with its own cashmere blanket, footstool and side table to rest the wine and snacks brought to you by a waiter.  Recent renovations have seen the first rows taken up by six double beds, and a row of spacious sofas up back. There’s a new American-style doughnut bar in the foyer too, offering decadent flavours like Maple Bourbon, Bergamot Orange, Ginger Chew, Mexican Chocolate and Berry Trifle. More information:   Electric Cinema 2. Busan Cinema Centre, Korea The  Busan Cinema Center  (also called "Dureraum", meaning enjoying seeing movies all together in Korean) is the official, exclusive venue of the Busan International Film F...

A VERY SHORT HISTORY OF CINEMA Learn about the history and development of cinema, from the Kinetoscope in 1891 to today’s 3D revival. Cinematography is the illusion of movement by the recording and subsequent rapid projection of many still photographic pictures on a screen. A product of 19th century scientific endeavour, it has, over the past century, become an industry employing many thousands of people and a medium of mass entertainment and communication. EARLY CINEMA No one person invented cinema. However, in 1891 the Edison Company in the USA successfully demonstrated a prototype of the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience (i.e. cinema) were the  Lumière brothers  in December 1895 in Paris. At first, films were very short, sometimes only a few minutes or less. They were shown at fairgrounds and music halls or anywhere a screen could be set up and ...

Academic art From the sixteenth century onwards, a number of specialized art schools sprang up across Europe, beginning in Italy. These schools - known as 'academies' - were originally sponsored by a patron of the arts (typically the pope, a King or a Prince), and undertook to educate young artists according to the classical theories of Renaissance art. The development of these artistic academies was a culmination of the effort (begun by Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo) to upgrade the status of practising artists, to distinguish them from mere craftsmen engaged in manual labour, and to emancipate them from the power of the guilds. For more, see History of Academic Art (below). In fine art, the term "Academic art" (sometimes also "academicism" or "eclecticism") is traditionally used to describe the style of  true-to-life  but  highminded  realist painting and sculpture championed by the European a...

Abstractionism Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are closely related terms. They are similar, but perhaps not of identical meaning. Abstractionist painting  was born in Russia in the early twentieth century. Precursor of abstraction in painting was Wassily Kandinsky, however the very notion of abstraction in art, and not only in art, accompanied people since forever. Abstract art  is the exclusion of all kinds of forms - frameworks that are supposed to define objects, perspectives and scales. Painters and other artists of this period rejected the names of the specific shapes, adopted for years. They replaced lines with the spot and vertical with level. Abstractionism was born as a result of a few already known fields of art: cubism, futurism and impressionism, the trends very similar to each other. The greatest representatives of abstraction began as the creators of those three directions. The first abstract paintin...

Pablo Picasso Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) is considered to be one of the most famous painters in the twentieth century. He was born in Malaga, Spain on October 20, 1881. In addition to painting, Picasso was also a printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. He spent most of his adult life in France.  Early life   Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. According to his mother, his first words were "piz, piz", a shortening of lápiz, the Spanish word for "pencil". From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. On one occasion, the father found his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Ob...

Frida Kahlo "Feet - what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?" Small pins pierce Kahlo's skin to reveal that she still 'hurts' following illness and accident, whilst a signature tear signifies her ongoing battle with the related psychological overflow. Frida Kahlo typically uses the visual symbolism of physical pain in a long-standing attempt to better understand emotional suffering. Prior to Kahlo's efforts, the language of loss, death, and selfhood, had been relatively well investigated by some male artists (including Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, and Edvard Munch), but had not yet been significantly dissected by a woman. Indeed not only did Kahlo enter into an existing language, but she also expanded it and made it her own. By literally exposing interior organs, and depicting her own body in a bleeding and broken state, Kahlo opened up our insides to help explain human behaviors on the outside. She gathered together motifs that would r...