Jesus also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ is the Incarnation of God. The history of Christian reflection on the teachings and nature of Jesus is examined in the article Christology. Ancient Jews usually had only one name, and, when greater specificity was needed, it was customary to add the father’s name … Read more
The Kawasaki Ninja is a name given to several series of Kawasaki sport bikes that started with the 1984 GPZ900R. Since then, the performance of the Ninja has become legendary, and various models have carried the Ninja name onto the road everywhere. Kawasaki Heavy Industries trademarked a version of the word Ninja in the form … Read more
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already … Read more
Kawasaki is a multi-national corporation with more than fifty holdings (manufacturing plants, distribution centres, and marketing and sales headquarters) in most major cities around the world. Business interests include environmental control and energy plant engineering, machinery and robotics, ship building and marine engineering, power plant engineering and steel structures, rolling stock, aerospace, and of course, … Read more
J.M.W. Turner, in full Joseph Mallord William Turner is an English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, colour, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and … Read more
A palette in the original sense of the word, is a rigid, flat surface on which a painter arranges and mixes paints. A palette is usually made of wood, plastic, ceramic, or other hard, inert, nonporous material, and can vary greatly in size and shape. The most commonly known type of painter’s palette is made … Read more
Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It is an extreme sport and a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation. Cave diving is the natural evolution of caving, where cavers and open-water divers overcome the challenges of water-filled passages by using specialist breathing apparatus to explore further and deeper than ever before. … Read more
Edvard Munch is a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. In a sense similar to his near-contemporary, Vincent van Gogh, Munch strove to record a kind of marriage between … Read more
Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist … Read more