Rotary Club announces 20th Global Poster painting competition

New Delhi [India], June 5: Rotary Club of Delhi South West District 3011 is proudly organizing its yearly Signature event of "Painting Competition" for the 20th consecutive year on June 12, 2022, and the registration is open till 10th June 2022. Ever since 2002, RCDSW has been organizing On the Spot Painting Competitions for school children. Over a period of the past 20 years, as many as 1.50 Lakh plus students from more than fifteen hundred schools across Delhi NCR have participated in the offline painting competition.

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With the start of the Pandemic in 2020, when globally, Online and Work from Home became the new normal, RCDSW also took a leap forward by organizing Competition - Online from local Delhi NCR to a Global scale and also extending the competition to all age groups. The competition now is divided into five categories based on different age criteria. Rotary Online Global Poster Making Competition offers a wide choice of competition subjects or themes to choose from. The competition not only connects children and adults but also addresses various challenges related to humanitarian, environmental, and social issues.

The president of Rotary Club of Delhi South West- S.B. Singh says that "The Painting competition is like an extravagance for the painters of all age groups as they use their brilliance of painting blended with the perceptions they display on the painting sheet. I see a better future for art in a world." Director of VRAKSH MANAGEMENT says that-"This very year, the 20th Rotary Global Online Painting Competition is very special for us. The hard times experienced everywhere have allowed us to go GLOBAL this year. Our audience shall experience the uniqueness we have brought in to engage our eminent guests who have agreed to bless all our participants, I on behalf of the hardworking team behind this competition, give all the participants best of wishes."

Open invitation to all students from all age groups across Continents to participate and showcase what you think through colors and words. The link for registration is https://rotaryclubdelhisouthwest.org/ROPC2022/ .

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Viral video shows Mona Lisa painting being vandalized

Paris [France], May 30: The internet is left shocked and stunned after a viral video of a man at Paris's famous Louvre museum, disguised as an 'old woman', smeared cake all over the Mona Lisa painting on Sunday.

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In the bizarre incident, the man, dressed like an old woman, jumped out of a wheelchair to smear the renowned painting of the Mona Lisa with cake. Netizens have flooded social media with videos and images of the painting stained with cake cream. Much to the shock of the onlookers at the museum, the man threw cake at the iconic painting before attempting to break through the bulletproof glass, meant to protect Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait. Eyewitnesses confirmed that the perpetrator, who was sitting in the wheelchair, got up abruptly and walked towards the painting. After he failed in his attempt to smash the display glass, he threw cake on the painting, smearing the cream all over the panel of glass.

The man also sprinkled rose petals on the floor before the security knocked him down. In the viral video, the lawbreaker was seen shouting at the visitors in the museum in French.

A Spanish media interpreted his words as, "some people are trying to destroy the earth, think of the earth!" The man dressed as an elderly woman also wore a wig. Apparently, he entered the museum in a wheelchair, before he resorted to vandalism. The motive behind the attack is still unclear along with the question of how he managed to smuggle a cake inside the Louvre museum. However, there have been attacks on the Mona Lisa painting previously as well.

The masterpiece was once doused with acid, severely damaging the lower part of the painting, by a van

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Nigerian Artist “Draws” Hyperrealistic Portraits by Burning Wood

Nigeria, May 15: Nigerian artist Alex Peter Idoko creates exquisite drawings without the use of a pencil, pen, or paintbrush.

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Instead, the 30-year-old artist utilizes pyrography—or wood burning—to bring his subjects to life. With this unconventional technique, he masterfully renders the delicate textures of people's skin and hair with fire until they resemble hyperrealistic portraits.

Originally, from Lagos, Nigeria, Idoko has been passionate about portrait art since he was a student. While his practice began in graphite, charcoal, and pastel, he eventually gravitated towards pyrography art for its powerful visual effects. This process requires him to torch the surface of wood until he achieves the desired darkness, occasionally relying on a razor to scrape away excess. His portfolio of work ranges from conventional portraiture to surrealist depictions emphasizing Black stories.

“Idoko's works reference African realities, he primarily concerns himself with writing, rebranding, and editing the Black story by bringing to the limelight Blacks of every continent while accessing issues and challenges that surround them and also setting positive images that would serve as a bearing to the new generation [of] African/Blacks born and unborn,” it says on the artist's website. “These artworks are created to lend voice to all who lack the power to speak in the public domain about sensitive issues that affect humanity, which he then skillfully executes as realism.”

You can purchase prints of Idoko's artwork via his website, and keep up to date with the artist's latest projects by following him on Instagram.

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