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The idea of retrospective voting refers to voting decisions that are based on an evaluation of how the government has managed the economy. Research on economic voting in Poland have been carried out from the beginning of the democratic transformation, focusing on isolating and testing of the transition model specific to the countries of Central Europe. Its differentiating feature is a novel way of simultaneously joining the retrospective and prospective motivations in the behaviour of voters, compared to the conventional model present in consolidated democracies. The retrospective voting model is defined as deciding whether to reward or punish the incumbent party on the basis of past policy performance. Based on analysis and own research, the presented paper evidences that the validity of applying the transitional model in the study of economic voting in Poland has been exhausted, as the retrospective motivation is nowadays predominant in the decisions of voters.
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Even if the relationship between art and technologyis not new, the context of the new technologies development, theinvasion of the machineries and diversification of these new meanswhich interpose between man and the real word, makes us wonder ifarts really suffers today a mutation because of the increasinglypenetration of the technologies in artistic production, or, we are dealingwith a simple wince of an evolution began long time ago, in which newtechnologies are inserted, without being able to speak of a radicaltransformation.
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Themes like life, joy, love and death, the ones of Erosand Thanatos are probably the most representative of the XX-th century,being in fact a leitmotif for the entire European creation and not only.Personality of the modern French art, Henry Matisse (1869-1954)brought into his art the conciliation between the flat tint and thesuggestion of the volume, between the space and transfiguration of thelight- color, being different from the one known by the Renaissanceartists as a vehicle of brightness in relation to the shadow.Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) exponent and promoter of Cubismalong with George Braque, will paint passionately a series of paintingsinspired by the global drama of humanity, for example: Guernica,Massacre in Korea, War and Peace, paintings that are to become averitable antiwar manifesto transposed within modern painting.
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Originating at the end of the first decade of the 20thCentury, abstract art marks a major shift in the conceptions about art,the most radical of those put forward by the numerous currentsappeared in the same period. It brought about the most dramaticprocess of breaking all ties with the past belief that art was meant to bea representation of the visible world.An analysis of abstract art might seem an obsolete subject atpresent, one hundred years after it appeared. Still, the multitude ofapproaches that were grouped under this large concept, the complexparticularities that have appeared over time, as well as its continuity invarious forms up to the present, make it a vast, multi-faceted object ofresearch in continuous renewal, and therefore of current interest.
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During the first decade after 1989, the phenomenonof the Romanian contemporary art internationalization may befollowed especially by its participations in the Contemporary ArtBiennale from Venice. The five exhibitions in the Romanian Pavilionfrom Giardini between 1990 and 2000 show a pretty slow route ofofficial policy changes related to the promotion of Romanian artabroad. The exhibitions of the 1990, 1993 and 1995 editions are stillanchored in the tradition of artistic paradigms before 1989, promotinglate modernists discourses of some artists mainly active in the 60s and70s. An orientation towards more experimental approaches shall occurwith the edition from 1997, while the 1999 exhibition, by its strongconceptual component, aligns the Romanian Pavilion along thetendencies of the western art of that moment.
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Tapestry has always been closely linked to painting,its compositional evolution being conditioned by discoveries inpainting. Themes addressed were reproduced by tapestry mastersusing silk thread and wool, with the possibilities offered by the fabricstructure combined with the new discoveries in colour chemistry.However, since, from the very beginning, fabric structure had adetermining role in rendering the human figure, because of thenumber of colours, thread interlacing and netting fineness, the naivelook accentuated. With time, the experience of tapestry masters led toconcrete achievements but this aspect closely linked to thediversification of colours and the observance of the cartoon makerpainter’sinstructions has resulted in a decline of the art of tapestry.Everything changed when, at the beginning of the twentieth century,textile artist Jean Lurçat realised which were the big mistakes that ledto this downfall.
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