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BitLearn: Piet Mondrian
Geometrical shapes and bright primary colors are the architecture of the most famous paintings by Piet Mondrian.
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was and is an incredibly influential modern abstract artist. His paintings hang in many of the most famous museums in New York, Chicago, London and Paris.
Mondrian had a lengthy painting career that was not always characterized by the straight lines, geometry and primary colors of his most famous “Neo-Plasticist” works, such as his Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red. Mondrian also painted in the naturalist and cubist style early in his career.
His well known neo-plasticism works were produced beginning in the early 1920s through the 1940s. One of his most famous, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, was produced in New York and hangs today in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
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BitQoute: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Posted by Ari in History, Ideas, People, Quotations on October 20th, 2009
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Thirty Second President of the United States (1933-1945), Governor of New York (1929-1933), US Democratic Politician (1882 – 1945).
BitLearn: The Bodhi Tree
According to Buddhist practice, the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree.
A species of ficus, the tree under which the Buddha gained enlightenment has become a symbol of the Buddhist faith and also part of its spiritual rituals.
“Bodhi” is a sanskrit word meaning enlightenment.
The Bodhi Tree that is associated with Buddha is believed to have been destroyed but Buddhist history provides that a branch or branches from it were preserved and used to propagate other trees that exist today.
Sacred Bodhi trees thought to have been propagated from the original tree are in Bodh Gaya in India, the Jetvana Monastery in Srvasti, India and in Sri Lanka in the Sacred City of Anuradhapura.
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