What do you know about Colombia?
What is the official name of Colombia’s capital city? – Bogota D.C.., founded with the name of ‘Santa Fe’, then it became Bogota.
Which one of Colombia’s neighbors belonged to Colombia and gained independence in 1903? – Panama.
What are Colombia’s highest mountains? – The Pico Bolivar and the Pico Colon. P
Colomb Art Life
We have art in order not to die of the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. – James Whistler
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. – Arthur Erickson
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. – Henry Moore
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Emile Zola
Colomb actors and actresses
- Margarita Rosa de Francisco
- Sandra Vergara
- Catalina Sandino Moreno
- Greg Giraldo
- Ana María Orozco
- Sofía Vergara
- John Leguizamo
- Manolo Cardona
- Carmen Villalobos
- Yasmin Deliz
- Martin de Francisco
- Santiago Moure
- Adam Garcia
- Danna García
- Paula Garcés
- Paola Turbay
- Stella Arroyave wife of Sir. Anthony Hopkins
- Jorge Enrique Abello
- Moisés Arias
Colomb Cultural Facts
The mixing of various ethnic traditions is reflected in Colombia’s music and dance. The most well-known Colombian genres are cumbia and vallenato, the latter now strongly influenced by global pop culture. A powerful and unifying cultural medium in Colombia is television. Notably, the telenovela Betty La Fea has gained international success through localized versions in the United States, Mexico, and elsewhere. Television has also played a role in the development of the local film industry.
Colomb Art Life
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Colomb Facts – Language and Religion
The language spoken is as well a matter of pride, having as many accents as cultural regions. Results special the orthodoxy in the use of the Spanish language, since the times of the creation of the Academia de la Lengua, just second in terms of relevance to the Real Academia Española, in Europe.
An inheritance from the colonial era, Colombia remains a deeply Roman Catholic country and maintains a large base of Catholic traditions which provide a point of unity for its multicultural society. Colombia has many celebrations and festivals throughout the year, and the majority are rooted in these Catholic religious traditions. However, many are also infused with a diverse range of other influences. Prominent examples of Colombia’s festivals include the Barranquilla Carnival, the Carnival of Blacks and Whites, Medellín’s Festival of the Flowers and Bogotá’s Ibero-American Theater Festival.
Colomb Art Life
You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. – E. M. Forster
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. – Andy Warhol
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. – Robert Indiana
Personality is everything in art and poetry. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. – Henry Miller
The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. – Paul Strand
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – John Ruskin
An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. – Henry Miller
That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind. – James Taylor
