A piece of art from Tanzania

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A hand painted postcard from Tanzania! A real peace of art. The typical style of painting in Tanzania is Tinga-tinga. The genre is named after its founder, Tanzanian painter Edward Said Tingatinga. This postcard is not in Tinga-tinga style however. It looks similar to the style on the postcard from The Republic of the Congo.

 

Stamp

Birds of the world. Part of a set of four stamps issued 1997.The Cactus Wren is a species of wren that is native to the southwestern United States. It nests in cactus plants.

Thx Steve!

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo

"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."

Frida Kahlo

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“Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954; Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán.  Perhaps best known for her self-portraits, Kahlo's work is remembered for its "pain and passion", and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.”

Source: www.fridakahlo.com

Stamp

The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family.

A piece of art from Togo

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Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east, and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located.

Togo's population of over 6 million people (2011 est.) is composed of more than 20 ethnic groups. The two major groups are the Ewe in the South and the Kabye in the North.

According to the sender, this postcard was hand painted by a local artist from Atakpamé. Women carrying things on their head is very common there.

Stamp

50th anniversary of independence (2010)

Romanian objects

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The back of the card reads:  “Items from the collections of the Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania.”

Stamps

(on the left) Two stamps from the Romanian pottery series.

(on the right) The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the second largest building in the world.

THX Raluca

An avenue of stars from Hong Kong

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The Avenue of Stars, modelled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is located along the Victoria Harbour waterfront in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. It honours celebrities of the Hong Kong film industry.

Stamps

(left) Fork Taled Sunbird

(middle) tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers

(right) White Bellied Sea Eagle

Paintings from Cuba

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Pinar del Río is one of the wildest provinces of Cuba. In it lies the valley of Viñales, a town famous for the landscape that surrounds it. The most striking feature is the "Mogotes" hills that emerge from the surrounding plain. In its territory there is a large modern painting which evokes the prehistoric rock art (the Mural de la Prehistoria).

Stamps

Dia de la cosmonautica, from a series of 6 stamps. A nice little windmill in the bottom right  corner. Being from a country of windmills I appreciate that.

Juegos Olimpicos. Barcelona Olympics ’92 stamp. Cuba is one of the best baseball countries in the world.

A temple from INDIA

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Wall panels in Hoysaleswara temple which is a temple dedicated to Hindu God Shiva. It was built in Halebidu (in modern Karnataka state) during the Hoysala Empire rule in the 12th century by King Vishnuvardhana.

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On the left: B R Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, Buddhist activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India.

On the right: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in the world. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect.