MISS UKRAINIAN CANADA 2016 online voting

I am participating in first Miss Ukrainian Canada Contest under #2.

This amazing contest is not just beauty competition, it is more like a cultural show.

The final will include fashion and talent show, social projects, interviews and national costumes.
All the information about the contest can be found here : 
 http://www.missukrainiancanada.com/

 About myself:

ANASTASIIA MYRONENKO
Toronto | Ontario
Occupation: Administrative Assistant at Ukrainian bank
Home city: Dnipropetrovsk
Favourite author: Taras Shevchenko
Interesting facts: Anastasiia moved to Canada alone when she was 17. Representing Humber College, she took 1st place in the Ontario Colleges Marketing Competition in 2013.
Born in Dnipropetrovsk, the third largest city in Ukraine, Anastasiia has always been interested in marketing and communications. She describes herself as career-oriented and hard-working as most Ukrainian women. She graduated with Business Marketing diploma from Humber College before beginning her career at one of the Ukrainian banks in Toronto.
Being deeply touched by the situation in Ukraine, Anastasiia used her social media skills to create a Facebook page to help coordinate volunteer work in Dnipropetrovsk. While living in Canada, Anastasiia continues to feel a strong connection to her home country which inspires her to write poetry in Ukrainian and English. Anastasiia is also extremely passionate about modern art. In her spare time, you can found her in the Art Gallery of Ontario or volunteering at Toronto International Film Festival.


 I love great books, fine arts, good music and interesting people.

If you like me, you can click # 2 in online voting section : http://www.missukrainiancanada.com/voting/

Kind regards,


Anastasiia Myronenko

My social project idea video can be found below in the previous post.

My Instagram account:
https://www.instagram.com/myronenko.a/

When I was working on my social project idea video, one of the main challenges was to find Petrykivka artist in Toronto, who would help me to hold fundraising masterclass for Petrykyvka arts. I thought it would be impossible. However, the fate is an interesting thing: while discussing my project idea with video operator Dmytro Doblevych I told him about the challenges I faced. Dmytro told me about Pikush family who are national Ukrainian Petrykivka artists and who contributed to Petrykivka art to be recognized by UNESCO. Moreover, he informed me that Oksanna Pikush lives in Toronto and he can get us in touch. What a gift of fate! Oksanna Pikusha knows all the problems of Petryvika as no one else, as she is always in touch with her parents, who live and paint beautiful masterpieces in Petrykivka. Oksanna`s mom is director at Petrykivka Children Arts School. My original idea was to use $1,000 for creating an online museum for Petrykivka, as it was brought to the new level after UNESCO recognition, but yet did not get enough funding for making it more accessible for people worldwide. However, after conversation with Oksana Pikush I discovered that the situation in Petrykivka needs more help than website in English. The historical school is under threat of closure because of lack of heating and funding from the government. My video is revealing the problems Pertykivka faced as well as tells you a little bit more about this art style. I also would like to thank Dmytro Doblevych ,Oksanna Pikush and her family for their help, support and time. I am glad I met you and I believe this video will help to bring attention to the school and will not only prevent it from closure, but also work on bringing international interest to this beautiful art style! Enjoy the video ☺️
#2 at http://www.missukrainiancanada.com/voting/
Sincerely yours,
Anastasiia Myronenko

Dali`s museum

As I mentioned in my first blogpost, Gala Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres (in Costa Brava) was the reason I started to be interested in Dali.

There is an interesting story behind this museum:

The municipal government of Catalonia didn't want to invest as much money in art, therefore Dali could not build his own museum. However, Dali found a law that was saying that government should invest into cultural buildings which were ruined by the World War 2. For this reason Dali found a destroyed theatre and asked government to invest money in it. He named the place Gala Dali Theatre Museum saving the "theatre" in the name to appeal to government.

Dali wanted to exhibit only copies of his artworks in museum; however, Madrid insisted in supplying of real images to museum.

Now museum is one of the most attracting sightseeings in Spain. It has the most known paintings such as "Basket of Bread", sculptures such as Merlin Monroe room, jewellery and Dali`s tomb.

Overall you can feel as close to the Genius Artist as you only can! So if you decide to visit Spain, visit Museum, you will not regret! You will learn a lot more information there than you would do from any book about Dali. You can also see real paintings of Salvador Dali, not the copies!!!!!!!

Another famous museums located in St. Petersburg , FL

Here is the link  to the official web cite: http://thedali.org

From time to time you can enjoy exhibitions of Dali`s art in different other European and American cities.

Salvador Dali was, is and will be a world known genius attracting more and more people. He has achieved his main goals: became famous, rich, beloved and built his own museum.

In addition to this, Dali is an interesting person to learn about and educate others. Let`s do it together!!!!!!!!

#getinvolved #dali #salvadordali #surrealism

Paranoic-critical method and other weird inventions/ theories

Also known as paranoiac critical method, was developed by Salvador Dali, which represents spontaneous visual play, also known as "double image". Dali explained that if a person stimulates paranoia, he/she creates associative transformations. It also removes rational view of the world with irrational. This method is typical representation of surrealism.

The most common example for explaining this phenomenon:

When you look at clouds you can see different shapes: flowers, people, animals. Others can be persuaded to see the same.

Any object can be viewed from this perspective - Dali believed.

In a nutshell, there must not be any value in the meaning of reality as it may mean anything at all. (Marcel Jean)

Dali was widely using this method in his paintings.

Taken from http://www.languageisavirus.com/articles/articles.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1099110809&archive=&start_from=&ucat=#.U0WA9lW-3To

Here is an interview with Dali about the paranoiac critical method:

Most of Dali`s paintings are connected with his dreams. Here is another interesting method created by Salvador Dali:

Salvador would put a plate on the floor and fall asleep with a spoon in his hand. When falling asleep his hand became relaxed and dropped the spoon on the plate. The sound would wake Dali up, saving dreams in memory and then he painted them.

Dali believed you can bring dreams from unconscious level to conscious.

from http://www.creativitypost.com/create/salvador_dalis_creative_thinking_technique




Other inventions:

Lobster phone

Merlyn Monroe room