Saturday, September 18, 2010

Nuevas Fotografias De Milena Velba

huarangos drawings in ink

huarangos Draw landscapes and läpi z, charcoal, to the water and Finally in acrylic, but also draws huarango ink, plastic effect of the drawings with the ink itself is extracted from huarango strange.
This material technological progress is obsolete, and other artistic techniques, woodcut between them, which disappears with the use of printing, but in field of plastic artists is still in force, regain this ancient technique of drawing our landscapes, different motivations and huarangos in ink. Huarango
Some scholars like Felix Quinteros says the use of this ink by writers based in our regional area. Quote
chronicler

''in Peru have guarango name five or six species of trees very similar to each other, almost all cast pods as carob ... is eating fruit is good, and the Indians in some parts of it make flour and bread ... in the valleys are raised and many large livestock copy of it remains. Take this tree some black resin by the branches, as they fell to the earth is going congealing, which tightens powders milled teeth ... of wooden stakes are guarango vineyards and lasts many years without rotting ... the valleys most abundant of these guarangos, are those of Ica, Nazca, Casma the Bishop of Lima, and the Bishop of Trujillo, Chicama, Guadalupe and''B. Catacaos Cobo (VI, 50)

DATA HUARANGOS
hardwood tree, which was used by Andean peoples from pre-Hispanic times, for the manufacture of ceremonial scepters, paddles, weapons and agricultural tools and lintels and thresholds for housing. This precious wood also was used to carve idols and statues that have survived time. Huarango is called''The miracle of the desert''because it grows wild in the arid coast of Peru.
Scientific name: Prosopis pallida Family: Mimosaceas
Common names: boorish, iguanas, tacco in Quechua.
Botanical Description:
hardwood tree trunk twisting, 4 to 15 m in height bicomponent leaves, long petiole bifurcated into two leaflets, inflorescence spikes hanging hermaphrodite flowers. Its fruit is a pod of 10 to 20 cm. long, is curved and flat produces seeds that can be consumed. exudes a dark resin of the branches and bark crevices that produces gum arabic that the same applications (Huarango ink).

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