Paintings of Nicholas Roerich - 1

Nicholas Roerich and Painting

Nicholas Roerich, also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (1874 –1947), was a Russian mystic, painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure.

A prolific artist, he created thousands of paintings and about 30 literary works.

Roerich was an author and initiator of an international pact for the protection of artistic and academic institutions and historical sites (Roerich’s Pact) and a founder of an international movement for the defence of culture. Roerich earned several nominations for the Nobel Prize.

World recognition

In opinion of Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences D. S. Likhachev, “N. Roerich was a world-famous devotee of culture”.Recognition of his many-sided cultural activity is confirmed by awards of many governments of the world, and also by titles of honor, given him by scientific, public and cultural institutions, whose founder, protector, president and full member he was.

•  Awards Holder of Russian orders of Saint Stanislaw, Saint Anne and Saint Vladimir
• Holder of a Serbian Order of Saint Sava
• Holder of an Order of Honorary France Legion
• Holder of King’s Sweden Order of Northern Star

 

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct (logical form) but semantically nonsensical.
The term was originally used in his 1955 thesis "Logical Structures of Linguistic Theory".

Although the sentence is grammatically correct, no understandable meaning can be derived from it, and thus it demonstrates the distinction between syntax and semantics