Bab Mansou Laalaj

The door most spacious and most famous of Meknès.ca outside is richly décorée.Son plan is double elbow and probably designed in the traditional type of Moroccan monumental gate.   Bab Almansur reached a total height of 18m, half of which is occuppée by his opening arc. This broken and slightly exceeded, is lined with a lobed arch, decorated with tracery in diamonds. The spandrels are filled with floral decoration executed in the excised ceramic enamel on dark background. The rectangular frame is formed of a decoration similar to that of the arch. Fallout symmetrically finish on three unequal arches, inlaid same as the interlacing arch and inlaid ceramic frame Blue-green cast. The central part of the door is flanked by two massive protruding treated decorative element. Each of these two massive square map opens at its base by two perpendicular bays semicircular horseshoe arch resting on heavy columns whose capitals are of limestone and marble was.

The alleys of Fez

The most beautiful of Morocco medina is a labyrinth of many streets and a teeming deadlock Lillion small merchants guiding their donkey loaded with goods. The souks of Fez is full of victuals in any kind or shelter various trades, a beautifully restored caravanserai houses a museum of wood or cedar and argan trees are transformed into sumptuous doors, chests and shelves carved. The Moroccan Arts museum is housed between Fez el-Bali and Fes el-Jedid. There is a remarkable collection of pottery from different cities and different eras. In the main, narrow lanes TANTOT steep, sometimes quite soft, but not convenient, the walls are only a succession of shops, the vast unsassez, other niche, or are busy selling of the full range of Moroccan craftsmanship, friendly and willing to grant you, without tiring, good bargaining session for you cede one or more of its objects, the Jellaba the sevice of tea, passing through little things that tourists do little go take years in some specimens for remembrance.

Sources Oum Rabie

Oum Errabie is Morocco's second largest river, its source located at 1240 above sea level in the region khénifra, just 40km from the city. The visitor discovers the 40 springs that feed the river with a dazzling greenery into the Middle Atlas.   Several tents by the river have been set up by the inhabitants of the area for tourists. One can also discover the sources of the cave oumErrabie, with a depth of some 15 meters, with the bottom of the pure water

El Fna jemaa of Marrkech

Place El Fna Jemaa is a very famous public square in the southwest of the medina of Marrakech in Morocco. This high traditional, popular and lively place attracts over one million visitors a year. In the twelfth century, the Jemaa el Fna was a place of justice and the sentences were pupliquement applied. By the second half of the sixteenth sièce, activities and functions of the site has changed. Thus, it is described by the Spanish author Marmol Carvajal as a cosmopolitan place where reigns a strong commercial activity .. The current name of the Jemaa el Fna only appears at the beginning of the seventeenth century in historical texts. Indeed, the historian Abdurrahman Es-Saadi, gives a plausible explanation: the Saadian Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur had planned to build a large mosque. It would have given him the mosque name of peace "Jemaa el Hna". "Jemaa" meaning "meeting place" and "El Hna" quietude. Then a plague would have decimated part of the population, which the king, and prevented the construction of the building. It would be after this event that the place would have received the name of the place of the destroyed mosque "Jemaa el Fna". For centuries, the Jemaa El Fna square was bustling and s'set registered in Morocco cultivation . Since she is qualified to show place in the twetfth century. From the twentieth century many buildings are built and instead begins to take the look from today. In 1985,jemaa El- Fna square is inscribed on the world heritage list.

Moroccan cuisine

  Moroccan cuisine is a Summer all characterized by its variety of original dishes mainly Arab and Berber. Despite his common with the kitchens of other North African countries, Moroccan cuisine has managed concerver originality and cultural specialties uniquees.En 2015, she was ranked second in the world by cooking the site WorldSIM.   Moroccan cuisine offers a variety of dishes: couscous, tagines, pastilla, barbeque, taginemrouzia the Baddaz.   The Moroccan salad or orange salad flavored with cinnamon. The ingredients used are mainly vegetables. When the bread is round, thick and very different from one city to another, both in its preparation by its ingredients.  for each recipe, there are several variations and names according to the regions. Tea each region has its own way of preparing it is more sweet in the north and south more fragrant.

Berber carpet

  the carpet is a work of art based on knowledge of ancient civilization of the peoples who throughout history, expressed their knowledge through decorative means, sculptures, poems, drawings and colors.   The carpet is an art object realized in families of great pastoral tradition and living in general livestock and agriculture, so rural families. The manufacture of traditional carpets, in any form, requires the presence of certain conditions, means and basic equipment including: the groin and pure wool as a raw material to be transformed into son to different dimensions and properties variées.Un adequate equipment difféentes forms, depending on the desired use. Competent staff mastering the traditional techniques of weaving and décoratfs reasons.   Carpet weaving is an essential activity in some circles, because it plays a crucial economic role in the livelihoods of families. He then enrolled in a traditional mode of marketing, based on barter.   In a household, the man and woman working in cooperation. The woman does the weaving and modeling carpets and the husband is responsible for commercialization in the weekly markets and in fact against part, the purchase of food and other goods they need to live.

Cascades Ouzoud

  The ouzoudes waterfalls are waterfalls of about 110m high, on three levels, on the river ouzoud at 1060m altitude in the Middle Atlas to Maroc.Ce vast site is an important tourist destination in Morocco Beni Mellal 120km and 150km north-east of Marrakech.Ces waterfalls, considered among the highest and most beautiful of Morocco, often dominated by a rainbow sky, are located in a rural green valley of sandstone red, planted with olive, almond, fig and carob other, or a dozen small mill in the traditional oil are still in business.   The Ouzoud waterfalls have recently become accessible from the small town of Ait Aatab (about 25km) from Beni Mellal and Marrakech across the sugar city of Oulad Ayad (Provence Fquih Ben Salah).   The preserved tourist site, quiet and natural, entirely pedestrian, offers many campsites as basic huts / rudimentary huts of bamboo and reed, bathing places, small restaurants of Berbers terrace kitchen, craft shops Berbers of the Middle Atlas, the along a pedestrian path down to the foot of the waterfall. The site is run among others by some groups of Berber macaques in the wild.

Fantasia(cavalry) in Morocco

The fantasia is the theatrical rehearsal of the two movements of the cavalry in war .. Aligned at one end of the arena - or whatever takes its place - the riders launch their frames and at full speed, holding flange with one hand, gyrating their rifles above their heads; came up to the big crowd of spectators, they rise as one man, seized their moukhalas both hands, the left flange, arm and pull together in the front or the back, towards the ground or in the air, then make a short and quick flip and back in just as fast as they came to their starting point to start their frenzied race. The bursts and drawn riders are named last stand. By region and by address or their boldness, riders can round out their evolutions postures or acrobatic gestures, throwing their arms in the air to catch the full race, lying on the hilltops or standing up on their stools , and some even standing on their heads, the horse still galloping. Women respond to this performance by shrill ululating of encouragement and satisfaction.

Moroccan Costumes

Morocco is a country rich in terms of history, traditions, peoples, culture, religion, climate, geography and more. Each of these aspects of the country influences fashion dress Moroccan. Among the wide variety of clothes in Morocco, we find djellaba and caftan, two fine clothes that evoke the luxurious clothing style of the country. If you walk through the streets of any city of Morocco, you will certainly see a few men and women wearing long, loose dresses hooded over their normal clothes. This dress is called the djellaba. It covers the whole body except the head, hands and feet The djellaba for women is different from men for its style and purpose. Women wear a djellaba for different reasons. First, it is a very comfortable and attractive clothing. Secondly, it is a modest attire to wear to a Muslim country. Some women go with wearing a scarf around their necks or their heads. It is also worn during family visits during religious festivals. The caftan refers to the Moroccan garment that resembles the jilbab but without hood. The origins of the caftan back to the Ottoman Empire. Indeed it was one of the finest Ottoman clothes worn by the elite. Like other clothing, it has evolved over time. In Morocco, women wear it for special occasions like a wedding. The caftan is the basic garment of the bride on her wedding day. It is also worn under a takchita, which is another beautiful dress decorated on the front with traditional handmade buttons, wide sleeves and a thick belt worn around the waist. As opposed to a djellaba, a caftan is not doing out of the house.

Fez Festival of Sacred Music of the world

     The World Sacred Music Festival is the highlight of the Spirit Foundation of Fez, Maroc.Fort of its influence and of his vocation, the festival is part since 1994 in a universal mission of peace and reconciliation peuples.Durant the ten days, various events and parties are given in all monuments and important site ville.Chaque year the festival hosts a multitude of artists, who come from all backgrounds and all cultures.    The World Sacred Music Festival and the Forum of Fez, created 1994et2001 respectively, are part of the scholarly tradition, artistic and spiritual of the city .Since their inception, these events have had a growing success. This festival was designated in 2001 by the UN as one of the key events that have contributed, in a remarkable way, the dialogue of civilizations. Meanwhile, it has developed an international support network and médiatisation.Ainsi was born in the United States, the organization Spirit of Fès Inc., which organizes every two years a program of the Festival and the Rencontres de Fès through twenty cities américaines.Une tour was organized during the months of October and November in cities across the US, including

La cité portugaise

Eljadida est une ville côtière du Maroc,à 96km de Casablanca . Les fortifications portugaises de Mazagan,qui font aujourd'hui partie de la ville d'Eljadida,furent édifiées comme colonie fortifiée sur la cote atlantique au début du XVIe siècle.La colonie fut reprise par les marocains en 1769.Les fortifications,avec leurs bâtions et remparts,constituent un exemple précoce de l'architecture militaire portugaise de la renaissance.Les édifices portugaises encore visibles sont la Citerne portugaise ,la forteresse portugaise de Mazagan et l'église de l'Assomption,construite dans le style manuélin.La ville portugaise de Mazagan,l'un des premiers établissements en Afrique occidentale des explorateurs portugais qui faisaient route vers l'Inde,offre un témoignage exceptionnel des influences croisées entre les cultures européennes et marocaines,qui apparessent clairement dans l'architecrure,la technologie et l'urbanisme.

Le festival international des Gnaouas

Le festival Gnaoua d'Essaouira est un festival musical qui se tient en début de chaque été dans la ville marocaine d'Essaouira .Le festival met en scène les grands Maalemines(Maîtres)Gnaoua qui jouent la musique muystique et sacrée des Gnaoua. Des centaines de milliers de visiteurs du monde entier sont attirés par ce grand événement musical. Les festivités se déroulent dans toute la ville et principalement au niveau des deux grandes portes de la médina(place Moulay el Hassan,et Bab Marrakech),ou sont instalées les deux plus grandes scènes. Essaouira est méconnaissable durantce festival:toute la ville vit"dans la fièvre gnaoua". Ce festival a pour but le métissage culturel et musical,et propose une excellente sélection d'artistes venus du monde entier pour mêler leur musique à celle des gnaoui. C'est aussi l'occasion pour de jeunes artistes locaux de faire leur apparition devant un large publique.

La musique andalouse

La musique andalouse constitue un des aspects les plus saillants de la civilisation issue du génie arabo-islamique dans la partie occidentale du monde islamique. Elle est considérée comme l'une des principales ramifications de la musique arabe au sens large,et il est donc naturel qu'elle soit liée aux même origines que les différents genres de la musique arabe en général,bien qu'elle se distingue par des particularités nées sous l'impulsion de divers facteurs. La musique andalouse est considérée comme le fruit de la combinaison et la fusion des données artistiques issues de la nature musicale des différents éléments ethniques vivant en Andalousie:Arabes,Berbères,Noirs,Goths et autres.

Les techniques de la poterie rurale au Maroc

Les poteries rurales ,en particulier celles du Nord marocain,sont d'une technique très archaïque .D'ailleurs,il n'existe pas de procédés connus de fabrication,de cuisson ou de décoration qui ne soient pas pratiqués par quelques potiers ou potières des tribus ou de la ville . Certaines fabrications nous reportent aux temps néolithiques .Ainsi,en Tribu Sless,la technique utilisée est des plus primitives.L'outillage élémentaire se compose de deux pierres à surface lisse,en forme de disques et disposées l'une sur l'autre à la façon d'une meule;quelques copeaux de bois et des déchets de cuir seront utilisés pour la finition.Les deux pierres forment le tour dans sa conception la plus rudimentaire.La pierre du dessous est légèrement plus grande que celle du dessus . La terre employée pour confectionner ce genre de poterie n'est autre que la "tadokka" ou argile plastique la plus commune.Elle est mélangée et pétrie avec une terre siliceuse et des débris de vieilles poteries pilés .La pâte est bien malaxée jusqu'à ce qu'elle arrive au point de malléabilité voulue. Le travail commence:accroupie à même le sol,la potière entreprend le tournage de l'objet qu'elle projette de réaliser.Elle tourne avec dextérité la pierre supérieure sur laquelle repose la boule de terre.Elle façonne d'une main l'objet,ajoute de temps à autre un fragment de terre ,rectifie un défaut.Elle trempe souvent ses mains dans l'eau pour humecter la pâte.L'objet prend la forme peu à peu .La potière,une fois son oeuvre modelée selon son désir,entreprend le polissage avec une raclette en bois et un morceau de cuir,parfois avec un galet.La poterie est exposée au soleil pour le séchage avant cuisson.Lorsque l'objet est devenu ferme,la potière passe un engobe composé de terre blanche. La décoration est faite sur cet engobe.Le décor est peint à l'aide d'un pinceau dépourvu de manche,constitué de poils de chèvre rassemblés et serrés par un fil.Deux couleurs sont utilisées:le noir,obtenu en écrasant une motte de tirs(terre noire)et le rouge,terre de sienne extraite d'une carrière avoisinante.Les motifs sont simples et appartiennent au répertoire traditionnel berbère,qui se compose essentiellement de losanges et chevrons,de traits verticaux,de croisillons,parfois de damiers et de points.

Le Maroc pays des contrastes

Fondus dans un même creuset,intimement liés au substrat local et refécondés par les contacts avec l'Espagne arabe et avec l'Afrique noire ,tous ces acquis successifs transparaissent aujourd'hui encore, en filigrane ,à travers la trame sur laquelle le Maroc a élaboré un art de vivre qui témoigne de la richesse de son patrimoine culturel et de sa spécificité Au premier contact avec cette terre , si intimement liée au versant européen du Bassin méditerranéen et par mille aspects si différente,la diversité des paysages,des ethnies,des usages et des modes de vie s'impose.

Comment agit la musique sur notre organisme?

Nous connaissons tous le plaisir que procure la musique,mais nous ne réalisons pas toujours que ses pouvoirs vont beaucoup plus loin que la simple douceur frappant l'oreille.C'est une onde,une vibration qui entre en résonance avec notre système nerveux et fait naître en nous des émotions,des réactions d'apaisement ou de stimulation. Elle modifie notre humeur et facilite notre homéostasie . Il est notoire qu'elle aide à la relaxation et à la douceur de vivre. Des recherches poussées sur les effets physiologiques de la musique nous montrent qu'elle agirait sur notre système nerveux parasymathique lequel se conduit en quelque sorte comme un protecteur naturel de notre organisme en empêchant notre système nerveux symathique .son frère jumeau' de s'emballer. Ses effets se font sentir par un ralentissement de nos rythmes respiratoire et cardiaque,par une diminution de la tension artérielle,une détente musculaire et par l'instauration d'un état calme. L'action de la musique touche le système limbique ou se trouve le clavier de nos émotions.Le rythme,la tonalité et l'intensité des sons stimulent ainsi nos réactions émotives et nous apportent un bien- être favorisant le calme,l'équilibre et l'évolution vers une amélioration de notre état physique et psychologique, lorsque cela est nécessaire et possible .

Peut on pratiquer l'art abstrait sans avoir des techniques?

Pour la peinture, l’art abstrait nous a libéré de certaines servitudes techniques, certes, mais il ne faut pas imaginer que sans un minimum de technique nous pouvons créer, et surtout créer ce que nous souhaitons. Contrairement aux idées reçues, se lancer dans l’abstraction avec en poche de solides connaissances et techniques nous permettra de nous exprimer plus précisément et manier avec plus de bonheur les couleurs, formes et textures. D’ailleurs c’est aussi vrai en danse, le classique reste la formation de base et le conservatoire souvent un passage nécessaire avant de dériver vers d’autres danses plus contemporaines. Idem pour l’apprentissage des bases du solfège. La peinture n’échappe pas à la loi du genre. Pour revenir à l’abstraction, rappelons au passage que les précurseurs de cette forme artistique étaient des peintres figuratifs confirmés (Picasso, Kandinsky, Klimt etc.). Cela dit rien n’empêche de peindre sans technique, sans expérience et sans base. Il existe même des résultats très heureux. Certains ont la chance d’avoir intuitivement le sens des couleurs et de la beauté. Mais cela reste un don exceptionnel. En ce qui concerne la peinture figurative et le dessin, il est périlleux voir suicidaire de réaliser une œuvre sans toutes ces bases. Connaitre ses accords, ses gammes, les justes tonalités sera gage d’harmonie et réussite.

the link between music and painting

I think it is difficult that a work describes music. It can evoke a mood, a situation, like these (seen too often for my taste) paints representatives of jazz musicians playing in a club. Often to suggest an emotional feeling, joined the figurative abstract. It is then an avalanche of symbols, colors, shapes that mingle with objects, and often the instruments to evoke music. But even knowing that music does not cause the same emotions everybody, how to translate all meet there? Moreover, we have not the same reading of an abstract work. Everything felt history, interpretation and above all imagination. The link, then, between music and painting, in my purely subjective and personal sense. That said nothing prevents us from being inspired by music by creating our work. Since it influences our mood, our dynamism, our own emotions, we can be guided at the discretion of a rhythm or melody. Anecdotally, very fun, our dedicated specialist Roland, always painted listening to rock. Imagine him compose a still life in chiaroscuro manner Delatour, or a rural landscape in the manner of Fragonard, while listening to ACDC. So if I am a witness!

How to analyze a painting?

  First we must distinguish between the different planes of the table, and then release the secret geometry of the array, ie distinguish the broad guidelines: (horisontales, vertical, diagonal) connecting them organisentet The items of the table. After we pass the color, that is, the painter's palette, ie, the set of colors used and the dominant color, the tone of the whole, warm tones, if the painter used the red , orange, yellow, or cool tones, if the painter used the blue, green, or violet.puis observed the way to spread the colors on the board, ie the touch. After we pass the light and shade, where the light sources are determined, the identification of a person or object and contrasts obtenus.puis the characters and the scenery is described their place, their shapes, their attitudes, the provision with respect to each other

The pedagogy of the image

The image education now becomes a social preoccupation that takes into accountnational education in its disciplinary and interdisciplinary official instructions. So how to contribute as a teacher to educate young people about the functions and powers of the image? We can educate them by allowing them to think, under the mastery of speech, imagelike a language. Also, better control codes of the still image and the moving image;then consider disciplinary and interdisciplinary approach of education of the picture

The ménara Marrakech

    The ménara is a vast garden of ouliviers built under the Almohad dynasty in about 45 minutes walk from the Jamaa El Fna Square, in central Marrakech, Morocco. At the heart of this garden, a large pool beneath a pavilion serves as a water reservoir for irrigation. This is a very quiet place, away from the tumult of so ville.C'est prévilégié a place for walks.    The basin is supplied with water thanks to a hydraulic older than 700 years system, which carries water from the mountains located about 30km from Marrakech.Ce basin allows irrigation of the olive grove