Soul journeys through memories. (5) De-a lungul Dunării. Along Danube.

De-a lungul Dunării. Along Danube.

Along Danube... the waters seen in the hurry; it is like a mix of blue skies, blue dark waters, scenes of large greenery zones, green forest hills on the other side... 

No road, it is not anyway a commonplace road...
Lots of wonders can appear, lots of things can reveal the beauty of nature along the highway...

Danube is magnificent... To make a description: at first glance, it is like nostalgia feeling seen as an emotion in motion... 

                    - Have you ever felt that way?

On the highway, along Danube River, from Drobeta to Iron Gates. Then  to Orșova near the spot where the Cerna River meets the Danube.

From Did You Know Category:

From around the web/media*

About Danube - in genere: "The Danube *(/ˈdænjuːb/ dan-ewb, known as various names in other languages) is Europe's second-longest river, after the Volga River, and also the longest river in the European Union region. It is located in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Danube was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire, and today flows through 10 countries. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for 2,860 km (1,780 mi), passing through or touching the border of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine more countries."

"Names and etymology"*

"The Latin name Dānuvius is one of a number of "Old European" river names derived from a Proto-Indo-European *dānu. Other river names from the same root include the Don, Donets, Dzvina/Duna, Dysna, Dnieper and Dniestr. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, dānu means "fluid, drop", in Avestan, the same word means "river". In the Rigveda, Dānu once appears as the mother of Vrtra. It is possible that dānu in Scythian as in Avestan was a generic word for "river": Dniepr and Dniestr, from Danapris and Danastius, are presumed to continue Scythian *dānu apara "far river" and *dānu nazdya- "near river", respectively.

Known to the ancient Greeks as the Istros (Ἴστρος) a borrowing from a Daco-Thracian name meaning "strong, swift" (akin to Sanskrit iṣiras "swift"). In Latin, the Danube was variously known as Danubius, Danuvius or as Ister. The Dacian/Thracian name was Donaris/Donaris for the upper Danube and Istros for the lower Danube. The Thraco-Phrygian name was Matoas,"the bringer of luck".

The Latin name is masculine (as is the name of the Rhine). German Donau (Early Modern German Donaw, Tonaw, Middle High German Tuonowe) is feminine, as it has been re-interpreted as containing the suffix -ouwe "wetland".

The modern languages spoken in the Danube basin all use names derived from Dānuvius: German: Donau ([ˈdoːnaʊ̯]; Bavarian: Doana; Yiddish: Duney דוניי‎ [dʊnɛj]); Silesian: Důnaj; Upper Sorbian: Dunaj; Slovak: Dunaj ([ˈdunaj]); Hungarian: Duna ([ˈdunɒ]); Croatian: Dunav ([dǔnaʋ]; Serbian: Dunav / Дунав ([dǔnaʋ] or [dǔnaːʋ]); Romanian: Dunărea ([ˈdunəre̯a]); Romani: Dunaja ([ˈdunaja]); Bulgarian: Дунав Dunav ([ˈdunɐf]); Ukrainian: Дунай Dunai ([duˈnɑj])."

"Napoleon numea Dunărea* „regele râurilor europene”, iar Nicolae Iorga, „cea mai bogată în daruri”, ea bucurându-se de atenţia popoarelor continentului; pe malurile ei s-au făurit şi au durat până în zilele noastre civilizaţii milenare.
Etimologie*
Încă din antichitate, Dunărea avea mai multe nume: Istros / Istru / Hister / Danaistru, pentru sectorul inferior, în scrierile greceşti şi Danubius în cele latino-romane.


Denumirea dată de romani "Danubius" (Zeul fluviilor) a fost mai târziu preluată de alte popoare, şi modificată, devenind Donau în limba germană, Dunaj în limba slovacă, Duna în limba maghiară, Dunav în limba croată, Dunav; Дунав în limba bulgară şi limba sârbă , Дунай (Dunai) în limba ucraineană, pentru ţările riverane, şi Danube în limba engleză şi limba franceză şi Tuna în limba turcă."

*Excerpts; Click to read more info about on Wikipedia.

Sursa/source: Internet via You Tube.

"The Iron Gates* (Romanian: Porțile de Fier, Serbian: Đerdapska klisura, Hungarian: Vaskapu-szoros, German: Eisernes Tor, Turkish: Demirkapı) is a gorge on the River Danube. It forms part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania. In the broad sense it encompasses a route of 134 km (83 mi); in the narrow sense it only encompasses the last barrier on this route, just beyond the Romanian city of Orșova, that contains two hydroelectric dams, with two power stations, Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station and Iron Gate II Hydroelectric Power Station.

The gorge lies between Romania to the north and Serbia to the south. At this point, the river separates the southern Carpathian Mountains from the northwestern foothills of the Balkan Mountains. The Romanian side of the gorge constitutes the Iron Gates natural park, whereas the Serbian part constitutes the Đerdap national park."

*Excerpts; Click to read more info about on Wikipedia.

Sursa/ Source of Video: You Tube;

"Dunăre, Dunăre " performed by Ileana Constantinescu, 1954. 
Romanian traditional folk song from Wallachia, Oltenia area.

Dunărea între Drobeta și Orșova. Danube between Drobeta and Orsova.

Below: 

Danube between Drobeta and Orsova in september, 2015.

 In this picture, (by chance captured in the hurry...) it can be spotted the place where once, it was Ada Kaleh island, on the Danube.

Dunărea între Orșova și Drobeta. În această imagine, (capturată în grabă ...) poate fi reperat locul unde odată, era insula Ada Kaleh, pe Dunăre.

Below:

Ada Kaleh island, on the Danube between 1890 and 1905; the original image is a  Photochrom print (color photo lithograph).

Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-09518 from Library of Congress.

Ada Kaleh island, on the Danube.
between 1890 and 1905
Original image: Photochrom print (color photo lithograph)
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-09518 from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photochrom Prints Collection
See page for author [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Island of Ada Kaleh toward the end of the 19th century
Late 19th century; Source Unknown.
See page for author [Public domain or Public domain],
via Wikimedia Commons

"Ada Kaleh* (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈada kaˈle] from Turkish: Adakale meaning "Island Fortress", Hungarian: Újorsova or Ada Kaleh, Serbian and Bulgarian: Адакале / Adakale) was a small island on the Danube populated mostly by Turks that was submerged during the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric plant in 1970. The island was about 3 km downstream from Orşova and measured 1.75 by 0.4–0.5 km.
The isle of Ada Kaleh is probably the most evocative victim of the Iron Gate dam's construction."

"Orșova * (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈorʃova]; German: Orschowa, Hungarian: Orsova, Serbian: Оршава/Oršava, Bulgarian: Орсово, Polish: Orszawa, Czech: Oršava, Turkish: Adakale) is a port city on the Danube river in southwestern Romania's Mehedinți County. It is one of four localities in the county located in the Banat historical region. It is situated just above the Iron Gates, on the spot where the Cerna

River meets the Danube."

"During the works at the Iron Gates, the old center of the town was flooded and Orșova was developed (1966–1971) on higher ground, including the southern side of the Almăj Mountains and the villages of Jupalnic, Tufari, and Coramnic. Also flooded then was the neighboring Ada Kaleh, with the scattering of the mostly Turkish community of the Danube island. Ada Kaleh and its inhabitants, as well as the ancient city, are still present in the memory of its surviving locals."
*Excerpts; Click to read more info about on Wikipedia.

 "Orşova *(în germană Orschowa, în maghiară Orsova, în sârbă Оршава) este un municipiu în judeţul Mehedinţi, România. Este situat pe malul lacului de acumulare Porţile de Fier I de pe Dunăre, în zona de vărsare a râului Cerna în Dunăre.

Ca urmare a realizării lacului de acumulare Porţile de Fier I, vechea vatră a oraşului a fost inundată în 1970, iar populaţia a fost strămutată pe un nou amplasament, incluzând terasele Dunării şi ale Cernei şi versantul de sud al Munţilor Almăjului, unde s-a construit un oraş complet nou (1966-1971), care a înglobat şi satele Jupalnic, Tufari şi Coramnic."

"Sistemul Porţile de Fier I *este una din cele mai mari construcţii hidrotehnice din Europa şi cea mai mare de pe Dunăre. Lacul său de acumulare cu un volum de peste 2200 milioane mc se întinde de la baraj până la confluenţa cu râul Tisa. Lacul cuprinde în principal zona Defileului Dunării, cel mai mare defileu din Europa, cuprins între localitaţile Baziaş şi Orşova. Zona Porţile de Fier are un bogat potenţial arheologic, istoric şi turistic. Pentru protejarea habitatului său natural deosebit, regiunea defileului Dunării a fost inclusă in Parcul Natural Porţile de Fier." 

*Excerpts; Click to read more info about on Wikipedia.

At Orșova. La Orșova. In september, 2015. În septembrie 2015.

Panoramic views at Danube in Orșova. Pe malul Dunării în Orșova.

Arhiva foto privată/ Private photos archive.

Click to see enlarged views.

Series of photo instants, 

up-close & collages in color and/or black & white. 

Visions. September, 2015. Autumn.
Along Danube. From Drobeta to Orsova. Mehedinti County.

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*Source of info above; excerpts/info/ about Danube, Iron Gates, Orsova, Ada Kaleh from Wikipedia.

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Thoughts for an unfinished essay...

Contemplation in a glimpse. Randomly.

Beyond words. Imagery of green, blue and whatever is between natural wonders and the soul encounters. 

Diversity; inspirational scenery on the road to...

Of course, there is no need for explanations... 

Where did we came?... to... from... on the way...

As far... as I could tell, ...Then...

... It was a place of vintage beauty, a new vista of delightful scenery unfolding at almost every turn of the road...

Unfinished. Essay for half of the spirit... 

The one that can recall, revive tiny existential flashes from forgetting...

And still I can no longer, ... visualise... those captured memories ... of september, back in time... 

But "randomly"; from a glimpse,  between the "dazzling" dark green and the "glittering" blue waters. 

Through camera lens... I can say that...  it was like ...

...contemplation in infinite blue!! 

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Next post: Soul journeys through memories. (6) De-a lungul Dunării.
Along Danube. From Orsova to Dubova. Mehedinti County.

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"Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.*"
*Source Internet: 
By Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Collected Poems and Translations".

Happiness starts with yourself.

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Rămâi pozitiv, astăzi, mâine și întotdeauna!

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All is well...

Soul journeys through memories. (4) Memorial Brancusi. Viziuni pentru suflet.

At the Memorial House of Constantin Brâncuşi; 

Trip road to Hobiţa. 

September 2015.

Hobiţa Village is situated at  24 km from Târgu-Jiu,  the capital of Gorj County in the Oltenia region of Romania;  Târgu-Jiu is situated on the Southern Sub-Carpathians, on the banks of the river Jiu.


Anyway, it was a true joy that I had this chance to visit this place, a short glimpse into time, back to the roots of a genius and his unique art, worldwide renowned. 

Târgu-Jiu is situated on the Southern Sub-Carpathians,
on the banks of the river Jiu.

         In this post, I've tried to realise a suite of photos presentation and collages dedicated to the Hobița Village, the place where it can be found the Constantin Brâncuși  Memorial House. The old house, itself, it is said that was inherited by his sister and no longer exist. So, actually, at Hobita it is the place, the terrain inherited by C. Brâncuși  and where the great sculptor was born.

          The house that is exhibited in Hobița: "It is a monument of the late nineteenth century and was restored in 1971, as the establishment of the museum. The museum's collection includes photographs, albums, documents, books, letters that reflect moments of the life and work of Constantin Brâncuși . It shows the original interior and peasant furnishings from the early twentieth century. "

Landscapes and rural views seen on the road to Hobița. A region where nature was and still it is abundant in early autumn. 

Greenery found at Hobița (below in images), all sorts of vegetation, 
from trees to the leaves of vineyard, 
it can be seen in the mid september all around the memorial house.

În toamna anului trecut, am avut un timp foarte bun pentru scurte călătorii. Într-una din aceste ocazii, am văzut Hobița și Târgu Jiu. Hobița este situată la 24 km de Târgu-Jiu, capitala județului Gorj aflată în regiunea Oltenia din România. De asemenea, orașul Târgu-Jiu este situat în arealul Subcarpaților sudici, pe malurile râului Jiu.

From Did You Know Category:

From around the web/media:

Constantin Brâncuși * (Romanian: [konstanˈtin brɨŋˈkuʃʲ]; 
(February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) 
"was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain and others. But other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions."
"Brâncuși grew up in the village of Hobiţa, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, close to Romania's Carpathian Mountains, an area known for its rich tradition of folk crafts, particularly woodcarving. Geometric patterns of the region are seen in his later works."

"Constantin Brâncuşi *
(n. 19 februarie 1876, Hobiţa, Gorj — d. 16 martie 1957, Paris) 
a fost un sculptor român cu contribuţii covârşitoare la înnoirea limbajului şi viziunii plastice în sculptura contemporană. Constantin Brâncuşi a fost ales membru postum al Academiei Române. Francezii şi americanii îl desemnează, cel mai adesea, doar prin numele de familie, pe care îl scriu fără semne diacritice, Brancusi, pronunţându-l după regulile de pronunţare ale limbii franceze."

Locul lui Brâncuşi în sculptură

"Brâncuşi a eliberat sculptura de preponderenţa imitaţiei mecanice a naturii, a refuzat reprezentarea figurativă a realităţii, a preconizat exprimarea esenţei lucrurilor, a vitalităţii formei, a creat unitatea dintre sensibil şi spiritual. În opera sa el a oglindit felul de a gândi lumea al ţăranului român. Prin obârşia sa ţărănească şi-a aflat rădăcinile adânci ale operei sale în tradiţiile, miturile şi funcţia magică a artei populare româneşti. Brâncuşi a relevat lumii occidentale dimensiunea sacră a realităţii.

Figură centrală în mişcarea artistică modernă, Brâncuşi este considerat unul din cei mai mari sculptori ai secolului al XX-lea. Sculpturile sale se remarcă prin eleganţa formei şi utilizarea sensibilă a materialelor, combinând simplitatea artei populare româneşti cu rafinamentul avangardei pariziene. Verticalitatea, orizontalitatea, greutatea, densitatea cât şi importanţa acordată luminii şi spaţiului sunt trăsăturile caracteristice ale creaţiei lui Brâncuşi. Opera sa a influenţat profund conceptul modern de formă în sculptură, pictură şi desen."

Sursa/source: Brâncuși's Paris studio, 1920,
 photograph by Edward Steichen
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Edward_Steichen_-_Brancusi%27s_studio,_1920.jpeg

"Brâncuși held a large spectrum of interests, from science to music. He was a good violinist and he would sing old Romanian folk songs, often expressing by them his feelings of homesickness. After the installment of communism, he never considered moving back to his native Romania, but he did visit it eight times."

"His circle of friends included artists and intellectuals in Paris such as Amedeo Modigliani, Ezra Pound, Henri Pierre Roché, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Rousseau, and Fernand Léger. He was an old friend of Romany Marie, who was also Romanian, and referred Isamu Noguchi to her café in Greenwich Village.Although surrounded by the Parisian avant-garde, Brâncuși never lost the contact with Romania and had friends from the community of Romanian artists and intellectuals living in Paris, including Benjamin Fondane, George Enescu, Theodor Pallady, Camil Ressu, Nicolae Dărăscu, Panait Istrati, Traian Vuia, Eugène Ionesco, Emil Cioran and Paul Celan.

Brâncuși held a particular interest in mythology, especially Romanian mythology, folk tales, and traditional art (which also had a strong influence on his works), but he became interested in African and Mediterranean art as well.
A talented handyman, he built his own phonograph, and made most of his furniture, utensils, and doorways. His worldview valued "differentiating the essential from the ephemeral," with Plato, Lao-Tzu, and Milarepa as influences. He was a saint-like idealist and near ascetic, turning his workshop into a place where visitors noted the deep spiritual atmosphere. However, particularly through the 10s and 20s, he was known as a pleasure seeker and merrymaker in his bohemian circle. He enjoyed cigarettes, good wine, and the company of women. He had one child, John Moore, whom he never acknowledged."
*Click for more info to read on Wikipedia.

"Casa memorială Constantin Brâncuşi* se află în localitatea sa natală, satul Hobiţa, din comuna Peştişani, judeţul Gorj. Este clasificată ca monument istoric, cu cod LMI GJ-IV-m-B-09494, sub denumirea de Casa-Muzeu "Constantin Brâncuşi"."

"Este monument de arhitectură populară de la sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea şi a fost restaurată în 1971, la înfiinţarea muzeului. Colecţia muzeului cuprinde fotografii, albume, documente, cărţi, scrisori care reflectă momente din viaţa şi activitatea lui Constantin Brâncuşi. Este prezentat mobilier original de interior ţărănesc de la începutul secolului al XX-lea."

"It is a monument of the late nineteenth century and was restored in 1971, the establishment of the museum. The museum's collection includes photographs, albums, documents, books, letters that reflect moments of the life and work of Constantin Brancusi. It shows the original interior and peasant furnishings from the early twentieth century. "

"Adevărata casă a lui Brâncuşi*

Casa memorială este amplasată pe terenul unde s-a născut şi a copilărit sculptorul, dar nu este adevărata casă în care s-a născut Brâncuşi. Aceasta se află la circa 100 de metri mai jos de casa memorială.

La moartea lui Radu Nicolae Brâncuşi (1833-1885), tatăl sculptorului, conform dreptului cutumiar, casa ar fi trebuit să fie moştenită de fiul său cel mic, Dumitru, însă, în casă rămân soţia sa, Maria (1851-1919) şi fiica cea mică, Eufrosina (1884-1948), căsătorită cu Gheorghe Brânzan. După moartea mamei sculptorului, moştenitorii, printre care şi sculptorul, au făcut împărţirea averii părinteşti. Pentru aceasta, rudele au pus într-o căciulă bileţele cu toată averea familiei părinţilor sculptorului, Nicolae şi Maria Brâncuşi. La tragerea din căciulă, lui Constantin Brâncuşi i-a revenit terenul, unde acum se află amplasată casa memorială, iar adevărata casă în care s-a născut sculptorul i-a revenit surorii sale, Frâsina, care şi-a luat casa şi a mutat-o pe un alt teren la 100 de metri distanţă."

Poziţia oficială*

"Casa părintească a lui Constantin Brâncuşi, aşa cum relatează diverşi autori, nu mai există încă din anul 1919. Casa a fost moştenită de sora sculptorului, Eufrosina Brâncuşi, devenită Brânzan, care a demolat-o, utilizând ,,bârnele”, adică grinzile groase de lemn ale structurii, la noua casă pe care şi-a construit-o după căsătorie, pe alt amplasament din sat, la circa 70,00 m distanţă de curtea părintească." (...)

"Ministerul Culturii şi Patrimoniului Naţional a declanşat procedura de clasare de urgenţă a casei, pentru asigurarea protecţiei vestigiilor. Casa Eufrosinei a fost clasată în Lista Monumentelor Istorice din 2004, actualizată în anul 2010, cu denumirea „Casa Constantin Brâncuşi”, din satul Hobiţa, comuna Peştişani, jud. Gorj, cod: GJ-IV-m-B-09493. Prin condiţiile avizului de clasare nr. 528-E/11.12.2001, acordat de Comisia Naţională a Monumentelor Istorice şi prin adresele sale ulterioare, Ministerul Culturii şi Patrimoniului Naţional a solicitat Prefecturii Judeţului Gorj şi instituţiilor abilitate ale administraţiei publice locale - Consiliul Judeţean Gorj şi Consiliul Local Peştişani - luarea măsurilor necesare pentru conservarea, restaurarea şi punerea în valoare a casei."

*Click for more info to read on Wikipedia.

Arhiva foto privată/ Private photos archive.

Click to see enlarged views.

Series of photo instants, 

up-close & collages in color and/or black & white. 

Visions. From Hobita, Gorj 2015,  September, autumn.

Many thanks for this journey and for the joy and positivity shared! 
This post is dedicated to my sis!

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Sursa/Source: you tube; CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU

"Imagini inedite cu Brancusi, din timpul constructiei "Coloanei Infinitului". 

Clipul are o durata de 59 de minute si apartine Centrului National de Arta si Cultura - George Pompidou."

Source: Georges Pompidou Center.

"Exclusive pictures of Brancusi, "Endless Column" during construction.

The video lasts 59 minutes and it is owned by the

National Centre for Art and Culture - George Pompidou."

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Sursa/Source of videos above: Internet/ You tube.

Sursa/Source of  info Wikipedia;  public media.

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Stunning things are all over! 

Stay positive, today, tomorrow and always! 

Rămâi pozitiv, astăzi, mâine și întotdeauna!

So, very thankful, each and every day, to be inspired...

All is well...

Related post: Feb. 2013 Drumuri de suflet: Pe urmele lui Brâncuși la Târgu Jiu