domingo, 23 de febrero de 2014

Fallas de Valencia, Spain.

Las Fallas is possibly the best example of fietas of Valencia for the outside .
Beginning March 13 and culminate on 19 , which has been called Fallas week . Failures are a great burst of light, music , fire and color imaginable only for people who have ever lived in life.
Their tradition is of pagan origin and commemorate the four festivals that celebrate the change of season : December 21 , Christmas. March 21 , Fallas , Spring. On June 21 , San Juan and bonfires , entrance to summer, September 21 , vintage and entrance to Autumn .

 Fallas 2013 2012 2011 Valencia

Fallas 2013 2012 2011 Valencia


Keep in mind that there are astronomical precision today had not the old parties and so day 21 is not exactly celebrating .
Valencia, land of carpenters and woodworkers , this party began to use to burn and deshacersae all slats and wood debris that had accumulated in their workshops throughout the year.
As winter had passed and would not even use to heat homes and fireplaces, began to gather in the center of the square of their neighborhood and the evolution of San Jose, patron saint of carpenters , set alight . In this tradition were uniting neighbors who they placed in the square next to the slats , furniture , chairs, etc, old and useless into a tradition of Valencia.

Then time and artistic talent did the rest , they were shaping woodpiles and old furniture , he was putting in Valencian explanatory signs , etc. . Once ingrained habit, started the youth of the suburbs to go from house to house collecting old furniture to give a graceful and artistic way . There were born embryos current Fallas Commissions.
The onset of failure is lost in legend and tradition. During the winter evenings carpenters workshops illuminated with oil lamps fastened in wooden structures called parots . With the arrival of spring , having more sun , these lamps were not needed and parot burned at the door of the workshops. Early failures were so wooden clothes and later wax heads are added.
The board appears in the workshops as a substitute for wax, modeling clay or plaster mold was removed and the carton . The resulting piece was covered with panet and sanded to finish with paint.
Later, in the 50s , the ninot are all built on the entire board and then fails with a wooden structure . 70 in the polyester material , albeit more expensive appears modeling process greatly speeds and drying components is often accompanied with glass fiber for clothes , the finish was the same as the carton . The cork white burst onto the workshops in the 80s , lighter, with different textures and easy to shape with bow, drew the sketch artists and cork sheet cut in cross sections . This technique increases the versatility to the molds not being necessary . ac presently used computers once modeled the failure to scale, the pieces are placed in a scanner which divides the model and cut the size indicated. Depending on the detail you want to give to the figure, the sheets have varying thickness . Once cut sections are joined together in each of the parts. The sections are glued , sanded and painted . This technique allows one hand higher volumes , a considerable saving of time and the correction in the computer sizes and locations . The change of materials and techniques involves a radical change in the appearance of the Fallas workshops in the place where the panet , cardboard and molds can see now the most advanced computer equipment was piled .