https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c Culture Perspective en-us 2018-11-29 05:35:44 UTC 2024-12-16 09:55:23 UTC hello@padlet.com luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/311257313 France is a secular state, and freedom of religious belief is the constitutional right granted to citizens.  Catholicism has dominated France for more than a thousand years. Of the 47,000 religious buildings in France, 94% are Roman Catholic buildings. After the French Revolution, along with the Christianization movement, the Catholic Church lost its former high status in the monarchy. In the 19th century, the political situation in France was turbulent, the political system was wavering, and the status of the Catholic Church changed back and forth. Now, according to the CIA World Factbook, France has a composition of 63-66% Christians, 23-28% with non religious, and 7-9% Muslims in the population in France.]]> 2018-12-05 08:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/311257313 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/312781095 French cuisine is a kind of cooking system that originated in France and is widely circulated around the world. The French cuisine is characterized by the use of fresh seasonal ingredients, coupled with the chef's unique conditioning, to complete the best, regardless of visual, olfactory, taste, touch, sympathetic, is an unparalleled realm. In the food quality service level dining atmosphere, the overall performance is required. That's what makes French cuisine special.]]> 2018-12-10 05:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/312781095 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314129731 Art in France is very important in their culture. Creating a strong influence to the country and the people.]]> 2018-12-13 05:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314129731 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314129750 Sports in France plays a very important role in the society,  clearly reflected the popularity among French people and the history of the country's powerful sports. Various types of sports competitions are held in France, and the most popular sport in France among various sports is football.]]> 2018-12-13 05:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314129750 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314131062 I want to preserve the culture of France in this kaleidoscope project because the fact of growing globalization, cultures that represent National Characteristics dies out. In nowadays, culture has become increasingly important, facing the various worlds of thoughts and new cultures, national development and improvement, facing the diverse and active cultural life, we need to be more conscious and more proactive in cultural development. So I choose France as my topic because   for my kaleidoscope project.]]> 2018-12-13 05:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314131062 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314132788 Holidays are important to France's culture. Traditional holidays has been recorded as a country's history, building a strong connection between the people and the country.

]]> 2018-12-13 06:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314132788 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314135180 Artists in France are important to France's culture, continued the history of French art and created many world-famous works.]]> 2018-12-13 06:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314135180 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314135214 French film (French: Cinéma français) refers to a film made in France or made by the French. France is the birthplace of cinemas, includes the art films and movies made from filmmakers. The development of French films has far-reaching effects on films from other countries, such as the French New Wave movement.]]> 2018-12-13 06:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314135214 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314136406 French ball is a kind of rolling ball, using metal steel balls and a small wooden ball. The small wooden ball is called the target ball and is placed in the center of the target circle. When the opponent's iron ball approaches the target color ball, the player throws the ball in his hand and scores if he can be closer to the target color ball than the opponent's ball. Those who reach the winning score first wins. The movement appeared in La Ciotat in the Provence region of southern France in 1907 or 1910 and then spread throughout France. ]]> 2018-12-13 06:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314136406 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314136661 Art deco is a style of visual arts, deco on architecture and design that appeared before World War 1. Art deco has influenced the design of architecture, jewelry, furniture, fashion, cars......etc. It combines exquisite craftsmanship and rich materials with modernist style. In its heyday, decorative art represents luxury, glamour, prosperity and confidence in social and technological advancement.]]> 2018-12-13 06:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314136661 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314136818 He is a French painter, the founder and main representative of the Fauvism, and a sculptor and printmaker. Matisse, together with Picasso and Marshall Duchamp, brought great changes to the art of the early 20th century. He is also the leader of the Fauvism. The Fauvism advocated the theory of impressionism and contributed to the first art movement of the 20th century. The use of bold and flat colors and unconstrained lines is the style of Matisse. The humorous, vivid colors and relaxed theme are the characteristics that made him famous, and make him one of the most important figures in modern art. ]]> 2018-12-13 06:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314136818 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314137723 The architecture in France has always been ranked high among many accomplishments. France has preserved many medieval buildings, including a Romanesque chapel and a Gothic grand sanctuary. But France's most famous architecture includes the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower......ect.]]> 2018-12-13 06:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314137723 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314137943 Fashion is such an important aspect in culture, social life, and economy in France. Fashion in France has always been known worldwide, Paris, the capital city of France, acts as the center of fashion industry and has the name of "global fashion capital", including various sized fashion shows and events. Fashion is so important to France that the New York Times in 1995 used a quote that said "Where else but in France would people describe themselves to potential partners in terms of their clothes?"]]> 2018-12-13 06:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314137943 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314138667  Fashion has always been such an important aspect in France, without the spreading of tradition, there would not be modern fashion, but now, in the current society, traditional clothing is gradually disappearing. The most famous traditional clothing in France may be the Breton costume and the Alsatian costume. ]]> 2018-12-13 06:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/314138667 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/315784636 According to the constitution in France, the official language is French. Due to the colonial expansion of France in the world from the 17th to the 20th century. French was spread in the Americas, Africa, Polynesia, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. Many former colonies used French as the official language. French is now the most widely spoken foreign language except English.]]> 2018-12-19 08:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/315784636 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316718081 Chauvet Cave paintings are paintings in a cave in the Ardèche province in southeastern France. It is famous for its thousands of prehistoric murals on the walls of the cave. The rock paintings have been traced back to 36,000 years ago and are the earliest prehistoric art known to man. In June 2014, it was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.]]> 2018-12-27 05:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316718081 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316718112 Haute Couture means "high sewing" or "high fashion", the creation of exclusive custom clothing, constructed by hand at the start and till the end, often made of unique, high-quality, expensive fabric. Luxury brands that specialize in high-end clothing usually have a dedicated studio called “maisons de haute couture”. Most of these studios have a long history and are made up of designers who have worked together for many years. The works of the studio can often become the fashion vane of the trend of the season.

- Members of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture
For the official members of the 2017 spring list:
Adeline Andre- Alexandre Vauthier- Alexis Mabille, Chanel-Christian Dior- Franck Sorbier, Giambattista Valli- Givenchy- Jean Paul Gaultier- Julien Fournie- Masion Margiela- Schiaparelli- Stephane Rolland]]> 2018-12-27 05:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316718112 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316718234 The Eiffel tower is iron lattice tower which is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel. The world famous architecture and is also one of the symbols of French culture, one of the landmarks of Paris city, the tallest building in Paris.]]> 2018-12-27 05:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316718234 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316877860 Wine in France is always well known throughout the world, French wine is produced everywhere in France,  it can be seen how significant the status of wine in France is. ]]> 2018-12-30 13:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316877860 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316878051 Eyes without a face is a horror film in 1960, with Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli. Which is basically talking about Brasseur as a plastic surgeon that wants to perform a face transplant on daughter that got disfigured because of a car crash. ]]> 2018-12-30 13:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316878051 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316878078 A trip to the moon is a French adventure film directed by Georges Méliès in 1902, it is basically talking about the journey of six brave astronomers that traveled from Earth to the Moon.]]> 2018-12-30 13:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316878078 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316889738 French cuisine is a cooking system that originated in France and is widely circulated around the world. The French monarch has a strong royal power and reached its peak at Louis XIV. The court's luxury ethos is very particular about the diet, and various cooking methods flow into the folks through the imitation of the nobles.]]> 2018-12-30 18:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316889738 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316938904 Bastille Day is the National day of France, which is often celebrated on 14 July in every year. To commemorate the July 14th, 1789, the Parisian masses captured the Bastille, which symbolizes feudal rule, thus unveiling the prelude to the French Revolution. ]]> 2018-12-31 19:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316938904 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316938923 May day is a public holiday in France, often celebrated in May 1. To celebrate the achievement of workers. In France, people will give bouquets of lilies or dog roses to loved ones. Families will get up in early mornings and go in woods to pick up flowers]]> 2018-12-31 19:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316938923 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316950350 The most popular sport in France is Association football. Managed by the French Football Federation (FFF), France played in the finals of the first World Cup in 1930, won the World Cup in 1998 and 2018, and has outstanding results in several international competitions, including winning championships cups in 1984 and 2000, while the French, Spanish and West German teams were the only national teams to win the World Cup and the European Cup. The world's first national team to win all the men's national championships. Now, The French team defeated Croatia 4-2 in the 2018 World Cup final on July 15, 2018, and won the World Cup for the second time.]]> 2019-01-01 05:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/316950350 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/318866379 Coco Chanel is the founder of French fashion designer and the brand Chanel of the famous French women's fashion store.
Her modernist insights, men's style, and expensive design are among the most important figures in the fashion world of the 20th century. Her influence on haute couture women has made her one of the 100 most influential people in the 20th century by Time magazine. ]]> 2019-01-09 16:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/318866379 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/318871745 The first preeminent achievement was the Gothic, it is a style the emerged in 1140]]> 2019-01-09 16:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/318871745 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/319812952 La Marseillaise is the French national anthem, the songs were created by Claude Joseph Rouge de Lear on April 25, 1792, during the French Revolution, when France declared war on Austria, and he was the mayor of Strasbourg at the time that night. On August 10th of the same year, the volunteers from Marseille went to Paris to support the Tuileries uprising, they sang the song and is therefore popular throughout France. On July 14, 1795, the National Association announced that the song was the national anthem.]]> 2019-01-11 18:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/319812952 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/319951743 The Lumiere brothers, Auguste Lumiere and Louis Lumiere. They are one of the earliest filmmakers throughout the history. They both are French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photography equipment which designed a early motion picture camera and a projector called the Cinématographe (the word "cinema" is derived from this word.) Also, they have invented the early color photography. The Lumiere brothers occupied a  large position throughout the film industry.]]> 2019-01-12 15:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/319951743 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/319968358 2019-01-12 18:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/319968358 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/319971797 Jean Christophe Novelli is a celebrity chef, he enjoyed the art of baking, Having opened four establishments in London, today he is known as a chef worldwide and runs his Novelli academy, after three months of opening was already voted one of the top 25 cookery schools in the world.]]> 2019-01-12 18:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/319971797 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/320019562 2019-01-13 08:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/320019562 luciachen0524 https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/320022644 A French painter, one of the representatives and the founder of the Impressionist, the word "impression" is derived from its famous work "Impression· Sunrise", and the theory and practice of Impressionism have its promotion. Monet is good at experimenting and expressing techniques of light and shadow. The most important style is to change the drawing of shadows and contours. There is no clear shadow in his paintings, and there is no outline or flat outline. In addition, his use of color is delicate. He has long explored the perfect expression of experimental color and light, often depicting multiple objects of the same object at different times and in light.]]> 2019-01-13 09:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/luciachen0524/fkdrpva4jv6c/wish/320022644