It is inherent for a human being to be artistic for centuries: a craftsman tries to make a piece which will be used by his children, an artist dreams of painting a picture which will be admired by his descendants. Our civilization is rich in monuments, pictures by means of which we learn our culture. However, the modern life teaches us to appreciate every moment and to find wonderful thing in transient and changeable things.

A human being looks closely at the nature, the beauty of which is changeable, - the flowers which fade quickly, frost-works on glass. The philosophers consider that the beauty is only caught in the transient. And a human being looks for this transient thing in the nature.

The pictures on the rice fields
Primarily the rice fields were the traditional constituent of the Japanese landscape which was glorified by the poets. Nowadays the Japanese artists create their pictures on the fields. All the seedlings are planted exclusively by hand, in the different periods of time so that it would be multicolored. When the rice harvest is gathered all the beauty will disappear. You may think: why should such efforts be made, if this picture can only be admired from the distance or from air and for a very little period of time? We find the answer in the Japanese people’ artistic aesthetics, namely in the notion of the wonderful thing – “mono-no avare” – fascination of transiency.

The material world by its nature leads us to despondency, but we are capable of easing everyday disappointments – we should only notice the beauty which surrounds us all the time. The rice fields will be ploughed up, but we will receive that transient satisfaction, which nobody can take away from us. And nowadays the thousands of tourists visit Japan in order to enjoy the beauty of the pictures on the rice fields.
The ice holiday
The tradition of creating ice sculptures came to us from the North. Nowadays it is difficult to imagine the winter holidays without comical ice creations. The very process of creating a sculpture is wonderful when a craftsman cuts out the Snow Queen, a hare or a deer from the block of ice …

These snowman’s relatives are especially fascinating at night when the colorful light revives them, fills them up, plays on the surface. Under the first rays of the spring sun the ice sculptures will turn grey and start melting. However, the sensation of the winter fairy tale will remain in our hearts. Lately the admirers of the ice sculpture are worried by global warming because of which this admiration will become too expensive. However, the ice sculptures have their sworn brothers. The weather fails to restrain a human being’s wish to create:

The festival of the sand sculpture takes place on the Trukhanov Island in summer. All those who wish can embody the creations of their imagination in the sand. In this way water-sprites, mermaids and castles appear from the sand on the bank of the Dnepr River. Though the figures are processed with the reinforcing mix, the wind and waves do their work and only the sea of reminiscences is left for us.

Colorful symphony
Every spring the thousands of tourists come to Istanbul to admire colorfullness of the tulip festival. Though the similar festivals are also held in Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Istanbul holiday is special. Yet the tulip is the symbol of Istanbul and the whole epoch in the history of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman poets were the first to glorify the beauty of this flower.

After some time in the XVII-th century “tulipomania” encompassed the whole Europe. Though nowadays Holland is the world’s leader in growing tulips, fatherland of this flower is Asia Minor and the flower received its European name for its similarity to turban. At the end of April the millions of tulips flood the Istanbul’s streets, squares and parks. The Emirgyan Park is considered to be especially wonderful. You can enjoy both colorful gamma of the flower composition and exquisiteness of each tulip’s form.
The tulips blossom only for some days. Then their saturated petals fall off to the ground, leaving lonely footstalks. The thoughtful hands will dig out the tubers of the flowers and hide them till next spring. The flowerbeds will be planted with other plants however the tulip holiday imprinted itself both in photos and in memory.

In September the Dnepr’s slopes flourish in a special way: the florists from all over Ukraine create landscape compositions and compete for the title of the best one. You can see the unusual color combinations of the plants, composition-slogans, which represent all the wealth of the early autumn colors. Unintentionally you understand an interesting thing: it is impossible to take a view of everything from near, sometimes in order to comprehend the integrity of the picture it is necessary to look at it from the distance and sometimes to change the visual angle.

Is anything which will soon disappear worth making great efforts to create it? This question is rhetorical. Owing to the technologies it is possible to fix each moment of the temporary masterpiece existence and admire it on the photos infinitely. And it is possible to imprint it in memory with the pinching feeling of temporariness and loss and then to wait for a new meeting with the beauty which disappears.