{"id":3310,"date":"2023-02-13T01:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:08:12","slug":"christ-the-redeemer-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/christ-the-redeemer-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ the Redeemer Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Christ the Redeemer Statue:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located at the summit of <strong>Mount Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro<\/strong>, southeastern <strong>Brazil<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>depicts Christ standing with his arms crossed and looking at the city.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>completed in 1931<\/strong> and stands <strong>98 feet (30 metres) tall.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its horizontally outstretched <strong>arms span 92 feet (28 metres).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is made <strong>of reinforced concrete<\/strong> and is the <strong>largest Art Deco-style sculpture in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is Art Deco?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Deco, also <strong>called style moderne<\/strong>, is a <strong>movement in the decorative arts and architecture<\/strong> that originated in the <strong>1920s<\/strong> and developed into a major style in <strong>western Europe <\/strong>and <strong>the United States during the 1930s.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>modern art style<\/strong> that attempts <strong>to infuse functional objects with artistic touches<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This movement is <strong>different from the fine arts<\/strong> (painting and sculpture), where the art object has no practical purpose or use beyond providing interesting viewing.<\/li>\n<li>Art Deco works are <strong>symmetrical, geometric, streamlined, often simple, and pleasing to the eye.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Art Deco design <strong>represented modernism turned into fashion<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its products <strong>included both individually crafted luxury items and mass-produced wares.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is reinforced concrete?<\/h3>\n<p>Reinforced concrete is a combination of traditional cement concrete with reinforcements (steel bar). This combination is made to utilize the compressive strength of concrete and tensile strength of steel simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/feature\/viral-pic-lightning-bolt-strikes-brazils-christ-the-redeemer-statue-3775754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Lightning Strikes Brazil&#8217;s Christ The Redeemer Statue, Pic Stuns Internet<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ the Redeemer statue is located at the summit of Mount Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}