Dear Steemit, today we're off to a new place and with that a new experience. I hope there are some chocolate lovers out there, like many girls, I'm big into chocolates, they are one of my favourite "foods".
As it happens, one of the all time greats of chocolate making - Nikolya popov opened his chocolate museum exhibition in Xi'an. I didn't even know about the exhibition at first, I was just shopping in the area and stumbled across an interesting advert. I was really curious about the exhibition so I immediately made my way there..
“The Chocolate Exhibition of Nikolya” presents over 700 pure chocolate art pieces. There are chocolate and marzipan sculptures, pictures painted with white and dark chocolate, chocolate miniatures, installations and compositions with a total weight of over 1500 kilograms.
There are also some events charity events during the exhibition. Children from orphanages were invited to come see the exhibition as well as try many chocolates!
As I went inside the exhibition, the special smell of chocolate was hard to ignore, it practically filled the whole place. I guess with chocolate everywhere that's to be expected! The feeling being among so much chocolate was hard to put into words, but one thing I knew for sure was my mouth watering at the sight of all that tasty chocolate!
The Shiniest Chocolate
In the entire exhibition, this Czar crown stood out as being the most brilliantly shiny piece. Nikolya used various coloured chocolates as the pearls to decorate. All of the work is extremely detailed, the texture must have taken a very long time to get just right! On the left crown, you can see the gold circling around the whole crown. It looks so real !
Source.
Nikolya was once a student in France's chocolate institute of art. He spent 20 years perfecting his art form using Chocolate as his medium of expression. Looking at the chocolate crowns, you can see he's refined this skillful art to true mastery. ^^
The Most Spectacular Chocolate
As I went around the exhibition, one piece caught my eye for how spectacular it looked. Of course, it was none other than the Eiffel Tower. I stand next to it for a photo to show how big it is!
The chocolate Eiffel tower is over 2m Tall. Nikolya and his team spent 2 weeks creating the mold and it's subsections, then a further 2 weeks putting it together.
I was quite surprised as to how study the structure of the Chocolate Eiffel tower was, even in room temperature, it hasn't shown any signs of weakness due to melting.
My Favourite Chocolate
When I caught eye of this White Chocolate Grand piano, I thought it was just absolutely beautiful. On the keys, there is even a chocolate rose. How romantic! It's hard to believe that it weighs a total of 45kg!
The Cutest Chocolate
These are chocolate Easter eggs. On them, Nikolya has painted some Chinese style drawings. My favourite is the Panda mommy kissing the panda baby. The egg beside it has a picture of a Panda in bamboo forest enjoying eating the bamboo.
The tastiest Sketches
After seeing these chocolate sketches, I felt like going home and making my own chocolate works of art, I guess that might be a waste of food though.. = =
Ladies infront of the Eiffel Tower
Ancient Chinese Lady hiding her face with a fan！
Fashionable Maiden！
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Tabby Patterned Elephant^^
The most artistic Zebra！
I love this Tiger (big cat), its like his fur is 3D and sticking out！
^^Chocolate Fruits, probably very sweet!
"Kawaii" (Japanese for cute) Hello Kitty ^^
Handbag, Make up, and High Heels^^
With so many pieces in the exhibition, it's hard to fit it all into one post, so I will be posting another one soon! Finally, I wish everybody a sweet day! :)
亲爱的Steemit朋友，不知道你们平时喜欢吃巧克力吗，反正巧克力是我最爱的甜食之一...
没想到著名巧克力大师Nikolya作品展在中国首次亮相，就选择了西安的大唐西市博物馆。正在西安旅游的我，一开始并不知道这个消息，和巧克力展览相遇是一个偶然...
除了有标注来源的照片,其他照片都是我自己的.
首先我很开心收到了印有自己LOGO照片的衣服，是不是很可爱呢
“ Nikolya的巧克力展” 展出了700余件高品质巧克力艺术作品，共使用纯巧克力、杏仁等原料1500多公斤。展览期间还会举办一些公益性的活动，“例如让孤儿院的孩子来参观展览并品尝我们做的巧克力。”
当我在展厅内欣赏时，巧克力特有的香味弥漫了整个展厅。那感觉是文字无法描述的，我保证你下一秒钟就会流口水了^^
最闪亮的巧克力
Nikolya曾在法国的巧克力艺术学院学习过，他20多年专著于将甜食巧克力变为艺术展品20多年了，让他能够把皇冠上每一个真是的细节都用巧克力展示出来^^
最壮观的巧克力
这个埃菲尔铁塔超过两米高。Nikolya团队做它的模具就花了两个周的时间，然后又用两周的时间来组装各个部分。
我最喜欢的巧克力
当我看到这架白色的三角钢琴，就觉得它好漂亮，在黑白的琴键上放了一朵巧克力做得玫瑰花，特别的浪漫。没想到它制作用了45公斤的白色巧克力...
最可爱的巧克力
这是复活节的彩蛋，而Nikolya画上了中国元素。我最喜欢一个彩蛋上画着熊猫妈妈在亲吻小熊猫。
最好吃的素描画
看到这些象是素描的巧克力画作，我也很想回家拿巧克力作为颜料作画啦，不过有点浪费食物= =
其实还有更多的巧克力艺术展示，没办法写在这次的贴里，所以会在之后的贴里再见吧！
最后，祝大家有一个像巧克力一样的甜美人生。
