Art
Published: 20/04/2008
Whatever exists, there exists a designer for it. The clothes on your back, the shoes on your feet, the house you live in, the car you drive, the shops you visit, the computer you use, the furniture you sit on. There is nothing in existence that has not started life in the mind of the designer.
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Published: 18/04/2008
Amateur theatrical clubs, theater guilds, and the like, have done much to make the modern drama the great art that it is. But because of the overwhelming expense heretofore attached to the making of movies there have been no attempts at any similar activities in the films. The movies have never...
Published: 03/04/2008
Metalworkers range from ship builders to bridge construction workers and from fine jewellery makers to producers of intricate parts for electronics manufacturers. So how did it all begin?
Metalwork is an ancient art - go to any historical museum and you will find countless metal objects, both...
Published: 01/04/2008
The Thinker, a marble and bronze sculpture created by Auguste Rodin, is a widely recognizable work of art. The subject is a man in a seated position, leaning forward so that his elbows rest on his knee and his hand tucked under his chin for a look of contemplation. He is thought to be thinking...
Published: 01/04/2008
M.C. Escher was a graphic artist renowned for his lithographs, mezzotints and woodcuts inspired by mathematics. Born in 1898, his first remarkable work came in 1937 with the print Still Life and Street, a piece that utilized the play on perspective that would become known as "impossible reality"....
Published: 01/04/2008
The Statue of David was sculpted during a three year period beginning in 1501 by the artist Michelangelo. The subject of the work is the Biblical King David in the moment that he makes the decision to fight Goliath. The seventeen foot tall statue became the symbol of defending the civic liberties...
Published: 29/03/2008
The Kama Sutra is an ancient text, originally written in Sanskrit, that has become very closely associated with the sexual aspects of tantra- rightly or wrongly. There are thirty six chapters in the book, organized into seven parts.
The Introductory section includes a description of the...
Published: 29/03/2008
It is believed that the Aphrodite of Cnidus, created by Greek artist Praxiteles in the 4th Century BC, was the first statue to feature a life sized nude female. The statue depicted Aphrodite preparing for her virginity restoring bath. A drapery is being dropped by the left hand and the other hand...
Published: 29/03/2008
The Mona Lisa is one of the must studied and celebrated works of art in existence. It currently hangs in the Louvre in Paris under the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The painting was started in 1502 by legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci but was not completed...
Published: 29/03/2008
Abstract art is traditionally defined as being those pieces that do not represent objects in a realistic way, relying instead on colors and form.. The subject of the art piece can be somewhat based on a realistic object in so far as it is recognizable but there will be obvious stylistic devices...
