One of the most celebrated works of Hellenistic art is without doubt the Nike of Samothrace, on display at the Louvre since 1884 CE. The white Parian marble statue represents the personification of...
Walk through art & history with this free scrapbook presentation template filled with sticker images of famous sculptures and statues, such as Michelangelo's David and The Winged Victory of Samothrace.
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'Ein letzter Blumengruss'
The short documentary that accompanies this blog is a tribute to Wim Wenders, director of Wings of Desire, Pina, The Salt of the Earth, Pope Francis.
Doric, Ionic or Corinthian? None of that! The students of 7th grade have created their capitals Order Free, Magic and Fantastic, assembling animal legs, margins of leaves, insect wings and profile…
Pteranodon is a flying prehistoric creature that appears in the first two games of the series. They are probably exaggerated in ferocity because in reality they were primarily fish eaters. Pteranodon is not an important creature of the series, but can be formidable, especially in groups. The Pteranodons were brought to the Future Earth to avoid the temporal catastrophe created by the Third Energy Rundown. As time went by, the creatures became hostile towards humans and even went as far as battli
Read about the troubled life and mosaic-like art of Russia's symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel.
Hello! Welcome! It’s a beautiful show, isn’t it? You can always expect a nice greeting from the art of Andrea Fraser, which interrogates the details and distinctions of the art world with a beaming smile — before going in for the kill. Fraser is the ardent successor of a generation of artists whose querying of museums and their procedures came to be known as “institutional critique”: Hans Haacke, say, who polled visitors to MoMA about their income and political views, or Daniel Buren, whose unvarying stripes exposed how the museum directs attention and turns mere pictures into works of art. Fraser, in turn, examined not art’s spaces but its languages, and probed the discourses that museums — not to mention art magazines! — use to legitimate art, and themselves. In Official Welcome (2001), she mercilessly parroted the prattle of gallerists, donors, and taciturn artists, all giving the same toasts on the art world’s never-ending cocktail party circuit. (“He may be obsessed with death,” says Fraser, channeling some dumb dealer, “but only because he has such an incredible passion for life.”) Performances were followed by videos, in which art and politics got mixed up with sex. In Little Frank and His Carp (2001), Fraser listens to the Guggenheim Bilbao’s ludicrous audio guide and becomes uncontrollably turned on. Then came Untitled (2003), which dramatized the workings of the market in a peculiar way: she fucked a collector on camera, and sold the video in an edition of five.
The US fashion company Hollister Co. belongs to Abercrombie & Fitch Co. It aims at consumers aged 14–18. Meaning and history The first shop appeared in summer 2000 in Columbus, Ohio. Th...
Have you ever heard of foot shape genealogy? It is a concept out of the 19th century that still has some adherents today. It is based on the belief that the shape of your foot can tell you one of five ancient ethnic groups to which your ancestors belonged. Here is what you need to know about it.
10 Things You Must See in the Louvre
I have been fascinated by the caves at Lascaux, France, since I learned about them in one of my very first college art history classes. I wanted to see if my sons would find them equally fascinating. They did. Before we made our own "cave paintings," we read a great book that familiarized my sons with the discovery of the caves. The story is so appealing to kids because it was, in fact, some young boys that stumbled on these historic caves and discovered their paintings and engravings, which were made by some of the earliest humans. Art has a long rich history. Cave paintings show us its very origin. Our Artist Recreation Of course, we don't have a cave wall to use as our medium, so I grabbed a roll of brown packaging paper (like what you'd wrap a package in to mail) that was collecting dust in our basement. I cut a large piece. I crinkled it to give it more of a stone effect and swiped on a few areas of brown and white acrylic paint in an attempt to replicate the look of cave walls. Then my sons used taupe, brown, black, and white oil pastels and some stencils I'd made. To make your own stencils, print my free template onto office paper, overlay sheets of transparency paper (think thick clear report covers), and using an exacto craft knife, carefully cut away the animals shapes. The boys were able to position the stencils anywhere they chose and even flip them to make the mirror image for variety. Holding the stencil steady (and tightly), they ran the oil pastel along the inner edge of the stencil to make an outline of a bull, deer and her fawn, bird, and human hunter (complete with bow and arrow). This required patience and determination for our 5-year-old, but since the real paintings didn't have crisp lines, even his wavering hand seemed to add to the authenticity. When we were done, he told me all about what our "cave painting" was illustrating! More Books In the evening, the boys read two other great books to extend the learning even further. My husband read The First Drawing to our 5-year-old. It is a wildly imaginative tale of a child who invented art by drawing in caves. It starts "Imagine ... you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago." This makes the cave painters very relatable to kids! My 9-year-old read Discovery in the Cave on his own. While the reading level was much lower than he's used to, he was fascinated by the small maps that detailed all of the different areas in the caves of Lascaux. It contained enough unique information from the book we read before our art activity to keep him interested.
El 2 de julio de 1977 una mariposa voló junto a una ventana de Montreux (Suiza). Al otro lado del cristal, un anciano la observaba desde la cama de un hospital. Fue la última vez que vio una mariposa desplegando sus colores. Y aquella vez lloró. ¿Cuántas mariposas volarían por el mundo aquel día? ¿C
Karl Friedrich Gegauf, founder of BERNINA, invented the first hemstitching machine in 1893. Learn about the technique and get some tips on how to create a hemstitch.
