It is the most iconic and eerie face in all of art. a universal representation of fear & anxiety. The haunting image depicts a hairless individual with an agonised expression…
A group exhibition of bright, garish paintings was held at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905. Those who saw them were astounded by the strong use of colour and…
Brief History of Chinese Paintings Figure paintings, landscape paintings, and flower-bird paintings are the three traditional categories of Chinese painting. Chinese painters primarily used landscapes as backgrounds for their figure paintings…
Many works of art, such as paintings, drawings, etchings, and silkscreens, exist in two dimensions. Despite the limits of a flat surface, the artist can assign three-dimensional qualities to the…
Symmetry is employed in many types of art, but the Indian folk art movement has championed bilateral symmetry in particular. Jamini Roy, an Indian folk artist, was a big proponent…
Cubism was founded in the early 1900s in Paris by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, two influential young artists eager to defy traditions. Their fascination in analysing a subject's mathematical…
Walter Gropius established the Bauhaus, a school and movement, in Germany in 1919. Gropius continued to hold to an idealistic ideal of the fusion of fine art (painting) and craftsmanship…
Within the context of man-made environment and natural world there is a documented human cognitive preference for golden section proportions throughout recorded history. Some of the earliest evidence of the…
A common question that many people ask when they’re looking to begin their own artistic or design project is what the difference between art and design really is. Some claim…
You may have heard of this term before, but it can be difficult to understand exactly what impressionism is. This guide on impressionism art class will give you all the…