Socialism’s link to the modern art movement It’s everywhere and all-pervasive — the nonsensical, usually obnoxious and obscene, rarely aesthetically pleasing modern art. It is celebrated by higher institutions and museums around the world, confusing and irreverent to most of us, yet still emulated in every aspect of our modern lives, wittingly or unwittingly. Modern art has ...
Living between 1870 and 1966, Maxfield Parrish grew up in a time of aesthetic optimism in the United States. For illustrators, architects, and designers of any sort in this era, the aesthetic grammar of neo-classical and Victorian styles was in vogue. These styles used the same visual language passed down from Hellenic Greece over 2,000 ...
Simplistic and paradoxically expressive, drawings and the merits of the craft have recently been showcased in many art institutions around the world. From the exhibit Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to the UK tour of Leonardo DaVinci’s drawings, these exhibitions serve to highlight the importance of drawing ...
Penn Station, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, has been the brunt of harsh criticism since its opening day in 1968. Its dark, confined, and noisy interiors make the experience of traveling through it worth forgetting. The bits and pieces remaining of the old Penn Station are a sad reminder of what it once was ...
Yuezun had a vision of a golden light shimmering at the edges of a cliff face with a thousand golden Buddhas and celestial maidens singing, dancing, and playing instruments. It was Buddhist monk Yuezun’s dream that he saw and followed to its source in northwestern China in the barren desert along the Silk Road toward ...
In his new book, Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture, Stephen Turley details the nature of beauty in some of the most precise and definitive terms you will find. Turley, in a recent interview, said he sets a plan for incorporating beauty’s characteristics into the classroom. Through his years as a teacher ...
Fearlessly dedicated to expressing her spiritual journey and the worlds in her dreams and visions, artist Akiane Kramarik has insights into humanity that reach for the highest understanding of the universe and flow unrestrained from her mind onto the canvas. Mirroring her paintings and their subject matter, she radiates a sense of wonder at life ...
Fine artist Morgan Weistling upholds the lineage of the golden age of illustration, along with the likes of Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker, and his mentor and instructor, Fred Fixler. While designing artwork and posters for Hollywood films for over a decade, Weistling honed skills he now uses as an independent painter and art instructor. Characterizing Weistling’s works ...
Taiwanese photographer Wu Yung-sen’s photograph of salmon migrating, with its unique shooting angle and vivid colors, stunned the judges and won first prize at the International Water Photography Competition World Shootout in the wide-angle category. During the Sony World Photography Contest, the same photograph of salmon migrating again took first prize. Wu became the first ...
After gaining complete control over Chinese society and censoring everything they don’t approve of, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is extending its censorship worldwide, with Australia as its number one victim. The Chinese regime is now reportedly censoring books by Australian publishers, refusing to print them if the books contain keywords identified as “controversial” by ...
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