It is truly difficult to find anything exciting in the city of Toledo, termed by many, the armpit of Ohio. The city itself contains a downtown the size of a small garbage dump with the homeless people providing the smell. The city used to be a major manufacturer of glass, and the fumes still linger ...
If you like art, and you like making jigsaw puzzles, you can combine both your pleasures, and make puzzles featuring classic works of art. Once completed, these art puzzles can be framed and hung. There are a lot of online stores that offer jigsaw puzzles made from the art of great artists. Learn where you ...
It seems to me that the Post Impressionism period was a result of the Impressionism period rather than the Romanticism period. The artists of the Post Impressionism period (Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat and Cezanne) continued to utilize the loose brushwork, the purity of highly saturated colors, and the general liberty the Impressionist period had evoked ...
Lust for Life (1934) is Irving Stone’s best-known novel. Early on in Stone’s career, he decided that biographies of famous people should be just as gripping as dime-store novels. There are few people that have had a more interesting (if tragic) life than the highly influential Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890). Although ...
Murals are one of the world’s oldest forms of art. They are done directly on the wall or ceilings. They are useful in depicting a very complex picture and can be understood and appreciated even from a distance. The cave paintings of Lascaux in southern France and others around the world are testimony not only ...
The Twentieth Century not only marked a new beginning in the social, political and economic world, it was a time of change in the art world as well. With the turn of the century, came new ideas and concepts of how to represent the world around us, moving away from the traditional values and skills ...
The story of watercolor dates as far back as when the first man learned to paint and interpret his surroundings. Yet as old as it is, watercolor paintings do not sell as much as oils and acrylics. This is because watercolors are developed only lately. Cezanne used it, Eugène Delacroix, François Marius Granet, Henri-Joseph Harpignies ...
Maybe you’re visiting San Antonio, or possibly live there and are looking for free things to do. Here is a list of a few must see places in San Antonio. All areas listed have entertainment near them but most of the entertainment costs money. Visit the Alamo In downtown San Antonio, a must see is ...
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