A trio of art museums have helped Cincinnati establish and maintain a longstanding artistic tradition. Whether it’s the Great Masters, Modern Art or Art from around the world, you’ll find it presented in a unique setting. Contemporary Arts Center The Contemporary Arts Center is located at Walnut and 6th Streets in Downtown Cincinnati. Even if ...
Brand New, an alternative rock/pop-punk band from Long Island, NY, is a group I first started listening to in college at the encouragement of friends. Needless to say, it wasn’t long before I grew really attached and decided to see them live in concert. The songs were stuck in my head for months! These guys ...
Modern art refers to a type of art that was created during a time when it was no longer essential or necessary to literally represent a subject. Modern art encompasses diversity of styles, techniques, and movements. During the modern period, artists have created paintings both with traditional materials, such as oil on canvas, but they ...
While today, history books use the Spanish Civil War as a means of understanding how fascism overcame republican rule throughout Europe, until the final defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, at the time many creative artists like Ernest Hemingway, who, one would think, would enthusiastically embrace anyone fighting against dictatorship, were torn about their loyalties ...
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 ...
Pablo Picasso suffers from being a lazy artist. Let me explain that before you start in on me. I don’t mean lazy in terms of output and I certainly don’t mean to imply that he didn’t expend a terrific amount of energy in essentially revolutionizing modern art. What I mean is that Picasso often favored ...
