Unusual Art Materials and Ideas
It used to be called the Wal-Mart effect, where large-scale merchandising techniques and international manufacturing made consumer goods so much less expensive that the big box stores put the mom-and-pops
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Most Americans are used to visiting museums and galleries where there is one work of art hung in each horizontal slot, with a descriptive plaque listing the artist, date and
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Globally, many people are working to replace petrochemicals with biobased alternatives. The art materials introduced in the coming years will be a small part of this larger revolution. The use
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The art from at least nineteen archaeological sites including four Buddhist monasteries, several Buddhist reliquary towers known as stupas, and a Zoroastrian fire temple will soon be destroyed by open
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There is a long established connection between abstract art and spirituality, highlighted by Vassily Kandinsky’s well-known book, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. This connection seems to be derived, at least
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When Mark was young, he would come home from school to find his mother working on a painting in one room while preparing her latest dinner creation in the kitchen.
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The teacher of Raphael was a highly regarded artist named Perugino. Perugino was one of the first Italian artists to try oil painting, and he often painted religious frescos in
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Many artists have collections of their own work, stored for the future. But, what happens when the art measures 14′ x 23′? One of the largest paintings in the US
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Kimberly Brooks is an amazing contemporary artist whose work has been showcased in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, California Institute of the Arts, the
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My motto, “Take Time to Find the Unseen” is realized through Symbolism, the language of my art. I explore the deeper meanings of things which I bring to light by
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