The fame of the post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh goes behind the streets of Montmartre and the walls of the Musée d’Orsay. His most famous piece « The Starry Night » is recognized all around the world, as the work of a true genius. But [...]
The many opposing qualities that embody Hermes include friendliness, helpfulness, sneakiness, and cunningness. Often depicted as an athletic young man with winged shoes, he is the God of many aspects, including travelers and merchants. However, he is best known as the "Messenger Greek God." In [...]
Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post-war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis [...]
Goddess Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom, and learning. She is a part of the trinity of Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Parvati. All the three forms help the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to create, maintain and regenerate-recycle the [...]
The origin of theatre can be traced back to 8500 BCE when rituals, tribal dances, and rites of passage served as special kinds of human interactions created to represent, celebrate, and make sense of our lives and surroundings. Ritual performances included music, dance, chanting, and [...]
Learn to fall in love with life through music... There's definitely something in the air (and probably something in the water) at music festivals. 1. You have a reason to get a group of your friends together for a crazy weekend. Music brings people together. [...]
It’s an artwork that has been reproduced countless times in popular culture. But behind the familiar picture is a mysterious figure. Alastair Sooke goes in search of MC Escher. It must be one of the most familiar images in modern art: a space-distorting interior that [...]
Originating in Europe in the late 19th century, Abstract artfully emerged in the early 20th century when a decline in the appreciation of Realism became more common among Avant-garde artists of the period. Likewise, the Abstract art movement which followed called for works which allowed [...]
Surrealism, as we know it today, is closely related to some forms of abstract art. In fact, they shared similar origins, but they diverged on their interpretation of what those origins meant to the aesthetic of art. At the end of the First War World, [...]
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally, you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole [...]
