Art at the service of industry The Bauhaus was both a school and a movement in Germany founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. Gropius maintained a utopian vision of unification between fine art (such as painting) and craftsmanship (such as woodworking). This daring new design philosophy attempted to place both…

The concept of complementary colors first began to take shape when Aristotle noted that the viewer’s impression of color could change depending on the way the light hit that color. Saint Thomas Aquinas would later expand on this in the thirteenth century when he noted that certain colors appeared more…

Mastering any physical skill, be it performing a pirouette, playing an instrument, or throwing a baseball, takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence. …

In my mind, Ambrose Bierce was really onto something when he offered this entry in his 1906 Devil’s Dictionary: “art, n. This word has no definition.” It’s not that there aren’t plenty of definitions out there, it’s just that I find them lacking in some way, or incomplete, or so watered down that they’re meaningless. Take Oxford’s: …

when you walk into an art gallery does a kind of anxiety wash over you maybe it’s just a mild discomfort of not quite knowing what’s going on or what exactly the art is trying to do or say. or maybe it’s an extreme kind of anxiety and you feel…

Imagine you and a friend are strolling through an art exhibit and a striking painting catches your eye. The vibrant red appears to you as a symbol of love, but your friend is convinced it’s a symbol of war. And where you see stars in a romantic sky, your friend…

If you visit a museum with a collection of modern and contemporary art, you’re likely to see works that sometimes elicit the response, “My cat could make that, so how is it art?” A movement called Abstract Expressionism, also known as the New York School, gets this reaction particularly often…

The term modern art sounds like it means art that is popular at the moment, but in fact, modern art is a style that originated over 150 years ago and includes artists that by now have attained classic statuses, such as Picasso, Matisse, and Gauguin. And what’s even more ironic…

When we hear that word some of our minds jump to museums or framed paintings and in that context some people think, now i’m not a big fan of art. i just don’t get it or they think of art as something that’s just for intellectuals or artsy people, but…