In 500 Words - Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket
In the midst of what we now call the Aesthetic Movement, James Abbot McNeil Whistler exemplified the concept of art for art's sake, a...
Animals in the History of Visual Art: A Deep Dive
At least 45,000 years ago, early humans began marking surfaces with representations that reflected a vivid conceptualization of their...
In 500 Words - Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 1 (1915) by Hilma af Klint
Before Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, there was Hilma af Klint. Considered the first abstract artist in Western art history, af Klint...
The Elements of Art - Definitions, Examples, Applications and a (Free) Printable Zine
From Botticelli's The Birth Of Venus to Kazimir Malevich's Black Square, all artworks operate on at least one element of art.
Top 16 Best Photography Podcasts Available in 2021
It's become a well-known anecdote that on the night of its broadcast, Orson Wells' 1938 reading of War of the Worlds triggered mass panic...