Introduction to the Best Art Pastels Making art with pastels is great since they produce brilliant colors. You can dive right in without needing any tools such as paintbrushes, a palette, or solvents. All you need is your hand, some…
Introduction to the best Art Markers Many of us associate coloring using marker pens with childhood and our first coloring books. You probably had a set of vibrant Crayolas that you used for simple sketches and other coloring activities. Even…
Why read about art history? The act of making art is one of humanity’s most ubiquitous activities and every piece of art tells its own story from the perspective of the artist and the corresponding cultural circle. Consequently, when learning…
Western artists have long been fascinated and inspired by Japanese art, the craze and influence of art and design coming from Japan being known as Japonism, or French “Japonisme”. After the Dutch imported East Asian objets d’art in the 17th…
Varied participants and the multifaceted techniques – Impressionism and Post-Impressionism are difficult to define. While it is convenient to divide and classify the developments of the 19th and 20th centuries into large category movements (“-isms”), art history including the Impressionism…
Modernism refers to a global movement in society that from the end of the 19th century till the 1970s sought a new alignment with the experiences of modern life. Spanning the onset of industrialization and two world wars, artists…