Crafts Articles

Scrapbooks, making bonnets, pressing flowers, working with wood, glass and paper, crafts the whole family can enjoy, crystal beads and more are just some of the topics in this series of craft articles. Do you wish to sell or display your work to others? There are tips on this subject including online marketing. Cards, cushions and knitting are more crafts you can explore and enjoy. And of course if collecting is your craft then the world is your oyster.

Contemporary Views On The Art Of Past Centuries

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

We are used to the fact that extremely popular songs sooner or later become old-fashioned. Then people begin to make remixes, updating the original and giving it a new flavor to suit the new time - the same song but seen through a new perception.

Charity And Art

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

In the modern world when we use the word "charity", we usually mean the giving of help to those who are in need, perhaps in the form of money, food, clothes or medicine, free services or some other kind of aid.

How To Choose A Painting

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

We cannot image the modern world without art. It plays a continual, though often unnoticed role as decoration, and a more important one in the realization of our conceptions, creative ideas, and spiritual experiences.

Where Can We Find Art In Our Day-to-day Lives?

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

After the controversial appearance of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" in 1917, the world began to understand that art is not only to be found in a painting or sculpture, but rather can be made from anything around us.

Politics +Art

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

Artists are often very perceptive people - they create their works because of a necessity to express themselves, to show their feelings, opinions and reactions, to express their hopes.

Art + Money

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

Everything in our lives, to a greater or lesser extent, is connected to money and art is no exception. Artists need money for canvases, paints, films, PCs and, of course, they need to eat!

Andreas Gursky

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

Gursky's first solo gallery exhibition took place in 1988 at Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne. This was followed the next year by an exhibition at the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld.

Mark Rothko

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

Mark Rothko`s paintings suggest that the artist is plunging into the world of human emotions, isolated from logic and mind. These are paintings that don't wait to be noticed, they demand your attention and exert a magnetic force even after you have turned away from them.

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was one of the great French painters of the Post-Impressionist period. Henri was born to an aristocratic family, but fate destined him for another life.

Graffiti - Art Crime

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Melville Jackson

Graffiti is, in a way, the first art in the world. It appeared as long ago as 30,000 before the Common Era in the form of prehistoric cave paintings and pictographs, and although it may certainly have a different shape and form now, the same artistic trends can be traced.