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- Canadian Interiors (click here to visit their website) holds an annual People’s Choice Awards: Best of Canada Design Competition, where the public can vote for the spaces they feel are the best designed. There are various categorie...
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Canadian Museums
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- There are tons of great museums in Canada. If you live in Canada or ever get the chance to visit, you should definitely check some out. Here are a few featured museums that I have visited and have truly enjoyed. It should give you a good...
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Artist Profile: Michelangelo
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- A True Renaissance Man The gifted men of the Renaissance period sought to develop skills in areas such as art, science, physical development, math and social accomplishment. To describe a person as a “Renaissance man” is to s...
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Artist Profile: Marc Chagall
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- Fast Facts Name: Marc Chagall Birth: July 7 1887 Death: March 28 1985 (97 years old) Birthplace: Vitebsk, Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire) Nationality: Russian, French, Jewish Spouses: Bella Rosenfeld; later had a son with Virgi...
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- There’s more to Van Gogh than being known for cutting off his own ear! The self-portrait he painted above shows him all bandaged up from the incident. Read more about it below. Fast Facts Birth: 30 March 1853 Death: 29 July 1890 (a...
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- Dalí was a colorful and imposing presence in his ever-present long cape, walking stick, haughty expression, and upturned waxed mustache. “Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí...
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- Fast Facts Birth: October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain Death: 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France (age 91) Associated Art Movement: Cubism Wifes/Partners: Marcelle Humbert, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Françoise Gilot, Dora Maar, Jacqu...
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- We might not all have the creativity of Pablo Picasso, but here’s a website where you can create your “Mr. Picasso Head”, using the cubist techniques and shapes employed by Picasso himself. http://www.mrpicassohead.c...
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- A short history on graffiti The word graffiti used to mean drawings or word engraved on walls – places like the ancient city of Pompeii. Today, when you think of graffiti you usually think of spray-painted brick walls in an urba...
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The many uses of graffiti
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- Graffiti is used in a lot of advertising and has become of our everyday culture. You see it in running shoes, CD covers and posters. Here are some different ways graffiti is used. In advertising Aqua Teen Hunger Force Aqua Teen ...
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What is origami?
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- Red Bull “gives you wings”! What is origami? “One square, no cuts, no glue.” Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper. The traditional method is using only one square piece of paper, without glueing o...
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What is ikebana?
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- What is ikebana? Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging flowers. It is more than simply putting a bunch of flowers in a vase – it is an art form which attempts to bring nature and humanity together. It is about creating a link be...
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- Lois Lane%{font-family:tahoma; font-size:14px;color:black}Lois Lane is the primary love interest in the DC Comics’ Superman stories. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1 (1938). Lo...
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Careers in Photojournalism
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- Photojournalism Photojournalists are communicators through images. The Power of One This picture won the Pulitzer Breaking News Photography 2007 award. Taken by photographer Oded Balilty of The Associated Press, this photo shows o...
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- The Art Deco Movement The design of the Roaring Twenties Time period: 1925 until 1939 This international design movement included: architecture, interior design, industrial design, visual arts, fashion, painting and film. Origin...
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- Examples of Art Deco Because of the booming economy and growth in technology during the 1920s, the design elements of Art Deco were luxurious, modern and sophisticated. Let’s find some well-known examples of Art Deco which still ex...
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- Streamline Moderne A late branch off of the Art Deco movement (1930s-50s) Why Streamline Moderne? Streamline Moderne and its design style reflected the growth of speed, travel and technology in the 1930s. The architectural style of...
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- Performance Poetry Performance poetry is the art of the spoken word. It is basically consists of reciting your poems aloud to an audience. Where can you find it? Anywhere that allows for live performances. Coffeehouses, talent shows, ...
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Popular spoken word poets
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- Popular spoken word poets Here are some popular poets that I find to be quite interesting. To learn more about the art of spoken word poetry, click here to view my lesson. Saul Williams Saul Williams is an American poet, actor and ...
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- p=. Seven Wonders of the World:Great Wall of China %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px;color:black}The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 6th ce...
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- Warning: This essay perhaps seems a bit depressing at first, but it’s not that bad once you read into it. Feel free to comment on my lesson if you have anything to say. It’s philosophy time! One of my favourite stories fro...
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- p=. Seven Wonders of the World:Great Pyramid of Giza %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px;color:black}Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, ...
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- p=. Seven Wonders of the World:Christ the Redeemer %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px;color:black}Christ the Redeemer is a statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The statue stands 38 metres (120 ft) tall weighs 700 sho...
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- p=. Seven Wonders of the World:Colosseum %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px;color:black}The Colosseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever ...
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- p=. Seven Wonders of the World:Taj Mahal %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px;color:black}Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, that was built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal....
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Famous photographs
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- Famous photographs Let’s take a look at some famous photographs in art! ) Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (French for Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville) Photographer: Robert Doisneau Robert Doisneau was a French photographer ...
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- p=. Seven Wonders of the World:Petra %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px;color:black}Petrais an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma’an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains whi...
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- p=. Seven Wonders of the World:Machu Picchu %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px;color:black}Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Ur...
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The Art of Storytelling
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- %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:24px;color:orange}The Art of Storytelling % %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:14px;color:black}Many professions such as historians, lawyers, physicians, economists and psychologists take advantage of the ...
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Writing: Shorter is Better
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- %{font-family:tahoma; font-size:24px;color:teal}Writing: Shorter is Better % Think about this quote:%{font-family:tahoma; font-size:14px;color:grey}”I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to ...
