Art is a form of expression that can take on many different forms. It can be used to express one’s feelings, thoughts, or emotions. It can also be used to create something beautiful or to tell a story. There are many different reasons why people study art in high school. Some people do it because […]
How do you feel after experiencing your first creative rebirth?
Creative rebirth is a process of finding yourself again. It is a new way of thinking and feeling about your work, your career and the world around you. When we experience this creative rebirth, we have a sudden change in the way that we think about our work. We are able to see our work […]
What is contemporary art and how to learn to understand it
Contemporary art has a very broad context – you won’t know for sure what the author wanted to say. So why do we stand in line for fashion shows? What is contemporary art? Let’s be honest: contemporary art scares and attracts at the same time. There are no sensible textbooks or intelligible courses on the […]
History of Canadian Contemporary Art
Canadian art refers to the visual arts (including painting, photography, and printmaking) as well as the plastic arts (such as sculpture), originating in the geographic area of modern Canada. Art in Canada is marked by millennia of indigenous habitation, followed by waves of immigration, which included artists of European descent and then artists of heritage […]
Basic Skills of Drawing
Many people like to draw. It can be used to express feelings, tell stories, and create pictures. But it can be hard to get started because some people don’t know how. In compliance with DrawingProfy blog, drawing is about learning principles and then applying them in different ways so that you can get the result […]
How to Understand and Accept Contemporary Art
A common expectation associated with our consumer attitude is that art should be beautiful, should teach us something, should disappoint or entertain us. We are used to the fact that the reality around us is set up in such a way that they are always trying to sell us something, to impress us. Art, on […]
Useful Tips for Beginning Collectors
Collecting… Passion for it, perhaps, bypasses the least part of people. Since childhood we are fond of collecting wrappers, stamps, coins, calendars, and as we get older the passion grows into a professional and very exciting hobby, sometimes bringing considerable profit. So how to build a worthy collection? We have prepared 9 golden rules for […]
Cars in Museums of Modern Art
Can a car be a piece of art? The curators of the two automobile exhibitions at New York’s MoMA Museum of Modern Art and the Detroit Art Institute do not aim to answer that question. But cars were certainly a cult in the twentieth century, and the design of some of them is admirable. The […]
How to Learn to Understand Painting
Some people say that 90% of people don’t know anything about painting because they can’t tell a good picture from a bad one. Others say that everyone understands art, and others point out radically that it is not necessary to “understand”, because the paintings are designed only to give us pleasure. We have an alternative […]
How Art Affects the Human Psyche
Art affects a person’s mind and psyche regardless of whether the person himself wants it. Of course, no one can force you to go to a museum, but you can’t always get your neighbors to turn off the annoying music. No one can force you to go to the premiere of a sensational film, but […]