The Meeting of Art and AviationFrom the Wright Flyer to the Airbus A380, significant advancements in aviation align with some of the most important milestones in human...
In 500 Words - Portrait of Marie Jeannette de Lange by Jan Toorop, 1900Marie Jeannette de Lange was a Dutch amateur painter and reform dress advocate. Born in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies in 1865,...
Object and Art - A Timeline of the Still Life Through Artistic HistoryIn Ancient Greece, Pliny the Elder recorded a story in the Naturalis Historia about a competition held between two artists - Zeuxis of...
In 500 Words - Aurora Triumphans by Evelyn de Morgan, c. 1886Born in 1855 in London, Evelyn de Morgan is considered to be either a late Pre-Raphaelite or an English Symbolist. She grew up in an...
The Role of Size in the Visual ArtsIn 2021, a painting by Sacha Jafri was sold for $62 million at an auction in Dubai. Layered with extensive drips, splatters, whorls and...
Animals in the History of Visual Art: A Deep DiveAt least 45,000 years ago, early humans began marking surfaces with representations that reflected a vivid conceptualization of their...