Thursday, November 07, 2019
Brian Sindler is an award-winning American artist whose works embody the essence of landscape painting. They have been called landscape renditions because they are not intended as exact renderings....
Friday, March 17, 2017
The blog is about Bob Meyer, an American award-winning artist, writer, actor and director born and raised in Chicago, who now lives outside Paris, France. He discovered his love of drawing at a young age much like many children, but surprised himself when one day he drew a thumb that actually looked like a real thumb. While many children forget about crayons and sketchbooks as they grow older, Meyer never stopped drawing. While attending Southern Illinois University, he received scholarships to study art at both Ox-Bow and the Art Institute of Chicago....
Friday, January 13, 2017
Brian Sindler is an award-winning contemporary plein air artist yet his works encompass a far greater depth and complexity than traditional landscape painting. Conveying mood and emotion through evocative shapes, colors and the effects of light, his works never fail to capture the viewer's mind and imagination....
Friday, December 16, 2016
A new movement has surfaced in the interior design world; eclecticism. This style combines the fashions and designs of multiple periods, from ancient to contemporary and East to West. Eclecticism aims to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, which echoes certain concepts behind an ancient Chinese philosophy called Feng Shui. Feng Shui is a Chinese philosophical system designed to create harmony between the individual and their environment....
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Globalization. This term entailing free trade, cultural integration, vanishing borders and accessible communication throughout the world is surprisingly modern. It was coined in 1983 by Theodore Levitt, a marketing professor at the Harvard Business School....
Friday, March 18, 2016
Petrified wood is a unique type of fossil formed when trees are buried underground for millions of years, turning them to stone. With decorative elements of both wood and stone, they are increasingly being sought after by designers and collectors alike as evocative masterpieces created entirely by the hand of nature....
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Brian Sindler is an award-winning contemporary plein air artist yet his works encompass a far greater depth and complexity than traditional landscape painting. Conveying mood and emotion through evocative shapes, colors and the effects of light, his works never fail to capture the viewer's mind and imagination....
Friday, May 08, 2015
Printing has a long history as both a practical tool and an art form, from textile to text printing; woodblock printing to lithography. Perhaps most famous in woodblock printing is Japan's ukiyo-e prints, which flourished from the early 17th century. Although the art form waned toward the end of the 19th century, several masters remained loyal to the traditional craft and created some of the most collected pieces in woodblock printing...
Friday, January 02, 2015
To famous modern artists of the 20th century, the aesthetics of traditional African art were major influences on their works. They were one of the first collectors to recognize that the highly stylized and disproportionate figures held symbolic meaning and that African art aesthetics represents a unique visual language based on human ideals, emotions, virtues and faith...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Kente是一个历史l Ghanaian cloth worn during important ceremonies and festivals. Its colorful shapes and patterns form a unique visual language deeply rooted in the Ashanti culture...
