If you’re a beginning graphic designer, or a new desktop publisher looking for clip art to use in a newsletter, it’s important to understand the differences between raster images, which are created with painting programs, and vector images, created with drawing programs. Knowing why these two major formats exist and how they are used can [...]
History contains stories that remain relatively obscure in popular culture until someone flushes them out. In a time when Max Ernst had an affair with another Dadaist and his wife, the Dadaists transformed the intellectual landscape of Europe.
While viewed by some as reactionary to World War I, Dada really involved creative intellectuals doubling as nihilistic [...]
Through the ages, philosophers and religious leaders have been telling us that it’s not just when we lose a loved one that we should think of death. Following their lead, many artists have used their talents to remind us of our mortality. Most prevalent in relation to Christianity, but also seen in other [...]
Before the advent of the super-powered art agent in the 1950s, and the virtual explosion of art buying for investment purposes in the 1980s and ‘90s, painting and sculpture existed as a means for people to measure themselves against the greater universal order. By applying their hands to clay or pigment, humans could communicate [...]
In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrestles with the themes of betrayal, revenge, and madness. He presents us a situation in which Hamlet, son of one King of Denmark and nephew to another, resolves to determine whether or not his mother, Queen Gertrude, and his uncle (now his father-in-law), King Claudius, had anything to do with the death [...]
So what is it that ensures one graphic, multimedia, and Web design company is awarded a contract over another? It’s rarely about price alone. For a company to succeed in this highly competitive market it has to be able to deliver a complete service that is not only comparable to its competitors in price, but [...]
Whether you are new to the world of art or already an accomplished artist, chances are you are constantly looking for good deals on art supplies. After all, art supplies, such as brushes, oil paints, canvases, easels and shadowboxes can be quite expensive, and it can be difficult for the budding artist to afford [...]
Zeus has always been an important figure in Greek mythology. He was the most powerful son of Kronos and became king of the gods. His symbol was a thunderbolt, and he carried the aegis, the magical shield used by both Athena and him. In one of his hymns, Homer wrote:
I shall sing [...]
When you think of a scarecrow, you most likely think of a straw-filled mannequin of a man in ragged clothes with a straw hat. But scarecrows can come in all shapes and sizes and don’t have to be human. Most practical ‘scarecrows’ these days are simply made of aluminum film tied to a post to [...]
Architecture has varied greatly throughout history, with each new era giving rise to buildings that typify both the time of contruction and their location. Those who study and describe architecture tend to classify buildings and features as being typical of a style and although some divisions are controversial, particularly in the modern era, an understanding [...]
