Posted in: Arts, Featured by Miruna Sfia | February 16th 2011 | no comments
The mistery concerning the change of shading in some of Van Gogh’s paintings has been revealed. Apparently, the deterioration of the pieces is due to a chemical reaction having to do with the UV and sunlight.
Some of the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings curiously changed their colors, as bright yellow turned to brown. In order to be able to stop the transformation, scientists had to [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 31st 2010 | no comments
Philadelphia Museum of Arts is an institution of more than 125 years that lies at the end of Benjamim Franklin Parkway and houses over 225,000 works o art that can be viewed by public of all ages, encompassing greatest achievements of human creativity. Its original title was the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art and its main purpose was to help at the development of the [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 31st 2010 | no comments
The Labor day weekend - 3rd to 6th of September 2010 - is exceeding in Festivals of arts all over the U.S. From painting to film festivals and from drama to music festivals, all of them are trying to bring art in the life of the public. These festivals can be considered a way of entertaining yourself during the weekend or a way of discovering new forms of art that you have never [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 31st 2010 | no comments
Art is not a field that can be categorized in a clear way. Simply because it is very subjective and what you consider art can be considered kitsch or just some skill for the others. For some, origami is art and it is called that way, for others is just a skill of folding paper; painting is art and no one can say otherwise, but different types of paintings are not. The naive art of [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 31st 2010 | no comments
One of the first arts that were created in history was music. Since the first sounds and combination of sounds that told stories and presented feelings new ways of rendering emotions and rhythms have been developed. Nevertheless, one of the music genres that remains most closed to what people perceive as art remains the classical music. This type of music ha been combined, along time [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 31st 2010 | no comments
Except for a museum, and sometimes not even in a museum, your encounter with savvy artists and their work in different fields of this large umbrella we call art can take place in more unconventional places, outdoors or indoors. Usually these are the art festivals that allow the public to enjoy all kinds of art, from oil painting to ceramics, from embroideries to glass work. One of the [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
Although in my opinion art should be found in settings that would frame it and make it more valuable, we usually find art in museums. And these museums try to provide visitors with different types of exhibitions and artists in order to promote the most valuable works. One of these museums is the Norton Museum, which will host in the next months a lot of exhibitions from paintings to [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
The film industry is an art in itself and although people are used to see more and more women on the screen and behind it, there are still countries in parts of the world that do not allow or make it very difficult for women to make their voices heard in this industry. Therefore, associations and institutes try to give them a hand and to make it possible for them to state their opinion [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
The art of cinema. The art that joins photography, acting, music and dancing in combinations that are sometimes amazing, sometimes funny, all to just reach one purpose: to deliver a message. The message is universal but the way it is rendered differs from director to director, from movie to movie and it may be this a reason for which festivals are held annually. The universality of films [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
Dance is a form of art that has its roots in the tribal movements people used to do to tell stories. Dances were one the first media through which people recorded history, as no other media available. When coming back from a battle warriors would tell the story of the war they have survived from by dancing. Then, new types of dances appeared and they talked about feelings, not events. In [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
The ultimate trend in art is to mix more media in just one work of art, in order to be able to reach the heart of every viewer and art lover. Metals and wood, stone and pictures, textile and paint, all of them are combined in such a way as to transform the artists' thought and feelings into touchable exhibits. These exhibits that combine so many materials in one aim at shocking the [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
Art is the universal communication medium that appeals to everyone's feelings without using words that then need to be translated. From these types of arts the visual one tends to be the most powerful as it uses shapes and colors to transmit messages. With this in mind, the exhibition of posters in New York called "Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran" wants to [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
One of the arts that aims at enchanting our senses with colors and shapes is the at of photography. Either that it is digital or traditional photography, the photographs have the same purpose: to bring to our attention the surroundings and people around us; to make us see all these through their eyes, but filtering them through our own senses. Other artists have other purposes in their [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
Digital art is more than its name says; it is an on-going ever progressing phenomenon that changes along with the changes in technology. Digital art is a combination of traditional art with technology and computer field, and it came alive earlier last century. It isn't a century old category of arts, however there are people who consider this field very important and try to advertise it [...]
By Adriana Stanciu | August 30th 2010 | no comments
Riverfront is the only presenting theater and arts center in Newport, U.K, which has theater spaces, visual art galleries, dance and recording studio, workshop and conference rooms, and also a licensed cafe. Riverfront's purpose is that of gathering together artists and art lovers in the same place, by means of an original festival that it s held annually and brings together artists [...]
By Silvia Mutis | August 26th 2010 | no comments
Bandalier National Monument is a 33,677 acres (13,629 ha) National Monument where you can find the preserved homes of the Ancestral Pueblo People, this area being designated a National Monument on February 11, 1916, with most of its backcountry becoming a "designated wilderness" in October 1976.
The Monument’s name was given after anthropologist Adolph Bandelier, who researched [...]
By Mihai-Silviu Chirila | August 25th 2010 | no comments
One of the most glamorous moments in the show Britain’s Got Talent was the encounter of the British public and the three hosts, Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell, with a Scottish woman in her 50s, full of joy, enthusiasm and talent: Susan Boyle.
The performance that placed Susan Boyle amongst the stars of the good music was the song “I dreamed a dream,” an English [...]
By Irina Preda | August 6th 2010 | no comments
Pete Seeger is a legendary folk singer who has spent his entire life singing ballads and protest songs about important issues such as racism, war and abuse.
Now he is coming with a new protest song about the latest BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which is considered the most serious damage caused by men in the entire history. The singer who is now almost 91 years old was invited [...]
By Silvia Mutis | August 4th 2010 | no comments
Getty Center
The Getty Center, located in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum, famous for its architecture, gardens and views overlooking Los Angeles, and for the museum's permanent collection of "pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century [...]
