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Switchboard Art: Selection of Artworks
Yes, that is an art made with switch boards, and it’s beautiful. Switch board art is the newest and greatest thing in home and office decorating. All you’ll need to make your house or place of business beautiful is a trip to your local shop and the will to make the following choices: how many […]
An Introduction Into the Art Market: Complete Guide
Art has been a subject of market exchanges since antiquity. While the nature of the art market has changed over time, the buying and selling of artworks continues to grow. The art market is a meeting place for those who wish to buy and sell works of art. Online art marketplaces have been growing in […]
9 Facts about Horror Art you should know
Art is a hard thing to define. If you ask two art critics to define it, you’ll get three answers. And if you ask ten, you’ll get ten different answers. So let’s not try to define art, and just talk about a particular kind of art: horror art. Which can be hard to define as […]
Mail Art: Put together a series of work and send it to someone
Mail Art/Postal Art idea was simple: make work, put it in an envelope, and send it to someone. It might be conceptual or visual or sound or textual or a combination of various types, as long as it fits in an envelope and wasn’t illegal. In practice, mail art embraced a wide variety of works […]
Arabic Calligraphy: The Art of Expressing Yourself
Calligraphy is an art of writing. The Arabic lettering art has been practiced since its invention by Muhammad in the 7th century CE. Calligraphic works have been praised for being some of the most beautiful expressions of the Arabic language. What is Arabic calligraphy? Arabic calligraphy is visual art that developed out of the ancient […]
Earth Art: 10 Facts You Need to Know
Earth art is the modern concept of putting images of natural elements on your walls. This idea has increased in popularity for many reasons. The first earth artists were the earliest humans, who learned to make colored muds by mixing powdered minerals with animal blood. They painted their bodies and probably their homes. They covered […]
Trash Art: How I turned my trash into a work of art
Trash art is a form of collage created from garbage found on a city’s streets, alleys, and/or beaches. Though it is a category, it can include any type of art made from trash – from the use of found objects to the use of subject material created from someone discarding an item, or a product […]
Paleolithic Art: Things I should have known
Paleolithic art or old stone age art is a form of prehistoric art that encompasses the first roughly 200,000 years of artistic creation, spanning from the first Homo sapiens’ appearance until about 10,000 years ago. The Paleolithic spans the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods of the Old World, ending 12,000 to 10,000 years ago with […]
Corporate Art Style: All You Need to Know
The corporate art style also referred to as “corporate art design”, is the design of a company’s visual identity. This process usually involves creating a visual theme or image campaign including a distinctive logo and identifying color schemes, images, fonts, etc. Corporate artwork should be classy, elegant, and understated Corporate artwork should convey a sense […]
Caricature Art: Your Complete Guide
You may have seen caricatures of famous people in newspapers, magazines, or online. The caricature is an art with a rich history that you can learn about on this site. A caricature artist takes the features of the face and exaggerates characteristics for humorous effect. What caricature art is Cartoons are about capturing the essence […]
How to pick the perfect print on canvas for your room: Finding the right prints for your room.
Do you have a bare wall in your house that seems to be drawing attention to itself? Is there one room in your house that needs a special touch? If you answered yes, canvas wall art may be your answer. With so many types of canvas wall art, there are definitely ideas for every style […]
Art Restoration: The process and challenges of restoring damaged paintings.
What is art restoration? Though only a tiny fraction of museum collections have been damaged or destroyed by fire, floods, theft, or other accidents, it is nevertheless a pressing problem. Museums are legally bound to keep their collections in good condition, and when a fire or a burglary destroys works, they are faced with the […]