Arts
How To Draw: Perfect Proportion and Measure
Learn tools and tricks to help you draw your models with perfect proportions every time. […]
Arts
Arts
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Take a close-up look at the fantastic, grotesque, and horrifying details of ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’—Hieronymus Bosch’s most famous masterpiece. […]
Arts
Monet and Renoir: Two Artistic Approaches at “The Frog Pond”
By Richard Brettell, Ph.D., The University of Texas, Dallas In the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir painted together at a small outdoor café and bathing […]
Music Appreciation
Music History Monday: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13
Wednesday, December 19, 1962 was significant for something that didn’t happen – Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 […]
Arts
The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People
It turns out great minds don’t think alike. Discover how some of the world’s greatest artists, writers, and musicians structured their day. […]
Arts
How Did Opera Buffa Rise to Prominence?
How does a lowbrow entertainment completely supplant and overpower a highbrow one within a century? […]
Music Appreciation
Music History Monday: Beethoven and Haydn
Beethoven was not an easy student. In fact, rarely was Beethoven’s inability to deal respectfully with authority more apparent than in his lessons with Haydn. […]