… Afro-Caribbean dance have their roots in Africa. In the 15th to 18th century when the slaves were being brought over to America from Africa, they were mostly gathered from the western coast of North Senegal and South Angola. The reasons for most…

… Vincent van Gogh painted “Wheat Field With Cypresses”, a wonderfully abstract landscape van Gogh apparently felt would be the appropriate exit from his haunted existence. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this piece can be found between “Women Picking…

… that period. Secularism (in Italy), humanism and individualism were three aspects of life that appeared in the Renaissance and each of those three aspects had a great impact on art itself. Though many amazing artists appeared in the renaissance,…

… were tested. It was a period of intellectual ferment that prepared the ground for the thinkers and scientists of the 17th century. It was an age that bore two great artists: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Leonardo was not a prolific painter…

… at is Jan Brueghel the elder. Brueghel was, born in Brussels. As the most talented son of Pieter Brueghel the elder, he devoted his early career to flower painting and still life’s and his suave renderings earned him the nickname ‘Velvet’ Brueghel.…

… sensible beauty and the beauty of things outside the sense? Sensible beauty is just that, beauty perceived through the senses. Beauty outside the senses is the beauty seen when the senses are denied a say. Plotinus said that anyone can experience…

… expression through personal experiences, nature, and visual aspects of the world during that period. Early modern artists expanded and broadened the image and value of art. They explored different styles of art that merged painting and sculpture and…

… Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out? - Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - There is always death and taxes; however death doesn't get worse every year. - People will accept…

… history. It contained the largest collection of wisdom that ever existed. The earliest documentation of the library is in the Letter of Aristeas which describes the legend of seventy translators of the Hebrew Bible that had worked in Alexandria…

… casting or lost wax casting has been used by many different cultures for thousands of years. The Egyptians used investment casting to make bronze statues and the Chinese made vessels and a variety of other items by using investment casting.…