ArticleLeonardo da Vinci
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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ArticleFrom the Editor
When I think of art I guess I don’t think of the influences it has on the history of who we are and how we are here. When we decided to compile this beautiful magazine and had come to the realisation that the influence of art on history and in...
ArticleMastering the Arts
It is also a work of art that pioneered a change in style and technique. In 480 BCE, a Greek sculptor and master of his workshop had little notion that his modest statue of a boy would revitalise the arts at the turn of the twenty-first...
ArticleMind Divine: The Story of the Renaissance .
Leonardo grew up on the peasant hills of Tuscany, the blessed and picturesque region in northwest Italy. In 1452 in a farmhouse just outside the small Tuscan town of Vinci, three hours into an April night, Caterina, a peasant woman, gave...
ArticleSpain’s Golden Age in Light of its Past
The two different techniques affect the viewer in the subtlest of ways and, yet, they define the palpable difference between the two artists. Diego Velázquez and El Greco are the revered masters of the Spanish Golden Age (1492-1659). They were...
ArticleThe French and Their Love Affair With Art - A Brief History
Almost on every street corner you can find an artist to paint you a picture and it’s this very simple love of art that makes the French so proud of their culture... When one thinks of France, one thinks of art. A trip to France would not be...