‘Art’ Archives
Art Theft
What Was the Most Expensive Art Theft in History? Last week’s theft from the Paris Museum of Modern Art saw criminals make off with more than $1 million in paintings, according to news reports. But although works by Picasso and Matisse disappeared in the Paris robbery, that heist doesn’t even compare to the Gardner Museum and Mona Lisa [...]
Rembrandt
The Secret of Rembrandt's Painting Technique Discovered Rembrandt's paintings have transfixed viewers for centuries, but now a new study reveals a scientific explanation for their calming beauty. By painting more detail in and around the eyes of his subjects, Rembrandt tapped into an innate human attraction to the face. This creates a more [...]
Is It Art?
IS IT ART? Paintings and power shovels, sonatas and submarines, dramas and dynamos -they all have one thing in common. They are fashioned by people. They are artificial, in contrast to everything that is natural - plants, animals, and minerals. The average 20th-century person would distinguish paintings, sonatas, and dramas as forms of art, [...]
Aesthetics
Aesthetics Aesthetics, also spelled esthetics, is the study of theories that apply to the arts in a broad and fundamental way. People think about aesthetics when they ask why some things are beautiful and some are not, or whether there are basic rules for creating or interpreting good paintings, poems, and music. Aestheticians study the arts [...]
Painting
Painting Painting is one of the oldest and most important arts. Since prehistoric times, artists have arranged colors on surfaces in ways that express their ideas about people, the world, and religion. The paintings that artists create have great value for humanity. They provide people with both pleasure and information. Sometimes artists [...]
Drama
Drama Drama is an art form that tells a story through the speech and actions of the characters in the story. Most drama is performed by actors who impersonate the characters before an audience in a theater. Although drama is a form of literature, it differs from other literary forms in the way it is presented. For example, a novel also tells a [...]
