Vietnam is also a land where traditions come alive in the modern world. Water puppet theaters, an ancient art form, will immerse you in a world of magic and mystique. Vietnam beckons you to adventure among ancient temples and pagodas, where you can explore the deeper meaning of Vietnamese...
Sadly John Little, whose paintings showed the raw side of Montreal, recently died at 96 (one of his painting is at the end). Some artists are good at getting attention. Even people who don’t know or follow art know about the conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” which ...
Walking back towards the Choir, Cardinal Archbishop John Morton, nemesis of King Richard III, has a finely painted tomb. Seb would have been spared the sight of his patron’s future enemy. Instead, knowing Seb, he would probably have spent ages gazing at the stained glass and the mural pa...
Many consider it a good luck charm, but the shamrock has a much deeper meaning. The Druids believed that it represented a three in one concept of the three dominions on the planet, sky and sea and the ages of humans and the stages of the moon. In the Celtic folklore, the Shamrock st...
ue exhibition concept is staged with state-of-the-art multimedia technology, which shows very large images of Monet’s paintings on the walls and floors of the building.It has music, the smell of flowers, and voice-over in several languages to make the painting ...
Traditional print publications, cave paintings, hieroglyphics, and Morse code print abbreviations are all examples of communication. The emoticons likely developed from Professor Scott E. Fahlman. His school and computer science program had been involved in the computer development and research program. ...
With rings on my fingers and sand between my toes Because it’s summer But summer can’t last forever and when it ends That winter will wind and its shrill wind will blow And I, like the sands, not structure, nor permanent Play off the pretty colours Making finger paintings in the firm...
It was the curiosity that took María Sanz de Sautuola to the unexplored Cave of Altamira, nicknamed the “Sistine Chapel” of Prehistory. With only eight years, she discovered the valuable cave paintings when she accompanied her father, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. ...
For example, a gap of building in Constantinople (558 AD – 908 AD) and a gap in the doctrine of faith, especially the gap in the evolution of theory and meaning of purgatory (600 AD until ca. 1100). From all of this data, they have become convinced that at some time, the ...
Depictions of wrestling in art go back thousands of years and have been found in cave paintings. It was also popular in ancient Greece, and it was even a sport in the original Olympic games. Modern athletes might not have enjoyed it though - you had to participate in all events naked!