Category: Artists

Their homeland has the second largest population in the world, yet in America they form one of our smallest minorities. Americans were influenced by their beliefs long before the first immigrants arrived, and an important interchange of ideas has continued to the present day. Although many came to America as early as the turn of …

St. Petersburg-EducationAt St. Petersburg, I believe that Mark Twain is ridiculing education.At the age of twelve, Huckleberry Finn is poorly educated, from books andin the ways of the world. He knows and learns only what he experiences. Jimalso was uneducated. One could look to this example and say that it wasonly because he was a …

Jerry Seinfeld is one of the most successful comedians. He is also a co-author of the idea and script “Seinfeld”, a multi-part comedy series, which received many awards. According to some records, the income level of Seinfeld reached a maximum in 1998 and was equal to $ 267 million. 10 years later in 2008, Seinfeld …

Modern art represents an evolving set of ideas among a number of painters, sculptors, writers, and performers who – both individually and collectively – sought new approaches to art making. Although modern art began, in retrospect, around 1850 with the arrival of Realism, approaches and styles of art were defined and redefined throughout the 20th …

In the 17th century, King Louis XIV was crowned king & he ruled the thrown at the young age of five in France when his father had died. This ruler was notable throughout European history and in this period of time, civilization was marked by a discontent composure and an uneasy way of life within …

Since the dawn of time, man has been inspired by the beauty of art. The Macquarie Concise Dictionary describes art as the production or expression of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance. I interpret the word art to refer to the physical reproduction of the artists own perception of the world …

The pounding of shells, the mines, the death traps, the massive, blind destruction, the acrid stench of rotting flesh, the communal graves, the charred bodies, and the fear. These are the images of war. War has changed over the centuries from battles of legions of ironclad soldiers enveloped in glimmering armor fighting for what they …

Comics: In the Beginning The modern comic, as we know it, began in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World on February 17,1895. The comic, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, was based on the life of Mickey Dugan, an Irish immigrant child in the city. Although the strip had no name, people have dubbed it the “Yellow …

As I entered the upper Egyptian gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology I noticed a women giving a lecture to a small group concerning some of the monuments in the gallery. Lucky enough, I got a chance to catch the end of her lecture, and coincidentally it was about this …