Visual Arts
Tips for avoiding blurred photographs
Professional photographers use a combination of things to get those sharp photos that we've seen in magazines or at photo exhibits. The fact that they are using some of the best and most expensive cameras certainly makes their job easier, but even the best equipment in the world can't always guarantee the ultimate level of sharpness. Whether you are using a high quality SLR (single lens reflex) or
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Housing
Underwater camera housing is the single most important item for a successful underwater photography exploration.
Art Appreciation
- Analyzing Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper
- Why New York has replaced Paris as capital of the art world
- Art appreciation: Pop art
- Graphic design: Tips for achieving harmony
- A brief history of African art
- The art of interpreting art
- The place of performance art in modern art museums
Artists & Artwork
- The portraits of Hans Holbein and Paul Cezanne
- Artist profile: Don Mccullin
- Artist profile: Nan Goldin
- Art commissioned for public spaces: Your tax dollars at work
- Artist reviews: Rita Lamontagne
- Important artists in European history
- Art event reviews: King Bladud's Pigs in Bath, England
Photography
- How to safely remove your photographs from sticky magnetic albums
- Artist profile: Richard Avedon
- Give me a link to a funny picture on the Internet.
- Tips for better holiday photographs
- Gift ideas for underwater photography lovers
- Photographer: Diane Arbus
- How owning a digital camera does not instantly make the user a photographer
Visual Arts (Other)
To work professionally as a graphic designer there's some essential tools that you will make your work both more productive and fruitful.
by Raggy Jin
"Some [graffiti] is amazing artwork, but there's some that's just random tagging that isn't truly self-expression."
- Suzanne Lint,
by Sarah Piper
Brassai (1899-1984), "the eye of Paris" was in fact born in Brasso, Transylvania in what was then Austro-Hungary. His real name was
The Tic-Tac-Toe Tip For Amateur Photographers: The Rule of Thirds
The rule of thirds is also referred to as the tic-tac-toe tip of photography.
Writing Assignments
- Making Art
- How to create great threshold designs of Pongal Kolkam
- Art Appreciation
- Visual arts: Exploring Ascii
- A brief history of Asian art
- A brief history of art museums
- Assessing the design and architecture of art galleries
- A brief history of African-American art
- Cubism and Impressionism
- Exploring trends in pop surrealism
- Buying & Selling Art
- Tips on selling political cartoons in an election year
- Tips on buying political cartoons in an election year
- Buying German World War II posters
- Selling German World War I posters
- Buying German World War I posters
- Selling World War I women's posters
- Selling French World War II posters
- Buying French World War II posters
- Selling US World War II posters
- Selling US World War I posters
- Selling French World War I posters
- Buying French World War I posters
- Stolen treasures: How to find out if artwork for sale was stolen
- Finding art treasures at Brimfield's antique and flea market shows (Massachusetts)
- Tips on selling antique political cartoons
- Selling German World War II posters
- Buying World War I women's posters
- Artists & Artwork
- Contemporary artists: Roger Shimomura
- Artist reviews: H.R. Giger
- Book reviews: Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters
- Jewish art: The ancient and golden period
- Artist profile: Brandon Boyd (of Incubus)
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