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The art of limited edition sculpture

I am not sure of the reason why, but it is a common human trait to want to collect. Some people go overboard and might be defined as hoarders, but for the majority, collecting one or two different types of items is just a lot of fun. Others that might be called serious collectors, collect to satisfy some sort of inner need. How else can you explain a grown man with a million baseball cards?

One of the things that More

The Wire is Art on Television

Television has taken a long time to really assert itself as a medium worth attention from even the very most fickle of critics and people involved with the arts who usually just look down on it. But of course, there’s no reason to think that television should be considered any less of an art form than any other medium. Just as film and now video-games were quickly able to become art-forms, television has taken a longer road but it is More

Going To Art School: Answer These Questions

Each year thousands of students in high school and many others elsewhere consider and make the necessary plans to go to art school. Before you go there are and get yourself involved in Manchester airport parking, some important questions that you should be answering for yourself. Here are a few of the more significant ones.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"/> More

The Documentary Photographer Is Always A ‘Super Tourist’ In The World Of Others

I would like to explore the concept: The documentary photographer is always a ‘super tourist’ in the world of others. This statement is premised on the understanding that within the medium of documentary photography, a photographer and the image he is capturing is composed of dual and opposite positions, an inside and outside.
The word ‘tourist’ defines an outsider visiting a foreign place away from home, usually traveling for pleasure. Therefore in this statement, a ‘tourist’ identifies the photographer’s role More

Get Ready Graduating Art Students: This Last Year Will Be A Fast Ride

Important things to do before you graduate as a BA (Hons) Fine Arts Degree student will surely be overwhelming, but if you plan ahead you will be able to jump start on opportunities that maybe presented during the end of term Degree Art Show.
Most importantly beside the completion of your final artwork, building a website representing your very best works requires planning. The website will be your business card and makes it easily to refer interested curators or important More

Why You Should Use Acrylics

Acrylics have always had a slightly lesser reputation than other paints, within artistic circles. Eclipsed by oil paints and considered less difficult to use than watercolour, acrylics have always suffered, to some extent, as being viewed as an amateur style of painting, even though, truth be told, most people find it very difficult to tell acrylics and oil paints apart from a few feet away.
With all this negativity towards the medium, it’s no wonder that some artists skip it More

Bulgarian Traditional Medicine

Traditions are inevitably a part of the culture of people – all traditions combined give the authentic look of every culture of every nation. This is the reason why exploring these traditions is what gives us the idea of uniqueness of every nation and people across the world, each one remarkable and different from the others.

Bulgarian Culture is famous for its history and traditions. However, little is known about a significant part of the Bulgarian cultural heritage – the More

The OC Soundrack Album Cover

In music industry, album covers are not only the envelopes of the sound, they represent the uniqueness of the product to be sold and, for collectors and fans, are a pure piece of art equal to the music they are going to buy. This is the reason why both fans and music producers pay a lot of attention to the outlook of the albums since that represents what is the actual quality of the production.

One of the most impressive More

Art Commision Pitfalls

Art commissions are one way of getting a guaranteed income for your art creations. However it is important to not get too exited when you land a commission, it may very well turn out to be the worst commission ever.

The best way to avoid a commission disaster is to follow some basic guidelines. One of the main things to look out for is to know who will approve the finished product. Will it be the person that just agreed More

The Creature From The Black Lagoon: a good example of how it should still be.

Sometimes, the most interesting thing can happen when you least expect it, like, say, when you venture in to someone’s bathroom and discover that your friend has a secret fascination that you were never aware of…

The bathroom in question belonged to a good friend of mine and had recently been re-done. I was expecting the usual nice new things, maybe photos of the family skiing in italy, that sort of thing. What I was not expecting was a More