Author: The Artist Editorial

Art is powerful. We use the arts for our entertainment, cultural appreciation, aesthetics, personal improvement, and even social change. We use the arts in order to thrive in this world. Art is a perfect means to express yourself, bring your imagination to life, question certain standards, ideals, and mentalities, and stirring deep conversations towards the things that we often do not pay much attention to. Painting, sculpture, and any other form of art go hand in hand with writing. Artists and authors cannot be separated. While artists find expression without words, authors find expression with their words and in some…

What colors painted the inside of Vincent Van Gogh’s mind? Vincent’s works offer endless wilderness that seemed to violate laws of human imagination. Exploring his mysterious mind is a tough journey indeed, if happens, mission accomplished. An undertaking as ambitious as this—creating the world’s first feature-length painted film on a figure as captivating as Van Gogh—needs careful handling to be executed successfully, and the Oscar-winning team of Breakthru Films and Trademark Films seem poised to deliver. Four years in the making, the 80-minute feature is composed of over 62,000 individual frames, each a unique oil-on-canvas painting created by a team…

Indeed, freedom or expression varies and comes in different forms. While some regard it in the democratic manner of speaking up and being able to do things as you want, privilege should also be extended to other levels. In consideration of the human rights of people, every country must provide the citizens and artists as well with the freedom they need. The definition of freedom of expression the power or right to express one’s opinions without censorship, restraint, or legal penalty. The freedom in this instance includes but not limited to the freedom to express their hearts and thought, which…

Culture means the patterns and characteristics of human behavior, and all that entails in terms of religion, beliefs, social norms, arts, customs, and habits The word “culture” is used in different ways by different people. To some, it might mean a string quartet and the use of multiple utensils at dinner. To others, it might be used in a vague way when planning a holiday overseas. If you are a scientist it means a petri dish full of microorganisms. This is something every human experience and the way you experience it can define your life. Culture is shared. Culture is…

A question often asked – Why Is Mona Lisa Painting Famous? At first glance, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa appears to be just another portrait of a woman. The work, painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, features a brown-eyed woman with dark hair, a wide forehead, and a round chin. She’s seated, hands resting on the arm of a chair. A varied natural setting, comprised of roads, rivers, trees, and hills sits behind her. And yet the masterpiece revolutionized the art of portrait-making. There’s the woman’s posture, which invites an interaction with the work’s viewer that had never before existed.…

Often, people wonder why they should go through the four walls of the university to obtain a degree in Art History. Still, Art history is a more prominent way of preserving historical events and making our past last even with the changes that go with modernization and civilization, and studying the history of art is a great reflection to understand these events Studying art history remains a far superior choice for many and the art’s role a germen integral of everything humanity stands for. At this juncture, let’s would like to define Art history. Art History is an organized profession…

Singapore’s culture is a mixture of European and Asian cultures, influenced heavily by the British, Malay, Dutch, East Asian, South Asian, Australian and Portuguese cultures. Because of this, Singapore is often referred to as the country where “East Meets West”.  These varying inspirations help Singapore’s arts scene, Singapore art jamming,  blossomed into a myriad of colors that appear as both unique and diverse. Today, Singapore has emerged as a center for arts and culture, boasting of year-round robust productions of theater and musical performing arts. Being a bustling metropolitan city that attracts a multi-racial society, Singapore is lauded for being…

A lot of features affect the value of a piece of art. Appreciating art can feel very subjective, which often means that it can be hard to tell what exactly translates to art that is desirable or that will sell well. Lots of opinions come together to determine what art is valued at what price. This can include a whole host of influencers in the art world, such as critics, gallerists, curators, experts, collectors, and more. It can sound very theoretical and difficult to establish, however, there are several key questions to consider that will help you determine what the…

Art is eternal. The evolution of human life cannot be discussed without traces of art included. Art covers virtually everything about the world, both living and non-living. Above all, it is the means of expressing one’s thoughts, beliefs, feelings or perceptions through creative prowess or skill exhibited in painting, writing, music, dancing and even communication. Art brings out the creativity embedded in humans. For instance, a beautiful morning can serve as a source of inspiration for a poet. He can write a masterpiece through that inspiration. The poem is an art because it is expressing something. As far as art…

With comic book movies killing it at the box office and both major publishers doing a reboot in the same decade, comics are more relevant than ever. Despite the fact that they are so popular today, very few people seem to know where comics come from and how they have developed over the years.  Let’s have a look a brief history of comics through eight critical historical milestones of this medium. Mainstream comics are still going strong and are gaining more and more popular because people are getting interested thanks to the wide plethora of movies, video games, and TV…