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As a nerdy parent, I’m often pretty excited about taking my kids to a new museum.
As a nerdy parent, I’m often pretty excited about taking my kids to a new museum.
“What about your girls?” asks Elizabeth, the young pianist in Mr. Bach Comes to Call, “Didn’t you write any music for them?” The spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach, who has been happily sharing his life story, has to sheepishly explain to his young audience, “Well, Elizabeth, you see in those days, girls were different…” Of […]
While many ancient cave paintings depict strikingly recognizable humans and animals, some still trip us up.
Much of what we’ve left in space has been done out of practicality.
While some folks claim to be unable to draw even a straight line, plenty of painters posses the skill necessary to recreate renowned paintings of such quality they’re indistinguishable from the original work.
Blue is the most popular color in the world, despite the fact that it’s historically been one of the hardest colors to manipulate.
In college, one of my student jobs was to stand guard in the campus art gallery, politely reminding people not to use flash photography or get too close to the paintings and sculptures.
My first-grader didn’t know the Mona Lisa by name, but she recognized a picture of it. Painted around 1503, the Mona Lisa has bewitched viewers in a way it’s subject, Lisa del Giocondo, could only dream of.
As such a visually oriented species, much of human art is meant to be experienced with the eyes.
Sometimes art imitates life, and then science goes back in for some fact checking… and art makes some revisions to be closer to life again.