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Why is Fine Art popular and fascinating? Definition of Fine Art It refers to an art form that is developed mainly for the aesthetics. You might find it interesting that word ‘fine’ in fine art gallery stands for the purity of the discipline and not f...

We often think of art as paintings or photographs hanging on the walls around us, or perhaps as statues freestanding on the floor. A lot of art is more or less at our eye level. If it rises above, it at least starts at our eye level. However, some of the ...

Michelangelo, or to give him his full name Michelangelo diLodovico Buonarroti Simoni, which must have been a mouthful for his mother. When his mother called him in for his tea, by the time his mother had finished calling his name tea was over. He was r...

Painting is a form of art. It, meant literally, is the practice of applying color to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer or concrete. However, when used in an artistic sense, the term "painting" means the use of this activity i...