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  • Violins  By :
    When we listen to a piece rendered by Yehudi Menuhin, the famous American violinist, we are transported into a different world thanks to his music.
  • Violas  By :
    Audiences across the world enjoy various concerts through the year, each one different and unique. Most of them are either solo performances or in groups of about 4-6 members.
  • The Origins of Classical Ballet  By :
    Ballet as a captivating dance form has enthralled discerning audiences for many years. It is a form of dance that combines beauty and grace to tell a story in a dance form. Generally performed in theatres, ballet has always been a favoured dream of many little girls. While ballet dancers need to work very hard for many years to perform in a professional ballet company - this does not deter the aspirants.
  • The Inventor of Oil Paintings  By : Sara Swansson
    In comparison to many other art forms, oil painting is still considered relatively new. Oil painting is the use of oil in pigments in order to paint. Oil paintings date back to the 1400s. Before oil painting, paint was mixed with plaster found in frescoes or egg in tempera paints. The invention of oil paintings occurred because of a new desire for realism in art. Jan Van Eyck is the man credited with the invention of oil painting.
  • The History of Unicorn Tapestries  By : Veronica Harper
    A brief history of unicorn tapestry art.
  • The History of the Venetian Mask  By : Steve Gink
    The history of the Venetian Mask is one which sounds as though it stems from fairytale or legend but which goes to show that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
  • The History Of British Music  By : Mike Shaw
    With this should be combined another extract from the same writer, as illustrating the wide-spread taste for music in the British Islands at that early period. In 1171 Giraldus
    'Cambrensis, or Gerald Barry, Bishop of St. David's, to give him his proper name and title in English, visited Ireland in the suite of Henry the Second; and in his Topographia Hibernia there are the following impressions of the National Music of the Irish :-
  • The History of Antique World Maps  By : Arizona Penhaligon
    A brief history of world maps
  • The Growing Attraction of Contemporary Wall tapestries  By : Joan Davis
    Many people are looking towards contemporary wall tapestries as an answer to their modern home decor aspirations
  • The Figurative Clay Sculptures of Javier Marin  By : Patrick Johnson
    Javier Marin's powerful figurative clay sculptures are tense with the clashing forces of the indigenous and Spanish cultures of his native Mexico. His sculptures are beautiful, tragic, heroic and masterful in technique and in their ability to enliven the space that they occupy.
  • Sticky Situations - What Kind of Adhesive to Use in Your Scrapbook  By : Tom Ambrozewicz
    The many adhesive options available on the scrapbooking supply market may leave you mystified as to which ones you need for your project.
  • Renaissance Inventions: Classical Humanism, Embraced Then Rejected  By : Brenda Harness
    Renaissance humanism based on the pagan concepts of classical antiquity seemed like a good thing to mix in with church theology, but humanist scholars and the papacy couldn't quite make it work.
  • Painting Throughout History  By :
    Painting is the art of applying pigments to a surface whether it is on paper, canvas, a wall or any other medium, to create an image with lines and colors. The image can represent real objects found around us or imaginary ones.
  • Offer Thanks to Nero  By : Brenda Harness
    Why, one might ask, would modern civilization owe a debt of gratitude to the unpopular, infamous Roman emperor Nero, dead two thousand years now by his own hand? For those folks not tuned in to their own historical roots, Nero is an important part of your culture, not just a computer software tool for burning compact disks.
  • Music Artist 30 Seconds To Mars Bio  By : Rich Stephenson
    30 Seconds to Mars is an alternative rock band from the United States , featuring actor Jared Leto as vocalist.
  • Medieval Art: A Different Approach to Home Décor  By : Louise Alderson
    Many people are looking to Medieval art to add some charm and history to their home decor
  • Keeping Rock and Roll Alive By Supporting Rock and Roll Bands  By :
    Is Rock and Roll destined to go the way of Big Band music - a quaint but dated genre appreciated only by a certain generation? Rock and roll fans answer that question with an emphatic "No way!"
  • Inb Performing Arts Center: IXS  By : Heidi Grumm
    The INB Performing Arts Center is the premier entertainment venue in the Spokane Region. It is owned and operated by the Spokane Public Facilities District. The venue has capacity of 2,700-seats.
  • History of Rock Keeps Rolling On  By : Ben Franklin
    Ever since Little Richard, Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry began crooning tunes with a different sound, the history of rock music has been marching forward. Different than anything that had come before it, rock mixed racy lyrics with loud, but soulful music to create something so distinct it earned its own moniker.
  • Growing up in Belfast in the 70s and 80s  By : Michael Hanna
    Growing up in Belfast in the 70s and 80s was an adventure of a kind experienced nowhere else in the first world.
  • Famous Art Galleries  By :
    In any city in the world that you choose to visit, you will be sure to find at least one art gallery. However, some of them are so well-known, that people will literally travel the world to find them. These most famous galleries house the great masterpieces of the world.
  • Everything You Need To Know About Tattoos  By :
    If you are considering tattoos, keep in mind that they are a permanent part of your skin. Because tattoos are created with permanent ink being placed underneath the skin, they are a lifelong fixture unless you later decide to have them removed.
  • Botticelli: From the Birth of Venus to a Bonfire of the Vanities  By : Brenda Harness
    Sandro Botticelli, the beloved Italian Renaissance artist we know so well today, died tragically several years after throwing many of his own works onto a bonfire at the urging of a fanatical religious reformer. If not for his resurrection by an ususual group of Victorian painters in the 19th century, we might not know him at all.
  • Best of the Best - Art Galleries  By :
    There are literally thousands of art galleries all over the world. Almost every city has an art gallery but there are some art galleries that are known all around the world. People will travel across the world just to see some of these famous art galleries and the master pieces that they house inside.
  • Art's Impact on Society  By :
    Art is an extremely private experience, yet, it is meant to be shared with the public. Society, as a whole, examines the art produced and has the right to approve, disapprove, acknowledge, ignore, praise and abuse it. The public or society has not remained constant over the years. In the time of the Renaissance, for example, only a select few were "society." They commissioned art, were patrons of the arts and their artists. Today, almost anyone can share in the experience of art.
  • Antique Furniture: Styles of furniture through the ages  By : James Ross
    Owning and collecting antique furniture is popularity is due to our interest in the past. They give us a window of a bygone era. This article gives a brief summary of the various styles of furniture through the ages.
  • A Look At The Music Of Scotland  By : Gregg Hall
    The unique music of Scotland is easily recognized around the world and has remained a vibrant force to this day while many forms of traditional music worldwide have experienced a loss of popularity to pop music. Even with emigration and the influx of music imported from the rest of Europe and the United States, the music of Scotland has been able to keep the majority of its traditional structure and has even influenced many other forms of music.
  • A Friendly Arm to Araripe  By : Marylka Mendes
    About the use of synthetic canvas on paintings for the first time.
  • A brief outline of the tapestry arts from around the world.  By : anne dickens dickens
    Throughout the world, tapestry collections have captivated small and large audiences alike. Artists have historically found many of their works transformed into the tapestry medium, allowing for not only a greater widespread appreciation of their work, but for new and exciting interpretations to emerge around the vivid use of color and the complex textural attributes inherent in the extraordinary weavings.
  • A Brief History of Pop Art in Britain and America  By : Sam Tennyson
    Summarises the beginnings of the pop art movement in the 1950s and 1960s in Great Britain and America
  • 101 FIRST GROUPS WITH A No1 IN UK SINGLES CHARTS  By : Thodoris
    A UK Charts Research showing the first 101 Groups that made it to the top. The first 101 Groups that had one No1 Single in the Uk Charts
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