Letter, Diaries

Thomas Moran (1837 – 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife …

In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For …

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 – 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his …

The Dragon, long held as the symbol of power, nobility, success, divine protection and vigilance is unsurpassed in its imperial status in the realm of China. Regarded as the Supreme Being in the …

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA (1830 – 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter.Leighton was born in Scarborough to …

We tend to see body, breath, and mind separately, but in Zen they come together as one reality. The best way to achieve a state of Zen is the meditation. It’s a very simple practice. It’s very easy …

‘The best things in an artist’s work are so much a matter of intuition, that there is much to be said for the point of view that would altogether discourage intellectual inquiry into artistic …

In it he treats of the relationship between God and mankind, stressing first and foremost the love of God for human beings, and the plan he devised for saving them from the consequences of sin. Using …

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". Considered …

According to Wikipedia: ‘John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist …