The following article reveals the extent to which Boris Johnson encouraged Greece to launch its campaign to retrieve the Parthenon marbles in letters written by the British prime minister to the woman who would head the initiative with unprecedented gusto. Johnson, then president of the Oxford Union, implored the Greek culture…
The following article reports on the “Hagia Sophia”, a Byzantine-era religious building in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey, which was damaged in June 2022 when heavy cleaning equipment cracked the marble floors. It is just the latest incident in recent years that has seen the site damaged. Since 2020, reports have documented other kinds…
London’s National Gallery will be mounting a Van Gogh exhibition from October 2024 to January 2025. “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” at the National Gallery will be presented in themes, tracing the story of his stay in Provence. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/24/londons-spectacular-2024-van-gogh-show-will-focus-on-the-artists-greatest-periodwe-delve-into-the-details
The history of art is filled with lost masterpieces, paintings and artefacts that have been destroyed, altered or even painted over by the artist and discovered centuries later. We have long accepted that works such as these might never be known to us, but in recent years this assumption has…
Very little is known about the 17th Century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer – or his masterpiece, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. Who is she? What is she about to say? The following article is about a new research project which hopes to address some of the questions that exist, about…
This article features an AS Photography Coursework project. The work was based on the topic ‘Covert and Obscure’ and was completed in 2014/2015. For more. you can visit the link below: https://www.studentartguide.com/featured/as-photography-covert-obscure
Often, drawing is the core method of researching, investigating, developing and communicating ideas. What follows is a list of tips that have been written specifically for high school art students who are looking to improve the realism of their observational drawings. https://www.studentartguide.com/articles/realistic-observational-drawings
This is an article on the spiritual effects of art. It is a research seeking to build a set of experimental frameworks for quantifying how aesthetic experiences relate to spiritual outcomes. https://templetonreligiontrust.org/explore/measuring-the-spiritual-dimension-of-art
In the last week of September, the first presencial Meeting of the ABEYGA project took place in Perugia, Italy. The reason was the 1st Training Activity (C1) and the 2nd Transnational Meeting (M2). Under the umbrella of C1, a variety of professionals from art, education and digital world, start a…
A very interesting article about the combination of art with ICT competences in school age, which explains the benefits of creativity through digitally simulated information for students. Flexibility of digital data is what makes new media of vital importance for the teaching of fine arts. By using automated media tools…
