Drawing: The Art That Comes First
Every other art form has a drawing somewhere behind it. That is not a compliment to drawing.
CreARTivity
Magazine
Arts
A wide-ranging exploration of human creativity across the visual, performing, literary, and applied disciplines. From painting and sculpture to dance, poetry, and design, we celebrate the craft, ideas, and stories behind every art form and the people who bring them to life.
32 articles
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Painting: A History of What the Materials Allowed
On 11 September 1841 an American portrait painter patented a tin tube with a screw cap. Almost everything people love about the next fifty years of painting follows from it.
How to Read a Picture
Anyone can look at a picture. Reading one is a skill, and like most skills it is mostly a matter of knowing what to do in the first thirty seconds.
What Applied Art Is, and Why It Is the Art You Actually Touch
The chair, the poster, the flag and the teapot were all designed by somebody. Here is why calling that work decorative was a mistake, and how to look at it properly.