April 2009
1 post
7 tags
Plautus: A Pioneer In Musical Theater
Titus Macchius Plautus was a playwright of Ancient Rome. He was one of the earliest pioneers in the history of musical theater. In my own opinion, I would classify him as a pre-modern man that abode the concept of exploration and innovativeness.
There are only few accounts of Plautus’ early life. It is said that Plautus worked as a scene-shifter or a stage carpenter in his early years. It is...
February 2009
1 post
16 tags
The Man Behind West Side Story
The man behind the famous West Side Story, Arthur Laurents, is an American novelist, playwright, stage director, librettist, and screenwriter. Laurents came from a Jewish family and was born in New York City. He began writing scripts for radio in 1945 and wrote the play titled Home of the Brave – a drama that was set during the Second World War.
The Way We Were and The Turning Point are two of his...
January 2009
1 post
9 tags
Euripides Was Way Ahead His Contemporaries
The author of Medea, Euripides, is said to be modern by comparison with those of his contemporaries (Aeschylus and Sophocles), focusing his plays on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown to Greek audiences.
It can be recalled that Euripides was considered one of the three great tragedians of the classical Athens. The other two were Sophocles and Aeschylus....
November 2008
1 post
11 tags
The Seasons of Love
The author of the play was a man full of vision for musical theater. An American Tony Award-winning composer and playwright, Jonathan Larson lived in New York and authored musical plays like the famous Rent and Tick, Tick…BOOM! These plays talk about serious issues like addiction, multiculturalism, homophobia, and the AIDS epidemic. His artistic goal was to combine the concepts of Generation...
July 2008
1 post
7 tags
Lysistrata: A Satire On War
Aristophanes is the author of Lysistrata. An Athenian writer, he is considered to be one of the greatest comedy playwright in literary history. His plays are famous all throughout history because of their wit, comic invention, and poetic language. He is believed to have been born in Athens, Greece and presumably, he received good education during his time. He was also known to be the first and...
April 2008
1 post
6 tags
Life Is A Dream
The play “Life Is A Dream” is written by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, one of Spain’s most popular playwright. As Wilson and Goldfarb (2000) described it, Calderon’s first choice of career, even at his young age, was the priesthood. After a few years of study in a seminary, he left school to enter government service. At age 23, he began to write plays for the court, becoming a leader among the court...
January 2008
1 post
8 tags
Everyman, Every Era
The author of the morality play “Everyman” is not known, an excuse valid enough to not identifying its anonymous author as belonging to one of the three Western models of history. However, it has been speculated that a member of the church during the Medieval Period wrote this one. This is for the very purpose of preaching and teaching morality – what is good and what is not – to the people. ...
December 2007
1 post
9 tags
Most Remarkable Writer During The World War II
The playwright of Waiting for Godot is Samuel Beckett. Beckett is a “Post-Modern Man” because of his utilization of language and the complexities of it to write plays that were not typical to the traditional plays. He used his being multi-lingual in exploring the world of playwriting. He had proven his mastery on his craft when he set a record as a student. He was a student at the Portora Royal...
October 2007
2 posts
4 tags
Sophocles: Master In Writing Dramas
The very popular and intriguing Oedipus Rex’ author is Sophocles. I would say that Sophocles was a “Pre-Modern Man” because of his attitude towards a world of awe. In the said play, Sophocles introduced the explicit version of life and reality – showing that death and suffering are normal parts of life. The way he thought even at his young age explained this claim. He was born in 497/6 at Colonus....
12 tags
Bits Of Bahamian Art
The Commonwealth of Bahamas has a rich culture. Not only it is famous for its music called Junkanoo (equatable with Jamaican Reggae), it also has unique art. Bahamian Arts include quilting, canvas art, straw weaving, and coral and stone art. Quilting has been practiced by its people for generations. It has been mainly practiced on the island of Spanish Wells. Straw weaving is a traditional craft...
September 2007
2 posts
4 tags
Goya: A Pintor Del Rey
Francis Goya was a pintor del rey (painter to the king) to the three rulers of Spain. He was a court painter and a chronicler of history. He was famous for his skills and expertise in both impressionist and expressionist painting. He is known for his creativity having a broad range of subjects and artistic styles. He developed a method of loose, expressive brushwork that anticipated the...
5 tags
El Greco
El Greco, although spent most of his life in the Tolera area of Spain, he was Greek by birth – this was what my Arts teacher kept on repeating and repeating to us during our class this morning. It just can’t let out of my mind. Well, certainly, he was a Greek. His name alone means “The Greek” in the Castilian language.
El Greco was first trained as an icon painter and studied formallyin an...
August 2007
10 posts
5 tags
Dali Created Destino
My Arts teacher discussed another impressive artist in class today. He discussed to us the artist’s biography, he showed to us samples of his works and truly the artist is still astounding even in present times. His name is Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali I Domeneech. Salvador Dali, for short.
Salvador Dali worshipped surrealism. He was a Spanish Catalan painter born in Figueres. He was...
11 tags
Claude Monet Introduced French Impressionist...
Claude Monet was born an artist. When he was young, he was known for his charcoal caricatures. He also took his drawing lessons under Jacques Francois Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. When he was fifteen, he met a fellow artist in the person of Eugene Boudin. Boudin became Monet’s mentor in using oil paint. He also taught him outdoor techniques for painting known as “en...
6 tags
Gustav Klimt's Life As An Artist
One of the most distinguished members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement was Gustav Klimt. He was an Austrian Symbolist painter. His works of art included murals, paintings and sketches. Gustav Klimt’s primary subject of interest was the female body. It is obvious in his works that the theme were marked by explicit eroticism.
Klimt was one of the three boys of the family. All three of them...
5 tags
Was Vincent Van Gogh A Fulfilled Man?
A Dutch Post-Impressionist artist was Vincent van Gogh. His early adult life was spent working in a firm of art dealers. He used to be an educator before he became a missionary worker in a helpless mining area. He did not give much attention to art and painting until he was in his late twenties. At first, he only made use of somber colors. His style in painting had transformed when he already...
5 tags
A Revolutionary Movement Called Surrealism
Surrealism is an art movement that existed from 1919 to 1939. The believers of this movement called themselves surrealists. Their art directly spoke to large audience. Surrealism is the screaming of realism. Surrealism was said to be the irrational combination of interpretation of subjects. Its primary goal is to make the most familiar objects scream loud.
Surrealism is famous for the visual...
4 tags
Media Of Romanticism
Romanticism is a movement in the late 18th century and the early to mid 19th century. Romanticism is a complex literary, artistic and intellectual movement that can be traced back in Western Europe and was popularized during the Industrial Revolution.
Romanticism expresses strong emotion, deep imagination and extreme freedom from the classical definition of reality. Romanticism is often associated...
26 tags
Media Of Expressionism
The opposite of Impressionism is the art movement called Expressionism. Expressionism is subjective by nature. This movement gives its artists ultimate freedom in the interpretation and portrayal of different subjects. This movement somehow bends the reality for a deeper emotional effect. Expressionism is often associated to the presentation of emotional angst of artists in particular subjects...
5 tags
Impressionist Art
Impressionism is an art movement that refers to the visual arts in the late nineteenth century. This movement greatly stressed on the portrayal of an overall impression of a particular scenario with the use of the primary colors and simple brushstrokes to produce an image of a reflected light. Impressionist paintings have simple subject matter and open composition. There is also an inclusion of...
9 tags
Pablo Picasso's Struggles
I had a book on Pablo Picasso. Even in my young age, I already had a huge interest in learning the Spanish genius: Pablo Picasso. He was a painter, a sculptor and a draughtsman all packed in one. He had made his name during his lifetime because of his intense love for art. He was best known for his contribution to the Cubist movement. He had applied wide variety in his styles. His famous works...
8 tags
Poor Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was a French painter and sculptor. He was also famous for his experties in printmaking and drawing. He is distinguished to be one of the founders of Impressionism. He was famous for his crafts on painting that highlighted female nudity with the theme on Impressionism. Degas, who was an Impressionist, had works who are “understandable but contained insufficient description.”...
July 2007
16 posts
10 tags
Chagall Was A Non-Person
Marc Chagall was an artist who spearheaded modernism as depicted in his works. Aside from this, he was linked to several key art movements. He was even one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He had achieved gold and glory even during his lifetime. Marc Chaggal was also considered to be “the last survivor of the first generation of Euopean modernists,” as historian Michael J....
4 tags
A Movement Called Romanticism
Romanticism is a movement that is complex in nature. The movement, having originated during the second half of the 18th century in the Western Europe, was partly a means to revolt against the social and political norms when the aristocrats were abusing their power and influence over the society.
Romanticism gaved emphasis on emotions like awe, horror, trepidation. It suggested that strong...
17 tags
Sillius Isn't Silly
Sillius Italicus was a Latin epic poet. He was born in Italica in the Roman province of Hispania in Spain. He was famous for his professions: forensic orator, politician, consul. He was mentioned by Tacitus as having been one of two witnesses who attended the conferences of Vitellius and Flavius Sabinus.
His life after consulship was narrated by Pliny. According to Pliny, Sillius performed wisely...
12 tags
Bracciolini Is A Humanist
One of the most remarkable Italian humanists is Poggio Bracciolini. He was able to recover classical texts from monastic libraries in Germany and France. He was the responsible for the distribution of manuscript copies among the educated world.
Barcciolini studied Latin under John of Ravenna and Manuel Chrysoloras in Florence. At his age of twenty-one, he was given the acknowledgement to be part...
15 tags
Jupiter: The God VS The Planet
Jupiter is the counterpart of Zeus in Roman mythology. He is known to be the king of the gods.He is the god of sky and thunder. In the Latin mythology, this god is known as the father of Mars. Mars is the father of Romulus and Remus, thus Jupiter is the grandfather of these two. Romulus and Remus are the legendary founders of Rome.
Jupiter is also the name of the fifth planet from the sun. It is...
9 tags
4 MERCURYs
There are four popular Mercurys.
The first Mercury is the messenger of the Roman gods. He is also known as the god of profit, trade and commerce. He is also considered a god of commercial success and abundance.
The second Mercury is the planet of the Solar System nearest the sun. This planet orbits the sun once every 88 days. This planet is bright when viewed from the Earth. This can be viewed in...
16 tags
Zeus Is A Womanizer
Zeus is known to be the god of all gods. He is the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus. He is the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea. As the god of the Pantheon of gods in Mount Olympus, he upholds justice, law, and morals. This makes him spiritual as a leader to both gods and men. He is often associated as a weather god because of his thunder, rain and lightning. He is known to have cause thunderstorms....
11 tags
Dionysus: The God Of Fertility
In Greek mythology, Dionysus is the son of Zeus and a mortal woman, Semele. According to the myth, Semele was killed by Zeus’s lightning bolts by the time when Semele was bearing Dionysus. Dionysus was rescued and he underwent a second birth from Zeus after developing in Zeus’ thigh. Zeus then gave the infant to some nymphs where Dionysus was raised. With this and with the rest of the...
14 tags
For The Love Of Art
Lorenzo Ghiberti, born in 1378 and died in 1455, was an Italian artist in the Renaissance period. He was best known for his works in sculpture and metalworking. He was a pick over artists Brunelleschi and Donatello to do the doors of the baptistry of the Duomo in Florence.
This Renaissance man was trained personally by his father who was also an artist and a goldsmith at the same time. His...
12 tags
Bellini Is A Legend
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini or Bellini for short was an Italian opera composer. Born in Catania, Sicily, he was famous for his melofic lines for which he was named the “Swan of Catania.” It can also be remembered that this artist was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera.
Bellini was a legend. He could sing an aria of Valentino Fioravanti when he was one year old and six...
13 tags
Brunelleschi The Architect
Filippo Brunelleschi or simply Brunelleschi was an Italian architect based in Florence. He was so famous because he designed the cupola of the Florence cathedral. In fact, his work of art, the Duomo of Florence (the dome of the cathedral in Florence), the tallest building in the place, is now known as the symbol of the wealth and pride of the families in the the said city during the Renaissance...
10 tags
Big, Clumsy, Messy, and Fat
One of those most influential artists during the Renaissance era is Masaccio. Despite the fact that he died young at the age of 27, he had contributed much to his line of craft. He was able to develop a style that involved three-dimensional characters – a rebellious shift from the convention two-dimensional style of painting in the medieval period. He also propagated humanism through as depicted...
10 tags
Caravaggio Of Italy
A famous Italian artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, more commonly known as Caravaggio, was active for almost twenty years in Rome, Malta, Naples and Sicily. He was popular for his Death of the Virgin painting. This painting is displayed in the Louvre. His works were output of dramatic quality. He was even credited for inspiring the Renaissance artists of Europe like Rembrandt.
This artist...
12 tags
Raphael The Great(ful)
Raphael of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is tagged to be the team’s bad boy. He wears the red mask and weilds a pair of sai. He is aggressive in nature but is hesitant in throwing the first punch. And yes he is fierceful and sarcastic at times.
This Raphael that I am talking is actually named after Raphael Sanzio. Raphael is an Italian artist who was popular with the popes during his...
6 tags
Donatello of Ninja Turtles Is For Real
If you have watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, you would take notice of the purple ninja turtle because among the four mutants, this turtle is least violent. Donatello, the turtle, is a brilliant scientist, an engineer, an inventor, and a techno-savvy. As I’ve said, he is the least violent because he prefers to use his intellect to resolve conflicts and avoid head-on wars as much as he...
8 tags
Michaelangelo Is The Man
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, famously known as Michaelangelo, was a Renaissance man. He was a painter, an architect, a sculptor, poet and an engineer. This man was a genius, indeed! It can be recalled that he used to be the “contender” of Da Vinci in the arts, sciences and humanities. However, unlike Da Vinci, Michaelangelo is the best-documented artist of the sixteenth century....
June 2007
10 posts
11 tags
Da Vinci, A Genius!
Leonardo da Vinci was a genius. Not only he was a renowned painter, but he was everyone combined. He was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, sculptor, anatomist, architect, musician, writer and a botanist.
He is greatly treated as one of the greatest painters of all time. Many say he was perhaps the most talented person ever to have lived. His creativity and thoughts seem to be that of...
3 tags
Kama Sutra Can Save Relationships
Kama Sutra is an art. It is the art of love. It is about wisdom and understanding about exploring and honing one’s creativity. It covers three aims of life: virtue (dharma), prosperity (artha), and love (kama).
In the present times, kama sutra not only improves one’s creativity but also saves romantic relationships – those couples who encounter conflicts. If they can do this art right,...
3 tags
Kama Shastra is Kama Sutra
There is this concept called the art of making love. Yes, you guess it right. Kama Sutra. While the popular notion on kamasutra is the actual love making, let us investigate the beginnings of this art to help us understand its very essence throughout time.
It was the Indians who created Kama Shastra (or the rules of love) on the basis of the Vedas. The first compilation is attributed to...
8 tags
Gladiators' Art
The art of the Roman period has got a lot to do with that of the Greeks. Say for example, the sculptures of the Romans are likely to be compared with those of the works of the Greeks during the Hellenistic period. The sculptures for both genres are known for its large, multi-figure groups with intricate details and deep emotional intensity. Because of this, the works of the Hellenistic period of...
4 tags
Four Periods of Greek Art
The Greek art is divided into four periods: The Geometric Period, The Archaic Period, The Classical Period, and The Helenistic Period.
The Geometric Period is more popularly termed as the Geometric Art. This occurred during in the 8th century BC, wherein large-scale ceramic vessels were produced as grave markers. These vessels were originally designed with repeated angular patterns – the reason...
4 tags
World's Youngest Painter
I was inspired to continue my love for painting (even though it doesn’t love me back) when I learned about this youngest artist who, at the age of five, has already gained popularity all throughout the globe because of his special talent in art. This practically caught the attention of the country and the world!
It is surprising to know that this little boy from Thailand has started...
4 tags
Theater: A Conglomeration of All Arts
The concept of theater has sprung even in ancient times. Though not entirely known as theater, the rhythms dances and chants performed in remembrance of old rituals and traditions unique and made popular in tribal communities characterize the earlier forms of art and drama.
The theater can be treated a life form in itself. Actors, directors and the audience all gathered in what seems to be a close...
3 tags
Jack of All Trades
Ever since I was five, I always dream to be a renaissance man. I want to know everything in the fields of music, arts, and literature. I want to be the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Ludwig van Beethoven and Pablo Picasso.
My most favorite among these genius is Pablo Picasso. At a young age, he started travelling around the globe while we has exploring his interests and honing them. He was so...
About
I am a frustrated artist. I love art. I love everything about the arts. I think I will continue loving arts so as long as I live. I live for arts.
My definition of art is very broad. I consider every element in nature as part of art. I consider every invention as a result of art.
I believe that everyone has an artistic side. Unleashing our personalities means letting out the art in us. But I must...
5 tags
Money Out of Crap
Ever tried to make money out of trash? Yes, you have readit right. Making money out of trash is so quick and easy as one, two, three. Several organizations worldwide have, in fact, hosted “green projects” as they call it to promote recycling and greening the environment by innovating a product out from our own trashes. Several promotial materials have been released through the media – in prints,...