Is she turning towards you or away from you? No one can agree. She’s the subject of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring,” a painting often referred to as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North.’ But what makes this painting so captivating? James Earle explains how this work represents the birth of
What we call entertainment is nothing other than our society’s most popular forms of art. This leads to the question of whether some forms of art are better than others. Is a Beethoven symphony better than a Katy Perry song? Is Romeo and Juliet better than the Twilight saga? In recent decades, many have answered
In order correctly to define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life. Viewing it in this way we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of intercourse between man
