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Archive for July, 2011


Handmade Cards and Birthday Cards

When my children were little they often made me handmade cards and presents and they always included lots of circles and crosses to show how much they loved me. They were very creative, with every card being one of a kind and not impersonal like mass produced cards. The cards and special gifts always meant [...]

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Design Relationships between Painting and other Visual Arts

The philosophy and pathos of a particular era in painting have usually been reflected in many of its other visual arts. The ideas and aspirations of ancient cultures, of the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical periods of Western art and, more recently, of the 19th-century Art Nouveau and Secessionist movements were displayed in much of [...]

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