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When Do I Plan To Stop Painting?

Leonardo da Vinci is credited with the statement, “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” It is this quote that captures the devotion but also the impossibility of completed artwork. At some point, the work on a piece must end, but the artist never really stops. The Idea Never Dies …
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The Still Life: Appreciation of Five Little Things

The most famous still life’s in history are paintings of fruit and flowers, very common objects generally resting on tabletops. They are unlikely characters in anti-climactic settings. Yet, they persist in modern times as popular art pieces. Halved avocadoes and watering cans full of flowers provide simple, unassuming pleasure …
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How Art Improves Mental Health

The world has experienced a lot of changes lately, and these changes are likely to continue. Many things that we would normally enjoy are inaccessible, but art still remains. Whether we begin our art journey by becoming an artist or appreciating the art hanging on our walls, it can …
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Telling Stories with Art

Art that captures the imagination tells a story that an audience gets to envision, and it is up to the artist to choose the point in the storyline, the perspective, and the action to help to guide that story. The story may be fiction or nonfiction, and it can …
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Opportunities in a Global Pandemic

In many ways, life is lacking in opportunity right now. The global pandemic has caused a huge increase in unemployment, and people’s plans have been halted or changed in ways we wouldn’t have thought possible before. However, times like these can provide some opportunities, and one of those opportunities …
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Do You Have to Die to Become a Famous Artist?

Society places value on limited editions and relics with few remaining counterparts. In economics, this is called scarcity value, and it is one of the reasons you have to die to be a famous artist. In the business world, people will buy stock based on its predicted future value. …
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What is Your Favorite Color and What Does it Mean?

The meaning of color has changed over time. For instance, black used to be a clothing color worn only by the wealthy, but now it is worn by any social class. A person’s preference for color during modern times is very topic-specific. For instance, the most popular favorite color …
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Imagination and Happiness

Imagination is the mind’s ability to wander through possibilities and impossibilities to create ideas and original thought. It is what drives innovation and invention, and we wouldn’t enjoy our modern comforts without it. Imagination also takes us out of our comfort zone. It makes us call into question accepted …
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Illustrating the Human Experience

The human experience is a messy wreck of happy circumstance, bumbling and humorous mistakes, and woeful tragedies. To put it simply, it’s a wreck. It’s also all we’ve got, and one thing we all have in common is the human condition. Illustrating the shared experience of being a human …
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