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“Driven by Greed” This is a time when the middle class is being eroded by an economy where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.This is also a time where more than 90% of the wealth is in the hands of less than 5% of the world population.As a result, a lot of people...

The World Life & Humanity are a set of poems which try to enlighten the reader about the world, life and humanity at large. It tries to open the mind and enrich the thinking. No Repetition Breath of life is taken constantly, Each breath of life a fresh one be; -...

PhotographyA digital camera takes light and focuses it via the lens onto a sensor made out of silicon. It is made up of a grid of tiny photosites that are sensitive to light. Each photosite is usually called a pixel, a contraction of "picture element". There are millions of these individual pixels...

Paul Signac was a neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Under Monet's influence Signac abandoned the short brushstrokes of impressionism to experiment with scientifically juxtaposed small dots of pure color, intended to combine and blend not...

Anders Leonard Zorn (1860 –1920) was Sweden’s artist who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and print-maker in etching. His fame abroad is founded mostly on his portraiture where he had the ability to capture the character and the personality of the depicted person. But also his...

Albrecht Dürer was certainly the most significant painter and engraver of the Northern Renaissance. Living in Nuremberg, between Netherlands and Italy, he found inspiration in the two most important centers of art at his time. But instead of simply imitating, Dürer goes own way of discoverer. He has...

Joseph Mallord William Turner was English painter, one of the greatest and most original of all landscape painters. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting. Although renowned for...

Evelyn De Morgan (1855 – 1919) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter. During her lifetime Evelyn De Morgan produced approximately 102 oil paintings and over 300 drawings. At first glance, works like Flora (1894), Cadmus and Harmonia (1877), Eos (1895) and Night and Sleep (1878) appear to be that of...

Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843 – 1902) was a Polish 19th-century painter active in the period of foreign Partitions of Poland, and best remembered for his monumental Academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament, owned...

Francisco Goya is considered as the most significant painter of Spain for the late 18-th and near the beginning 19-th centuries. Over the line of his extended career, he transformed from cheerful and bright to deeply negative in his paintings and drawings. Goya completed some 500 oil paintings and murals,...

George Romney was a British painter who was one of the leading society portraitists of the 18th Century. Romney was a prolific painter and produced about 2,000 paintings and 5,000 drawings during his lifetime. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including...

Claude Monet was an important figure in the Impressionism that changed painting in the end of the 19 century. During his livelihood, he constantly painted the landscape and leisure time behavior of Parisians and its surrounding area in addition to the Normandy coast. He traces the approach to 20-century...

William Holman Hunt (1827 – 1910) was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid color and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle,...

For a woman, her legs are the second most important part of her body. Most women want thinner, longer legs. Of course, longer legs will only be given for those who were lucky enough to be born with tall genes. However, thin legs are a whole different matter.  Thin legs are achievable and...