Cubism, highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories that … Read more
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. Nonetheless, he produced relatively few paintings and evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. … Read more
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, … Read more
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). The dimensions of the tennis court are 78 by 27 feet (23.8 by 8.2 metres) for singles and 78 by 36 feet (23.8 by 11.0 metres) for doubles. The height of … Read more
Cleopatra VII Philopator, often simply called Cleopatra, was the last of a series of rulers called the Ptolemies who ruled ancient Egypt for nearly 300 years. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. Cleopatra ruled an … Read more
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. It is played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes in a … Read more
The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church and has approximately 260 million baptized members. The Orthodox Church is characterized by its continuity with the apostolic church, its liturgy, and its territorial churches. Its adherents live mainly in the Balkans, the Middle East, and former Soviet countries. It operates … Read more
The astral body is a hypothesized spiritual counterpart to the physical human body that is said to exist on a different plane. The word “astral” means “of the stars”, thus the astral plane, consisting of the celestial spheres, is held to be an astrological phenomenon: “The whole of the astral portion of our earth and … Read more
Impressionism was an art movement in France at the end of the 19th century. It is perhaps the most important movement in the whole of modern painting. The Impressionists were a group of artists renowned for their innovative painting techniques and approach to using color in art. Their paintings became the most popular art form … Read more