In the art world, the colour blue was highly sought after; however, in the Mayan world, it served quite a distinct purpose. As one can see in this portrait, the Virgin Mary has a Mayan quality, if one has studied the works and has categorized the process that the Mayan involved themselves in, in …

  Edvard Munch was the architect of the German Expressionist movement, and this painting is a charitable example of that period. Upon first the gaze, the scene is colorful and jovial; the young girl, who is dressed in brightly clothed in white above her waist, and black below her hips, is strongly suggesting a disturbance …

Energy and persuasion are the geometric paradigms of this early work by da Vinci. Passion, anger, and the arrival of something clandestine seems to be in the painting but cannot be seen by the viewer; da Vinci, even in his earliest work, was a master of tension presentation and symbolic gesture. In the smoky glass …

  Throughout his prolific career, Picasso met many fascinating eccentrics and vagabonds. One such person is horrifically captured in this dizzy and obscene portrait. This painting is replete with many crafted moods and acoustic emotion; it swims in front of the viewer! It captures Picasso’s personal signature of color, yet it is one of the …

  The Mysterious Monoliths of Easter Island   These monolithic human figures were carved by the Rapi Nui people of Polynesia between the years of 1250 and 1500. I have always been intrigued by these pieces for reasons too numerous to mention here; however, I shall relate the supreme contention as satisfaction enough. Of the …