#artreview

Hello, friends! You’re probably tired of my posts about Axies, so today’s post will be about something different—something spiritual: art. I believe that each of us is, in some way, connected to something

When the paleolithic era ended with the end of the last great ice age, the area in the Middle East, known as the "fertile crescent", lay open for exploitation by the hunter-gatherer groups that

There can be no doubt in my mind, that the well known, so called, Venus figurines, is a tribute to the mother as a god like entity. Men (and women presumably) worshiped the mother as the source of life,

Cave paintings exist from many parts of the world, from around 50.000 to 15.000 years BP. one thing that is interesting to me is, that mouth-sprayed negative images of hands, is to be found many places

It is as fascinating to me to look at prehistoric artistry, as it is to look a piece of art from historical times. Time and again we have to revise our understanding of the capabilities of our long dead

Friedrich was a german romantic painter contemporary with Turner. There a clear similarities in their styles, though Friedrich is more religiously and allegorically founded while Turner went more in a

Toulouse-Lautrec was active in the last decades of the 1900's and died very young 37 years old in 1901. His often painfully honest art touches me exactly because of its honesty. I have a pocket-philosophy