A close look at the rule of thirds and the golden ratio. What do they have in common? What's their history? Let’s have a closer look at the history of these so-called rules to get a better understanding.

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Like any artist, Gustav Klimt needed inspiration and found it in Emilie Flöge, a well-known fashion designer who became his muse, life companion, and lover.

Neo-impressionism is a style of painting that emerged during the late 19th and early 20th century. It was a smaller off-shoot of Impressionism, and the two styles share many similarities, such as an interest in the depiction of light, and the observation of everyday life. But the two styles are also distinct from one another.

Music and mathematics share more in common than is typically realized of them. Many of these connections were made by Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher, who was frequently alluded to in many images about or including to Music in the Renaissance period in many famous works such as Raphael’s The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia and The School of Athens and Pinturicchio’s Musica and more.

The Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily stands as a visual and historical jewel. The building itself is a is the harmonic architectural hybrid of some of the most advanced civilizations of the time: Islamic, Byzantine and Norman, apparent within the nave ceiling, muqarnas framing, opus sectile flooring, mosaics and structure of the Cappella Palatina.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Massachusetts is an internationally recognized museum with the "finest" collection of Japanese art outside of Japan but an event created in 2015 caused in uproar in the Asian community.

On a brisk November day in 1878, luminaries of the London art world and members of the press gathered in Old Bailey courthouse to witness an unusual trial. The American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler was suing the eminent art critic John Ruskin for libel, his response to a particularly harsh review. Though the trial only lasted two days, it would become a source of bitter resentment for the rest of both men’s lives. More significantly, the lawsuit spurred a debate about the values of art, as well as the role and creative freedoms of artist and critic in society.

Avant-garde Canadian artist wants to promote Thai culture on his fourth giant easel weighing 12 tonnes

Could Rattanakosin be the perfect neighborhood? Can urbanites really survive in these nostalgic dwellings without expressways and trains to whisk them into town? BK finds out about the slow life before the arrival of the MRT changes everything.

In 2010, the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filled Tate Modern’s entire Turbine Hall with over 100 million sunflower seeds. But why did he make it?