To delineate something mighty beyond spatiotemporal thresholds—which is the essence of the sublime—has not yet reached a true consensus. Edmund Burke explores the concepts of the sublime and the beautiful in his 1757 work A…
Pop art is a famous 20th-century art movement. Famous artists like Andy Warhol embraced popular culture like advertising, comic books, and consumer goods. They presented familiar items in an impersonal way through repetition and monotony.…
Anticipator and forerunner of the imaginative epiphanies of the metaphysical and surrealist trends, Francisco Goya marks the beginning of the experimental psychology connected to the mechanisms of the unconscious, moving away from the classical tradition:…
Despite online gambling being a newer pastime, traditional gambling is an activity that goes centuries back. Therefore, it is not a surprise that some of the gambling paintings we know today go back to the…
Nothingness is the paradoxical and paroxical state of the All; it is everything that is not the All, including the All. The All belittles the Nothing, is a lacquered nail of it, its mocking caricature;…
The most obvious examples are painters, sculptors, and musicians. Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata has stirred the emotions of audiences around the world for centuries. The same goes for Michelangelo’s David, and da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.…