Category: artist
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Learn How To Paint Using Watercolor: Essential Watercolor Techniques All Painters Need to Know
Ever wanted to learn how to paint using watercolor? My Modern Met has put together a handy guide to help both the eager beginner all the way through to the seasoned professional. Be sure to share this with someone who’s caught the painting bug! Watercolor painting has long been a favorite medium of expression for…
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Access the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled, All FREE Online
Some films achieve the rare feat of being both colorful escapist fantasy and artful means of reconnecting us with our imperiled humanity. Pixar’s wonderful, animated Coco is such a film, “an exploration of values,” writes Jia Tolentino at The New Yorker, “a story of a multigenerational matriarchy, rooted in the past—whereas real life, these days, feels…
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Rare Photos of Frida Kahlo Discovered as a Young Artist in the 1920s
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” Frida Kahlo de Rivera (1907-1954), born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, was a Mexican painter, who mostly painted self-portraits. She became one of Mexico's greatest painters. Kahlo contracted polio at the age of 6,…
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42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor To Help You Relax & Sleep
Back in 2009, the musician who goes by the name “Cheesy Nirvosa” began experimenting with ambient music, before eventually launching a YouTube channel where he “composes longform space and scifi ambience.” Or what he otherwise calls “ambient geek sleep aids.” Click on the video above, and you can get lulled to sleep listening to the ambient droning…
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‘This Is America’: The Childish Gambino Video Explained
Donald Glover – aka Childish Gambino – had quite a weekend last weekend. The actor, who has been riding high these days with both his series “Atlanta” and his role as young Lando Calrissian in the forthcoming “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” both hosted “Saturday Night Live” and was the musical guest as his rap/R&B…