Acrylic paint has a rather recent history. It was invented and launched onto the market at the beginning of the 50's by researchers at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico City who wished to create a resistant and permanent artistic medium.

It's made out of pigments, the same used for oil colors and acrylic resin. This type of [Read more]

Additional ToolsFirmers and gouges are the principal instruments used in wood sculpture. However, many other complementary tools, employed in woodwork and cabinetmaking, can prove highly practical for sculptors: saws, planes, squares, jack planes, tracing irons, etc.

Generally, music from Africa is as varied and different as the countries which make up the continent. However, they share many points in common, including the omnipresence of percussion instruments, use of polyphony, and interweaving of musical patterns.

Ritual music holds a predominant place in Africa, where it accompanies events, [Read more]

In Africa, where the rate of illiteracy is still quite high, orality plays a very important role within the population. For a long time on this continent, writing has been reserved solely for the elite class of the educated, in particular Islamists.

Stories, whether real or fictitious, are thus verbally handed down, and create a kind of [Read more]

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, engraver, and mathematician. He's considered one of the very first master watercolorists. At the age of 15, in 1486, he learned to paint with gouache, oil, and watercolor in the studio of a Nuremberg artist, Michael Wolgemut. During his training, he equally developed great expertise in wood engraving, a [Read more]

Recognized as the first French animal painter, Alexandre-François Desportes was born in 1661. He studied art with Nicasius Bernaerts, a Dutch painter highly regarded for his canvases of animals, before being accepted by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.

Over the course of his career, Alexandre-François Desportes [Read more]