We very often associate percussion instruments with Africa, due to their omnipresence in the traditional music of this continent. Ritual music has long played a highly important role there. It's believed that the successive repetition of certain rhythms enables one to produce hypnotic music inducing the dancer into a state of [Read more]

In art, perspective is a graphic technique that creates the feeling of distance, depth, and position of elements represented on a flat surface; and bestows on painted or drawn landscapes, characters, and objects a three-dimensional aspect.

If certain works seem to presume some knowledge of perspective in the ancient arts, it was [Read more]

Photography is the process of recording images by capturing light on a photosensitive medium. It's equally an art form that distinguishes itself from others by representing raw reality, as, prior to the invention of digital, dissimulation of defects and imperfections was quite difficult.

Invented more than 150 years ago, photography was [Read more]

Born in the Netherlands in 1872, Piet Mondrian tried his hand at several different forms of art before experimenting with the techniques which were to make him famous and connect him with abstract art. Later on, he became interested in cubism, a springboard which propelled him towards the making of canvases characterized by the use of [Read more]

A pigment is a very finely ground colored substance. This results in small colored particles which can be mixed with a liquid binder to produce paint. In this way, the tiny colored fragments put into suspension can be easily applied to a surface and adhere to it.

Natural pigments can be derived from the most diverse materials: plants, [Read more]

Generally speaking, poetry is a language art based on musicality and rhythm. Its goal is to express emotions and feelings through the resources of language.

Derived from the Greek "poiêsis", meaning "creation", poetry arose from oral tradition. In point of fact, in the days of Antiquity, oral transmission was [Read more]