Comedy: Through humor and entertainment, comedy mocks the vices and faults of society.

Tragedy: Tragedy generally portrays characters of noble rank or divinities, who generally come to a disastrous end or unfortunate fate.

We consider generally Rodolphe Töpffer as the inventor of the comic strip. In 1827, to distract his pupils, this teacher at a boarding school, born in Switzerland, began to illustrate short, comic stories and distribute them. Several years later, in Great Britain, the series Ally Sloper's Half Holiday appeared, closely resembling today's [Read more]

Constantin Brancusi was born in Romania in 1876. At the age of 18, he left his native village to study art, more precisely sculpture on wood. He journeyed to Paris, in 1904, to work with Antonin Mercié and thus perfect his knowledge.

He finally received his diploma several years later, before exhibiting his works at the Autumn [Read more]

In a general way, we call "craftsmanship" the work of a single person or group with a limited number of individuals who manually produce an object and use only a limited variety of tools and materials. However, the term is greatly contested, since no-one agrees on what it should designate or exclude.

Craftsmen are generally [Read more]

In Canada, craftsmanship enjoyed an important rise during the 50's. At the time, they advocated values of self-sufficiency, which undoubtedly fed this popularity. Utilitarian objects, or art, made by local craftsmen were then preferred to those assembled in factories.

Today, it's estimated that more than 1.5 million Canadians spend at [Read more]

To take part in the pictorial revolution of the turn of the 20th Century, the followers of Cubist painting, the most famous of whom were Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Francis Picabia, proposed an art in which objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in abstracted form, devoid any coherent sense of depth.

Notably inspired by [Read more]