Leonardo da Vinci used a unique painting technique called sfumato, a subtle effect where shadows and lights blend together without visible transition. It is this...
Van Gogh saw colors as a powerful means to express his strongest personal emotions. For him, using bright yellow or vivid red was like projecting...
Van Gogh often chose bright and intense colors to directly express his emotions. He wanted to convey the world as he felt it, not just...
Salvador Dalí is considered a pioneer of the "paranoiac-critical" technique. This artistic method is based on the exploitation of the psychic mechanisms specific to paranoia...
The katana is the iconic sword of Japanese samurais, known for its formidable effectiveness in combat and its priceless symbolic value. But what makes the...
The Colosseum was built on an ancient marshy area, where there once was a small artificial lake belonging to Nero. Roman engineers cleverly took advantage...
The bodies of octopuses are shaped for natural backward propulsion. They draw water into their pallial cavity (a sort of muscular pocket around the body), then expel...
Frida Kahlo was never afraid to confront the representations of the female body head-on. She openly paints her own physical sufferings after her terrible accident: multiple fractures,...
This technique relies on materials that are accessible to everyone: just paper, a pair of scissors or a cutter, and sometimes some glue. There’s no...
The nocturnal bioluminescence in certain algae mainly comes from a natural ability to produce living light, thanks to a specific internal chemical reaction. This phenomenon...
