Examples of Great Visual Artists and Their Work

August 6th, 2011 by admin

The best place to get information about visual artists, whether contemporary or from other periods, is to visit a museum or an art gallery. Art galleries, at least in cities like New York, are usually free. Books and websites can also give information about visual artists.

Some of the best visual artists are the Brussels-born Ren Magritte, who puzzled and enthralled viewers with his precise and surrealistic paintings of impossible situations. Another is the “primitive” French painter Henri Rousseau, his canvasses full of huge flowers and tropical plants and Read More »

What it Takes to Make It in Performing Arts

August 2nd, 2011 by admin

Finding work in the performing arts is getting more and more difficult, it is a very competitive field for sure and not for the faint at heart. Anyone desiring to enter this glamorous field needs to know what it takes to make it in the performing arts. First, a person needs to have a goal driven attitude, lots of patience and be resilient to criticism.
Being passionate is a definite quality in a performing arts person. While practicing their trade a person needs to play many character roles and they need to be Read More »