Arts
What Wheel It Be?
Using Singapore Flyer — the World’s Largest Giant Observation Wheel — as inspiration, artists from all walks of life, age 2 to 60 years old, took flight with their creativity and turned the wheel into anything they could imagine. All types of medium were welcomed, from water colour to collage, digital art, crayons and recycled material. The 22 pieces that are now exhibited at Singapore Flyer were handpicked from some 200 diverse entries received for the “What Wheel It Be” competition, held from Jan to March 2008.”
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms. ~ Albert Einstein
Claude Monet – Founder of French Impressionist Painting
Claude Monet Paintings | Claude Monet Biography | Claude Monet Calendar – sweet memories | Castle Paintings | Cottage Drawings |
Medieval Cottage Paintings | Khalil Gibran Arts | Khalil Gibran Life | Khalil Gibran Biography |
More Cliparts | Dolls Cliparts |
Glitter Dolls Cliparts | Dolls Graphics | Princess Cliparts
Show Me The Way
What is Optical Illusion?
My View of Optical Illusion
My Arts
Artist of The Body
On the evening of 6 March 1475, a baby boy was born in Florence to Lobodvico di Buonarroti Simoni, an old aristocratic Florentine family, who named him Michelangelo di Buonarotti Simoni. It was a prophetic name, for this child was indeed like an angel who came to spread beauty…
Throughout his long life, Michelangelo Buonarroti created masterpieces in sculpture, painting and architecture. Unlike many great artists, Michelangelo was recognized as one of the most talented artists during his own lifetime. He was born in Italy in 1475 and died in 1564. Today he is considered one of the most important artists to have ever lived.
Michelangelo lived during the period called the Renaissance. Throughout Europe, people had taken a new interest in the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Michelangelo was captivated by classical art, especially by the way Greek and Roman artists had shown the human body. They had wanted the figures they painted and carved, or cut into shape, to look as real as possible. Michelangelo studied the human form to make his figures likelike too. His paintings and sculptures celebrate the beauty of the human body.
Moving The Giant To City Square
Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1501. He had heard that the new government was looking for a sculptor to carve a large block of marble. The marble was 18 feet (5.5m) tall. Years before, a sculptor had started to carve the marble but had done a poor job and had left it. Because of Michelangelo’s success with the Pieta, the leaders of Florence gave him the job. Michelangelo, using tools such as special chisels and hammers, worked inside a shed so that he could be alone. He carved David, a sculpture of an Old Testament figure in the Bible. As a young man, David had killed Goliath, a giant, by taking Goliath down with his slingshot. Florentines saw themselves in David. They had lived through many wars in their city. Like David, they were small but were brave and strong. Michelangelo finished David in 1504. It established Michelangelo as a leading sculptor.
