Why Art? Any form of Art is devoted to (providing) joy, and there is not any higher and not any more serious duty than to make the human beings happy. With this quote, Frederick Schiller makes a statement...

There’s more to the paintings of Ma Yuan than meets the eye. Ma Yuan, (1160-1225) was a Southern Song Dynasty, Chinese painter from an illustrious family of academy artists. He lived during a cultural zenith when Chinese achievements...

Painter and illustrator Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) was born in America, but he spent most of his career in England. He loved all things British, particularly the works of William Shakespeare. Abbey first visited England in 1878 to...

Being an English teacher, so much of what I look at is linked to the literary world.  With the previous examination specification, we used to be able to do a series of war poems for examination that the students...

Have you ever been so in love with a scene from a book that it made you think (sometimes loudly): “Well that would make a perfect painting!”? If you have ever experienced this feeling, you shared an experience...

Today I would like to talk about Charles Keeping, an illustrator whom I discovered in my childhood. You may already be familiar with his work, perhaps from your own childhoods and especially if you were ever a fan...

“To be or not to be, that’s the question”. With that simple sentence, you certainly remembered one of the greatest geniuses in universal literature, did you not? William Shakespeare, author of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet is one...