The Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s infamous interior paintings of the Old Testament across large vaulted ceilings, strikes its magnificence to all who walk in. However, the admiration it receives from visitors…
Author: Shannon Wu
Sticking to the Timeline
Lately, I’ve strangely begun to pay more attention to costume designing in cinema. Raised concerns about the portrayal of silhouettes in period pieces introduced new arguments made about designing in…
Friends and Rivals
Whenever I first looked at Vincent Van Gogh’s self portrait his missing left ear had always been distinct from the rest of his features. The mishap is undocumented, but it…
Banana Art is Genius
Food is everywhere. And I’m not referring to the leftover plates of Greek salad on your 10 feet dining table or the assorted plump fruits in the chilled, sprinkled rows…
100 Days of Ballet
I have never understood what made ballet interesting, not until I watched ballet videos for a hundred days. It is generally conceived that preparing for the arts start at the…
The Feud: Modern Art
If you’ve ever stared at a canvas with a bunch of lines scrapped with only a splash of color, most likely you would think it does not belong in a…