When Sigmund Freud started writing and teaching about the importance of exploring memory and the unconscious mind, he intended to revolutionize the medical world, not the art world.
Read MoreArt or Eyesore? The Victor Emmanuel II Monument AKA "The Wedding Cake" In Rome
The glaringly white Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II AKA Altare della Patria AKA Il Vittoriano AKA The Victor Emmanuel II Monument AKA The Wedding Cake was built to honour the first king of unified Italy, Victor Emmanuel.
Read MoreArchitect Frank Gehry's Warped and Wonderful Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles
It's iconic, stunning, impressive, in a lot of movies, etc… but did you know that the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is an example of deconstructive architecture that shows the avant-garde tendency to disturb traditional architectural values of harmony, unity, and stability through the use of skewed, distorted and impure geometry?
Read MoreExploring Gaudi's Park Guell in Barcelona
Antoni Gaudi, one of the world’s most famous Modernist Architects, combined Gothic influences with inspiration from nature and innovative materials to create the marvelous Park Guell, located on a hill at the northern edge of Gracia in Barcelona.
Read MoreArtist Profile: Canadian Aboriginal Sculptor Stewart Steinhauer
According to Canadian Stewart Steinhauer, though he makes his living creating beautiful stone sculptures, he is not an artist but simply someone who “inadvertently makes stuff.”
Read MoreArt or Eyesore? The Eiffel Tower History You Probably Didn't Know
Nicknamed La dame de fer (the iron lady), the Eiffel Tower is one of the most well-recognized buildings in the world. This latticed iron structure, located in the Champ de Mais in Paris, was erected in 1889 for the World’s Fair of that same year.
Read MoreArtist Profile: The Stunning Sculptures of Canadian Artist Blake Ward
After spending a lazy Saturday afternoon savouring a cappuccino at my favorite local coffee shop, I wandered across the street attracted by a painted bronze sculpture in the window. The naked female figure had been captured in a moment of ecstasy with her head thrown back and her arms reaching skywards.
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