Artists/Creatives

Roy Lichtenstein: The Artist Who Shocked The World

You will know it when you see it. Instantly recognisable and plainly ubiquitous it can be seen everywhere. From advertising billboards, to television, to comic books to art galleries the work of Roy Lichtenstein has permeated the fabric of our everyday lives. Thank you for visiting us for the first time. We hope you enjoy

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Walt Disney: The Individual That Lay Beneath The Mask

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Image is perhaps the most crucial component in human life. We base so much of our daily activities around appearances often without being aware of what is occurring. We use image and appearance to immediately identify what is right and wrong and what is safe and good. More critically it is also used to distinguish

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Joyce Hatto: The Great Pianist That Fooled The World

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In 2003, she would become the most famous pianist in the world. The toast and the envy of the music industry, Joyce Hatto rose from a place of previous obscurity to temporarily become the world’s transcendent piano player as a series of her recordings caused tidals waves throughout the classical music sphere.

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Xiaonan Sun: The Artist Who May Start A New Trend In Art

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Fashions and fads often stay the same for quite a considerable period of time. However, once in a while, a completely new trend or medium emerges that is unfamiliar, odd even. True art is about taking the ordinary, the everyday and making it alien, extraordinary.

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Sylvester Stallone: A Talented Writer Who Was Lost On The Screen

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During the 70′s one his creations caused a storm. He is noted for his tough-guy roles. For characters, that are mono-syllabic, emotionally suppressed macho-men. But his true talent took place before a camera was ever switched on. Sylvester Stallone may be famous for his action-hero image but it is his writing ability that alludes to

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Greatest Female Singers: Yellow Magpie’s Top Ten

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Down through the years, female singers have entertained and enthralled us. A good performer can bring an audience on a journey through powerful emotions. One minute they can make the heart soar the next make it break. That is the gift of a good performer, and strangely it is not always the best singers who can

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Julian Beever: The Incredibly Talented Street Artist Of Perspective

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Vicktor Shklovsky once wrote that the purpose of art was to make the familiar, unfamiliar. Julian Beever certainly achieves this with his dazzling street art paintings.

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Le Corbusier: The Man Who Tried To Destroy Paris

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He was a man at the heart of modernist architecture. He led the charge to build functional, modern buildings. If he had gotten his way he would have gutted the centre of Paris and turned it into an eyesore. The man who called himself, Le Corbusier, was one of the most influential architects of the

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