allegory, landscape paintings, paintings, the voyage of life, thomas cole

Thomas Cole’s ‘Voyage of Life’: Finding Joy in the Journey

In the late 1830s, Thomas Cole, an English-born American painter, was keen on advancing landscape painting to convey religion and moral values. In 1842, Cole fulfilled his aspiration by completing a four-part Romantic-style landscape painting, The Voyage of Life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age. Cole believed the genre of landscape painting could show universal ...

Nathan Machoka

Thomas Cole's painting, 'The Voyage of Life: Youth.'

Learn Something Good: Art Appreciation

The number of deaths, ongoing vaccine development, mass panicking, and other similar headlines are published on a daily basis by most news outlets around the world. Art and art appreciation lift this veil of doom and gloom. Sitting behind our windows and staring outside, we see that hope is still there. Life on Earth continues ...

Raven Montmorency

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, (1657-1658).

Indonesian Island Gives Up Its Ancient Cave Paintings

On a tiny Indonesian island, a large number of ancient cave paintings have been discovered. The island is called Kisar, which measures just 81 square kilometers, and was previously unexplored by archaeologists. Now, a team of researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have found a total of 28 rock art sites. The sites date ...

Troy Oakes

Anthropomorphs gesturing to sun/drum.