Author Archives: dmilyavsky

Please excuse the lateness of this post, I was absent the day of the assignment and just remembered I had to do it. The preeminent form of Greek art was sculpture. The Greek style was characterized by a respect for … Continue reading →

This question reminds me of the question of whether music is a language. For a second, I considered taking that post and replacing the word “music” with “dance,” and observe how well it would work. But then I decided that … Continue reading →

Our perceptions of beauty are due to a combination of genetics and cultural perceptions; in other words, both nature and nurture. It is interesting to think whether certain people are biologically programmed to be attracted to certain types of humans; … Continue reading →

Albert Einstein, who needs no introduction, once remarked that “it would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave … Continue reading →

Photography, just like painting, can be used either as an art or as a technic. Nowadays, painting is mostly used for art, but an example of it being used as a technic occurs when a painter paints the scene of … Continue reading →

I took a video of the Peace Fountain, near the Church of St. John the Divine. It primarily depicts the archangel Michael (not Gabriel, as I accidentally stated in the clip) slaughtering Satan, but also contains nine giraffes, a crab, … Continue reading →