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The Evolution of Primitive and Sophisticated Neural Networks

Posted On June 4, 2019

The human brain has 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) connections and 86,000,000,000 (86 billion) neurons, which is more connections and neurons than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Ironically, the majority of the most successful creatures on Earth do not have […]

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Prince Albert’s Philanthropic Project of the South Kensington Museum

Posted On May 8, 2019

Prince Albert owned the worlds largest collection of Raphael reproductions with over 50 unique portraits. Albert commissioned a photographer to go into the Vatican Museum in Rome, Italy and take photographs of all Raphael works. These photographs of course lacked […]

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The Defiant American Natural Landscape Art Form and Luminism

Posted On February 18, 2019

Artists in the America’s who continually pushed further west, pioneered the technique of “luminism” which used light effects and concealed brush strokes to create paintings which were considered so overwhelming detailed that opera glasses were needed to fully appreciate their […]

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Chinese Landscape Painting

Posted On January 25, 2019

Landscape painting came into itself during the 10th century in China and by the 11th century, the art form had inlaid deep roots into the Song Dynasty and Chinese culture as a whole. Painting academies were established and books were […]

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Giorgio Vasari; The Person Accredited with Creating the Term “Renaissance”

Posted On January 17, 2019

The person who is accredited with creating the term “renaissance” is Giorgio Vasari. Vasari published a book entitled “Le Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori” which means “The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects” in […]

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Islamic Carpet Design

Posted On December 19, 2018

Carpet weaving is thought to have originated in Central Asia more than 2000 years ago, but it was the Islamic culture which shifted it into an art form. Many Islamic traditions have long frowned upon the depiction of sentient beings […]

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Ansel Adams’ Genius and Process

Posted On December 18, 2018

The American photographer Ansel Adams pushed the mechanical process of photography into an art form during the 1920’s. Adams’ method was to work backward from the image he had visualized within his mind and then anticipate the moment when the light […]

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The Decoding of the Rosetta Stone 

Posted On November 22, 2018

The decoding of the Rosetta Stone was a massive breakthrough, taking 20 years to achieve, and shaping archeology into a science, distancing itself from the art form it had been regarded as prior. For the first time in history, the […]

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