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INDIA                       Landscape and Geography India is basically a peninsula, with the Arabian Sea on the west, the Bay of Bengal on the east, and the Indian Ocean to the south. The Himalayan Mountains separate India from much of the rest of Asia and China. […]

Stencil Graffiti Stencil graffiti uses the idea of painting on walls and tagging random signs by using a stencil made of cardboard or another medium. It is tamed graffiti, yet it still is a form of artistic expression. Artists use this medium of expression for social and political commentary. Stencil graffiti is associated with political […]

Sea creatures are animals that live in the sea.   These creatures include sea mammals, sea reptiles, salt water fish, saltwater crustaceans, saltwater molluscs and saltwater worms.  Although seahorses are fish and squid, cuttlefish and octopus are all molluscs they can come under the heading of sea creatures because of their unusual characteristics. Sea (Marine) […]

Bridget Riley Bridget Riley was born in Norwood, South London in 1931. Her father, John Fisher Riley, originally from Yorkshire, was a printer, as was his father before him.  In 1938, her father relocated the printing business to Lincolnshire and the family moved with it. In 1939, when war broke out her father was drafted into […]

The story of ancient Egypt has survived for thousands of years.  Egypt was one of the greatest civilizations of the past. The monuments and tombs of their Pharaohs continue to stand intact today, some 4,000 years later! Where in the world is Egypt? Egypt is situated in the northeast corner of the Africa (see map below). […]

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian painter and architect. He was born in Vienna as Friedrich Stowasser on 15 December 1928. In 1936 he attended the Montessori School in Vienna for a year. His school report talks about his “unusual sense of colour and form”. After his school graduation in 1948, Friedensreich spent three months at […]

Kinetic typography—the technical name for “moving text”—is an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas using video animation. This text is presented over time in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion. Designing a typeface from scratch is one of the most challenging tasks imaginable, but if you […]

“The ocean is like a soup of plastic mostly composed of fragments invisible to the human eyes, killing life and affecting dangerously our health.” First watch this video – it will certainly give you food for thought:   The environmental impacts resulting from the accumulation of plastic waste are huge and ever increasing.   Plastic rubbish affects wildlife, […]

  The Corset through the Ages A corset is a close-fitting piece of clothing that has been stiffened by various means in order to shape a woman’s torso to conform to the fashionable silhouette of the time.  The term “corset” only came into use during the 19th century; before that, such a garment was usually […]

History of the Waistcoat King Charles II introduced the waistcoat as a part of correct dress during the Restoration of the British monarchy. Samuel Pepys, the diarist, wrote on the          7th October 1666 that “the King hath yesterday in council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes which he will never alter. It […]

The History of Graffiti Art Graffiti is not always referred to as art: sometimes it is referred to as vandalism. This is because it involves the scrawling or painting of something on someone else’s property such as buildings, signs, billboards and even vehicles. This mostly art form has existed since ancient times and continues to […]