This segment is about how artists and writers rely on symbolism to help convey their ideas. The Narrator walks the viewer through a symbolic analysis of a photograph by Wang Fen, “On the Wall: Haiku 6 ...

Dandelions have been used as a symbol in art and literature for centuries. They often represent the fleeting nature of life ...

rendering art emptied of any historical or symbolic representation. In a 1952 ARTnews article, Harold Rosenberg coined the term “action painting” with Pollock in mind, and wrote that “what ...

May 18 at 6:00 a.m. Edible things are a staple of art, but that doesn’t mean they are simply food. They can also be religious and political symbols, signs of wealth and class, and, today ...

The heart as an organ, blood and all As an organ, the heart is most often represented in European art from the Middle Ages onwards in a more anatomically correct manner than the symbol we have ...