Artist and Artwork
By: Houmam Al Sayed Houmam Al Sayed is a Syrian contemporary painter and sculptor born in 1981 in Damascus, Syria. After studying sculpture, Al Sayed oriented his work to large-scale figurative paintings. Houmam Al Sayed graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Institute of Applied Arts in Damascus in 2003. He began exhibiting his work […]
FOOD and ART
By: Ghazala Fatima An art that can be felt, touched, smelled and even tasted. Yes, it is food art and it is very common form of art that we see in our daily life. In our home we see our mother making efforts on making salads beautiful or the chef making a flower out of […]
Ruined creativity
When it comes to art one expects something innovative, extraordinary, sublime. Why not? an artwork should have the tendency to invoke emotions and bring viewer towards it. Artists have been using their skill and creativity from centuries with utmost sincerity to create a relationship between artwork and the viewer and in most of the cases […]
Mexican Muralism
Mexican Muralism was a movement that began in early 1920s in Mexico in which the government commissioned artists to make art that would educate Mexicans about the country’s history and present a powerful vision of its future. The movement was an effort to reunify the country under the post-Mexican Revolution government. From the 1920s to […]
Mequitta Ahuja
Mequitta Ahuja was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1976. She is a contemporary American feminist painter of African American and South Asian descent who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work is mainly representation of multicultural heritage and the construction of identity that is depicted in vivid self-portraits and figures. Ahuja shares the mixed heritage […]
Mir Sayyid Ali Master of Tabriz
Mir Sayyid Ali,the master of miniature painting and founder of Mughal school of painting started his career in Persia. Initially Mir worked in the ateliers of the Safavid monarchs Shah Ismail and Shah Tahmasp, before joining the Mughal Emperor Humayun’s temporary court in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1549. And later in 1555, He accompanied the Emperor […]
Red, a magical colour
By: Ghazala Fatima How can a single colour symbolize diverse feelings? a red stain of blood can scare to death and the red flower can evoke a feeling of love into you. Red, such a powerful hue it is, has a power to representstrongest emotions. It can symbolize danger, warning, violence,death, war and anger and […]
Art and emotions
By: Ghazala Fatima How can an expression or a dialogue bring tears in many eyes, one phrase of a song gives goose bumps to many listeners, a single joke brings laughter to many audiences and an image can evoke feeling of resistance or encourage spirits of many? Artists have a beautiful ability to evoke such […]
Reverspective Art
Perspective in art usually refers to the representation of three-dimensional objects or spaces in two dimensional artworks. By using perspective techniques artists are able to create a realistic impression of depth. Perspective has been alongside with art for a long time and it has been extensively employed by artists in their paintings. As artists grew […]
Twisters Twisting
Twisters are the people who twist balloons into different forms to create balloon animals and other twisted balloon sculptures; they are also called as Balloon Benders or more simply Balloon Artists. The art of twisting, is the most common and attractive public art practiced and appreciated around the globe. The most beautiful thing about this […]
