Featured Artist: Paul Cézanne
Born on 19 January 1839 in Aix-en-Provence Paul Cézanne, was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne’s often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. […]
Featured Artist: Michelangelo
Michelangelo, is considered as one the greatest artist who ever lived. He was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, near Arezzo, Tuscany. He is one of the three giants of the Florentine High Renaissance along with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael,. Although their […]
Shock Art
Art is a language sometimes political or revolutionary, a communication powerful enough to change the course of history. Art is a unique form of expression different for each artist yet capable to communicate universally. It is it’s broader spectrum that allows people to conceive and experiment new mediums within the art field. Sometimes art appears […]
Featured artist- Jean-Michel Basquiat
Born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American Painter belonging to ‘Neo-Expressionism’ who emerged as a street-smart graffiti, carefree-but-intense artist in New York. The magnitude of his work gave him immense fame in quick time and he led him to international art galleries. What is now every evident about him is […]
Featured Artist- Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani was the epitome of what can be termed a classical tragic artist. Born in Italy on July 12, 1884, he suffered considerably from childhood illnesses, the symptoms of which would persist throughout his life until his death from tuberculosis at the age 35 in 1920. Although he initially studied art in both Florence […]
Featured Artist- Ram Kinker Baij
One of the pioneers of modern Indian sculpture and a key figure of contextual modernism, Ram KInker Baij was born on 26 May 1906. Baij was from an economically modest family of Bankura district of the modern state of West Bengal in India. In that sense, he was a Bengali, not an Adivasi, as many […]
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Jean- Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn New York, on December 22, 1960. With a short spam of his artistic career jean Michel Basquiat achieved fame of a great artist. Basquiat went from being homeless and unemployed to selling a single painting for up to $25,000 in a matter of several years. On May […]
The Disasters of War
Francisco de Goya In November 1807, French troops invaded Spain and installed a new ruler. For the next six years, Spanish rebels fought the occupation; their resistance was the first ever to be termed “guerilla warfare.” It’s believed that in the early hours of May 3, 1808, French soldiers carried out orders to round up […]
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Dina Nath Walli Born in 1908 Dina Nath Wali also known as Almast Kashmiri was a renowned water color artist and poet from Kashmir. He played a great role in bringing up Modern Art movement in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Works of Dina Nath Wali are known for visual depiction of everyday scenes […]
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Vincent Van Gogh “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done” Vincent Willem Van Gogh who highly influenced 20th century art throughout his life remained poor and unknown. A post impressionist […]
