The purpose of art may be difficult to attach to single concept as it has played different functions throughout its history. Art critics and artists themselves came up with different...

A pioneer of socio-political painting and a fearless artist of Pakistan Abdul Rahim Nagori was born in 1939. He did his masters in fine art from the Punjab University in...

The pandemic has drawn confines around us and, as a result, we have begun to find a new normal for ourselves and are quickly trying to adjust to the changed...

In war torn Syria were millions of people have been displaced and thousands have lost their lives a local Syrian civil society organization, Kesh Malek(or checkmate) is working to supply...

Bengal Famine is one among many catastrophic events that exposed human inadequacy and swiped millions of people from the face of earth. A manmade disaster the Bengal famine of 1943...

Artist and Artwork Born on 11 September 1894 Gert Heinrich Wollheim was a German expressionist painter who later moved to New York City and obtained American Citizenship. Originally from Dresden-Loschwitz...

For most of the people in India as well as outside of India, the story of Kashmir begins in 1947 with the huge political developments unfolding in the subcontinent right...

Born in 1937 in Saurashtra  Gujarat, Painter, art historian, teacher and writer Gulam Mohammed Shiekh is one of the pioneering figures in Indian art history. Recipient of  Padmashri  (1983) and...

Known as the “Michelango of Caricature,” Honore Daumier was a prolific painter, printmaker, sculptor, and caricaturist. He was born on 26 February 1808 in the south of France, in Marseille,...

Vasudeo S. Gaitonde (V. S. Gaitonde) was regarded as one of India's foremost abstract painters, although he himself called his work "non-objective" and believed that "there is no such thing...