Abirpothi

India’s only daily art newspaper

June 2022

Remembering the artist who depicted Indian art in Indian Constitution with pictures

JUNE 15, ON THIS DAY The creator of illustrations in the original final manuscript of the Constitution of India including the complete Preamble page, Beohar Rammanohar Sinha, was born on this day, 15 June 1929. He is also the one who played a major role in spreading Indian art in the Far East, and brought […]

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Remembering the artist who worked with the intimate lives of contemporary women: Mary Cassatt

JUNE 14, ON THIS DAY Known for her perceptive depictions of women and children, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children, Mary Cassatt was one of the few American artists active in the nineteenth-century French avant-garde. She died on this day, June 14, 1926. She was a painter and a printmaker

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The artist who was named as the best painter of India in the 1970s by M. F. Hussain

JUNE 11, ON THIS DAY One of the most notable contemporary artists of Bengal Schools of Art whose dark imageries got him an international fame, Ganesh Pyne was born on this day, 11 June 1937. He was described as a man who ‘radiated a mysterious quality’ by filmmaker Pritish Nandy. Printed drawings by Abanindranath Tagore

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Alleged fakes halt exhibit at National Museum of Slovenia; German art collection to display Indian art gems

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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Sanjhi art makes its way to UP varsity syllabus; Met celebrates its employees’ art

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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Remembering Gustave Courbet, the fore-runner of the Realism Movement, on his birthday

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, a painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting was born on this day, June 10, 1819. His works were to later influence the Impressionists and the Cubists. Born in a family that strongly held anti-monarchical sentiments, he grew up to be a politically active individual, and this attitude

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