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Sandro Botticelli: Classical Portrayal of the Human Body in Renaissance

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured / 22/09/2023 25/09/2023

In Leonardo Da Vinci’s treatise, he mentioned one name, an artist named Sandro Botticelli, as his Contemporain. Botticelli (1445-1510) was an Italian painter in the Early Renaissance, ignored for centuries and reinvented in the late 19th century. He is considered one of the greatest artists, portraying the linear classiness of late Italian Gothic and some …

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Johannes Vermeer: Charming Beauties and Other Dutch Stories

Artist Profile, Featured / 21/09/2023 21/09/2023

Johannes Vermeer may be the artist praised as a master with few paintings. A few domestic interior paintings of middle-class people made him renowned and legendary, and count him as one of the Dutch Golden Age’s greatest painters with Rembrandt. Vermeer was an art dealer when he was recognised as a painter, which made his …

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Antoni Gaudi: Architects of Visual Ideas, Considered ‘God’ as Client

Featured, Room For More Art / 19/09/2023 20/09/2023

Antoni Gaudi is considered the most significant Spanish architect and the most eminent exponent of Catalan Modernism in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Barcelona City is elegantly enfolded with Antoni Gaudi’s architectural beauties in the heart of Spanish life as their cultural essence. Mathematical aspects are the significant elements of Gaudi’s architectural …

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We Should Know Why Husain Paint Hindu Goddess only

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured / 17/09/2023 20/09/2023

M F. Husain may be the only Indian artist exiled because of the Artwork. Why Husain was exiled to the Gulf and lived in Qatar and London is a subject of free speech and art expression in the Indian context. We Indians did not allow him to stay in a great, civilised country because he …

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Yayoi Kusama: Queen of Pop Art, Conquer the World with Polka-Dot

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured / 15/09/2023 18/09/2023

The story of Kusama is fascinating for many reasons. She studied traditional Japanese painting style and moved to New York in 1958, inspired by American Abstract Impressionism, became a part of the Avant-Garde movement, especially pop art, hugging hippie culture in the 1960s, got public attention when she exhibited herself as brightly coloured polka dots …

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Marcel Duchamp: A Rebellious Father of Modern Art

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured / 14/09/2023 15/09/2023

What is Art for you? Do you believe Art is pleasing to the eye and not the mind? In the case of visual Art, viewers have considered it for centuries for the ‘eye’; everybody is a viewer in visual Art. Before the 20th century, people did not even think visual Art was for the ‘mind’; …

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Gustave Courbet: Critic of Romanticism, Founder of Social Realism

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured / 13/09/2023 13/09/2023

Art scholars argued about Gustave Courbet, a founding father of the politically-motivated Realism campaign, revolutionising the European art setting. He is regarded as an originator and initiated the route for the Impressionists and, eventually, the genesis of modern art in Western art. In each art history domain, people are working to mark their names as …

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Judith Leyster: Forgotten Master in the Dutch Golden Age

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured / 13/09/2023 14/09/2023

In the book ‘How the Personal Became Political’, edited by Michelle Arrow, Angela Woollacott collects many critical writings on art and culture. In this book, an article, ‘How the personal became (and remains) political in the visual Arts Chapter’ by Catriona Moore and Catherine Speck, extensively argues about the feminine space in visual art. In …

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Hanuman and Magical Herbs: Priyantha Udagedara’s Visual Fiction for Dead People

Columns, Featured / 11/09/2023 11/09/2023

In the Indian context, Hanuman has been a hot topic for many decades, yet there has been controversy because of the myth used to attack non-Hindu. Hanuman Chalisa is a political tool in India under the Modi rule, and many ‘attacks’ news appeared from different parts of the country in the name of Hanuman. In …

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(En)closed With Voices of South Asia, Resonating Visual Idioms

Exhibitions, Featured / 08/09/2023 08/09/2023

Delhi Contemporary Art Week displays the new voices from, in a broader sense, the Global South as a territorial and political identity, resonating with the socio-economic contrasts and backdrops. In a canvas or mixed medium, from a minimalistic point of view, artists bring pristine ideas and perspectives, a playful abundance of disciplined mediums, or even …

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