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Gaza, the largest prison in the world, is being transformed into an abattoir. The word Strip (from Gaza Strip) is being drenched with blood, as happened sixty-five years ago to the word ghetto. –John Berger (2009) We are living in a time of war, where Israeli troops are waging a military campaign against the Palestinian […]
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French Baroque painter Nicholas Poussin, sometimes Nicolas Poussin, was born in Les Andelys, Normandy, on June 15, 1594. He was an influential player in the formation of European classical art and is frequently regarded as one of the best painters of the 17th century. The classical clarity, composition, and intellectual rigour define Poussin’s art. The
Nicholas Poussin: Classicism and Baroque Allegory, Messages from a Mythical Land Read More »
Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was a prominent Japanese-American artist and landscape architect. In Los Angeles, California, he was born to a Japanese father and an American mother. Noguchi is a multi-media artist whose work includes sculpture, furniture, ceramics, set design, and public art installations. Noguchi is most recognised for his sculptures, which frequently merge a strong
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In terms of Indian art historical writing, who was BN Goswamy? Goswamy is considered India’s finest specialist on miniature art, a prominent art historian and critic who has made significant contributions to the study and appreciation of Indian art, and he has produced over 25 volumes on art and culture. According to B N Goswamy,
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Indian contemporary artist Subodh Gupta is well-known for his mixed-media and sculpture installations. Gupta, born in Khagaul, Bihar, India, in 1964, continually explores subjects of daily life, Indian culture, and international affairs in his artwork. He became well-known worldwide for using commonplace things—especially kitchenware made of stainless steel—to create expansive installations. Gupta’s obsession with the
Subodh Gupta: Critique of Social Order and Everyday Objects Read More »
French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) is recognised as one of the most influential and avant-garde artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His most celebrated works are the bronze statue “The Thinker,” which symbolises thinking, and the masterwork “The Gates of Hell,” which features several well-known characters from the Inferno, the first section
Auguste Rodin: Kiss, Thinker and the Hell that Shaped the History of Sculpture Read More »
‘Jatin Das is a bearded and wiry man who, when I meet him, always seems in a state of excitement over trivial as well as what art critics call “intense” perceptions of the world we both breathe, the world in which his arm whirls, not hurling but placing colours on the canvas before him. As
Jatin Das’s Retrospective: Visual Rhythm of Body, Metaphoric Abstraction of Lines Read More »
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
Sandro Botticelli: Classical Portrayal of the Human Body in Renaissance Read More »
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
Johannes Vermeer: Charming Beauties and Other Dutch Stories Read More »
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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