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Krispin JosephPX

Krispin Joseph PX, a poet and journalist, completed an MFA in art history and visual studies at the University of Hyderabad.

Isamu Noguchi: An Abstract Sculptor Who Blended East and West

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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Subodh Gupta: Critique of Social Order and Everyday Objects

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

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Auguste Rodin: Kiss, Thinker and the Hell that Shaped the History of Sculpture

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

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Jatin Das’s Retrospective: Visual Rhythm of Body, Metaphoric Abstraction of Lines

‘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

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Sandro Botticelli: Classical Portrayal of the Human Body in Renaissance

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

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

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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