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British-born surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington was rebellious by nature and inspired by fairy tales and fiction and did surrealistic painting and wrote whatever she wanted to be. Leonora Carrington was born into a wealthy family, her mother was of Irish descent, and she got familiar with Irish folklore and fairy tales through her […]
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism and the Wild Dreams of an Artist Read More »
Indian women’s attire and ornaments have a story that has fascinated many travellers and invaders for centuries. The evolution of classical dance in South Indian territorial space is also a fascinating story and history. Indian dance, the ornamental beauty, has seduced the audience with their dance and attire. With their ornaments, dancers can distinguish from
Fonseca, A Portuguese Painter Who Painted South Indian Hindu Women Read More »
Why men will always be men? How could men manage the ‘Menness’ in their bodies as a symbol? A six-pack muscle symbolised Men as masculine image. But masculinity has never been satisfied with the ‘Six-pack’ body that anyone can make with a proper workout. A moustache is solid to express ‘Menness’ in social settings. Is
An Illustrated Story about Moustache and Masculinity in Bharti Kher Painting Read More »
Is Parviz Tanavoli a poet or a Prophet in contemporary Iranian Art? Parviz became a popular and pioneering figure in Iranian Art over the last six decades, and he used Persian traditions to modernise and reinterpret Iranian Art. After completing his studies in Art in Tehran in the 1950s, Parviz started to create Artwork that
Parviz Tanavoli: The Poet and the Beloved King of Iranian Pop Art Read More »
The artworks are rare and invaluable because of many reasons. Some artworks are more priceless and treasured than others because of their historical significance and employing scope with time and space. Some works may be preserved as a nation’s treasure, not allowed to carry outside the country’s border. The British government declared ‘the allegorical Painting
Allegory of Two Ladies: Gender, Race and Colour in One Painting Read More »
The Sleeping Gypsy is an iconic painting by Henri Rousseau about the youthful curiosity of the wandering people in French cities in the dramatic periods of the mid-nineteenth century. For art lovers, Rousseau is a man or a visual myth that flows from the painting to the viewer’s soul with stories and Nature. How he
Only Dreams Knows How to Sleep Like a Gypsy Read More »
In 2004, Haiti was revisited by its ghosts, by the memories and realities of dictatorship and political violence, and, most strikingly, by the French and American troops once again on Haitian soil, spectres of the first black republic’s unfinished history, revenants whose very presence in Haiti is an unavoidable reminder of a nation’s failings, of
A Visual Dialogue with Three Heroes in Haitian Revolution Read More »
It’s not surprising that the real-life experience is reflected in the artwork. We use painting or literature to understand the social settings of a time because they might be included in that ‘creative’ expressions. What is creative is not something that excludes all those social realities; some painters may use the facts to create an
‘Times We Live In’: When Migrant Labours Comes to Painting Read More »
What is Ibis known best for painting or inhabiting the wetlands, forest or plains? Or do they do what artists do with canvas or poets with loneliness? How can we read or see if they write visual poetry or paint? These poetical queries may have been answered in the Bengaluru-based Indian Artist Rekha Roa’s solo
If Ibis Knows Best How to Paint Poetic Abstractions Read More »
Art criticism brings a new perspective on seeing Art, and Feminist Art criticism questions views and offers a broad view of Art. Feminist Art historian Linda Nochlin’s article, ” Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? ” is in a historical period. Or now that article is considered as a historical question. In that
Why is Feminist Art Criticism So Important in Gentileschi’s Artistic Life? Read More »