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What is the relationship of the artist to the society? Should the work of art devote itself to the service of a greater good or should be allowed to have an autonomy of its own, as proclaimed in the popular dictum l’art pour l’art (art for art’s sake)? What are the modalities of communication between …
Art at the Service of Humanity: The Exemplary Career of Prof. V Nagdas 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 »
There is only one attribute that describes the entire being of this artist – positiveness. Janarthanan Kesavan was born on this day 19 September 1991 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. On the evening of 4 March 2000, the eight-year-old Jana (as he is popularly known), while playing with his friends on …
The Extraordinary Life of the Mouth Painter Janarthanan Kesavan Read More »
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 …
We Should Know Why Husain Paint Hindu Goddess only Read More »
17 th Sep’ 2023 ON THIS DAY “Art is always ahead of time. Tomorrow, they will understand it” —M. F. Husain Early Moorings M. F. Husain, popularly hailed as the ‘Picasso of India’, was born on this day, 17th September, in 1915. Maqbool Fida Husain was born in Pandharpur, in Maharashtra today and then in …
Francisco Goya was a Spanish painter and considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th century Western world. Goya portrayed paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical turmoils and socio-political changes. Goya is the last master from the old school of Western art, which romantically brings the drama and details …
8 Most Celebrated Paintings of Romantic-Political Master Francisco Goya Read More »
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 …
Yayoi Kusama: Queen of Pop Art, Conquer the World with Polka-Dot Read More »
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’; …
Marcel Duchamp: A Rebellious Father of Modern Art Read More »
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 …
Gustave Courbet: Critic of Romanticism, Founder of Social Realism Read More »
