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Hidden Meaning of Bruegel’s Proverbs and Visual Narration of Human Folly

Krispin Joseph PX Pieter Bruegel brings many things into his paintings: Netherlandish landscapes, peasant scenes, and their life. Bruegel brings this vast landscape with people, mainly peasants, into the subject of art. Bruegel’s subjects always carry extensive topics; sometimes, other elements, like proverbs and children’s play, bring the canvas.  In Peter Bruegel’s time, religious subjects […]

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Finding Art in the Mundane: 11 Artists that have altered Everyday Objects into Artworks

Smriti Malhotra Throughout art history, artists have continually pushed the boundaries of creativity and challenged conventional notions of what can be considered art. One fascinating avenue they have explored is the transformation of everyday objects into works of art. By altering and recontextualising these objects, artists have managed to provoke thought, question established norms, and

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Artefacts from Machu Picchu show the Daily life of Women, Men and Children

Krispin Joseph PX What is the Philosophy of artefacts? The theoretical viewpoint and the intuitive link between artefacts as valuable things and agents’ purposes, beliefs and actions. Where we find the objects and what they tell about the past is a fascinating subject to examine. The most important question is what function they maintained in

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Object Life in the Past: Things That Change Our Perspective

Krispin Joseph PX Addressing the question of the past stories and events around things is an exciting and essential subject in the art world. This question belongs to the stories and lives of our past generations. Some objects are available here, and we need to understand their social life and history.  The biography of a

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AI is Designed for Catch Cultural Artefacts Traffickers

Krispin Joseph PX Cultural artefact trafficking is the main problem in that culturally rich countries. There are traffickers and smugglers active in cultural trafficking; they steal the artefacts from museums or heritage sites, smuggle that from the mother country to another and sell them to museums or individuals. Thousands of Centuries-old cultural heritage artefacts are

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From Inspiring Criminals to Art Movements: Marquis de Sade and 11 Sadistic Paintings

Pratiksha Shome On this day, a man for whom the term “Sadist” was coined, was born, marking his name in the world of Philosophy, surrealistic art and crime. Marquis de Sade, although a heinous criminal with multiple charges of rape, assault and sadistic pleasures, this guy managed to provocate both criminals and philosophers of the

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Museum on Wheels Brings ‘Art, Culture, and History One Step Ahead of Audience      

Krispin Joseph PX Museum culture is now circulating the significance of our great past continually. If anyone, especially the student community, doesn’t have time to go to the Museum, then the Museum will come near you. Museums, especially outside Indian museums, are not accessible to everyone. The concept of a museum is related to a

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