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Rajesh Kumar A prominent figure, a renowned painter and printmaker Sanat Kar passed away on Monday at the age of 88. He breathed his last in his home at Shantiniketan where he was residing since 1974. Born in 1935 in West Bengal, he had a long association with Kala Bhavana, the centre for visual art […]
“A loss not only to the art gallery, but to the entire art world” Read More »
Continued from Part 1. Beginnings Early to mid-twentieth century Bengal produced some very fervent artistic developments. Whether it was through the Revivalism pioneered by Abanindranath Tagore, or the Modernism embraced by the Government School of Art, Calcutta, visual art in Bengal gained from such different undercurrents. One undercurrent that had its roots outside the art
#Throwback2022: Somnath Hore: Communist Beginnings Read More »
Continued from Part 1. Beginnings Early to mid-twentieth century Bengal produced some very fervent artistic developments. Whether it was through the Revivalism pioneered by Abanindranath Tagore, or the Modernism embraced by the Government School of Art, Calcutta, visual art in Bengal gained from such different undercurrents. One undercurrent that had its roots outside the art
Margaret Keane was an American artist whose paintings are recognizable by the oversized, doe-like eyes of her subjects, most of whom are children. Keane focused on the eyes, as they show the inner person more. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. Keane died on June 26, 2022, at the
The creator of “big eyes”, who struggled to claim her artistic identity, bids farewell Read More »
Born to a Swiss-Mexican family, Lourdes Grobet was one of Mexico’s most prolific artists, with a body of work spanning more than six decades. She died last week on 15th July, at the age of 81. Though her oeuvre was wide-ranging, she was best known for her photography projects that pushed boundaries through their intimacy
Obituary A giant overturned ice cream cone suspended over the steely corner of a chrome-and-glass building in Germany\’s Cologne; a colossal hamburger, pickle perched demurely on top, made of canvas and foam and cardboard, courting controversy in Ontario, Canada; a mammoth installation of a spoon with a jumbo cherry poised on its tip in Minneapolis,
Farewell to a vision of monumental whimsy: Claes Oldenburg passes away at 93 Read More »
Herbert Franke, scientist, writer, co-founder of Ars Electronica and one of the earliest digital artists to create abstract digital art, dies at 95 Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist, writer, and one of the important early computer artists, died on 16 July in Egling, Germany. Franke created computer graphics and early digital art, starting in the
In Memoriam A highly respected sculptor and teacher of many stalwart artists, Krishna Chhatpar, left his earthly abode on July 7, 2022, at the age of 86. Born on May 24, 1936, Chhatpar chose the artistic path and eventually became a professor at the prestigious Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) of Baroda for a life-long stint,
Sam Gilliam, an influential abstract painter from America, died on June 25 at 88 of kidney failure. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1933 to a railroad worker father and a schoolteacher mother. The family soon moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where Gilliam later attended school at the University of Louisville and received a degree in fine
Sam Gilliam, American abstractionist and master of ‘drape paintings’, dies at 88 Read More »
Paula Rego, the acclaimed Portuguese-born British artist, has died at age 87 in her North London home after a short illness. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1935 during the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, she enrolled in a finishing school in England at the age of 16. She went on to study painting at
Paula Rego, acclaimed Portuguese-British artist, dead at 87 Read More »