“When I begin a painting I always hope to complete it in a few strokes, starting with the first colors I daub down anywhere and anyhow, but it never works, so I add more, without realizing it. I have never wanted to paint thickly; paint tubes are much too expensive. But one way or another,...
OCTOBER 6, ON THIS DAY Adolf von Hildebrand is regarded as one of the first sculptors to emphasize the artistic independence of sculpture from painting. He most effectively spread this notion in his 1893 essay, “Das Problem der Form,” which helped create the theoretical framework for modern sculpture. He blended the classical traditions of ancient...
October 5, On This Day Francesco Guardi was one of the most notable Venetian landscape painters of the rococo era, who produced elegant, graceful, and magnificently decorated works of art and architecture. He was a very active painter who created vibrant, evocative, and romantic depictions of Venice in decline. Guardi is renowned for his loosely...
OCTOBER 4, ON THIS DAY “I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever… and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.”...
OCTOBER 3, ON THIS DAY Born on this day, October 3, 1848 in Paris, Henry Lerolle was the second son of Adele-Edme Delaroche and Timothée Lerol, a bronze manufacturer, engraver and landscape painter. Henry began studying the violin at a very young age with Edouard Colón. He played this instrument with talent all his life....
“Whether I do figures or landscapes, my passions and concerns remain the same. It is the human condition that leads me to art.” —- Ram Kumar One of India’s leading abstract painters, Ram Kumar, was an artist and writer as well. He was associated with the Progressive arts group, which included several artists who are...
Suggested: Abir Pothi’s retrospective take on the artist. By Vinay Seth “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...
On this day, September 13 of 1928, the artist now known as Robert Indiana, was born in New Castle, Indiana. Earl Clark and Carmen Watters Clark adopted him as an infant and named him Robert Earl Clark. Earl served in a variety of professional roles, from oil executive to gas pumper. When Robert was nine,...
On this day, 9th of September in 1899, Gyula Halasz was born in Brasso (Brasov), Austria-Hungary (now Romania) to a Hungarian father and Armenian mother. When he was three his family relocated to Paris, where his father worked as a French literature professor at the Sorbonne university. Gyula later went on to attend the Hungarian...
On this day, 7th of September, 1860, Anna Mary Robertson Moses was born in Greenwich, New York, US. She was the third of ten children born to Russell King Robertson, a farmer, and Margaret Shannahan. Due to lack of warm cloths, Anna Moses attended school only in the summer. At the age of 12 she...