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Keanu Reeves’ girlfriend Alexandra Grant may be famous in the entertainment industry due to the fame of her boyfriend. However, in the art circles, she is a well-known face and needs no introduction. She is a visual artist dabbling in mixed media, paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, clothing, and more. She has been teaching since 2009 […]
Digvijay Nikam I’m interested in the type of abstraction where you look out at the world, see the horror—sometimes it is horror—and you drag that horror kicking and screaming into your studio and you wrestle with it and you find something beautiful in it. Mark Bradford Mark Bradford is an American visual artist highly acclaimed
The multilayered social abstractionist art of Mark Bradford Read More »
Manjeera March 15, ON THIS DAY Naturally many may naively and rambunctiously ask why would a black artist concern himself with the wider questions of art and humanity? …my answer is art and ideas belong to no particular people exclusively. If they did this art has failed to reach the transcendent state that artists have
Figurative Expressionism: Emilio Cruz and his explorations of humanity Read More »
Manjeera Knowledge can be gained at any age. After having a detailed study on topics there are things unknown to us. So, we at Abirpothi present before you the lesser-known facts about artists around the world. Adrian Piper One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the
Manjeera Knowledge can be gained at any age. After having a detailed study on topics there are things unknown to us. So, we at Abirpothi present before you the lesser-known facts about artists around the world. Shirin Neshat Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. -Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born
Ved Prakash Bhardwaj S G Vasudev’s art opens different layers of life in his paintings. In this process of seeing and opening life, he keeps the physical condition of man as well as his psychological condition in the centre. The artist focuses on the interrelationship between all living and non-living elements of the world and
Indigenous modernism of S G Vasudev: Understanding life and its contradictions Read More »
The Pakistani-American artist currently has a groundbreaking feminist public installation on display in New York While the miniature is a long-standing motif of her formidable oeuvre, there is certainly nothing minuscule about the stature of acclaimed Pakistani-American visual artist Shahzia Sikander in the art world. In fact, the 54-year-old’s most recent public project could definitely
Rajesh Kumar With an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, Chitra Ganesh in her twenty year of practice has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings, collages, computer generated imagery, video and sculpture. She’s a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her works connects histories of surrealism, mythology and cultural iconography with
Amar Chitra Katha: a modern take by Chitra Ganesh Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
Digital, street, therapeutic, and protest: The many forms of art in the news Read More »