Figurative art is not to be confused with figure painting or figural art- that mostly captures the essence of human expressions or form, while on the other hand, figurative art…
The 82-year-old Japanese-born artist had to spend her childhood during World War II. She was a print textile designer in New York City for a while. She currently resides in…
Bold colours, harsh edges, angular forms- the imagery is as vivid as the vorticist painting is eponymous. Although Vorticism as a movement is reminiscent of the early 20th-century paintings of…
Architectural Heritage is a fragment of history left by each generation from the past eloquent of the stories of each particular place. The Indian sub-continent has been celebrated for its…
The Academic Art movement or academicism, influenced by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, embraces the highlights from both neoclassicism and romanticism. The term Academic Art was traditionally used to describe…
A pioneer in Italian art and design, Nanda Vigo was an important figure whose versatility spanned six decades and affected generations of artists. With over 400 solo and group exhibitions,…
Architecture has connections with various fields of arts and science such as music, literature, physics, structures, etc., since ancient times. Cinema and architecture have had a long-standing association, such that…
Unlike the rest of India, Pondicherry seems to boast its heritage rather than “modernize” into a town of boxy buildings. It was ruled by the French from the 17th century…
Emerged during the industrialization time, the Land Art movement was marked as a landmark of artists all over the world. This type of artform was shaped when the artists sought…
Richard Estes is regarded as one of the leading practitioners of the international photorealist movement. The photorealists are a group of artists who used photo-based painting techniques to achieve hyperrealist…
Postmodern Art, architecture emerged in the 1970s in the United States as a reaction to conventional architectural forms. It arose as a reaction to traditional, classical styles, intending to make…
Conceptual art, An art movement is a style in art with a specific philosophy, followed by a group of artists over a specific period. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and…