Movies, since forever, have always relied heavily on people’s lives for inspiration. Whether it be over the elite or the working economy, cinema and literature focus their lenses time and…
If a conceptual technique can be the masquerade of an artist’s language, then abstraction was the chosen language for Ram Kumar. The reticent artist wielded both pen and brush but…
From Leonardo da Vinci’s The Adoration of the Magi to Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família, history is full of masterpieces that were left incomplete. Some were abandoned due to the artist’s…
A mural is any graphic artwork painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface. The word mural comes from the Latin “murus” which means wall. Mural…
“I don’t know why people expect art to make sense when they accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.” – David Lynch to the Los Angeles Times, 1989 On January…
The story of C. Raja Raja Varma, better known for being the brother of India’s revolutionary artist Raja Ravi Varma twelve years his junior, began in Travancore studying alongside princes.…
Nikolaos Gyzis (1842–1901) is one of the most important figures in 19th-century Greek art and a key figure of the Munich School, which combined German academic realism with classical themes…
Installation art distinguishes itself from traditional forms such as painting and sculpture by emphasising multi-sensory engagement, which stimulates smell, sound, touch, and sight. This immersive approach allows artworks to inhabit…
The origin of Nikolaos Gyzis’s art is the culture and folklore of Tinos, the island where he was born in 1842. Gyzis studied at the School of Fine Arts of…
A Universal Humanist and Multifaceted Artist : Rabindranath Tagore, a name synonymous with art, poetry, music, cultural renaissance, and social reforms, left an indelible mark on the global landscape of…
K.C.S. Paniker (1911–1977) was one of the founding fathers of modern Indian art, and a well-known painter and sculptor (Anon., n.d.). In the end, Paniker born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu…
Overview “We have been bought up on a staple of ochres, greys and browns in art, thanks to the British. That’s why when I began using bright colours the reaction…