“I joyfully await the exit, and I hope never to return,” wrote a 47-year-old weak and bedridden Frida Kahlo. In the early hours of the morning of July 13, 1954,…
Anish Kapoor is one of the renowned and influential artists of the generation, compelling the audience to reimagine art and engagement with the form and scale of the art pieces.…
One of the few architects who designed from an early beginning towards climate change and has worked for over 60 years towards sustainable growth. Coming from a background of medicine…
Lee Krasner was a prominent artist who had an immense contribution during the rise of the ‘Abstract Expressionism Movement’. This was the post-World War art movement in the history of…
Paris, France is the undisputed art capital of the western world for centuries. Many trailblazing, perspective-altering artists such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, and a lot more lived in France…
From a portrait painter to an architect: the Path “I was always pretty good at drawing and painting, which I loved to do” – Hugh Newell Jacobsen for the Artist…
Pierre Auguste Renoir, a founding member of the Impressionist movement was born in 1841 in south-west France. He started out working in a porcelain factory painting designs on fine china…
Zaha Hadid, also known as Dame Zaha Hadid, was the first woman to have been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. Having studied for a bachelor’s degree in mathematics…
Known for his surrealistic and avant-garde paintings, Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, has had a significant impact on modern society and history. Artist Salvador Dali’s paintings are the memories…
Art has always been, and will always be, the precursor of change in civilizations and, these are brought about by the artists who create small changes that lead to movements…
Trying to challenge and break the norm is one of the common goals of an artist as art is one of the media to deliver critics and that is what…
The artist Edward Hildebrandt Carl Gustav Roddenbury was born in August 1830 in the old city of Gdańsk which is now modern Poland. Artistically inclined, he began his journey under…