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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.…
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Cai Guo-Qiang, born in 1957 in Quanzhou, China, is a well-known contemporary artist whose works have been splendid and exciting to the lives of many people around the world. Having…
Architecture has found its way into several movies and anime. Ghibli studio movies would provide the aesthetic and nostalgic setting with a heartwarming storyline in which the architectural setting could…
The Surreal Masterpiece Art is the single most soul-stirring pursuit of our time that can be approached with a sense of pluralistic conjecture. And ‘soul-stirring’ cannot be more accurately employed…
The Divine’s chisel The divine craftsman, a celebrated painter, and an architect – a visionary in the field of Art & Architecture went by the name Michelangelo Buonarroti, was one…
The “Lady in Red” a mysterious painting restored by the British art historian “Varnish” is a traditionally…
How to define art and architecture? To define art in the simplest of words, one can say that art is the activity or the skill of producing things. However, at…
In 1980, American political scientists Joseph Nye and Milton Cummings proposed ‘Cultural Diplomacy’ as a soft power, the “exchange of ideas, information, art, language, and other aspects of culture among…
Rafiy Okefolahan’s work is an explosion of colour and form. It captivates the eye and awakens the senses. Each stroke brings its own jolt, each line its own story. Each…
Inspiration is like a single drop of water that falls from the great dark clouds, followed by a heavy downpour. It can emerge unexpectedly, anywhere at any time, especially when…