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June 12, On This Day In an artistic stint that has been called “short, intense, and amazingly productive”, Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele is said to have become one of the best portrait artists of the modern era and a key contributor to the Vienna Secession movement. Born on this day 132 years ago, on […]
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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
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JUNE 10, ON THIS DAY Antoni Gaudi One of the most famous architects of the first half of the 20th century, Antoni Gaudi met with an untimely death on this day, June 10. He was killed at an age of 73 after being hit by a tram in 1926. Best known for developing intricate structures
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, a painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting was born on this day, June 10, 1819. His works were to later influence the Impressionists and the Cubists. Born in a family that strongly held anti-monarchical sentiments, he grew up to be a politically active individual, and this attitude
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Paula Rego, the acclaimed Portuguese-born British artist, has died at age 87 in her North London home after a short illness. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1935 during the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, she enrolled in a finishing school in England at the age of 16. She went on to study painting at
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Jacques Villeglé, an artist who used torn advertisement posters and influenced generations of French artists, has died at 96. According to ARTnet News, the Paris-based Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, which represents Villeglé, announced the artist’s death in a statement shared on social media on Tuesday. The gallery remembered him as “working hard, smiling always.”
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After the pandemic, now the global art industry is slowly getting back to business with physical exhibitions, art fairs and biennales. The India Art Fair was back in New Delhi on 28th April 2022 and now the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale is set to open on December 12, 2022. View this post
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JUNE 7, ON THIS DAY United Kingdom’s richest living artist Damien Hirst, was born on this day, June 7 1965. He is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. Death is a central theme in his works. Hirst presented dead animals in formaldehyde as art. The best-known of his art works was The Physical Impossibility of
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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
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JUNE 7, ON THIS DAY Born in the year 1887, Jean Arp was a French sculptor and painter who was one of the leaders of the European avant-garde in the arts during the first half of the 20th century. He died on this day, June 7, 1966. He was known as a Dadaist and an
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