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Indian contemporary artist Subodh Gupta is well-known for his mixed-media and sculpture installations. Gupta, born in Khagaul, Bihar, India, in 1964, continually explores subjects of daily life, Indian culture, and international affairs in his artwork. He became well-known worldwide for using commonplace things—especially kitchenware made of stainless steel—to create expansive installations. Gupta’s obsession with the […]

French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) is recognised as one of the most influential and avant-garde artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His most celebrated works are the bronze statue “The Thinker,” which symbolises thinking, and the masterwork “The Gates of Hell,” which features several well-known characters from the Inferno, the first section

In Leonardo Da Vinci’s treatise, he mentioned one name, an artist named Sandro Botticelli, as his Contemporain. Botticelli (1445-1510) was an Italian painter in the Early Renaissance, ignored for centuries and reinvented in the late 19th century. He is considered one of the greatest artists, portraying the linear classiness of late Italian Gothic and some

M F. Husain may be the only Indian artist exiled because of the Artwork. Why Husain was exiled to the Gulf and lived in Qatar and London is a subject of free speech and art expression in the Indian context. We Indians did not allow him to stay in a great, civilised country because he

The story of Kusama is fascinating for many reasons. She studied traditional Japanese painting style and moved to New York in 1958, inspired by American Abstract Impressionism, became a part of the Avant-Garde movement, especially pop art, hugging hippie culture in the 1960s, got public attention when she exhibited herself as brightly coloured polka dots

What is Art for you? Do you believe Art is pleasing to the eye and not the mind? In the case of visual Art, viewers have considered it for centuries for the ‘eye’; everybody is a viewer in visual Art. Before the 20th century, people did not even think visual Art was for the ‘mind’;

In the book ‘How the Personal Became Political’, edited by Michelle Arrow, Angela Woollacott collects many critical writings on art and culture. In this book, an article, ‘How the personal became (and remains) political in the visual Arts Chapter’ by Catriona Moore and Catherine Speck, extensively argues about the feminine space in visual art. In