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Millions of content are available about Vincent Van Gogh on Google, his legacy as a painter and insane, a lover and troubled man, and his suicide. The entire world celebrates his yellowish room, paddy field, crows, men, and women on the shore. Van Gogh is a highly prolific artist in the history of Western art;

Margaret Keane is maybe the only Artist who established herself as an artist in the courtroom in Western Art history. Margaret, an American artist known for painting subjects with big eyes and Artwork, was initially credited to her ex-husband for years. The story of People with Eyes and ‘lure’ in Western Art goes back to

‘Art has been used to reinforce the power of political rulers and states since the ancient Egyptians, though the relationship between power and Art has not always been smooth, writes Eric Hobsbawm in his classic analysis in ‘Fractured times- culture and society in the twentieth century, and he brilliantly narrates the problems that Art faced

What do we do if a portrait dies for us, and we get immortality? What do we do if a picture taints and ageing for us, and our life will never pass? We all painted a portrait, hung them inside our homes, and let them die, and we lived forever as young as we were.

Leave the controversy aside and take ‘The Danish Girl (2015), a fantastic movie on the merit of Art and Life and an artist’s portrayal. After the release and widespread acclamation of Redmayne and Vikander’s performances, the movie The Danish Girl’s central characters were criticised for inaccurate accounts of historical events. The Danish Girl loosely depicts

A portrait always comes from two people’s interactions. One is sitting someplace, and the artist is portraying the subject who sits in front of it. A picture results from an artist closely observing a subject, depicting it in detail, and visually memorising it forever. The ‘subject’ and the artists are always close when portraying a

Do Art influence moviemakers? There are a lot of movies about Artists and their life, but fewer in number on paintings or artworks. Artworks are not a matter for filmmakers, and the artist’s life is usually depicted as an anarchist or (ab)normal habits. The Mills and the Cross (2011), directed by Polish-born filmmaker Lech Majewski,