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Krispin JosephPX

Krispin Joseph PX, a poet and journalist, completed an MFA in art history and visual studies at the University of Hyderabad.

René Magritte: Rebel in Surrealism, Prophet in Art, Mystic in Poetic Images

Artist Profile, Do You Know?, Featured /

  “The painter’s art, as I see it, is about making poetic images visible.” René Magritte Who invent surrealistic Art is a challenging question in art history. Most artists have some layer of surrealism, and most artworks play ambiguous roles in human expressive history. Which elements can people easily understand, from clouds, pipes, bowler hats, […]

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Visual Beauty of Love in Kangra Miniature; How Poetry Changed Indian Paintings

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  Are you in a Love Relationship? Why are you in a relationship, and why are we expressing the Love and beauty of our relationship in Art and poetry? Why are we conserving our Love in Art? Art always plays as a lab for creating and experimenting with new things other than old tales. Before

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Celebrate Friendship Day with Art, Stories of Artists’ and Friends

Featured, On This Day /

2 Aug’23, ON THIS DAY Today is world friendship day. We create many days in modern times to remember forgotten days and moments. Fathers and mothers Day, and for lovers, Valentine’s Day, and many other days for many reasons, indicating we are ignoring many things without a particular day for ‘celebration’. Friendship is human nature;

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Kavita Singh: Voice of Indian Art, Resilience of Opinion

Columns, Featured /

Throughout history, as art objects have circulated globally, they have usually flowed toward money or political power. Increasingly, today, we hear calls to reverse this flow – to send stolen objects or the spoils of war and colonial domination back to their ‘home’. Most of these appeals’ speak truth to power, as it were, asking

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Marianne North: Botanical Artists and A Perfect World of Wonders

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured /

Who is an Artist in modern terms? One who produces Artwork to fulfil the prevalent desire of the people or the market? Otherwise, the artist who makes works for the taste of the Gallery and the people ready to purchase the Artwork? When discussing Art in a market-oriented economy, Art is more than an investment,

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Augusta Savage: A Woman Artist of Harlem Renaissance Who Tunes African Melodies

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured /

Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and artistic revival of the Afro-American community, opening African society to a ‘cultured community’ and a more renewed one. Harlem Renaissance brought music, Art, dance, fashion, literature, theatre, political and scholarly mindset, and ambiance to the Afro-American society that communed in Harlem province in the 1920s and 1930s. Harlem Renaissance

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Kara Walker: The Horrors of Slavery, Rape and Murder in a Black Fairy Tale

Columns, Featured /

How the ‘Caribbean or Afro’ society was created, Pro. Fabienne Viala claimed they have been shaped by the ‘slave trade, the plantation system and structural racism’. Exploiting their bodies, land, and resources is the nature of this white-black co-living and the denial of socioeconomic chances. The Caribbean and Afro society was wounded by racial discrimination,

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Chris Ofili: Artist Who Made Art Using Elephant Dung

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Chris Ofili is a British Black artist known for using elephant dung in Artwork. Ofili (born 10 October 1968) became noticed in a 1996 group exhibition of young British artists at the Brooklyn Museum in New York because of some works, including Ofili’s work, highly provocating to the aristocracy. Ofli’s Black Virgin grabbed the most

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