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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 and an MA in sociology and cultural anthropology from the Central European University, Vienna.

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

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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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Jogen Chowdhury: Memoirs of an Indian Dream and Alchemy of Expression

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Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian artist considered one of the most important and seminal figures in the history of postcolonial Indian Art. Jogen knows his painting bonded to Partition, the landscape, folk tales, and figurative and political injustice-motivated compositions. He was born and brought up in an ambience of Partition, exist it his post-Partition

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And the Art Thieves’ Award for Most Appealing Work Goes to ‘Ghent Altarpiece’

Do You Know?, Featured /

We know how treasures are robbed during wartime. War gives the winning team the ultimate freedom to do anything against the lost. Usually, most winners (mis)use this freedom at most and commit as many crimes against the lost, including looting precious materials, gold and other valuable things and setting fire to their heritage and history.

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We Should Know About the Exercise of Power Hides in Rembrandt Painting

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Do you think the visual representation of power hides in paintings or Artworks? Power is an inevitable element of human culture; as Foucault claims, ”individuals are the product of power”. A painting, ‘The night watch’, was completed in 1642 by the Dutch golden age master Rembrandt (1606- 1669), evidently narrates the visual representation of power

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Glen Martin Taylor: (Un)Broken Ceramics meets Japanese Philosophy

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Kintsugi is a Japanese way of repairing wounds in ceramics or pottery. As a philosophy, Japanese belief brings back beauty from the broken; experts use lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum to do this. The Kintsugi technique aims to bring damaged things back to life and use; it’s the art of

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