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The Enduring Legacies of Anupam Sud and Mary Cassatt

Saptarshi Ghosh Belonging to different eras and hailing from radically different backgrounds, Anupam Sud and Mary Cassatt are two artists who have left an indelible impression in the history of art. Sud is a veteran artist, who is considered one of the finest printmakers in India. Belonging to a conservative family, Sud’s commitment to her

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Of Art and Defiance: The Lives of Frida Kahlo and Amrita Sher-Gil

Saptarshi Ghosh Two of the foremost women painters of the twentieth century, Amrita Sher-Gil and Frida Kahlo’s artistic careers have uncanny similarities. They carved out unique female subjectivities in their works, thereby introducing a much-needed female perspective in a tradition dominated by male artists for centuries. The female body features prominently in both their art,

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The structural whirlpool of urban movements: By Julie Mehretu

Prachi Sahasrabudhe  Born in 1970, Julie Mehretu is an Ethiopian- American Visual artist working consistently in the  contemporary art field for more than two decades. Her conscious practice in painting, drawing, printmaking, enforces the artistic expression to evoke recurring conflicts, injustice, and social unrest through the histories. Her paintings represent elements of mapping and architecture,

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Two Faces of Resilience: Judy Chicago and Shirin Neshat

Saptarshi Ghosh Judy Chicago and Shirin Neshat are two very different artists, but what links them is the struggles they had to face as women in the male-dominated American art world. That being said, their individual struggles were very different owing to their different backgrounds. Born in the city of Chicago in the late 1930s,

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