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NOVEMBER 7, ON THIS DAY Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán is well known for his still-life paintings and religious works featuring nuns, monks, and martyrs. Due to his skillful use of chiaroscuro, Zurbarán earned the nickname \”Spanish Caravaggio.\” He is occasionally compared to the somewhat older Italian painter Caravaggio because of his talent for rendering […]
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A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
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“Fury” an artwork created in Dubai by renowned Indian artist M.F Husain sold for $201,600 at Sotheby’s ‘phygital’ auction. Hefty.art, Web 3.0’s most esteemed art platform, teamed up with Sotheby’s, the world’s leading venue for art and luxury auctions, to present “Fury,” in the first-of-its-kind “phygital” sale of an Indian artist’s work. “Fury” is a
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Knowledge can be gained at any age. After having a detailed study on topics there are things unknown to us. So, we at Abirpothi present before you the lesser-known facts about artists around the world. Antoni Gaudí Gothic art is imperfect, only half resolved; it is a style created by the compasses, a formulaic industrial
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A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
NOVEMBER 5, ON THIS DAY Pietro Longhi was a famous Venetian painter known for his miniature genre pieces that exemplified the \”private and the bourgeois\” trend. Popular for their attractiveness and apparent innocence, yet with a hint of light humour, his paintings exhibit the interest in social observation that was distinctive of the Enlightenment. They
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Abhishek Dixit \”The Bindu or cosmic egg is a symbol of primordial genesis from which, in Hindu mythology, all Creation is born\” – S.H. Raza Syed Haider Raza was born on 22nd February 1922, in Kakkaiya (locale Mandla), present-day Madhya Pradesh, to a deputy forest officer Syed Mohammed Raza and Tahira begum. He began drawing
S.H. Raza’s Love for Bindu: The Geometrical Amalgamation of Spiritual Anatomy Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
November 4, ON THIS DAY People say I paint every leaf on the tree. I don\’t…I paint what I think is there. I mean I try to make it look as though it belonged there, but very often when people look at my landscapes and look at the painting I am doing, ‘Oh, you changed
Luigi Lucioni\’s Paintings Exhibit His Love of the Precise Line Read More »
Knowledge can be gained at any age. After having a detailed study on topics there are things unknown to us. So, we at Abirpothi present before you the lesser-known facts about artists around the world. Jackson Pollock When I am in a painting, I\’m not aware of what I\’m doing. It is only after a
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