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If you had spent even 10 seconds on TikTok, you might know of the Anna Marie Tendler Taylor Swift drama. While Taylor Swift is undoubtedly the voice of our generation, Anna Marie Tendler is no less. A multimedia artist, Tendler is known for her extensive repertoire – hairstyling, makeup, textile, interior design, photography, she does […]
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Gustave Courbet, the “proudest and most arrogant man in France,” is the founding father of the politically-motivated Realism campaign, revolutionising the European art setting. Gustave created a sensation at the Paris Salon in 1850-51 with his paintings portraying his native Ornans. In Paris Salon, Courbet questions the visual narratives of history and realistic painting with
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He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves. H.G. Wells We are obsessed with Benedict Cumberbatch. You might know him from record-breaking movies and TV series such as
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In an essay titled ‘I object to your position: hyperreal decontextualizing of objects, scholar Ana Calvete write about the hyperreal presence of objects in our lives. Hyperreality or surrealism is blended with reality, dreams, and daily life no matter the subject of art and creative process in our contemporary lives. In that essay, Ana Calvete
“The work I do always needs to involve others, and that’s mainly because of my views about my own identity. I realised I couldn’t understand who I am without the people around me. I believe that it is only through my relationships with others that I can see myself” -Nikki S. Lee The visual artistry
Identity in Transformation: The Art of Nikki S. Lee Read More »
Surendran Nair, recipient of the prestigious Raja Ravi Varma Award for 2022, is a distinguished artist whose exceptional contributions to the field of painting have garnered recognition from the Department of Culture. Born in 1956 in Onakkoor, Kerala, Nair’s artistic journey began as a college student, where he transitioned from a botany course to an
The name Hieronymus Bosch is associated with dreamy paintings that capture a terrifying Boschian imagery. Bosch was a religious painter from northern Europe who was incredibly inventive and morally complex. Bosch’s grotesque imagery has come to define the grotesque genre, despite the fact that only about 25 of the original pieces remain. Some historians contend
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“I honour myself. As the divine feminine blends with the divine masculine, I now come into balance.”-Trudy Vesotsky. Nature and creation can repeatedly be seen interlacing in the art of Vijay M Dhore. Along with exploring the harmony in nature, the artist captures its grandeur, complexity, and eventually its transformative or metamorphic processes through his
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“An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all… feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.” Paul Cézanne Paul Cezanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour
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Born on December 18, 1879, as many as 142 years ago, artist Paul Klee left behind a legacy comprising over 9,000 works of art spanning movements that included expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and more, when he passed away on June 29, 1940. The style of Swiss-born German artist Paul Klee was, indeed, highly individualistic, with works
‘Color and I are one. I am a Painter’ -Paul Klee Read More »