Artist Profile

What is the relationship of the artist to the society? Should the work of art devote itself to the service of a greater good or should be allowed to have an autonomy of its own, as proclaimed in the popular dictum l’art pour l’art (art for art’s sake)? What are the modalities of communication between

In Leonardo Da Vinci’s treatise, he mentioned one name, an artist named Sandro Botticelli, as his Contemporain. Botticelli (1445-1510) was an Italian painter in the Early Renaissance, ignored for centuries and reinvented in the late 19th century. He is considered one of the greatest artists, portraying the linear classiness of late Italian Gothic and some

M F. Husain may be the only Indian artist exiled because of the Artwork. Why Husain was exiled to the Gulf and lived in Qatar and London is a subject of free speech and art expression in the Indian context. We Indians did not allow him to stay in a great, civilised country because he

The story of Kusama is fascinating for many reasons. She studied traditional Japanese painting style and moved to New York in 1958, inspired by American Abstract Impressionism, became a part of the Avant-Garde movement, especially pop art, hugging hippie culture in the 1960s, got public attention when she exhibited herself as brightly coloured polka dots

What is Art for you? Do you believe Art is pleasing to the eye and not the mind? In the case of visual Art, viewers have considered it for centuries for the ‘eye’; everybody is a viewer in visual Art. Before the 20th century, people did not even think visual Art was for the ‘mind’;