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René Magritte: Rebel in Surrealism, Prophet in Art, Mystic in Poetic Images

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  “The painter’s art, as I see it, is about making poetic images visible.” René Magritte Who invent surrealistic Art is a challenging question in art history. Most artists have some layer of surrealism, and most artworks play ambiguous roles in human expressive history. Which elements can people easily understand, from clouds, pipes, bowler hats, […]

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Of Brushes and Poems: The Eclecticism of Gieve Patel

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  In an interview with the poet Arundhati Subramanium, the artist Gieve Patel talked about a phrase from Wassily Kandinsky’s book ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’ that has informed his artistic practice as a painter and a writer. Kandinsky’s mandate suggests, “Write when you feel an inner need or don’t.” Born on 18th August 1940,

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Purveyors of Indian History: The Portraits of Manchershaw F. Pithawalla

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Portraiture has a unique place in the history of art. By looking at who was portrayed, and how, one is able to gain insights into social, cultural, and political history. Despite the fact that portraiture has been an art form available to us since antiquity, the form really gained prominence during the Renaissance as a

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Sunil Das’ Artistic Odyssey: The Spirit of Equine Majesty and Ferocious Bulls

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Born in Kolkata in 1939, Sunil Das was an Indian expressionist painter. Coming from a middle-class family, Das decided to be a painter early on in life and refused to join his family business. He enrolled in the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta in 1955 and later won a French Government Scholarship to

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Painter of Eloquent Silence: The Dark Surrealism of Ganesh Pyne

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I become whole when I paint. – Ganesh Pyne  Reclusiveness might be a cherished ideal amongst artists and, at times, even a necessity for the creative potential to unleash itself. However, extending it to a point where the artist is reluctant to display the work even to one’s audience is an oddly amusing event. The

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Marianne North: Botanical Artists and A Perfect World of Wonders

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Who is an Artist in modern terms? One who produces Artwork to fulfil the prevalent desire of the people or the market? Otherwise, the artist who makes works for the taste of the Gallery and the people ready to purchase the Artwork? When discussing Art in a market-oriented economy, Art is more than an investment,

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Augusta Savage: A Woman Artist of Harlem Renaissance Who Tunes African Melodies

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Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and artistic revival of the Afro-American community, opening African society to a ‘cultured community’ and a more renewed one. Harlem Renaissance brought music, Art, dance, fashion, literature, theatre, political and scholarly mindset, and ambiance to the Afro-American society that communed in Harlem province in the 1920s and 1930s. Harlem Renaissance

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Agency of the Female Nude Figure: The Empowering Oeuvre of Vasundhara Tewari Broota

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“To choose a human being as a subject comes naturally, and to choose a woman even more naturally because that’s the form I relate to.” – Vasundhara Tewari Broota. Vasundhara Tewari Broota is an Indian painter born in Kolkata in 1955 and moved to New Delhi when she was fifteen. After an initial stint studying law,

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