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Chinedu Ogakwu, Nigerian Artist Who Inspired the Farming Childhood

Artists and creative people’s voices are assumed to be the voice of the landscape and the social settings of a time and space. Artists and writers knowingly or unknowingly use a landscape’s territorial element, reflected in their works, like as a skeleton or armature of a design. Because of this, scholars use artwork and literature […]

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Naked body as Art: Carolee Schneemann and Her Sexual Liberation

The Telluride Film Festival asked the American artist Carolee Schneemann to deliver a schedule of films made by women in 1977, including her own Fuses (1964–1977) and Plumb Line (1968–1971). When Schneemann arrived, she discovered that the show now had a name: The Erotic Woman. Schneemann abandoned her prepared introduction and instead recited a scroll

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Leonora Carrington: Surrealism and the Wild Dreams of an Artist

British-born surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington was rebellious by nature and inspired by fairy tales and fiction and did surrealistic painting and wrote whatever she wanted to be. Leonora Carrington was born into a wealthy family, her mother was of Irish descent, and she got familiar with Irish folklore and fairy tales through her

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Fonseca, A Portuguese Painter Who Painted South Indian Hindu Women

Indian women’s attire and ornaments have a story that has fascinated many travellers and invaders for centuries. The evolution of classical dance in South Indian territorial space is also a fascinating story and history. Indian dance, the ornamental beauty, has seduced the audience with their dance and attire. With their ornaments, dancers can distinguish from

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Lalit Mohan Sen: Rediscovering a Modern Maestro of Indian Art

A large-scale retrospective exhibition is all set to open on the legendary yet fairly unknown artist, Lalit Mohan Sen (1898-1954) at Emami art gallery on 14th July 2023 curated by Debdutt Gupta. An exhibition that shall highlight the life story of this unknown personality and showcase some of his seminal works of art including paintings,

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Parviz Tanavoli: The Poet and the Beloved King of Iranian Pop Art

Is Parviz Tanavoli a poet or a Prophet in contemporary Iranian Art? Parviz became a popular and pioneering figure in Iranian Art over the last six decades, and he used Persian traditions to modernise and reinterpret Iranian Art. After completing his studies in Art in Tehran in the 1950s, Parviz started to create Artwork that

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Shaping Clay and Consciousness: The Artistic Journey of Ray Meeker in India

One of India’s most renowned ceramic artists, Ray Meeker – an American by birth – was born in California in 1944. Meeker did his BFA in architecture and ceramics from the University of South California during the 1960s when he also met his partner and artist Deborah Smith before both moved to India in 1971.

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Photograph or Painting? Hyper realism Blurs them Both in Koo Kang Style

Krispin Joseph PX Hyperrealistic Art is always a fascinating topic; photography is almost forever changing Art’s history. Now, photorealism is operated in identical depth to express the artistic skill on the top of photography. By definition, hyperreality is the view that the fact is lost in representation, replaced by copies in its image. Hyperrealistic artists

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Meet the Artist Who Uses Stones and Rocks to Create Breath-taking Paintings

Tsuktiben Jamir Manzooz Ahmad Bhat has carved out a unique space for himself in the world of art. He collects stones and rocks from the trekking routes of Jammu and Kashmir, as well as Ladakh. Bhat, a 34-year-old artist from Ganderbal district in central Kashmir, uses mortar to grind these stones and rocks, extracting their

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