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

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

“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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Chris Ofili: Artist Who Made Art Using Elephant Dung

Chris Ofili is a British Black artist known for using elephant dung in Artwork. Ofili (born 10 October 1968) became noticed in a 1996 group exhibition of young British artists at the Brooklyn Museum in New York because of some works, including Ofili’s work, highly provocating to the aristocracy. Ofli’s Black Virgin grabbed the most

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Pioneering Indian Modernism: The High Relief Encaustic Paintings of Shanti Dave

“My paintings, with their pulsating energy, vibrant colours, and interesting textures, are a homage to the kala (art) of India. They are an ode to memories, to the sights and sounds of the ruins that I saw and absorbed as a child while growing up in Gujarat. Viewers can perceive it in their own manner—it

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Glen Martin Taylor: (Un)Broken Ceramics meets Japanese Philosophy

Kintsugi is a Japanese way of repairing wounds in ceramics or pottery. As a philosophy, Japanese belief brings back beauty from the broken; experts use lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum to do this. The Kintsugi technique aims to bring damaged things back to life and use; it’s the art of

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Watery Paths of Jackson Pollock: Illusion, Fiction and Abstract

American artist Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes are a trio of American Modern Art; Peggy Guggenheim, an American art collector, bohemian and socialite, called them her ‘War babies’. Art readers know the basic of Jackson Pollock, and we need to know about the single painting titled ‘Watery Paths. Jackson Pollock is the most

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Artist Namboothiri: Mourn the Loss of the Artist and Adore the Legacy

Kerala people mourn the loss of artists Namboothiri and adore the legacy of a great illustrator that covered the elegant periods of notable literary works of giants writers. The period illustrated by Artist Namboothiri is the time of serialising the great writers’ magnum opus in prominent Malayalam literature weekly’s. Artist Namboothiri is always remembered for

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Artist Namboothiri: Doyen of Drawings, Sketched ‘Malayali Life’ Passed Away

K M Vasudevan Namboothiri, popularly hailed ‘Artist Namboothiri’ in Kerala’s social-cultural scenario for the prior seven decades, passed away. Namboothiri (1925-2023) was a prolific literary illustrator, illustrating many popular characters for literary publications in the southern state of Kerala—an Artist renowned for his iconic drawings and gifted life to fictitious characters in Malayalam writings. Artist

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