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Examining the Relationship between Art and Architecture in Horta’s Work

On This Day / 06/01/2023

Abhishek Kumar JANUARY 06, ON THIS DAY “I wanted to create a personal work, the building, architectural, and social rationalism of which made me fashionable, because this work suited the rhythm of contemporary architecture and life.” Victor Horta The work of Belgian architect Victor Horta is often seen as groundbreaking and revolutionary in the fields […]

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Exploring the Unseen: The Vision of Yves Tanguy

On This Day / 05/01/2023

Abhishek Kumar JANUARY 05, ON THIS DAY The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. Yves Tanguy Yves Tanguy was a French surrealist painter

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Henri Matisse and Fauvism as a Precursor of Abstract Expressionism

On This Day / 31/12/2022

“Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.” Henri Matisse Henri Matisse was a French artist known for his colorful,

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Religious and Mythological Paintings of Francois Andre Vincent

On This Day / 30/12/2022

DECEMBER 30, ON THIS DAY Francois Andre Vincent was a French painter and draughtsman who was one of the leading Neo-classical artists in France during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is best known for his classical history paintings, especially those depicting episodes from the works of Virgil and Dante, as well as

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David Alfaro Siqueiros Painted for the People of Mexico

On This Day / 29/12/2022

DECEMBER 29, ON THIS DAY \”Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. The artist must paint as he would speak. I don\’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.\” David Alfaro Siqueiros David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican painter, muralist, and

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Felix Vallotton\’s Mastery in Capturing the Mood and Atmosphere

On This Day / 28/12/2022

DECEMBER 28, ON THIS DAY “The life I live is literally the opposite of the life I dreamed of. I love seclusion, silence, cultivated thinking and reasoned action – and I have to deal with machinations, foolish talk and vain affectation.\” Felix Vallotton Felix Vallotton was a Swiss-born French painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer. He

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Hermann Paul Captured the Effects of Light and the Atmosphere

On This Day / 27/12/2022

DECEMBER 27, ON THIS DAY Hermann Paul was a French painter and lithographer best known for his caricatures, illustrations and posters. He was a member of the artistic movement known as the Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionists who favoured flat shapes and bright colours in their work. His artistic style was heavily influenced by the

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Maurice Utrillo Started Painting as a Form of Art Therapy

On This Day / 26/12/2022

DECEMBER 26, ON THIS DAY \”On a particularly boring day, I had a clever but unfortunate inspiration. I seized a piece of cardboard, some tubes of tint and petroleum base – since I lacked real oil – and, confronting a typical Montmartre street corner, I suddenly found myself a practitioner of this difficult and thankless

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Joseph Cornell Showed Mastery in Box Assemblages

On This Day / 24/12/2022

DECEMBER 24, ON THIS DAY “Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of waterless subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white

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Politically Motivated Artworks of Alexander Rodchenko

On This Day / 23/12/2022

DECEMBER 23, ON THIS DAY Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception… Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium… Photograph and be

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