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Vaishnavi Srivastava 20th  April, ON THIS DAY “I begin my paintings because something jolts me away from reality. This shock can be caused by a little thread that comes loose from the canvas, a drop of water that falls, the fingerprint my thumb leaves on the shiny surface of this table.” – Joan Miró In […]

Vaishnavi Srivastava 19th  April, ON THIS DAY “If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste” – Charles Darwin Today, we’ll explore

18th  April, ON THIS DAY “Art has a higher purpose than mere imitation of nature. It transcends the earthly and measurable. It has its own scale and destiny. It is concerned with informing spirit that emanates only from spiritual and mystical realms, from the nether and the astral.” – Max Weber April 18th marks the

Vaishnavi Srivastava 17TH April, ON THIS DAY “Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in the 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity.” –Jonathan Jones (Art critic) What makes an artist great? Over the centuries we have seen a plethora of

Vaishnavi Srivastava 13th April, ON THIS DAY “His (Emil Ganso) career was a symbol for the hope and excuse of democracy” —A Critic on Emil Ganso The life of Emil Ganso is the living embodiment of the infamous trope of a suffering artist getting his success story. On this day back in 1895, Ganso was

Vaishnavi Srivastava 12th April, ON THIS DAY “But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;” — J. Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure What comes to your mind when you first imagine the colour pink? Soft pastels? Hyper femininity? Or the

Vaishnavi Srivastava 10th April, ON THIS DAY “The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural” — Ben Nicholson Ben Nicholson, the prominent figure of the abstract and Cubist movement, was far from an artistic elitist who created for the bourgeoisie. Nicholson individually deemed

Iftikar Ahmed 8th April, ON THIS DAY “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso On April 8, 1973, the world mourned the loss of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso.  He had been unwell for a few

Iftikar Ahmed 30th March, ON THIS DAY “The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.” — Vincent Van Gogh Dutch Painter Vincent William Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, Netherlands. His paintings’ vibrant hues, forceful brushstrokes, and curved forms had a significant impact on the Expressionism trend in modern

Manjeera 24th March, ON THIS DAY “History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.” ― William Morris William Morris was a British artist, writer, and social activist who played a key role in the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th century. He is