On This Day

OCTOBER 18, ON THIS DAY “Canal taught, by example the true use of the camera obscura; and to recognize the flaws usually brought to bear on a painting, when the craftsman relies completely on the perspective he views through that same camera, and on the colours – especially of the skies – without deftly removing […]

OCTOBER 14, ON THIS DAY \”I was torn between Santiniketan and North-east… the conflict between Indian mainstream tradition and the urge to create an independent idiom in art for the North-east…. Besides, there was also a conflict between life in Santiniketan and the harsh reality here,\” \”I virtually stopped using the techniques and media used

OCTOBER 13, ON THIS DAY The Scottish-born painter Allan Ramsay is hailed as one of the greatest British portraitists of the 18th century for his depictions of sophisticated and elegant portraits using sensitive pastel colour handling and descriptions of the subtleties of light and shadow contributing to the energetic character of the subject. Ramsay was

OCTOBER 12, ON THIS DAY Al Held, a significant player in American post-Abstract Expressionism, is best known for his enormous, hard-edged canvases. Although Held\’s distinctive embrace of depth and spatial illusion defies easy categorization, his sharp outlines, geometric forms, and clarity of vision are characteristic of post-painterly abstraction. His work rejects reductive geometric flatness in favour

OCTOBER 11, ON THIS DAY Irish painter James Barry is most known for his six-part series of works, The Progress of Human Culture, which may be found in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London. He is also renowned for being one of the first romantic painters active in Britain because

\”All the art of past rises before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.\” Alberto Giacometti Boundary-breaking sculptors are those who in their own way pushed the medium

The masterwork by Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from Paris in 1911 by Vincenzo Peruggia, who then brought it to Florence. The theft\’s repatriation efforts were only partially successful. In January 1914, less than three years after it had been taken from the Louvre, the Mona Lisa made her way back to Paris. The Mona Lisa

“When I begin a painting I always hope to complete it in a few strokes, starting with the first colors I daub down anywhere and anyhow, but it never works, so I add more, without realizing it. I have never wanted to paint thickly; paint tubes are much too expensive. But one way or another,

OCTOBER 6, ON THIS DAY Adolf von Hildebrand is regarded as one of the first sculptors to emphasize the artistic independence of sculpture from painting. He most effectively spread this notion in his 1893 essay, \”Das Problem der Form,\” which helped create the theoretical framework for modern sculpture. He blended the classical traditions of ancient

October 5, On This Day Francesco Guardi was one of the most notable Venetian landscape painters of the rococo era, who produced elegant, graceful, and magnificently decorated works of art and architecture. He was a very active painter who created vibrant, evocative, and romantic depictions of Venice in decline. Guardi is renowned for his loosely