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Donald Jess Bachardy, an American portrait artist, was born on this day, May 18, in 1934 in Los Angeles. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Slade School of Art in London. His first one-man exhibition was held in October 1961 at the Redfern Gallery in London. He has since […]
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May 7, On This Day The name Rabindranath Tagore is etched deep in Indian history, not in small part owed to the fact that he is the man who wrote the National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana. But another indelible part of the Nobel Laureate’s contribution — besides that to literature and music — also
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The painter and designer Alfred Joseph Casson, youngest member of the Canadian group of artists ‘Group of Seven’ was born on this day May 17, 1898. His art mostly depicts Ontario’s farmland and forests with highly finished and carefully composed designs. He also painted small florals and still life. Hamilton Technical School was the place
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May 12, On This Day A pioneer member of the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), the precursor of Lalit Kala Academy, Sukumar Bose was born on 12 May 1912. He had an aptitude for painting and wood and clay modelling from his childhood days that later developed into passion for fine arts-
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May 2, On This Day Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Satyajit Ray was also a screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, calligrapher, music composer, and — illustrator! Born on May 2, 1921, Ray’s illustrative talents may be less spoken about than his cinematic accomplishments, but they were prodigious just
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Today is the 174th birth anniversary of Raja Ravi Varma. He was a painter among kings and a king among painters. Raja Ravi Varma\’s success is attributed to his skilful use of European film technology. He was noted for making lithographs of his paintings available to the public. This made him famous in India as
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April 28, On This Day Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, a giant of contemporary art with his unique raw style, unsettling portraits and triptychs, passed away 20 years ago today, on April 28, 1992. He often focused on a single motif for sustained periods, and his output can be broadly systematically broken up
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April 27, On This Day American inventor and painter Samuel Morse, born April 27, 1791, is best known for contributing to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and being the co-developer of the Morse code that helped develop commercial use of telegraphy. But Morse was also a portrait painter,
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On This Day, April 23 She was described by former Iraq president Jalal Talabani (1933-2017) as “the first Iraqi woman who anchored the pillars of Iraqi contemporary art”. Naziha Salim — an Iraqi artist, educator and author — has the Google Doodle on April 23, 2022, dedicated to her. Not a great
April 22, On This Day He is known as the doyen of modernism in Indian art, and was a guru to three generations of artists. Interestingly, he also witnessed the partition of the Indian subcontinent three times — in 1905, 1947 and 1971 — and also watched 20th century Indian art through all its phases.