On This Day

February 26, On This Day Pratiksha Apurv was born in Gadarwara, Madhya Pradesh on February 26, 1964, to Vijay Bharti, the younger brother of the spiritual leader later known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh or Osho. In fact, Apurv also took sanyas at the age of 11 and started living at Pune commune. Later she moved […]

February 22, On This Day A century has passed since the birth of Sayed Haider Raza, or SH Raza, as he is more popularly known, on February 22, 1922. Known as one of India’s foremost modernists, he is said to have \”developed a language of art rooted in Indian tradition but also influenced by his

February 17, On This Day 109 years — that is how long it has been since the Armory Show opened in New York City on February 17, 1913. It was the first large exhibition of modern art in America, as well as one of the many exhibitions that have been held in the vast spaces

February 12, On This Day   The immensely popular composition dubbed The Scream, created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, is one of the most iconic images of art, seen as “symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition”. Munch created four versions of the painting and a lithograph stone, from which several prints survive. Here’s a

February 10, On This Day A distinguished Indian Carnatic musician and painter from the state of Tamil Nadu was born on February 10, 1919. S. Rajam is celebrated as a rare and gifted artist and performer. He is known for his series of portraits of the Trinity of Carnatic music — Tyagaraja, Muttuswami Dikshitar and

February 8, On This Day Frau power in German art One of the most important representatives of early expressionism, German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker was born on February 8, 1876, and died very young at the age of 31 from a postpartum embolism (in 1907). Until the years when Becker began the practice, women painters had

January 24, On This Day Amedeo Modigliani An Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Amedeo Modigliani is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures. These were not well received during his lifetime, but

January 13, On This Day There’s many an artist who has been overlooked, and even more so female artists in human history. And yet, Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, who died tragically in an accident with a leaking gas stove on January 13, 1943 at just the age of 54, still managed to establish herself as

January 1, On This Day Paris Viswanathan Paris Vishwanathan | Via Wikipedia Popularly known as Paris Viswanathan, Velu Viswanathan is one of the several artists sharing a birthday on January 1. He was born in 1940 in Kollam (Kerala), and went on to study under noted painter, KCS Paniker, also assisting him in in setting

December 20, On This Day Three minutes — that’s all it took for a gang of thieves to swiftly get into one of South America’s most major art museums and make off with art by famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari. The heist took place at the São Paulo Museum