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BANKSY (New York) This mural on the legendary Houston Bowery wall in New York City speaks against the controversial incarceration of the Turkish journalist Zehra Doğan, sentenced to jail for painting a picture. TATS CRU (New York) FINTAN MAGEE (Goa) The artwork focuses on workers’ rights and power structures; this strong social issue was inspired... Continue Reading →
1. Jeff Wall based this elaborately staged photograph on the prologue of Ralph Ellison’s celebrated 1952 novel, Invisible Man. Image ©2016 Jeff Wall, courtesy MoMA. The novel’s protagonist, an unnamed African American man, relates that he lives secretly “in my hole in the basement,” where he has “wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it” with 1,369... Continue Reading →
Painting is not about perfection. A mixed media collection by Amaya The lady with red umbrella Glass paint in OHP sheet Glass paint in OHP sheet
In an interview with Rose It takes a lot for an artist to break the unwritten rules and paint his own sensibilities that enrichthe classical art form. PK Sadanandan is one of them. PK Sadanandan is an artist world renowned for creating, reviving and restoring mural paintings in Kerala. His world of mural paintings are... Continue Reading →
Daan Oude Elferink. Source: daanoe.com Self-taught Dutch photographer Daan Oude Elferink (1978) travels the world to explore and capture the beauty of abandoned, forbidden and decayed places. He captures the beauty of buildings and objects all over the world that are slowly decaying with time - accordingly becoming more beautiful but also more dangerous. The... Continue Reading →
John Bramblitt John Bramblitt is a talented artist from Denton Texas. In fact its no less to say he is one of a kind. His art has been sold in over one hundred and twenty countries and he has appeared internationally in print, TV and radio, like CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, ABC, NBC,... Continue Reading →
Outsider art was a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal. It was a roughly equivalent but more inclusive coinage for art brut (raw art), a 1940s label by Jean Dubuffet for work by inmates of insane asylums, which the French artist described as “unscathed by artistic culture … and the conventions of classical... Continue Reading →
I haven’t yet finished scanning my sketches from September’s travel sketching workshop in Italy with French Escapade, but I’m already looking forward to teaching with them again in Spain in June of 2020. And this time, it’s in a region of Spain that I’ve already visited (and loved), which makes it even more exciting. A […]Sketch... Continue Reading →
A journey to rediscover and appreciate our artist. Indian art’s fons et origo can be traced back to thousands of years. Like the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters, in Madhya Pradesh, are said to be approximately 30,000 years old. However we still don’t know anything about the ones who created those works. And while India was famous for its temples and artistic carvings, it was only in the 1800’s that Hindu art and paintings started making waves in the international scene.
Reshma Akhil Art is my passion. It helps to liberate my soul and I found it as a way of freedom. I try to express my feelings and ideas through my paintings. In this hectic world, painting provides me a time of my own and helps me to forget the pain, sorrows and follies of... Continue Reading →
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