Posted on April 22, 2020 |
Praveen Gupta
A pioneer of Indian modern art, Amrita Sher-Gil was among the greatest avant-garde women artists of the 20th century. Hardly acknowledged in her lifetime, her work especially the famous portrait paintings, is considered among the...
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Posted on April 14, 2020 |
Praveen Gupta
Vincent van Gogh, one of the most well-known post-impressionist artists, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Holland on March 30, 1853. The son of a pastor brought up...
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Posted on September 13, 2017 |
Praveen Gupta
Johannes Vermeer lived in an almost permanent state of financial desperation. As a young man he barely managed to scrape by as he learned to paint. Because no records have surfaced concerning his apprenticeship, it...
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Posted on July 10, 2017 |
Praveen Gupta
The Kiss (Lovers) is the highpoint of Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt’s “Golden Period”, which was marked by positive critical reaction and financial success. A perfect square, the large canvas (180x180 cm) depicts a...
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Posted on August 24, 2015 |
Praveen Gupta
Amrita Sher-Gil was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose...
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