WHEN THERE IS NO HINT OF AN EXPRESSIVE SEXUALITY – Arpana Caur: painting composition and visual tension
ARPANA CAUR 1/3 – Born in New Delhi, Arpana Caur spent her college years studying literature. As an contemporary Indian artist, she is largely self-taught, but observing her work you can feel that she continue the line begun by Amrita Sher-Gil. She started looking at the architecture in Pahari miniatures that led to her creating strange, linear tensions vis-à-vis the …
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SEDUCETIVE LOOK IN BOLD COLOURS – Asit Kumar Patnaik: men and women engrossed in their emotions
A semi-realistic figurative painter, Patnaik has enjoyed much critical acclaim and popular appreciation over the past few years. Best known painter for his “Relations” series, that revolves around a semi-clad male and female figure captured in a series of complex, multiple and open ended postures. Always, human psyche and interpersonal relationships of people in society, is the underlying theme that …
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BREATHED LIFE – S. Ilayaraja and the everyday moment od Dravidian women life
About Dravidian woman, he has breathed life into the faces and lives of uncaptured people, the common crowd in everday moments of life. Exquisite innocent expresions with delicate play of light and fine details will captivate you with its like realism. He has revived a writing from of traditional painting style in today’s times and has quickly acquired a strong …
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COMPLEX NUDES IN TWISTED POSES – Cornelis Van Haarlem and the Mannerist School
During the Eighty Years’ War, he loses contact with his parents, and a painter – Pieter Pietersz – has become his first teacher. In those years, he could not know that he would become a famous painter of the Mannerist school of Haarlem, painting large canvases in biblical or mythological subject, often with stylized characters, and even in grotesque poses. …
Read More »THE RESTLESS RENAISSANCE OF LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER – Altarpieces, court portraits and Protestant Reformers, along a innumerable pictures of women
He is the artist who had created an artistic workshop in Wittenberg, introducing important changes in the pictorial landscape of his time, and with the colors also representing the nude and eroticism, with an extreme attention to detail. His desire to change, become pictorial reality, where everything that is not traditional, sensuality, charm and the pleasure of life, hovering lightly, …
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