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Image Source In any field of work, women face a lot of discrimination and have to struggle to make a name. The situation has gotten better today, at least in the developed countries. All across the world before the 21st…
Image Source There are seven recognized movements of painting, with some having sub-sections. The seven schools are: i. Reaslism. ii. Painterly. iii. Impressionism. iv. Expressionism and Fauvism. v. Abstraction. vi. Abstract. vii. Photorealism. Each of them has many famous artists…
Image source – Wikimedia Claude Monet or Oscar-Claude Monet in full, was a French artist and one of the most celebrated painters of all time. Born on November 14, 1840, he is credited to be a leading figure in initiating…
Image source – Flickr Jackson Pollock or Paul Jackson Pollock in full, was a famous American painter, born on January 28, 1912. Credited for being a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism, he was famous for his eccentric nature and signature…
Image credit Henri Matisse or Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a world-renowned French artist. Born on 31st December 1869, this revolutionary artist was also a sculptor, printmaker, a draughtsman and a master painter. Known for his original draughtsmanship and brilliant…
Master of the Macabre Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a person who was to become one of the greatest directors of all time in Hollywood was born. In his lifetime, Sir Alfred Hitchcock was known as the master…
Image source Salvador Dali, the renowned Surrealist icon and Spanish artist needs no introduction for art buffs. Apart from being an artist, Dali was also an author, filmmaker, performer and sculptor. Dali was born in 1904 in Figueres in Spain…
Image source Born on the 6th of March 1475, in Caprese, in Florence, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, architect, poet, and painter. He was an influence at the time of the Italian Renaissance, being unparalleled in…
Image source There are few people who live in this world or who have lived, who are called “rare”. For sure, one of these is Leonardo da Vinci. Born in 1452, in Tuscany, da Vinci was a Renaissance artist. With…
Image source Vincent van Gogh, along with Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Paul Cezanne, was a Postimpressionist. He was a Dutch painter, globally considered the greatest after Rembrandt. His painting career was brief. Most of his reputed art was done…
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