The poor farmer was leading a good life until he got an idea to kill the chicken that laid golden eggs, blindfolded with greed, he thought he could get all the gold from the chicken once it is dead. The desire to become rich overnight made the unfortunate farmer lose the magical chicken. Watch this episode and draw the story with us.
Charles Despiau is celebrated as one of the leading lights of French early 20th-century sculpture, who sought a new route for sculpture and developed a distinctive classicising style.
Famous for repeating the same model with only slight variations, Despiau was born on November 4, 1874, at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin is celebrated as one of the most important artists of the 18thcentury as well as one of the greatest masters of Still Life in the history of French art.
Venerated as the master of genre painting, Chardin was born in Paris on November 2, 1699, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left his native quarter of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Antonio Canova is highly acclaimed as one of the greatest exponents of Neoclassicism and the most brilliant sculptor in Europe in the late 18thand early 19thcenturies.
Revered as ‘the supreme minister of beauty', Canova was born on November 1, 1757, in Possagno, a small village in the Republic of Venice.
Helmut Newton is celebrated as one of the most influential photographers of all time, whose subversive approach to subject matter and form brought an edge to his editorial spreads.
Born Helmut Neustädter into a Jewish family in Berlin on October 31, 1920, Helmut Newton dubbed the “King of Kink”.
Francis Bacon is celebrated as one of the most unique, engaging figurative painters to emerge during the post-war period, whose grotesque imagery served as a method of exploring nihilism and death at a time when Europe had been repeatedly savaged by war.
One of the most successful British painters of the twentieth century, Bacon was born on October 28, 1909, in Dublin, Ireland.
Had the Shepherd boy not lied earlier, the lamb would have been saved. All of us have read the story The Shepherd's story, its time now to draw it. Watch our episode and share your drawings with us.
Vasilyevich Vereshchagin is acclaimed as one of the most distinguished Russian battle painters of the time, and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized outside his home country.
Regarded as one of the great master painters of Orientalism, Vereshchagin was born on October 26, 1842, in an aristocrat family, in the city of Cherepovets in the Vologda region of Russia.
Ismail Gulgee is celebrated as a globally famous Pakistani painter, whose Arabic calligraphy inspired abstract paintings and portrait paintings are highly admired in Islamic states and the rest of the world as well.
One of Pakistan's best-known painters, Gulgee was born on October 25, 1926, in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Eugène Fromentin is celebrated as one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, and a great writer whose descriptions of paintings are the last word in the art of writing.
One of the cleverest modern harmonists of Academic Classicism, Fromentin was born on October 24, 1820, in La Rochelle, France.