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.

Jean-Louis Forain is highly revered for his numerous drawings chronicling and commenting on Parisian city life at the end of the 19^th century.

Celebrated as one of the most significant living artists during his time, Forain was born on October 23, 1852, in Reims, Marne, and during his childhood, his family moved to Paris.

Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Baroque period, whose Italianate landscapes of the Dutch countryside is revered for their poetic use of light and atmosphere.

Belonging to the most famous family of painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Cuyp was born on October 20, 1620, in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

"Presence of mind often saves us". It was his presence of mind that saved the Monkey from becoming a prey of the Crocodile's wife and left the foolish Crocodile in a dilemma. Draw the story with us, watch Episode 6 of Kahani Mein Art and share your drawings with us.

James Brooks is celebrated for his murals, abstract paintings, and unique staining technique, developed by experimenting with mixtures of commercial enamels and oils.

One of the most technically accomplished members of the New York School, Brooks was born on October 18, 1906, in Saint Louis, Missouri. 

Allan Ramsay is celebrated as one of the foremost 18^th-century British portraitists.

Best-known for his natural style portraiture, Ramsay was born on October 13, 1713, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Alberto Giacometti, is best-known for his elongated and withered representations of human forms, seen as metaphors for the postwar experience of doubt and alienation.

Associated at various times with Cubism, Surrealism and Existentialism, Giacometti was born on October 10, 1901, in the small mountain village of Borgonovo, Switzerland, near the Italian-Swiss border.

Frank Duveneck, is celebrated as one of the young American painters who helped awaken American interest in European Naturalism in the late 19^th and early 20^th century.

Widely known as an art teacher, the artist was born Frank Decker on October 9, 1848, in Covington, Kentucky, to German immigrant parents.

Jean-Paul Riopelle, was widely regarded as Canada's most important modern artist, whose Abstract Expressionist style was often compared to that of American artist Jackson Pollock.

One of the first Canadian artists to gain major international recognition, Riopelle was born on October 7, 1923, in Montreal, Quebec. 

Adolf von Hildebrand, is celebrated as one of the first sculptors of the 19^th century to insist upon the aesthetic autonomy of sculpture from painting, a doctrine he most effectively promulgated in his famous 1893 essay, “Das Problem der Form”, which helped establish the theoretical foundation for modern sculpture.