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  • Silpa Bhirasri: The father of Modern Art in Thailand

    Silpa Bhirasri, is revered as the father of modern art in Thailand.

    Born Corrado Feroci to a merchant family in Florence, Italy, on September 15, 1892, the artist had a profound impact on the development of Thai art.

  • Charles Dala Gibson: Creator of The Glamorous Gibson Girl

    Charles Dana Gibson, is remembered as one of America's most prolific and popular artists, who had a profound effect on American life and culture.

    Famous for his Gibson Girl drawings, the artist was born on September 14, 1896, into a prominent Roxbury, Massachusetts family. 

  • Let there be ART

    “Shuruart is doing a great work by exposing the students of weaker section of the society to the wonderful world of art and widening their horizon. This will not only help them in enjoying the process of education and learn better but would also make them better citizens of tomorrow India."

  • Daphne Odjig: The Aboriginal Modernist Painter

    Daphne Odjig, is revered as an internationally renowned artist who brought a tectonic shift in Canadian art history.

    A founding member of the 1970s artists' alliance the ‘Indian Group of Seven’, Odjig was born on September 11, 1919, in Wikwemikong, on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

  • Brassaï: The Eye of Paris

    Brassaï, is acclaimed as one of France's most famous photographers, whose unique chronicler of Paris in the twenties and thirties dubbed him the “eye of Paris”, a title given by the American writer Henry Miller.

    Famous for capturing the truth as well as forging the myth of Parisian bohemia, Brassaï was born Gyula Halász in Brassó, the Hungarian part of Romania, on September 9, 1899.

  • Mimi Parent: The Artist of Absolute Surrealism

    Displaying mythological tableaux by creating exquisite black wooden sculptural boxes in which a scene, composed of different elements, can be seen behind a glass and each box presents itself as an unusual “theatre of the unconscious”, the Canadian artist, Mimi Parent, is acclaimed as one of the most vibrant and provocative force of Surrealism in the decades after the second world war.

  • Horatio Greenough: The American Sculptor of European Style

    Sculpting the enormous statue of toga- and sandal-clad Washington to resemble one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the statue of Olympian Zeus, the American sculptor, Horatio Greenough, is remembered as one of the first American to make sculpture his profession and to gain international recognition thereby.

    One of the first American artists schooled in the European style, Greenough was born on September 6, 1805, in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Caspar David Friedrich: The Painter of Contemplative Landscapes

    Seeking spirituality through the contemplation of nature, extending the bounds of trees, mountains, hills and crashing waves beyond just a beautiful view, the German artist, Caspar David Friedrich, is celebrated as one of the greatest Romantic painters of the 19th century.

  • Kenzo Tange: The Designer of Urban Architecture

    Fusing the architectural traditions of Japan with the contemporary philosophy and traditions of the western world, the Japanese architect, Kenzo Tange’s work marked a revived awareness of Japanese architectural traditions expressed through a contemporary interpretation of architectural form.

    Celebrated as one of the most significant architects of 20th century, Tange was born on September 4, 1913, in Osaka, Japan.

  • ROMARE HOWARD BEARDEN: THE ENCHANTER OF METAPHORICAL COLLAGES

    Depicting the aspects of American black culture through autobiographical and metaphorical collages that integrate the images of African-American life in the urban and rural South with references to popular culture, religion, Classical art and myth, the African-American artist, Romare Howard Bearden, is celebrated as one of the most important and inventive American artists of the 20th century.

    Revered as America’s foremost collagist, Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

  • HELEN LEVITT: THE PIONEER OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

    Exploring the uncanny elements inherent to everyday life by capturing the fleeting moments of spontaneity and intimacy on the streets of New York, the American photographer, Helen Levitt, is celebrated as one of the most important street photographers of the 20th century.

    The most celebrated and least known photographer of her time, Levitt was born on August 31, 1913, in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood in a Russian-Jewish immigrant family.

  • ISAAC LEVITAN: THE ACADEMIC OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING

    Responding to the lyrical and revealing charm of Russian nature and creating a special variant of the atmospheric landscape that carries the conditions of the human soul through muted light and melancholy colors, the Russian landscape painter, Isaac Levitan, is remembered as the master of landscape painting and founder of the “mood landscape” genre.

    One of the most influential figures in Russian painting of the 19th century, Levitan was born on August 30, 1860, in a shtetl of Kibarty, Augustów Governorate in Congress Poland, Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania).