Influencing the United States to admit 200,000 Vietnamese refugees at the end of the Vietnam War through the series of photographs on the Vietnamese boat people, entitled, “Boat of No Smiles”, the American photographer and photojournalist, Eddie Adams, is best known for his iconic Vietnam photograph, “Saigon Execution”, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1969.

Celebrated as the God of photojournalism, Adams was born on June 12, 1933, in New Kensington, Pennsylvania.

Employing rich, intense color to depict portraits, landscapes and still lifes, the French painter and draughtsman, Georges Henri Rouault, is remembered for portraying the naked reality of mankind with the violence of drawing and color, the dynamism of the line and insistent brush strokes to create allegories of debauchery, misery, vice and indifference.

Famous as the most passionate artist of the 20^th century, Rouault was born in Paris on May 27, 1871.

Producing beautiful, startling and often jarring images of unemployed men and migrant workers and bringing the conditions of the rural poor to the public's attention, the American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, is remembered for revealing the plight of sharecroppers, displaced farmers and migrant workers during the Great Depression.

One of the preeminent and pioneering photographer of the 20^th century, Lange was born Dorothea Nutzhorn on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Recently, the artists from SHURUA(R)T visited Sarnath. To find the presence of Buddha in our lives, and in our hearts. And what better way to present the findings through art.
Visit our website: http://www.shuru-art.com to explore the artworks made at Sarnath

Team SHURUA(R)T along with a group of student artists visited Sarnath. The intent was to capture the serenity of the place where Lord Buddha gave his first sermon. The place marks the very thought of Buddhism, that beauty doesn't lie in being special..it's about being simple.

Designing richly colored compositions with unusual experimentation and passion to create such drama and special effect that took precedence over naturalism and perspective, the Florentine artist, Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo, is celebrated as one of the leaders of the Mannerist movement

Exploring Abstract Expressionism through mechanize motion and challenging the concept of a static experience of viewing art, the Swiss sculptor and experimental artist, Jean Tinguely, is best-known for his sculptural mechanics or kinetic art, in Dada tradition, satirizing the improvements of the industrial revolution and modern reliance on technology.

A prominent member of Europe's Nouveau Réalisme movement, Tinguely was born on May 22, 1925, in Fribourg.

Revolutionizing the medium of printmaking and elevating it to the level of an independent art form by expanding its tonal and dramatic range, and providing the imagery with a new conceptual foundation, the German painter, printmaker and theorist, Albrecht Dürer, was regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist, whose work was admired and influential throughout the Europe.

Depicting boisterous scenes of peasant life and sensuous allegories with pronounced realism and exuberance, the Flemish artist, Jacob Jordaens, is celebrated as one of the most important painters of 17^th-century Flanders.

Acclaimed as the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his time, Jordaens was born on May 19, 1593, in Antwerp.

Capturing the evocative images of motherhood and powerful portraits of Native Americans with such Pictorialist style that makes the photograph an allegory, the American portrait photographer, Gertrude Käsebier, is remembered as one of the most influential American photographer of the early 20^th century.

Born Gertrude Stanton on May 18, 1825, in Fort Des Moines, lowa, Käsebier strongly advocated photography as a career for women throughout her life.

Depicting the landscapes, forest and farms of southern Ontario with simplicity that eliminate all the nonessential, the Canadian Group of Seven Painter, Alfred Joseph Casson, is best-known for distilling his landscapes into highly finished and carefully composed designs and providing insight into the pastoral pioneering Canada that has now vanished in the face of a noisier urban world.

Famous for being the youngest member of the Group of Seven, Casson was born on May 17, 1898, in Toronto, Ontario, but he grew up in Guelph.

Portraying the blacks in calm, friendly and dignified images of non-threatening African-American and struggling for their civil rights through her art, the African-American painter and educator, Laura Wheeler Waring, is best remembered for her educational work and the portraits which displayed the achievement and dignity of her people.

Celebrated as an artist of consummate skill and imagination, Wheeler was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 16, 1887 in a prominent family of New England.