Depicting the images of King Louis Philippe, Queen Victoria, Napoleon lll and the most of the European aristocracy with an astonishing painterly finesse, the German painter and lithographer, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, is celebrated for shaping the entire era of aristocratic imagery.

Best-known for his portraits of royalty, Winterhalter was born on April 20, 1805, in the small village of Menzenschwand, Germany's black forest, in the Electorate of Baden.

Bringing the knowledge of Parisian avant-garde, including its dynamism, abstraction and emotion, to the burgeoning circle of American modernists, the Russian-born American painter, printmaker and sculptor, Max Weber, is famous for introducing European art movements as Fauvism and Cubism to the United States.

Celebrated as one of the first American Cubist painters, Weber was born on April 18, 1881, in the Polish city of Bialystok, then part of the Russian Empire.

Evoking the images of voluptuous, voluminous people and objects, the Colombian figurative artist and sculptor, Fernando Botero Angulo, is highly regarded for his enormous metal sculptures and vibrantly colorful paintings of inflated human and animal shapes with unexpected shifts in scale.

Famous for his signature style, known as ‘Boterismo’, the prolific artist was born on April 19, 1932, in the city of Medellin, Colombia.

The whole point of conducting these exhibitions is to make the voices of these artists heard and of receiving feedback from the visitors. These exhibitions mark the cultural exchange between two nations. As JR says, “Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy”.

Synthesizing Surrealism and the sensuous color and painterliness of the School of Paris with his own highly personal abstract vocabulary, the Armenian-American painter, Arshile Gorky, is celebrated as the last of the great Surrealist painters and one of the first Abstract Expressionists.

Famous for creating beauty out of personal tragedy, Gorky was born Vosdanig Adoian, on April 15, 1904, in the village of Khorkom, near lake Van, in an Armenian province on the eastern border of Ottoman Turkey.

Incorporating faceted compositions, vibrant color, and contemporary subject matter that together coveted delight in the modern life and its technological innovations, the unique style of the French artist, Robert Delaunay, is best known for introducing vibrant color into Cubism, and thereby originated the trend eventually known as Orphism.

An important figure in 20th-century art, Delaunay was born on April 12, 1885, in Paris, into a prominent family.

Illustrating various periods in the cycle of life- birth, childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age and death, the sculptures of Vigeland Sculpture park, designed by Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, are famous for exploring the human form and human life, at its purest.

Celebrated as the most prolific sculptor of all time, Vigeland was born on April 11, 1869, in Mandal, a town on the southern coast of Norway. 

Removing all the texture, gesture, and emotional content from the painting, the American painter Kenneth Noland's brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons, and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting.

Famous for pioneering the shaped canvases, Noland was born on April 10, 1924, Asheville, North Carolina.

This painting is from Rasmanjari, a classical Sanskrit text by BhanuDatta.
In the text, the writer seems to be envisioning Shiva as ArdhaNarishwar, his androgynous aspect. The painter has been very creative to capture this aspect by keeping Parvati always on the right side in the painting.

Glorifying the Ziegfeld Follies showgirls as well as actors and actresses from the world of stage and film with a large studio camera and glass plate negatives, the New York City-based photographer, Alfred Cheney Johnston, is celebrated as one of the creators of 20th-century glamor photography.

Combining a pop star's persona with that of a visual artist, the Australian artist, Brett Whiteley, is best known for a series of paintings inspired by the British mass murderer John Christie.

Leading artist of Australia's avant-garde movement, Whiteley was born on April 7, 1939, in Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in Longueville, a quiet suburb on the northern shores of Sydney harbour.

Aesthetically elevating hedonism, depravity, self-indulgence, and a dangerous femme fatale kind of sensuality, the painting “Salome Dancing before Herod” by Gustave Moreau is celebrated as one of the Hammer Museum's better known paintings and one of Moreau's finest works.

A major figure in French Symbolist painting, Moreau was born on April 6, 1826, in Paris, France, at 6 Rue des Saints-Peres.