Reflecting passion with elegance through bold and fluid brushstrokes, the dazzling portraits of Italian genre painter Giovanni Boldini are famous for their ‘whiplash' style.
Abul Hasan, the master painter of Mughal Court, made this astonishing painting at the age of 15. At such a young age, he painted a subject, which couldn't have been more alien, but he exhibited remarkable attention to detail. Currently at The Goenka Collection, Mumbai.
Transforming the French painting away from the Rococo style towards a more restrained and classicizing idiom, the French Neoclassical painter Louis Jean François Lagrenée was celebrated for his small scale cabinet paintings of classical and mythological subjects.
In 1959, Tucker won the Australian Women’s Weekly Prize and spent two years in New York producing the Manhattan series and Antipodean Heads. In 1960 he was awarded the Kurt Geiger Award by MOMA Australia and mounted his first solo exhibition. In 1964 he married his second wife Barbara Bilcock and settled in Victoria.
An admirer of Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro, Utrillo's buildings achieved their characteristic texture through the addition of plaster with paint.
He was an influential figure, leading painter and outstanding teacher. Both Honthrost, Terbrugghen and virtually all the Utrecht painters of the period who attend any kind of distinction trained with him.
Famed as a leading American Surrealist and a herald of pop art and installation art the artist made a series of box assemblages such as the “Soap Bubble Sets”, the “Medici Slot Machine” series, the “Pink Palace” series, the “Hotel” series, the “Observatory” series, and the “Space Object Boxes” etc
Marin's treatment of paint, handling oils almost like watercolors, forays into abstraction and evocative stretches of bare canvas caught the eyes of younger painters. The Cubist breakdown of form and Futurism's obsession with moment and speed are evident in his breathless sketchy landscapes and seascapes.
Encouraged by this success he opened an independent atelier to challenge the École des Beaux-Arts and produced some best new history painters as Édouard Manet, John LA Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, karel Javurek and J-N Sylvester.
From the early scenes of soldiers and peasants in ‘The merry drinker c.1650’ and ‘The empty glass, c.1652 to opulent interiors as in ‘Merry Company, c.1663’ Hooch works excelled his style in genre paintings. Embellishing the walls of world famous museums Hooch's art scattered all around the globe.
Second time in a row, we witnessed the awe followed by admiration. In our latest sessions with kids studying at primary schools run by the government in Varanasi, we asked the kids to draw their pictures. Similar to our last session, when kids finished, teachers were competing amongst themselves to find out whose students had made the best drawing. Earlier, they were unsure whether anyone would draw. However, they were happy, in fact very happy to be wrong.