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NewFamous Indian Artist Illayaraja passed away due to covid - The King of Hyper Realism Artworks | Tamil nadu
Illayaraja born in Tamil Nadu is quite popular for his oil paintings which focus on south indian culture. Most of his oil paintings are set on village themes. Women doing their daily chores, cooking, temple visits, women creating art and more. Women are portrayed as strong and independent women. Ilayaraja was born in Sembiyavarambil...
Visionary Architecture comes live through IK Lab - Tropical Art Gallery at Tulum, Mexico
The new modern art space which by itself is a work of art, is designed by Jorge Eduardo Neira Serkel, a self-taught architect and Santiago Rumney Guggenheim, who is the great grand son of the famous collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim and the director of the Gallery. Yucatan Peninsula near Tulum in Mexico, is an important tourist...
10 Best Artworks of 2020 to bring out your creative side
Pablo showed his devilish side; Zanele Muholi captured queer lives in South Africa and Artemisia Gentileschi offered a savage ride through suffering and rage. They celebrate the extravagant theatre of trans beauty pageants and beach life, intimacy and awkwardness and vulnerability as well as glamour and camp. In their self-portraits...
Celebrated French Artist Claude Monet's Painting From Water Lilies Goes for Auction
Oscar-Claude Monet is one of the celebrated western painters of all time and the founder of Impressionist painting. Monet is a household name in France and his iconic Water Lilies series symbolises French paintings. A painting of Claude from his famous Water Lilies series is to go on sale at the New York auction for...
World's Oldest Wooden Sculpture Shigir Idol is found Older than Great Pyramids of Giza
The Shigir Idol which was found in a peat bog by gold miners in 1890 is a relic known to be the oldest wooden sculpture that dates back to 12,500 years. The human figures with eerie face scattered among the geometric patterns like zigzags, chevrons and herringbones are the eight human faces with slashes for eyes. The...
Meet Pigcasso - The Artistic Pig earns millions of dollars for her paintings
If you’re a keen social media user, you might have come across numerous viral videos of elephants and other animals trying to paint and being creative, but did you hear that pig was doing painting. Yes, meet Pigcasso, the world’s first artistic pig. Pigcasso - the painting pig was once saved from a slaughterhouse when...
NFT Artwork by Humanoid Robot Sophia - Sells at auction for nearly $700000
It’s fascinating to see this new creation!! Sophia the robot has worn several hats five years since she was activated by the Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics. And having already established herself as an activist, a musician, and a fashionista, the humanoid robot is now a digital artist looking to cash into the internet...
Indian Art gallery G exhibiting the original paintings of Legend Raja Ravi Varma
The original artworks of masters like Raja Ravi Varma, C Raja Raja Varma, Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy and Binod Behari Mukherjee are being showcased by the Sandeep and Gitanjali Maini Foundation at their gallery in Bengaluru.
Indian Artist Vignesh Rajs Thirukkural based painting won a Tamilnadu State Award
Vignesh Raj said art is a way of life; he can’t describe the thrill when he finish an art and see his hard work come to him. This Coimbatore based artist was the only one from his city to have recently won a state award issued by the International Institute of Tamil Studies, for his untitled painting based on the Thirukkural....
Banksy’s Painting Sold for 14 M Euros for Covid-19 health workers
A Banksy painting depicting a young boy playing with a superhero nurse doll has raised more than £16m for an NHS charity after being sold at auction. Christie's said the hammer price of £14.4m for the 1m (3ft) x 1m work was a "world auction record" for a Banksy. Including a buyer's premium, the...
North Korean oil painting exhibition meets with Chinese people despite the closed borders due to Covid-19
An exhibition of North Korean portrait and landscape oil paintings has been displayed at the Shanxi Art Museum in the North since Chinese people are purchasing them as investments. More than 300 oil paintings from three generations of North Korean painters are on display at the exhibition. Gu Xinxia, the curator of the exhibition,...
Pride of K C Sivasankaran Artist of Indian comic book Chandamama and Ambulimama
The last of the living artists of comic book CHANDAMAMA, Shri KC SIVASANKAR, breathed his last on 29th September 2020, in Chennai. He was 97. Karatholuvu Chandrasekaran Sivasankaran (otherwise called KC Sivasankaran, Artist Sankar), (19 July 1924 – 29 September 2020) was an Indian craftsman who principally added to the Indian...
Worlds largest canvas painting Journey of Humanity sells for $62million in Dubai
An artwork created from the world's largest canvas painting has sold for $62 million in Dubai, the second most expensive painting sold at auction by a living artist. The original painting, "The Journey of Humanity" by British artist Sacha Jafri, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest art canvas. This massive...
Enormous vulva sculpture in Brazil inciting controversy
The Prize for the most controversial public sculpture 2021 has been claimed by a newly installed 33m high concrete crimson vulva in Brazil.
Painting Techniques meet Sculptures by Madrid artist Mercedes Vincente
The artist Mercedes Vicente took her painting technique and sculpts it improvised shapes with spiral twisted ribbons of fabric that look like whims of Nature.
The 10 Expensive Jean Michel Basquait Scribble Artworks sold at auction
Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is regarded as one of the world’s most successful street artists, and one of the most successful African-American artists. His career spanned barely 10 years but Jean-Michel Basquiat remains one of the most influential and important contemporary artists today. His street...
20 Beautiful Kerala Onam Saree Designs with beautiful Mural art works
Onam saree is known as Kasavu saree. The whole saree is beige or white in color with a gold border. A traditional kasavu onam saree is hand woven from cotton. Nowadays other material onam sarees are woven from tissue silk, tussar silk, crepe are some of the favorites. It's not restricted to just plain beige sarees anymore, womenfolk...
Italian Artist Sets World record By Selling Rare Botticelli Portrait for $92.2 Million
A rare Botticelli portrait at an auction in New York at Sotheby’s on Thursday sold for $92.2 million, making it Rs.6722 million. It has set a new world record by the Italian artist. The price of $92.2 million at the auction was conducted on the phone and online by bidders. This work of the 15th-century has been known as...