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,...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Creative surreal paintings by Stefan Thelen is simply interesting. Popular Disney characters are portrayed as strips casting a beautiful insight. Behind the ribbons are different characters which seem to pop out at unexpected places. We are all quite familiar with fairytales like Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and more. It's...
Indian artists are known to reveal cultural and mythical tales through paintings and drawings for many decades. Premraj Meher is an Indian artist and he is extremely skilled in acrylic paintings and drawings. The mythical stories of Suryadev and chariot with a twist of modernism introduced in his paintings is very interesting. His...
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...
Hyper Realistic Digital Paintings is the new rave with the art community. Kamalky Laureano was born on December 6, 1983 in Santo Domingo. His digital paintings can be easily compared to a sculpture. The paintings are have so much intense detail and the thin line between painting and realism disappears. Kamalky Laureano graduated...
Swirls and dashes are what you see in the pencil drawings by Lee. He is an exceptional artist from Seoul, South Korea, who knows his way around graphite and art. The portraits of men and women are so beautifully created with nothing but different shades of pencil. We love the robust expressions captured by the artist and it's one of...
Can you ever guess that embroidery thread art installations could cause such holographic visuals. The artist behind this mind-blowing art installation is Gabriel Dawe. When the light passes through his colorful thread art installations, magic unveils. He is a renowned artist and creative art director. Gabriel Dawe is from Mexico and...
You are looking at the great miniature artworks by Abdul Rahman Eid. Lets say this guy has a great talent for miniature art like rebuilding the houses in Jeddah. The rustic old villages, apartments which focuses on the lifestyle and culture of people of Jeddah. Abdul Rahman Eid is a talented artist, sculptor from Syria. We...
Adem Potas's watercolor paintings are so full of life. The landscape and scenery paintings seem so real, that we want to get lost amongst the fields and ride the waves. The snow capped trees, luscious fields are so intensely created with a touch of magic we would say. Adem Potas is an artist from Turkey. He is a self taught artist...
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...
Get ready to hold on to your seats, you are about to watch psychedelic artwork by Matt Shorthair. The colourful paintings resembles more of a newspaper collage, where many things are cut and pasted. One look at the paintings and it takes u back to the 80s where color pop was very popular. The posters designs had colourful background...
The watercolor paintings by artist Uday Bhan shows us a glimpse into Indian culture. People going about doing their regular jobs, women enjoying a sip of tea after a tired day work, people cooking and cleaning. Men waiting to provide their repair services and more. The background is set on a blue or a beige theme, which puts more...
Illustration: Anano Miminoshvili is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer from Georgia. She has created this series of summer shots with cute digital art. You can also see the color palette she has chosen for her illustrations. Our favorites are the bird, umbrella, roomies, lost whale and almost everything in this series. Even...