Becoming Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, the famous Italian painter and sculptor was born in 1884 into a  Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy. He was frequently ill and looked after by his mother, who encouraged his interest in art. He started painting even before beginning of his formal education....

Abdullah Ariff’s European Aliegence

Born in the dawn of twentieth century, in 1904, Abdullah Ariff grew up in the Penang township. He was an extraordinary Asian artist as well as an excellent art teacher during a time when it wasn’t a norm for anyone to become an art teacher in Penang, so much so that there wasn’t any art school or even art enthusiast groups. He taught art in an Anglo-China school in Penang that was ment for Europeans...

Louise Blouin - #MeToo – OpEd

Since October 2017 and the start of the #Me Too movement, I have felt connected to the plight of women who have been harassed and sexually abused. This abuse, as evidenced in the actions of Harvey Weinstein and Charlie Rose — to name only two — hit home for me not only because of my own experiences...

Cezanne and the Practice of Painting

Cézanne’s work is in reality composed of a slow and deliberate build-up of paint. His canvases tend towards palpable saturation, with commas and daubs that rain across the image plane. The Mont Sainte-Victoire works, a series of over thirty items dated roughly from the mid-1880’s to Cézanne’s death...

Kehinde Wiley: Biography

 Kehinde Wiley, the famous American painter was born in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. He lives and works in New York City. His artistic oeuvre is based on portrait painting and most of his subjects are young African-Americans. His work was described by Columbus Museum of Art during an exhibition of his work in 2007, as: "Wiley has gained recent acclaim for his heroic portraits which address...

Find Information About Abdullah Ariff on Blouinartinfo

Abdullah Ariff was born in Penang in 1904. He was a self-taught creator and was a teacher at the Anglo-Chinese faculty, Penang  (presently referred to as Methodist Boy's School). within the Nineteen Twenties, there was no native art cluster and also the solely unionised art cluster at that point consisted of expatriate Europeans  (mostly English housewives ) who referred to as themselves...

Description of Constantin Brancusi Controversies

Princess X and the boundaries of art On twenty-eight January 1920, Constantin Brancusi exhibited one his works, rather coyly titled Princess X, at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. The work options a rather inclined ovoid head and an extended neck terminating during a full bust. Small ripples at the junction of the top and neck denote the hair. The work had been shown before, at the Society of...
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