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Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. Roberts migrated with his family to Australia in 1869 to live with relatives. Settling in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
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Read MoreKrishnaji Howlaji Ara was an Indian painter and is seen as the first contemporary Indian painter to meticulously use the female nude as a subject. He was a part of the Progressive Artists' Group in Bombay and was a founder of the Artists' Centre in Mumbai. Opinions about Ara's works remain divided with his critics accusing them of lacking perfection and not referenced from life.
Read MoreThomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. Roberts migrated with his family to Australia in 1869 to live with relatives. Settling in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
Shearing the rams, 1890
He worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s, while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become prominent artists, notably Frederick McCubbin. After attending art schools in Melbourne, he travelled to Europe in 1881 to further his training, and returned home in 1885, "primed with whatever was the latest in art".
While in London and Paris, he took in the progressing influence of painters Jules Bastien-Lepage and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He traveled in Spain in 1883 with Australian artist John Russell, where he met Spanish artists Laureano Barrau and Ramon Casas who introduced him to the principles of Impressionism and plein air painting.
A leading proponent of painting en plein air, he joined Frederick McCubbin in founding the Box Hill artists' camp, the first of several plein air camps frequented by members of the Heidelberg School. He also encouraged other artists to capture the national life of Australia, and while he is best known today for his "national narratives"—among them Shearing the Rams (1890), A break away! (1891) and Bailed Up (1895)
Holiday sketch at Coogee, 1888
He earned a living as a portraitist, and in 1903 completed the commissioned work The Big Picture, the most famous visual representation of the first Australian Parliament. Roberts painted a considerable number of fine oil landscapes and portraits, some painted at artist camps with his friend McCubbin.
The most famous in his time were two large paintings, Shearing the Rams, now displayed in the National Gallery of Victoria and The Big Picture, displayed in Parliament House, Canberra. The Big Picture, a depiction of the first sitting of the Parliament of Australia, was an enormous work, notable for the event depicted as well as the quality of Roberts' work.
Roberts made many other paintings showing country people working, with a similar image of the shearing sheds in The Golden Fleece (1894), a drover racing after sheep breaking away from the flock in A break away!, and with men chopping trees in Wood splitters (1886). Many of Roberts' paintings were landscapes or ideas done on small canvases that he did very quickly, such as his show at the famous 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition in Melbourne.
Roberts had more works on display in this exhibition than anyone else. A "lost" painting titled Rejected was featured in a 2017 episode of the BBC series Fake or Fortune?. It was determined by experts to be a genuine Roberts, dating from his student years in London.
Pakhal Tirumal Reddy known as P T Reddy, was an Indian artist. He was the fifth child born to Ram Reddy and Ramanammachild at Annaram village, Karimnagar district, Telangana, India. He received his diploma in painting from J. J. School of Art, Bombay in 1939. He married Yashoda Reddy on 9 May 1947, and she completed a master's of art and Ph.D. degrees and authored over 22 compilations and novels. P T Reddy played a role in the introduction and the evolution of the so-called "Modern Art" of Europe to India.
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Read MoreGanga Devi was an Indian painter, considered by many as one of the leading exponents of Madhubani painting tradition. She is credited with popularizing the Madhubani painting outside India. She was born in 1928 in Mithila in the Indian state of Bihar in a Kayastha family and took to the traditional painting craft, specialising in the kachni (line drawing) style. She traveled abroad with her art and was a part of the Festival of India in the United States, which yielded a number of paintings under the title, America series, including Moscow Hotel, Festival of American Folk Life, and Ride in a Roller Coaster.
Read MoreR K Joshi was born in 1936, in Kolhapur, India. He was an academic type designer and calligrapher. He designed the core Indian fonts used in Microsoft Windows. He was brought up in the town of Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He developed an interest in alphabets, their shapes, styles and design. In 1952, he decided to study art at Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai. During this time, he found a scarcity of typefaces in Indian languages.
Read MoreJangarh Singh Shyam (1962–2001) was a pioneering contemporary Indian artist. Jangarh was born into a Pardhan Gond family in the village of Patangarh, Eastern Madhya Pradesh. He grew up in extreme poverty which forced him to quit school and try his hand at farming. He grazed buffaloes and sold milk in a nearby town. Jangarh was approached by the talent scouts of the arts museum Bharat Bhavan, he met the artist Jagdish Swaminathan which led to a lifelong collaboration between the two.
Read MoreKatsushika Hokusai known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Tokyo, Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Read MoreRalph Hotere was born on 11 August 1931 in Mitimiti, Northland. He was a New Zealand artist and is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most important artists. In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago and in 2003 received an Icon Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. Hotere received his secondary education at Hato Petera College, Auckland, where he studied from 1946 to 1949.
Read MoreVasant Raghunath Amberkar was born in 1907 in Mumbai. From 1933-1939 he studied under S. L. Haldankar at S. L. Haldankar's Institute. He completed four years Ar training correspondence course of Press Art School under Percy V. Bradshaw.
Read MoreGaganendranath Tagore was an Indian painter and cartoonist of the Bengal school. Along with his brother Abanindranath Tagore, he was counted as one of the earliest modern artists in India.
Read MoreChéri Samba was born on 30 December 1956 is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the best known contemporary African artists, with his works being included in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Read MoreMahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar was born on 18 March 1867. He was noted Indian painter from the British colonial era. and postcard artist. His illustrations of women of that era doing their daily chores are especially popular.
Read MoreÉric Joisel was a French origami artist who specialized in the wet-folding method. He created figurative art sculptures using sheets of paper and water, without the use of any adhesive or scissors. Origami is derived from the Japanese words “ori” meaning “fold” and “kami” meaning paper. Origami is the Japanese art of forming sculptures out of paper only. And Eric Joisel took this to a whole new level.
Read MoreGerard Sekoto born in 9 December 1913. He was a South African artist and musician. He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of the new Christian converts. He is recognised as the pioneer of urban black art and social realism.
Read MoreAmrita Sher-Gil was born on 30 January 1913. She was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a "pioneer" in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in the art, at the age of eight. She first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her oil painting titled Young Girls (1932).
Read MoreSawlaram Lakshman Haldankar also know as S L Haldankar was a well-known Indian painter. Haldankar was born into a family from Sawantwadi, which was then a Princely State and is located today in Maharashtra state.
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