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RAJA RAVI VARMA BIRTH ANNIVERSARY: Raja Ravi Varma is the celebrated Indian painter widely known for the unison of the European realistic style of painting with Indian imagery. Known as ‘Father of Modern Indian Art’, he is the greatest…

Vincent van Gogh is popularly remembered for his creation, The Starry Night. (Image Shutterstock) Born on March 30, 1853 in the village of Groot-Zundert in Holland, van Gogh left this world at an early age of 37 years. Trending Desk…

Stephen Wong openly describes himself as "greedy." The landscape painter is referring to his appetite for absorbing as much scenery as possible during long and sometimes arduous hikes, which see him filling sketchbooks with impressions…

Rosa Bonheur was born on this day in 1822 in Bordeaux, France. (Image: Google.com) Bonheur's reputation as an animal painter and sculptor grew into the 1840s, with many of her works exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon from 1841 to…

When artist Chrystal Phan worked at the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, she says she was disappointed her fellow Vietnamese Canadians weren't represented in the museum's 2017 exhibit on families. Five years later, she's doing a solo exhibit…

Artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colourful paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, has died. He was 101. His death was confirmed in a statement Sunday by his gallery,…

Varo, by then well into her 40s, had her breakthrough with a group exhibition in 1955, showing paintings that dealt with the subconscious, the mystical and the metaphysical; in many, the protagonist looked like Varo.She was interested in…

MF Hussain was one of the renowned names in the modernist era. A free spirited man, his opinions and some of his paintings made him a controversial painter, but that did not stop him from believing in, and enjoying the freedom in art.…

Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed, a new documentary about beloved television icon Bob Ross, is premiering on Netflix this month. Ross, famous throughout the world for his work as a painter on the TV series The Joy of…

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, well-known as Frida Kahlo, was an extremely popular Mexican artist and activist. Known for her exquisite portraits, she used bold colours and strokes — something that made her works…