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Caravaggio’s 5 Most Controversial Paintings

A deep dive into the rebel artist — Caravaggio was born in Milan. In his early twenties, he travelled to Rome, where he was offered many art commissions from affluent patrons. Unlike other artists who employed idealism in their paintings, Caravaggio preferred naturalism and used live models to create unprecedented psychological drama and realism in his works. It…

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Caravaggio’s 5 Most Controversial Paintings
Caravaggio’s 5 Most Controversial Paintings
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10 Paintings You Should Not Miss

Get ready for a roller coaster of emotions — It’s been two years since I began about art history and interpreting art symbolism. When someone asks me, “how did I land up in this niche being an engineer and worked in corporate for over 10 years?” I usually reply, “I love interpreting art history and my audience like reading…

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10 Paintings You Should Not Miss
10 Paintings You Should Not Miss
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Think Millennial Humor Is Bizarre? Check These 16th-Century Demonic Doodles

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel — A grotesque image of an ogre shooting an arrow into another creature’s rear. A nun plucks penises off a phallus tree. A bizarre hybrid examining someone else’s hindquarters. And rabbits conducting a funeral procession. Medieval society wasn’t all about prayers and plagues. The printing press hadn’t been invented yet and…

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Think Millennial Humor Is Bizarre? Check These 16th-Century Demonic Doodles
Think Millennial Humor Is Bizarre? Check These 16th-Century Demonic Doodles
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Reinventing Microsoft — 4 Cultural Hacks by Satya Nadella

The transformation to a trillion-dollar company — An illustration created waves in the technology realm in 2011. One reason was that it featured the top tech companies of that period. But the main reason was the illustration of Microsoft, it caught more eyeballs than the rest. A group of pyramidal-shaped organizational hierarchies with one leader at the…

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Reinventing Microsoft — 4 Cultural Hacks by Satya Nadella
Reinventing Microsoft — 4 Cultural Hacks by Satya Nadella
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Why Michelangelo's Women Were So Manly?

Deconstructing the reasons behind Michelangelo’s “men with breasts” — Michelangelo wrote in one of his poems, “I’m ugly.” He believed he did not meet societal beauty standards. Despite this, he spent his entire life in pursuit of sublime perfection. Michelangelo’s David is indeed the most perfect statue in the world. It exudes the aesthetics of high Renaissance art and…

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Why Michelangelo's Women Were So Manly?
Why Michelangelo's Women Were So Manly?
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·2 days ago

Kerry James Marshall Puts Black Bodies in the Center

How changing the narrative can create a big impact — Black people have never been protagonists. In fact, if we look back at 500 years of art history, Black people have always been on the sidelines and never held a central position Martin Luther King, Robert Luther King, and Malcolm X were the holy trinity that fought for Black rights…

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Kerry James Marshall Puts Black Bodies in the Center
Kerry James Marshall Puts Black Bodies in the Center
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Published in The Collector

·Mar 18

Varo’s Love Affair With Cats

Did she use cats for her alter ego? — Months ago, I discovered a surrealist artist online that I am really proud of. I wrote an article about her and I highly recommend reading the article before continuing with this one. Remedios Varo — the lost surrealist! The Female Surrealist You Probably Don’t Know About Remedios Varo — the lost surrealistmedium.com Her art is eccentric and contemporary, making Varo a complete badass woman.

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Varo’s Love Affair With Cats
Varo’s Love Affair With Cats
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Published in The Collector

·Mar 13

4 Mati Klarwein’s Paintings That Will Blow Your Mind

Surrealism, psychedelia and AI inspired imprints — Have you ever heard of the artist Mati Klarwein? Well, he was way ahead of his times. His art is bold, unconventional and controversial. I recently stumbled upon one of his paintings Annunciation on Reddit and I swear it knocked my eyes out. From da Vinci to Caravaggio, every prominent…

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4 Mati Klarwein’s Paintings That Will Blow Your Mind
4 Mati Klarwein’s Paintings That Will Blow Your Mind
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Published in The Collector

·Mar 5

5 Holman Hunt Paintings You Should Not Miss

Aesthetics, detail and life-size portraits — Last week, my husband went on an office trip to Manchester. When he visited the Manchester Art gallery, he called me and showed this gigantic painting titled The Shadow of Death by William Holman Hunt. The painting mesmerized me, and I ended up looking more about this artist and his…

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5 Holman Hunt Paintings You Should Not Miss
5 Holman Hunt Paintings You Should Not Miss
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·Feb 23

5 Dark, Disturbing and Vulnerable Paintings by Yūko Tatsushima

The harrowing experiences of sexually abused women — Zdzislaw Beksinski and Francis Bacon come to my mind when we talk about dark and macabre art. Beksinski was a Polish artist whose paintings were filled with elements of dystopia and doomsday. He faced antisemitism and witnessed mass killings of Jews. While Bacon sketched his broken and fragile relationships on…

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5 Dark, Disturbing and Vulnerable Paintings by Yūko Tatsushima
5 Dark, Disturbing and Vulnerable Paintings by Yūko Tatsushima
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Art enthusiast. I engage with art at a deep level. I also share insights about entrepreneurship, founders & nascent technologies. https://linktr.ee/kamnakirti

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