Artist

Gerhard Richter could easily walk unrecognized through his adopted hometown of Cologne. Few would gawk at the modest bearded man with glasses. Yet, Richter, who turned 90 on February 9, has been dubbed the "Picasso of the 21st century" ...

The 16th-century painting by the Renaissance Italian artist Sandro Botticelli sold at auction on January 27 at Sotheby's in New York. "The Man of Sorrows" was sold for $39.3 million (€35.27 million) after a seven-minute bidding war. With the addition of ...

Greek artist Alekos Fassianos died on January 16 aged 86 at his home after a long illness, the state news agency ANA reported. Born on December 16, 1935, Fassianos studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the Athens ...

Back in the early 1970s when a story idea for a never-say-die protagonist was percolating in Sylvester Stallone's head, he decided to first visualize this character on canvas. However, he didn't want to use a brush because he felt that this ...

Eyes wide open, a woman runs through a hail of bombs, crying out in pain, her naked body burning. In this war scene captured on paper with ballpoint pen, Cologne artist Andreas Maus gave shape to the suffering of the ...

"Art, science and their teaching are free," is written in Article 34 of the 1949 constitution of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), commonly known as East Germany. Artists like Hans Ticha can only laugh at this. "The works ...

Gertrude Stein definitely lived a storied life: Remembered as a language innovator, lesbian role model, feminist pioneer and literary anarchist, she hosted in her Paris apartment avant-garde authors and artists such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Picasso. But along with her ...

This 98-year young lady believes in the old saying that "Age is just a number" and no matter how young or old you are, there is no end to learning and that talent always speaks for itself. Venezuela-born Luchita Hurtado, who ...

Creating illusions is quite a mind-boggling task; and if you are a makeup artist, you need to realise that no other thing counts than being a perfectionist! A makeup artist named Mirjana Kika Milosevic has her own YouTube channel where she ...

Every person has an interesting story to tell, but then these stories are hidden for the sake of their relationship and the society. An artist named Terence Eduarte, gives us an insight with his work revealing the deeper darker secrets of ...

The grand occasion of India's Independence was celebrated with a lot of smiles. People all over India engulfed in this special day with Indian sweets, folk dances and did tones of ethnic shopping. The occasion of this 64th Indian Independence ...

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, who has a unique ability to draw detailed city skylines from memory, has his sights set on Sydney.The architectural artist was diagnosed with autism when he was three years old.Wiltshire will arrive in Australia this week with ...