Tapas Das

Suffocated Life

2021

This painting is inspired by the colours of an old Persian carpet and its background, jal, with its colour schemes have been subtly incorporated here. The panther represents the raw,...

Cultures across Europe and Asia Minor saw the killing of a boar as proof of one's valor and strength. In this painting the boar is depicted as the sufferer whereas the other elements...

"The constant use of plastic is tampering with the environment. Today our magnificent surroundings are covered by plastic all around. These human made plastics find their way to the ...

"The owl, patron bird of Goddess Athena, has a history that goes beyond the common association with wisdom and knowledge. In ancient Egypt, owls were known to...

Nature is a source of love and inspiration and in this present era we have to take care of it. Wild nature is usually associated with beauty and calmness. Love is the most important ...

It's a mythological based painting. I try to do a dramatic composition in this painting. A illustration of ""vagbat gita "" Helps to build the unic composition. That time when Lord Krishna...

Subha Basu - Prehistoric Tempera on Paper, 17 x 21.25 inches, 2017 Born - 1982 at Kolkata. B.V.A from The Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship in 2006, M....

Subha Basu - The Bird Tempera on Paper, 17.72 x 13.4 inches, 2017 Born - 1982 at Kolkata. B.V.A from The Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship in 2006, M.F...

Bratin Khan - Jugal Tempera on Canvas, 48 x 36 inches The anecdotes and narratives of Krishna's life are generally titled as Krishna Leela. He is a central character in the Mahabhar...

Bratin Khan - Nirvana Tempera on Canvas, 72 x 48 inches The anecdotes and narratives of Krishna's life are generally titled as Krishna Leela. He is a central character in the Mahabh...

Bratin Khan - Untitled - 42 x 50 inches Tempera on canvas. The anecdotes and narratives of Krishna's life are generally titled as Krishna Leela. He is a central character in the Ma...

A stylized horse is depicted grazing in an abstract landscape. Most likely, the location is Woodstock, New York, where the artist lived. Signed Lower Right; Framed; Note: titled and signed on verso. Ethel Magafan (August 10, 1916 – April 24, 1993) was an American painter and muralist. Magafan was born in Chicago to Greek parents who had recently immigrated to the U.S. The family soon relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Magafan's artistic training occurred at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center under the tutelage of Peppino Mangravite, Boardman Robinson and Frank Mechau, who hired Magafan and her twin sister, Jenne, to assist on mural projects. In 1937, aEthel won the commission to paint a mural in the U.S. post office in Auburn, Nebraska, making her the youngest recipient of such a commission. It would be the first of seven government-sponsored commissions for the artist. Murals "Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814" E. Magafan, 1943 Under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, several programs were created to employ Americans during the Great Depression. The Magafan twins worked under the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture, a program that hired thousands of artists to paint murals in public spaces, particularly post offices. Ethel and her twin sister, Jenne Magafan, became widely known for their murals painted during the Great Depression. Ethel received her first of seven Government commissions when she was commissioned to produce a painting for the United States post office in Auburn, Nebraska, titled Threshing.Other murals commissioned by the US Government hang in the United States Senate Chamber, the Social Security Building and the Recorder Deeds Building in Washington, D.C., and in post offices in Wynne, Arkansas, titled Cotton Pickers in 1940; in Madill, Oklahoma, titled Prairie Fire in 1941; and Englewood, Colorado, titled The Horse Corral in 1942.Her final mural, entitled Grant in the Wilderness, was installed in 1979 in the Chancellorsville Visitor Center at the Fredericksburg National Memorial Military Park in Virginia, She was a member of the National Academy of Design. Magafan died April 24, 1993, in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 76. References "Collections National Academy Museum". Retrieved 2017-03-08. "Jenne Magafan". Retrieved 2017-03-08. Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. "Browse New Deal projects by State and City". Living New Deal. Retrieved 9 January 2015. "Ethel Magafan Passes Away". New York Times. No. Obituary. April 29, 1993. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book...