Kamna Kirti
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Art enthusiast. I engage with art at a deep level. I also share insights about entrepreneurship, founders & nascent technologies.
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Why a French Artist Censored the Title of his Painting?
A man is plucking a fig from a branch of a fig tree. A mother tantalizing offers fig to her infant. Two men play a game of boules, a French version of outdoor bowling. A man is engrossed in a book. Another man is painting near the seashore. The background of the image features a group of people dancing near a tractor. A couple is dancing and romantically involved in the center of the image. And the rooster at the lower right of the image, which has been long a symbol of France, depicts a kind of announcement - the crowing of new dawn arising.
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in FYI
How an Open Letter By a 98-Year-Old Mennonite on Gay Marriage Went Viral
Last week my husband and I went on a 2000-mile road trip covering parts of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. Although the Yellowstone National Park was the highlight of the trip, listening to some incredible podcasts and an audiobook was an epiphany of our long trip. Not only did it introduce us to some brilliant minds and their lives but there wasn't a single moment of monotony and time went by pretty fast.
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in Humans
The Racist History of Mount Rushmore
Much older than the Alps and the Himalayas are the Six Grandfathers - formed when subterranean pressure raised the earth's crust into a huge elliptical dome sixty-five million years ago. We know them today by the name of Mount Rushmore, a 'shrine of democracy', a symbol of American greatness and presidential patriotism. For many American's it still remains a grand tribute to democracy.
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in FYI
The Polish Painter Who Created Nightmarish, Untitled Paintings
Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor. He became famous for his unconventional paintings and photography that had elements of dystopia and surrealism. Even though his art and photography were criticized by many conventional painters and photographers of his times, he continued to refine his trademark existential style.
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in Horror
The Graffiti Artist Whose Painting Was Sold at $110 Million at Sotheby's
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an African American pop icon, graffiti artist, musician, and neo-expressionist painter. Although he had a brief career, it continues to cast a long shadow over the art world. After experiencing a meteoric rise early in his career, he died of a heroin overdose in 1988, aged 27.
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in Geeks
The Artistically Grotesque Paintings of 16th-Century Italian Painter
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century Italian painter who became famous for his grotesque and imaginative portrait heads made up of objects like flowers, fruits, animals, or various inanimate objects. Arcimboldo was a court painter for three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague. His juxtaposition of still-life objects on human heads created curiosity in his contemporaries and has given an opportunity for art historians and scholars to interpret his whimsical art.
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in Geeks
Las Meninas: Is this the Most Captivating Painting in the World?
Las Meninas (which translates to 'The Ladies in Waiting') is a 1656 painting by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Sheltered in the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, it is the most documented and dissected art piece by historians.
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in Geeks
What Do the Symbols on the Gravestones Mean?
The Great Awakening that began in the early 18th century witnessed a dramatic shift in the popular notions and rituals surrounding the afterlife. The puritan motifs that tend to feature straightforward images of mortality and death faded and cemeteries began to incorporate classical and Egyptian decorative motifs.
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in FYI
Picasso - An Artistic Genius or a Bullying, Misogynistic Womaniser?
Pablo Picasso was inarguably the most prolific painter of the 20th century. A pioneer of the avant-garde movement and whose artistic genius is unparalleled. But do you know that his tumultuous relationships were expressed in his art pieces in the form of misogyny, prejudice, and male chauvinism?
By Kamna Kirtiabout a year ago in Viva
