Is it a plane? A bird? Or a woman’s face with features all mixed up? Welcome to the world of twenty greatest artists who taught people to view the familiar and the everyday, in ways that were new, revolutionary and never imagined before. From the Old Masters of perspective and chiaroscuro, like Vermeer and Da Vinci, to innovators and experimenters of form, line and material, like Monet and Amrita Sher-Gil, these artists have shown that when it comes to art, there are no limitations on what is beautiful or evocative. This book explores the lives-at times tragic and misunderstood; at times exuberant and scandalous-of these great pioneers of art, candidly describing the highs and lows each went through. In doing so, it also traces influential artistic movements down the ages and how they impacted the wider world of politics, culture and history. 20 Greatest Artists offers a peek into the colourful lives of great artists and their works of art.
About the Author
Kalyani Mookherji is an alumnus of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, from where she finished her post-graduation in English Literature. She has been a writer and educator for over ten years now. She also runs a popular literary workshop for children, Feeling Bookerish, in Wellington, a town in The Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, where she currently resides after having travelled the length and breadth of India as an army wife. Despite being a busy mom to a bright teen and a spoilt dog, she finds time for her other interests such as music, baking and blogging at crumbsonmynotebook.wordpress.com. Previously, she has written 100 Greatest Sportspersons and 20 Greatest Political Philosophers.
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