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Every Kid Wants a Dog as Big as a Horse and so Did Norman Bridwell: The charming true story of Clifford the Big Red Dog If you were born around or after the mid-1960s, you likely recall seeing the shelves in your school library stocked with books featuring a big red dog by the name of Clifford. There’s a good chance yo...

What started off as a silly dream gave way to an iconic character loved all over the world!

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This acrylic painting shows a Telangana (in south-central India) woman in profile, her dark, luminous skin framed by a richly patterned deep blue sari and heavy ornaments that curve in strong, graphic lines around her face and shoulders. A bright green parrot perches just behind her head, its beak angled toward her cheek as if mid-conversation, echoing the tilt of her eyes and the gentle tension in her lips. Flat, saturated reds, yellows, blues, and greens replace modelling with bold contour, while delicate dots and borders decorate her sari and jewelry. Against a plain, pale backdrop, every curve of her bangles, nose ring, and hairline is sharply defined, centering a powerful village woman whose presence fills the frame. Drawing on the sensuous “alasa kanyas” (aka lazy, relaxed, or indolent maidens”) motifs of medieval temple sculpture and on memories of the women of rural Telangana, Indian artist Thota Vaikuntam turns a familiar image of a woman with her parrot into a celebration of caste-marked, regionally specific beauty and interior life. The parrot, long a South Asian symbol of desire, gossip, devotion, and companionship, becomes here a trusted witness to the sitter’s private world. Born in Boorugupalli in 1942 and trained in Hyderabad and at MS University Baroda under K.G. Subramanyan, Vaikuntam fused folk, cinematic poster art, and temple iconography into his now-iconic language of flattened planes and monumental village figures. In “Woman with Parrot,” he honors the women who shaped him like toddy-shop workers, market sellers, mothers, and wives by casting them not as decorative muses but as protagonists whose gaze, gesture, and vivid presence define contemporary Indian art.

“Woman with Parrot” by Thota Vaikuntam (Indian) - Acrylic on canvas / c. 2001 - Sarmaya Arts Foundation (Mumbai, India) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #ThotaVaikuntam #IndianArt #Telangana #SouthAsianArt #ModernIndianArt #ContemporaryArt #FigurativeArt #Parrot #BirdArt #Sarmaya #WomenWithAnimals

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Julie, about 14, sits diagonally on a rose-toned sofa in an elegant Parisian salon, her long auburn hair loose over the dark sheen of a fitted black silk dress with full sleeves and narrow waist. Her pale hands gather in her lap as she leans slightly forward, gaze unfocused and inward. At her feet stands Laërte, a slim greyhound with a fine collar, muzzle lifted toward her for a touch. To the left, a pale blue Louis XVI chair and softly sketched Japanese prints and paintings dissolve into Morisot’s fluid strokes, the cream walls and quick lilac and green notes making the figures luminous against an airy, unfinished backdrop. Painted in 1893, months after the death of Julie’s father, Eugène Manet, this double portrait of girl and dog layers affection and grief. Julie’s black dress marks mourning, yet its severity is softened by Berthe Morisot’s vibrating color and light; she is cradled by a cultivated interior filled with art and Japan-inspired prints, visual shorthand for the family’s cosmopolitan circle. Laërte was a gift from Stéphane Mallarmé, who would become Julie’s guardian after Morisot’s death and embodies vigilance and solace, anchoring her in loyalty as she hovers between childhood and adulthood. Empty spaces like the unused chair and blurred wall read as absences, making the work a quiet elegy for a family already half-lost. This canvas belongs to Morisot’s final, daring period, when illness, personal loss, and absolute commitment to her art sharpened her touch into bolder contrasts and sweeping, seemingly unfinished marks. A founding Impressionist and the only woman to exhibit in most of the group’s shows, Morisot spent her career centering women and children with radical intimacy. Here she paints her only daughter with a new psychological depth: Julie as heir to an Impressionist dynasty and circle that includes Monet and Mallarmé. The painting stands as a testament to the fragile, enduring bond between mother, daughter, and their artistic world.

Julie Manet et sa levrette Laërte (Julie Manet and her Greyhound Laertes) by Berthe Morisot (French) – Oil on canvas / 1893 – Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #BertheMorisot #Morisot #Impressionism #MuséeMarmottanMonet #DogsInArt #WomenArtists #WomensArt #arte

Alice Neel Painted What We Hide As a portrait painter, Alice Neel was not interested in flattery. She preferred dissection.Her work lives at the intersection of psychological autopsy and radical empathy — a combination that makes he...

New Blog* | “Her work lives at the intersection of psychological autopsy and radical empathy — a combination that makes her portraits feel simultaneously clinical and intimate; she painted revelation — what her sitters tried, often unconsciously, to conceal.”

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The true story of Balto It’s wrong to say that Seppala did not hold Kaasen’s journey and Balto’s accomplishments in high esteem, but the disproportionate attention paid to them soon started to build resentment on Seppala’s b...

We celebrated Balto into a commodity, then punished him for the fame we forced on him.

🎯 The quest for justice often leads us to commit new injustices. Balto's story shows us how.

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When Women of The Night Hosted The Love Goddess Judy Tenuta Judy Lynn Tenuta — also known as The Love Goddess, The Petite Flower, and Aphrodite of the Accordion, etc. — is the first woman in history to win in the ​​Best Female Stand-Up Comic category at The A...

She was unique, for sure.

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Some last minute costume inspo.

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I Paint Dead People: The art of séances and mediumship “Rosabelle, believe.” These were the words, shrouded inside a secret code, spoken by Harry Houdini (1874 — 1926) from beyond the grave to hi

Wake the dead!

Tonight, people across the world will try to connect with Harry Houdini, who passed away on this day, 99 years ago.

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The sciences are fun.

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The Legend of Bruce Campbell and 40 years of Evil Dead “I don’t think about death,” calmly states Bruce Campbell. That’s ironic, coming from him. Over the last 40 years Campbell’s become a legend

The King of Halloween on one of the most iconic horror franchises in the game.

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Vanitas, Vanity of Vanities: This is why we can't have nice things The art form hails from the chilly shores of the once United Provinces of the Netherlands, which was a world-famous Calvinsm hotspot during

The movement was supposed to be about modesty, but they messed it up.

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How it started. In one month, we find out how it’s going.

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Wassily #Kandinsky - On the #Dances of #Palucca, 1926. Discover more design history by subscribing to my newsletter designreviewed.com/newsletter/

Spotlighting some work by ARTpublika’s editor-in-chief, Liz Publika.

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Interview with the Creative Director of Body Worlds Full human body plastination was really difficult and no one wanted that. But, he did it. And doing these animal exhibits, it’s just absolut

“‘We literally fell in love standing at the dissection table,’ recalls Dr. Angelina Whalley, the Managing Director of The Institute for Plastination and the Creative Director of the internationally acclaimed Body Worlds exhibitions.”

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Rare Black & White Prohibition Posters 1874 – 1922: A photo essay Rare Black & White Prohibition Posters 1874 – 1922: A photo essay | Images are taken from the The Library of Congress, which is the larg

From an artistic perspective, these are pretty great.

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Tales of Taxidermy and Whimsy: Modern art from the Victorian era Now, after years of minimal representation, taxidermy has returned with new practices, a fresh style, and a new bread of taxidermist. A prac

Forget what you think you know about taxidermy, a new era has dawned.

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Who dunnit?: Mystery weekends, board games, and more Interactive murder mystery games have found popularity for many generations, exciting the young and old with spooky, silly, and sometimes hi

Sometimes you just want to solve a murder. It’s for fun.

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How to Kill Koschei the Deathless: Symbolism and nature Slavic folklore is very different from its Western counterpart. Let’s start with fact that its most recognizable and quintessential antagoni

Some Halloween inspo and lite cultural reading for ya!

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We lost a great one a few months back.

We wrote about Tom in the Art of Math volume of ARTpublika Magazine, but he would have just as seamlessly fit in the Art of Humor! Thanks for all the laughs, joy, and love!

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A Word About Dying: Poems by Tennyson, Dickinson, and Stevenson “Crossing the Bar” (1889) unset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea,

Positive and powerful reflections on life and death.

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Henri Martin's pictures are sometimes criticised for not being particularly innovative but as with this work 'Idyll,' (1925) study his work carefully and his paintings reveal an ability to distill sunlight and other similar atmospheric effects.

Death from the Visconti tarot deck | Bembo, Bonifazio 15th century

Shown: Death from the Visconti tarot deck | Bembo, Bonifazio
15th century

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Robot Cinema: The Master Mystery, Metropolis, The Phantom Creeps The Master Mystery (1918)  Fifteen-episode serial  Starring: Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Ruth Stonehouse, Edna Britton, William Pike,

Elevate your Halloween watch list with these vintage gems! From #BélaLugosi to #HarryHoudini, this is some good quality fun that you can watch here, right now!

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