Jennifer S. Musawwir

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Art Critic at DailyArt Magazine

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5 American Impressionists You Need to Know

Sep 15, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Ruxi Rusu |Julia Bourbois |Jimena Escoto |Jennifer S. Musawwir

1. Mary CassattMary Cassatt (1844–1926) was probably the most famous American Impressionist. Born in Pennsylvania, she moved to Paris in 1865 to study alongside leading academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. She officially settled in Paris almost a decade later, when she met famous Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834–1917), who introduced her to the Impressionists.
Exhibition Review: Accidentally Wes Anderson

Mar 18, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Isabella Wilkinson |Nikolina Konjevod |Agnieszka Cichocka |Jennifer S. Musawwir

Art Forms Museum Stories Journey around the entire world through an array of vividly colourful photographical lenses at the Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition in the heart of London’s South Kensington. From British Oyster Bars to the wild depths of Iceland, this wildly wondrous exhibition pulls us into a world where colour and culture unite in spectacular harmony.
Homai Vyarawalla: India’s First Female Photojournalist

Feb 25, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Nikolina Konjevod |Agnieszka Cichocka |Jennifer S. Musawwir |Jimena Escoto

Asian Art Renowned for her groundbreaking achievements, Homai Vyarawalla (1913-2012) left an indelible mark as a trailblazer in the field of photojournalism. Breaking barriers as India’s first female photojournalist, Vyarawalla’s lens bore witness to the historic moments of British colonial rule’s demise, capturing the nation’s journey toward independence.
Scrimshaw: True American Art

Feb 18, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Anthony de Feo |Julia Bourbois |Jimena Escoto |Jennifer S. Musawwir

Despite the enormity of whales, those pursuing them could go weeks, even months at a time without seeing a single one. With all that time between hunts, sailors needed something to occupy their hands with. From boredom was born the scrimshander. He is the artist who carves scrimshaw: images etched into pieces of bone, antler, or the like. This tradition, which may have early prehistoric origins, is more widely considered the one, true, American art.
A Unique Artist Encounter: When Ara Güler Met Pablo Picasso

Nov 24, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Jennifer S. Musawwir |Jimena Escoto |Emily Snow

Whether photography is purely art or a branch of journalism can be a subject of discussion. For photographer Ara Güler, the artistic quality of his profession was definitely of secondary importance. He saw his photography projects as adventures that he took to document his age. One of the most crucial of these adventures, as he explained, was the one he had with Pablo Picasso. Early YearsThe photographer was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1928 to Turkish-Armenian parents.
Picasso's Beach Body Captured by Robert Capa

Oct 22, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Magda Michalska |Agnieszka Cichocka |Jennifer S. Musawwir |Jimena Escoto

There is never a wrong time to dream about the summer. Who else would like to dive into the Mediterranean Sea together with a painter who just adored going to the beach? If you too need to breathe some refreshing breeze, feel like going back to the late 1940s just for fun, or just want to look at Picasso’s beach body—keep on reading. These photos are not simple documentation of a family’s day on the beach.
Fusion of Photography and Artificial Intelligence by Ivona Tau

Oct 19, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Agnieszka Cichocka |Jennifer S. Musawwir |Jimena Escoto |Emily Snow

Dr. Ivona Tau, coming from Vilnius, Lithuania, is an A.I. artist specializing in generative techniques. She utilizes neural networks and coding as artistic mediums, focusing on experimental photography and motion painting. Her objective is to elicit emotions through the use of artificial intelligence tools. Using generative neural networks (GAN), she transforms her captured experiences from both analog and digital film into universally relatable memories.
The Birth of Cool: Hard-Edge Paintings by Karl Benjamin

Sep 24, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Julia Bourbois |Jimena Escoto |Jennifer S. Musawwir

What Is Hard-Edge Painting? Hard-edge painting combines the precise composition of geometric abstraction with fields of clean-edged bold color. Hard-edge painting became synonymous with the emotionless, deliberately impersonal, yet optimistic spirit of the mid-20th-century aesthetic. Associated with the New York School and color field painting, the style recalls the geometric abstraction paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, and Piet Mondrian.
Qiu Zhijie: Mapping Today’s China

Aug 3, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Carlotta Mazzoli |Natalia Iacobelli |Ania Kaczynska |Jennifer S. Musawwir

Qiu Zhijie is a theorist, curator, and a prolific artist working across a diverse range of mediums. He has long influenced the Chinese art world and today is regarded as one of the biggest innovators in contemporary Chinese art. Nonetheless, his work is deeply rooted in traditional mediums, such as ink painting. However, his practice is universal, just like the themes he analyzes, mingling past and present, Eastern and Western.
The Shadow of the Wind: Francesc Català-Roca and His Neorealistic Spain

Aug 2, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Magda Michalska |Jennifer S. Musawwir |Jimena Escoto |Emily Snow

He was one of the finest photographers of the 20th century, yet not many know his name. He captured the reality of the post-war era through a minimalist, neorealistic lens, dedicating many of his images to Barcelona, the Sagrada Familia, and the most famous artists working in Spain. BarcelonaI recently read the book La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of the Wind) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, which I recommend to all novel lovers.