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Anjana Dutt

Anjana Dutt is a writer, graphic designer, published poet, pianist, soprano, film maker, interior designer, photographer, single mom…you are as likely to find Anjana shooting her beloved Labrador, as you are to see her writing an article or designing a product. She spent 25 years in advertising, at Ogilvy and later J Walter Thompson. She rose to the position of Senior Creative Director was in charge of the films division in Calcutta, with several awards under her belt. As a columnist, she contributed articles fortnightly for three years titled ‘Elements of Style’ to The Telegraph newspaper. Launching herself anew as a Creative Consultant, her choice of independent projects have been as varied as her eclectic taste in music.
Photorealist artists
Photorealism: Blurring Boundaries Between Reality and Imagination

Photorealist artists were reacting against Abstract Expressionism, which for many years was the predominant painting style in the United States. Whereas Abstract Expressionism favoured spontaneous

History of Pigments and Paint
The History of Pigments and Paint: Cave Paintings to Modern Art

40,000 years ago, primitive artists who painted murals on cave walls and stony outcrops invented the first pigments from easily available resources; a selection of

George Seurat, A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884.
Post-Impressionism (1886-1910)

Post-Impressionist painters worked independently rather than as a group, but each influential Post-Impressionist painter had similar ideals. They concentrated on subjective visions and symbolic, personal

Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe: ‘Mother of American Modernism’

The mystique of Georgia O’Keeffe’s exceptional life is as intriguing as her stunningly bold abstract paintings. Georgia O’Keeffe is considered to be one of the

poem by Anjana Dutt
Poem: Unforgotten

A pale yellow light, stirring dust motes/Fragrant, playful, brushes across my face/The air cooler, brighter, rain drop fresh/Cobwebs quivering, released from dark corners

Impressionist painting by Sisley
The Impressionist Movement

The founding Impressionist artists were united by their desire to cast off the existing restrictive rules of painting, promoted by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and

Water lilies by Claude Monet
Water Lilies, Boats and Haystacks: Claude Monet

These blooms so fascinated Claude Monet, a French artist of the Impressionist period, that he created a garden with a large water body in rural

Edgar Degas
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Ballerinas, Racehorses and the Cabaret: Edgar Degas

Degas, though Parisian by birth, spent three important years of his youth in Italy, where he immersed himself in European Renaissance art. He filled sketchbooks

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