A for Aboriginal Art | Australia Fun fact - The Australian Aboriginal tribe doesn't have a written language! Much like cave paintings, most shapes, even the seemingly abstract, are symbols that tell a story.
B for Blue Pottery | Jaipur, India Although associated with Jaipur, Cobalt-dyed pottery has Turko-Persian roots. Also, I went to a blue pottery factory once and bought green pottery instead 🤷♀️🤷♀️.
C for Chittara | Karnataka, India Fairly unknown to most people, Chittara art is painted on walls of homes by women of the vanishing community of Deevarus. The painting's subject is usually important moments in a person's life, the most elaborate being the wedding scene. So here I am, Chilling with my Chianti in Chi-town, living my best life, single AF.
D for De Stijl | Netherlands, 1917 'The Style' was a movement born out of a utopian ideology at the end of WW1. The simple, abstract, and "plastic-ness" represents a balance between individual and universal, man and machine. It extended to art and architecture as well!
E for Engraving | Inspired by Albrecht Dürer 🌟It took me only an extra 74939363 hours of hatching and cross-hatching, but I made it! Fun fact- One of the most common scenes to depict in the 1500s was Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The Fall of Man is one of Dürer's most famous engravings and my personal favorite. This illustratttion is my interpretation of it, with the soft and hard leaves representing the female and male characters.