Contributors
Aparna Roy Baliga teaches Art History at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. Sushma Sabnis is a writer and artist based in Mumbai. H.A. Anil Kumar is an Art Historian, Art critic and lecturer at Chitrakala Parishath University in Bangalore. Bhoo mika…
Cover Story
Contextualising the self in multiple traditions –a discussion on the paintings by Poushali Das Aparna Roy Baliga Poushali doesn’t only uses the traditional language but even the medium of tempera.She uses wash technique to get the subtleness required for her…
Cover Story
Bringing a Macro World into Microcosmic Narratives Sushma Sabnis The breaking down of a system, blindly followed, led by an un-adaptable truth – a single truth or plural truths, depending upon the addressed issues, the choice of right versus wrong…
Feature
The prior substantiating the current: miniature Bhoomika Jain Anindita’s Bhattacharya’s works are a personal interpretation of a collective experience woven in and around the traditional consort of miniature paintings. Having lived and studied in Baroda and witnessing the perpetual communal…
International
FAYEZ BARAKAT : Private Passions Rajesh Punj Pressing an association with the fore-fathers of modern painting, French impressionist Claude Monet, American Mark Rothko, Spaniard Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, among others; Barakat recalls these leading…
Photo Essay
The Miniature as Photo Backdrop Waswo X. Waswo’s Painted backdrops have been essential to my work over the past six years. Generally painted on linen, but also at times on canvas, they are created by a large number of craftsmen…
Art For The Young
Ramachandran’s books for children: A Belated Homecoming Siddharth Sivakumar Speaking about the future of illustrated children’s books in India, some years back, Ramachandran had said, “To discuss the future of children’s picture books in the Indian context is like discussing…
Book Review
ART reinterprets ART Sudha Punshi I found this book a great inspiration for creating and motivating thought, especially on two fronts i.e. the contemporary art scene and the future for art as the author sees it. The chapter on Indian…
