Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Day: June 5, 2013

Contributors

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

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

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…

Essay

Essay

Miniatures: Appearances invisible to Sight H.A.Anil Kumar The innumerable flora, fauna and animals that were painted, were like the genre of still life: the commissioner thought that making an album of animals that he/she possess is one way of revealing…

Feature

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…

Feature

Feature

God is in the details: Tradition of the Islamic Arts Yasra Daud With the crowning of Akbar as emperor, the art of manuscript illustration began accommodating regional influences along with Persian technicality. Abd as –Samad and Mir Sayyid Ali were…

Obituary

Obituary

Art & Deal – Correspomdent K. Bikram Singh The reign of Jahangir and Shah Jahan are known for a number of innovations in the arts. For instance, female portraiture was unheard of, before Jahangir assigned court painters the task of…

Report

Report

The Modern Miniature : A Global Collaboration? Sandhya Bordewekar In late 2009, she returned to India to work on a complex collaborative project with Ajay Sharma. In such a situation, it was already clear that both artists came from tremendously…

History

History

Mughal miniature : The Visual Language of Contemporary Art Now, two important changes occurred in the history of Persia. On the political level the Safavid dynasty replaced the Turkomans, and took over Herat from Uzbeks. As a result under the…

International

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

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…