Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Day: December 16, 2015

Editorial

EDITORIAL

‘Blowing of cold winds and rustling of trees, the year’s closing with numerous promising developments’. Is having an eye for art an old fashioned trend? The highlights of the year 2015 show that the year has been a paragon of…

Snippets

& SNIPPETS

& SNIPPETS Gerald Wilde : From the Abyss 27 November 2015 – 30 January 2016 October Gallery presents From the Abyss, an exhibition of Gerald Wilde’s paintings comprising his early wartime works of the 1940s to his re-emergence in the…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

A Satirical demand for time-bound Graffiti and Street Art: Art on Public Walls and Streets in Bengaluru H.A. Anil Kumar To represent what one wants to but doesn’t wish to be identified as its author, due to the pleasure inherent…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Street Art- A perceptible trend to rekindle social cognizance Apurva Sinha “I have always paid a great deal of attention to what happens on walls. When I was young I often even copied graffiti”- Pablo Picasso Wide walls, artistic valour,…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Paris: Beauty of Graffiti – ART & DEAL CORRESPONDENT History shows that the street art flourished in the 1980s. Two pioneers are at work: Blek le Rat, stencil painter who was inspired by a cartoon character, Blekle Rock, and Jérôme…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Establishing The Public Space as a Canvas Aastha Duggal Today’s Indian street art takes on the same mission with its inclination towards social commentary. From matters of civic welfare to implications of political conditions, street artists choose to address various…

Essay

ESSAY

Interior Monologues : Surendran Nair Uma Nair It was in September 2000 that Surendran Nair hit headlines for a brilliant work entitled “An actor rehearsing the interior monologue of Icarus”. This work was part of a curated show at NGMA…

Essay

ESSAY

Bhimbetka- A Journey From Pre-Historic Socio-Cultural Habitat To A World Heritage Entity Apurva Sinha “Like a painted wall falsely delighting the mind” – Maitri Upanishad On 24th November, Google celebrated the 41st anniversary of the discovery of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis)…

Essay

ESSAY

Of Fibre Deities And Many Voiced Design: Mrinalini Mukherjee Aparna Roy Baliga Women as sculptors did not get the required visibility. The physical act of sculpting was mostly thought as that which belonged to the men, and the names of…

Profile

PROFILE

Josh P. S. : Artist with an Eye for Markers of Time and History DR. Nuzhat Kazmi In todays India we must respect Historical tenacity and validity as never before. Scientific temper and deep rooted reverence for the knowledge area…

Profile

PROFILE

Kalabhakesari : Urban Ruins Uma Nair “My work is about struggle, it’s about the cages we are put into because society slots us and gives us a place according to the money we have, the people we know. We are…

Review

REVIEW

Industrious Illustrations@ India International Centre [DELHI] Uma Nair It was during my winter time at New York that I would look for exhibitions of just drawings. The person who introduced me to the world of drawings was my friend Francis…

Review

REVIEW

1 L0tus 8 Seon/Zen Buddhism and Achrya Bodhidharma Art works from Korea [DELHI] Insang Song The number 108 has a very significant spiritual meaning in Buddhism and other spiritual traditions. It is a number that symbolically represents all the worldly…