Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Month: July 2016

Editorial

EDITORIAL

The art fraternity lost a veteran artist this June. K G Subramanyan passed away at the age of ninety two. We contribute this issue to the master who shall be greatly missed, a veteran versatile and prolific, who had been…

Snippets

SNIPPETS

Terracotta Jewelry Making by lamour Bloom & Grow Creating a piece of adornment is satisfying to the very soul of a woman who’d like to adorn a being with yet another layer of beauty. This craft form unleashes your creativity…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

K. G. Subramanyan: Mentor to Half A Century of Students/Academia Uma Nair As an artist, Subramanyan or Manida is known as one of the most versatile practitioners, having done works, apart from painting, in the traditions of muralterracotta tiles as…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Conversations With Colour: K. G. Subramanyan Uma Nair Say Manida to any artist or collector of repute and their faces light up. But Kalpathi Ganapathi Subramanyan born of a Palghat Brahmin family at Mahe proved to purists and critics alike…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

War of Relics Uma Nair “When I did the The War of the Relics piece I had a complicated message – all religions seek to unite humanity and keep them in peace but the symbols and relics they come up…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Murals, a crossroad between culture and context: A Quintessntial Vivid Thought perceived by the Veteran K G Subramanyan Apurva Sinha ‘Everyday should be like a festival’exclaimed the great artist, thinker, muralist, painter, sculptor and above all, a socialist and Gandhian,…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

K G Subramanyan: The Bodhi Tree In Indian Modern Visual Arts Scenario Anirban Dhar As an artist K.G.Subramanyan explored his artwork through sensuality and conceptualized the human body not as a realistic form, but where man and woman occupy a…

Memory

MEMORY

My Guru Mani Da Jyotirmoy Df

Interview

INTERVIEW

Back to Black: An interview with Robert Longo Rajesh Punj Burdened by a war of words between two pivotal post-war art historians (Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg), Abstract Expressionism is for American artist Robert Longo the cream that covers the…

Feature

FEATURE

Transforming Gunehar into an Art Stop Uma Nair Tucked away in the Kangra hills is a quaint hamlet called Gunehar which came alive for the Shop Art Art Shop 2 Project that was organised by three stalwarts who put their…

Feature

FEATURE

Images of the People and the Rhetoric of Images Aparna Roy Baliga How can one write about Bosnia, Biafra, Bangladesh, just to take only the atrocities that began with B…… – Bosnia by A.K. Ramanujan The forms of violence had…

Book Review

BOOK REVIEW

Gold Dust of Begum Sultans Dr. Seema Bhalla Excerpt from the book – “The word of his marriage was the buzz in the servant quarters. Mumtaz Jehan, though, was not taken into confidence by her mother and grandmother, a fact…

Review

REVIEW

Eye Catching Juxtapostions: Recent Works Of Sailesh B.O Dr. Ashrafi S. Bhagat The large viewing space within the Forum Art Gallery in Chennai was resonating with brilliant colours, intricate designs and realistic hybrid animal forms in combination with human, birds…