Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Day: February 9, 2017

Editorial

EDITORIAL

Art & Deal Magazine bring forth the centenary issue. Our 100th over two decades of publication. We explored Ancient to Pre- Independence to Modern and Contemporary as well as Folk & Tribal and the new & upcoming artists and their…

Snippets

SNIPPETS

A Woman Alone is the story of a housewife driven to extreme steps by an abusive husband, a younger lover, a perverted brotherin- law, a peeping neighbor and a crying baby. The entire story is revealed through the woman herself…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

The Long Gaze Back : Neo Miniatures by Anindita Bhattacharya Myna Mukherjee Anindita’s works fire on all cylinders, blurring polarities of Islamic & Hindu, traditional and contemporary, East and West, representation and abstraction. She is an artist who is mature…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Uncertain States an interview with Bharti Kher Rajesh Punj In Paris at Galerie Perrotin Kher has introduced a new body of works that in part draw attention to the anatomy of potential actions. As though in these configurations of differing…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Dhruva Mistry’s Mystic Magic Sumati Gangopadhyay Dhruva was impressed by the cultural openness and individual freedom encouraged at R.C.A. He wrote, “I enjoyed seeing places, thevariety of collections, display, and exhibitions offering plurality of ideas of art, culture, people and…

Interview

INTERVIEW

Material Matter: an interview with Tony Cragg Rajesh Punj Tony Cragg’s new works appear as these attractive alien interventions that are as well suited to the set of a science fiction film, as they are “sculptures as stage” as he…

Essay

ESSAY

Giotto di Bondone:The Scrovegni Chapel Padua Lina Vincent Sunish Giotto had previously worked for the Franciscan friars. The chapel was to serve as the family’s private oratory and as a funerary monument for Enrico and his wife. According to records,…

Essay

ESSAY

Journey of The Light in Art History: Mystical, Material, Spiritual, Capricious Dr. Ashrafi S. Bhagat Light and colour hence offered the aesthetics of beauty as radiance and clarity. For the medieval philosophers,metaphysically the notion of light was centered in the…

Essay

ESSAY

Sculpture is frozen music: Sushen Ghosh Sutanu Chatterjee “Sculpture is frozen music”. To comment on his works states sculptor Sushen Ghosh. Not only that through his sculptures he has embodied the music in a true sense or to say he…

Feature

FEATURE

Urbanity-boon or bane? Kalicharan Gupta ’s colossal vision for metropolis Apurva Sinha When we talk about roots, what comes to one’s mind? Depth, strength, belongingness, nostalgia – as warming pool of personal emotions. Here we are, living in a deeply…

Feature

FEATURE

Figuring out with figures sculptures by K S Radhakrishnan Palak Dubey The figures created by the artist surpass the distinctions of all sorts and excel in making their presence felt as pure, quintessential human forms, embracing myriad emotional and spiritual…

Report

REPORT

Floating Piers: Homage to The Spectacle of Worthless Grandiose H. A. Anil Kumar ‘Floating Piers’ (2016) by Jean Claude and Christo was a work that was seemingly functional for sixteen days, as long as it existed. This bridge also served…