FLUID EMOTION: DISTILLED ECSTASY
DEVESHI GOSWAMI CAPTURES THE JUXTAPOSE OF FREE-FLOWING EMOTIONS AND THE FEELING OF ECSTASY THAT EMANATES FROM IT. Presented by Sanchit Art, the show will be held at Shridharani Gallery from 1st to 9th October. Her art resonates with the playful abundance of a…
SHRINGĀRI – Upasana Bhattacharya
Sometimes I wonder, how overwhelmed a curator must feel, when he decides to put together a leviathan number of artworks, each outstanding, into one tangible assemblage. How does he screen, how does he eliminate, and how does he win his…
WEAVING AVANT-GARDE- – Krispin Joseph PX
Making textile is considered itself an art practice in antiquity. The continuing exercise of creating and transforming the richness of the cloth in the contemporary art world is an enduring activity. Weavers are indigenous art practitioners engaging with cultural settings…
EARTHLY MANIFESTATION OF LORD SRI VISHNU AT SRIRANGAM- Apurva Sinha
‘vede rāmāyane caiva purāne bhārate tathā ādāv ante ca madhye ca harih sarvatra gīyate’- Bhagavad Gita Imagine, you are in a meditative loop and you wait for the religious experience to happen which could be in the form of a…
THE REVIVAL OF THE TRIBAL MANADANA ART OF RANTHAMBORE: Ensuring sustainable livelihood to the downtrodden tribal women painters- Prof. Dr. Chinmay Mehta
When we go through the history of Modern Art we find how French modernists were liberated from the age-old conventional naturalistic and photorealistic trends in art. Modern French painters started exploring alternative art forms of other countries breaking all the…
FEMALE BIOPICS IN INDIA: ALTERNATIVE NOTIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS – Saraswathy K Bhattathiri
Life writing had entered formally intoliterary genre in the 18th century with the Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell but its earliest traces are as old as Plutarch’s writings on emperor Alexander. Biographies intend to focus on larger-than-life/ eminent…
EXPRESSIONS OF NATURE – Vikash Nand Kumar
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations. Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective.” -Paul Cezanne Nature has always fascinated mankind by its sheer beauty, power,…
Rita Jhunjhunwala presents a beautiful confluence of poetry and paintings in her solo exhibition ‘Bheegi Lakeerein’
24 th to 28 th September | Living Traditions Center (LTC), Bikaner House, New Delhi Celebrated artist Rita Jhunjhunwala presents her solo show BHEEGI LAKEEREIN at Living Traditions Center (LTC), Bikaner House that will be inaugurated on 23rd of September and…
People, Moments, Lives: Portraits by Sanjeet Chowdhury- Ranu Roychoudhuri
As a representational genre, portraiture has a long and diverse history provoking intellectual debates across cultures and generations of artists, subjects, patrons, curators, critics, and viewers. It manifests in varied media as one of the most versatile forms to visually…
In Conversation with “FOREST MAN” Bulu Imam-Gaurav Kumar
Padma Shri Bulu Imam is a gem that many people are unaware of. He is an archaeologist, a revivalist of tribal paintings, and the recipient of the Gandhi Foundation’s International Peace Award for his humanitarian efforts. He is a big-game…
How Women Became A Medium of Social Critique For Artist Bikash Bhattacharjee – Sneha Gautam
A mention of artist Bikash Bhattacharjee brings to mind the large repertoire of his spellbinding portraits, which depicted Bengali people from different classes and social milieus, especially women. Portraying his subjects with minute details of their form and depth in…
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JULY - AUGUST, 2022