Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

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REMEMBERING BHUPEN Sandhya Bordewekar In Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie’s autobiography that spans the 14 years he spent in hiding after the Ayatollah’s fatwa in the wake of The Satanic Verses, there are a good three-four pages devoted to Bhupen Khakhar….

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JAIPUR ART SUMMIT: WHERE THE MUNDANE MET THE MASTERS Yasra Daud khoker The Jaipur Art Summit left me with some homework. I have to go out on my own, buy groceries and experience an auto rickshaw ride. I shall elaborate…

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Domains of Eco-Criticism – Siddharth Sivakumar While upstairs, we discovered an angry young man with an interest in western modernism, down stairs we meet a happy old man contemplating on his own cultural moorings. His large sculptural installation Bahuroopi and…

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Metro Dreamin’ (or.. ‘Buy one get one free’) – Aditya Dhawanfor survival begins all over again…and again…and again. Sometimes my story, sometimes his story, sometimes our story. That worn out shoe beneath the glitter and flare. Quiet acceptance or simmering…

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A Decisive Market for Cameras Anurag Sharma The mention of the place known as ‘Chandni Chowk’ to any photography enthusiast, amateur or professional, has the potential to create a plethora of images in one’s mind. And if you want to…

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Photography as Reconciliation : The Art of Chandan Gomes Johny ML Only with a shudder, Chandan could remember 16th December, 2012. After a house party at a friend’s pad, he was returning home with a female friend in a chartered…

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Baroda’s Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University Sandhya Bordewekar This is perhaps the only art institution in the country offering programs leading to Diploma and PG Diploma, Bachelor’s (BVA) and Master’s Degree (MVA), and finally, Ph.Ds in full-fledged departments…

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Kala Bhavana : A Living Tradition Siddharth Sivakumar It is said that a true universal man is inspired to look beyond his time and space, while being constantly motivated by ground realities and local interests. Managing the seemingly paradoxical was…

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The J. J. School Of Art Brand Sushma Sabnis The Applied Art department offers the same in Illustration, Typography, Design Display, Computer Graphics and Photography. Applied art offers 100 seats each year, 95 are for the open category and 5…

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The CAPTION A probe into the birth and use of text to make meaning of photographs and its revolution in recent times R. Dhanya Probably the easiest to go without captions are landscapes or images of ‘natural beauty’. How often…

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PHOTOGRAPHY….. WHERE TO FOCUS? Dr .Meghali Goswami There is no such thing as true objectivity, of course, in photography or any other medium. By its nature, a photograph is an incomplete and therefore slanted picture of reality; it is a…

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Enticing Images: Malls as Albums Sushma Sabnis If one travels into a distant future, one might nostalgically look at their then favourite mall structure with some then old actress selling the then used to be lotion-potion for eternal beauty. When…

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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…

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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…

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Rahul Kumar Bhoomika Jain Rahul is among the fortunate ones… he does not have to wait for his art to sell to pay his bills, or to keep his conviction ridden quirky creativity, sinuous. This he says is liberating! That…

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Reading the aphorisms on love by Akka Mahadevi and Muddupalani Aparna Roy Baliga She in her vachanas talks about love and longing, love in separation and union . ‘Once I beg the cupid Once again beg the moon humbly let…

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Seema Kohli – Parikrama The Yoginis, a group of tantric divinities (usually 64 or 81 in number) are not mothers, though the principal Yoginis are identified with the eight or Asthamatrikas. The Kaulajnananirnaya text (probably 11th century CE) tells us…

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FOLK AND TRADITIONAL ART OF ASSAM : Dr. Meghali Goswami If art becomes a specialized vocation, the urge to deny tradition in viewing art as a totality becomes strong and often leads to a narrow-minded representation of life in a…

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Play for Joy of Seeing Celebration of Partha Pratim’s CreationPartha Pratim Deb need not know that there was a long tradition of thought on creative motive, in Sanskrit, comprising copious discourses on Leela as the prime mover in creativity, or…

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DIRECTIONS – IN NEW NARRATIVES – Rahul Bhattacharya Probir Gupta’s artistic practice has always found its edge by producing art which is a constant subversion of the fashionable, in the manner that medium, form, motifs are chosen, rendered and images…

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THE ART OF AKASH CHOYALJaipur based Gallery Artchill in upcoming India Art Fair will take the World’s breath away showcasing truly unique 3D artworks and airy sculptures by Indian artist Akash Choyal. As the Cherry on Top will be other…

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CONVERSATIONS WITH ETERNITY Just two days aft er the passing away of India’s renowned abstract landscape artist, Rajendra Dhawan, on the 2nd November 2012, a new kind of nature based abstraction s being born. It marks a signifi cant departure…

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THE MAKER OF LARGEST WOOD CUT PRINTS IN THE WORLD, INDIAN ARTIST SANJAY KUMAR PAVES HIS WAY INTO NGMA & GUINESS WORLD RECORDS His wood-cut prints were exhibited along with that of Raza and Souza in French Biennale in the…

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Paresh Maity was born in 1965 at Tamluk, a town of great antiquity, with a remarkable heritage of terracotta art, situated on the banks of the Rupnarayan river, located in the south-west part of Kolkata. The river’s cape with its…