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    View Finders: Henri Cartier- Bresson and Parmanand Dalwadi-Dr. Seema Bhalla

    The advent of the camera in the 1840s revolutionised not only the way people viewed the world and their lives but it also altered the world of visual art and steered it towards the direction that impacted it immensely. All…

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    Elements Of The Earth Metaphysical Crimson Meditations – Elizabeth Rogers Innate harmonies, connecting broader dimensions of time and space, thus art provides a means to express the imagination in non-grammatical ways not tied to the formality of spoken or written…

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    Pushpamala N: Role Of Media In The Re-imagined Cultural Milieu – Saraswathy K Bhattathiri Pushpamala is a Bangalore based photo performance artist extensively working on themes around representation and gendered identities from 1990s. With a degree in sculpture and practice…

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    Codes Painted On Internet: Art Of Baiju Parthan – Arushi Basaria “Paintings, digital media works and installations that I have been producing for the last three decades or so, have a common thread, which is my interest in cosmological (cosmographical…

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    Introspecting The New Paradigms In Photojournalism Of The Folk Communities By Partha Seal – Afreen Kraipak Khyriem The oeuvre of the photojournalist Partha seal is perceptive to the documentation of folk communities, livelihood, and interaction of rural with the encroachment…

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    Devedevam A series of paintings by G Pramod Reddy Palak Dubey Pramod’s paintings emerge from his belief and devotion for the eternal shakti that gets transformed in Indian mythology into varied forms. He excels in unveiling the potential of the…

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    Existential paradigms – Series of works on textile with embroidery and appliqué by Aditi Raman Palak Dubey The immensely intriguing works by Aditi Raman bring forth the changing and mutating terrains of her immediate surroundings perceived by her with open…

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    THE LEGACY OF SORA PAINTING, A DIMINISHING ART OF AN ARTISAN SHANKU SHARMA People, as they say, have very short memory. They forget their history, tradition, and heritage only to end up adopting modern technological gadgets and gizmos. Globalization may…

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    LITTLE FRAMES, LARGE LIVES AMBICA GULATI Among the more accoladed traditional artists, Mahaveer Swami has worked diligently for over four decades to keep the Bikaner miniature art alive In the narrow lanes of Bikaner lies a home where a 500-year-old…

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    EARTHEN-WORK OF SURMA/BARAK VALLEY: THROUGH THE EYES OF A YOUNG ARTIST DR. SIB SANKAR MAJUMDER For centuries, Barak Valley of Assam has been a melting-pot of various ethnic groups, cultural traditions which is richly reflected in its amazing variety of…

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    From Coal to Gaz to Art: Priyanka Govil Lilian Hasler & Gaudenzpfister When Priyanka Govil, a Delhi and Bangalore based artist, arrived at the site of her grant at Schlieren, she might have been overwhelmed. The height of her studio…

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    Magic of colours, poetry of gestures:Sen Shombit Art & Deal Correspondent Darkness to light: Landing in Kolkata from Shohidnogor 50kms away was like entering a foreign country. I’d leave my mud-bamboo home in a squatted refugee camp without electricity, potable…

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    Meeta Pandit Art & Deal Correspondent For over a decade, Meeta Pandit has dedicated her voice to Indian Classical music and has earned eminent recognition in India and abroad. Belonging to the musical lineage of Hindustani classical musicians, she has…

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    A powerhouse of talent: Suvigya Sharma Art & Deal Correspondent From a quizzically alluring Radha Krishna illusion to JRD Tata’s portrait to his commendable restoration work at the iconic City Palace in Rajasthan – Suvigya Sharma’s glowing litany of artworks…

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    Pristine World of Jai Zharotia Ranjan K. Ghosh As one of the leading present day Indian artists, Jai Zharotia has over the years evolved a unique style of his own which remains firmly rooted to the Indian ethos as far…

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    Scripts as form of Art Helen Scalway At first sight the paintings of Jagmohan Bangani entice with their jeweled, patterned appearance. But there is more to them: or rather, they show us that pattern itself can offer powerful effects. Pattern,…

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    Fausto Melotti : Dynamic Mix Of Abstraction Utility And Art Theory Uma Nair Hauser & Wirth has announced its exclusive worldwide representation of the Estate of Fausto Melotti (1901 – 1986), the Italian sculptor, installation artist, and poet admired for…

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    Shridhar Lyer Uma Nair Shridhar Iyer is known as a pilgrim in search of the intangible. A silent vibration of a mantra emanates from his countenance and you think of discipline, simplicity and devout absorption that transcend the frontiers of…

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    Rhythm Of Man : Sashidharan Uma Nair Sashidharan the professor sculptor is a man of eclectic interests. He walks in to the Visual Arts Gallery in Delhi to savor Sudip Roy’s Odyssey and we get talking. As a critic and…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Neeraj Goswami Santanu Ganguly The art of Neeraj Goswami reflects the state of the art in India as it grew over the last fifty years. Born in Patna, in 1964, he grew up in Delhi since the age of eight,…

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    Nabanita Guha Arputharani Sengupta Nabanita Guha’s Bengali heritage is a direct link to the conception of her figures. In a surreal landscape human beings wander with animals and mythological creatures. She weaves them into her canvas with paint and a…

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    Nothing Else But Love: Sculptures and Paintings by-P. Gnana Vidhya Gnana Gouresan Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose, to form and dignity. – William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) This evocative quote from the Bard sets…

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    Sanjay Bhattacharya: The Versatile player of color Santanu Ganguly Whether the old vacant houses telling their stories or the realistic portraitures/scenes, Sanjay Bhattacharya successfully connects and subtly conveys the inner perceptions and outer realities under the absolute realism of his…

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    Landscape of Mystery Paintings by Moni Oolyonghai Theodore Cantrell Moni Oolyonghai’s grasslands are metaphors of separation and proximity with the openness symbolic of freedom of spirit, the space between trees representing a doorway etc. Theodore Cantrell tries to unfold the…

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    The Thin Red Line: Garima Jaydevan Shubhalakshmi Shukla Each work by Garima Jaydevan, each repetition re-discovers itself not only in subject but also in its objectivity. Shubhalakshmi Shukla successfully attempts to explore the subtle mystery in each of her works….

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    Jayashree Chakravarty : If You Will Stay Close To Nature Uma Nair “If You Will Stay Close To Nature”, an exhibition by Jayashree Chakravarty at Vadehra Art Gallery,Delhi could be called an autobiographical documentation exploring the artist’s intimacy with nature,…

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    BRICK AS A UNIT Shubhalakshmi Shukla Vivek Sonawane uses brick as a metaphor of not the inherent stability of the material but to evoke what’s hidden and protected by the wall. As the artist lets his art speak for him,…

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