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The Awaiting Shabhari*: Cholamandal Artists’ Village (or , expectations for theoretical specifications ) H.A. Anil Kumar It is (beyond) a high time that the centenary celebration of artist/tutor K.C.S. Panikkar (1911-1976), the founder spirit behind Cholamanadal art village, is overdue….
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The “Calcutta Group” (1943-1953) Dr. Sanjay Mallik ….. In the West, kings have long been dethroned and the reins of the State have passed into the hands of the common man. Today the artists no longer decorate the baroque palaces…
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A Many Splendoured Personality : Prodosh Dasgupta Ajit Kumar Dutta An artist essentially, yet by other counts Pradosh Dasgupta (1912- 1991) was many things rolled into one. A sculptor reputed for skill and pioneering zeal, he proved himself an inspiring…
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A Romantic Visionary : Gopal Ghose Sandip Sarkar Gopal Ghose died two days before Ramkinkar Baij, on 20 July 1980. Ghose was Baij’s younger contemporary and shared Baij’s attitude to life. Their patterns of living were different. The older artist…
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Sunil Janah : Chronicling Life Shabari Choudhury The transformation of a photograph into an iconic image often takes place in retrospect. A photograph derives meaning as much from what is absent or left out as from what is present or…
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Verve and Intensity of Experience in the works of Zainul Abedin, Chittaprosad Bhattacharya and Somnath Hore Preeti Kathuria A few young artists felt the exigency to react to the appalling reality of human suffering in Bengal in the 1940s. Zainul…
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An Outline of Faith: Benode behari Mukherjee’s Life of the Medieval Saints Parvez Kabir Life of the Medieval Saints was completed in the year 1947. Since then, the work has firmly stood for all those who have faith in the…
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An Ode To Khepa Baul K. Bikram Singh When an artist writes about another artist, he provides an insight into his subject that usually escapes the art scholar, busy as the latter is looking for art historical references in the…
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Jamini Roy : A New Assessment of His Art, Life and Times Sandip Sarkar Jamini Roy is perhaps India’s greatest contribution to International art during the first half of the 20th century. However, during the first quarter of the second…
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Nandalal Bose: A Humanist & Modernist With special reference to Haripura Posters Debabrata Das Nandalal Bose (1882-1966) was born to Purnachandra Bose and Kshetramani Devi in the obscure town of Haveli Kharagpur in Monghyr district of the Bihar Province. Nandalal…
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Breaking Bastions : Amrita Sher Gil Dr. Seema Bawa Amrita Sher-Gil has today become associated with hype rather than with the substance of her art and its contribution to modern Indian art. Though every few years there are exhibitions showcasing…
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Profile of a Pioneer : Sarada Ukil Satyasri Ukil “New Delhi as I knew in the prepartition days was virtually a desert culturally, though the old walled city of Delhi enjoyed an age old cultural tradition. New Delhi was brand…
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The Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore Sandip Sarkar In this article, a very interesting analysis is attempted by the eminent art historian and critic, Sandip Sarkar, to de-mystify a lot of vague impressions as regards the art of Rabindranath Tagore. Through…
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An Impetuous Spirit:Hemen Mazumdar P. Shome Hemen Mazumdar is now hailed as one of the prominent figures among the principal exponents of modern art in India. To know the grammar of the art of painting is one thing and do…
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Ukranian Crisis: Threat To Cultural Treasures Vladimir Zaitsev The dark silhouettes of the city are engulfed in flames of fire, the clouds of black smoke carried away by the gusts of wind reaching blazing sky. Over this frightening and gloomy…
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Ravi Varma in Kerala- A Limited and Limiting Legacy R. Nandakumar Ravi Varma had spent the active years of his artistic career outside Kerala under the patronage of Chamarajendra Wodeyar of Mysore and his successor, Krishnaraja Wodeyar, Sayajirao Gaekwad III…
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Miniatures: Appearances invisible to Sight H.A.Anil Kumar Looking at miniatures, today, is an act similar to the process of looking at old photographs. In both the cases, we do no more doubt their artistic validity, for, we grasp them from…
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CHAKRA: LINKING TRADITION TO MODERNITYLate Keshav Malik pens down how artists of the Silpi Chakra group survived the impulses of the catastrophic partition and let their artistic spirit take an unrestricted form. Good for once to have christened the tiny,…
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K.C. ARYAN and DELHI SILPI CHAKRAK.C. Aryan successfully welded together Indianness with the language of modern art and topped it with his courage to experiment. His contribution to modern art in India remains unparalleled. Dr. Subhashini Aryan asserts. The year…
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New Idiom and Identity: Collective and Individual Search in post partition IndiaDr. Seema Bawa presents a capsule account of beginnings, confrontations and growth of the Delhi Silpi Chakra elaborating how the members of the Chakra endeavoured to demystify Indian art….
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Modernity/ Modernism posited by delhi silpi Chakra Mrinal Kulkarni elucidates how Delhi Silpi Chakra was one of the important movements forming the basis of a regime of modernity in post independent India. The Independence of India brought new attention to…
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Graphic art in india and abroad by Kanwal Krishna Art&Deal reproduces the edited text of a talk given by Kanwal Krishna on November 26, 1959 at the Delhi Silpi Chakra Gallery in which he specifies how travel opened a new…
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A Feeling for Colour K. S. Kulkarni (1918-1994) From being forced to paint signboards to becoming a stalwart in modern Indian art; Dinkar Kowshik lists the struggles of K. S. Kulkarni observing the person in the artist.Krishna Shamrao Kulkarni, born…
