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From Violets To Reds: The Evolution Of The Modern Colour Wheel In Art

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Niveditha Ajay The colour wheel is officially defined as an arrangement of colour generally in a circle that shows the relationship between primary and secondary colours, while also identifying complementary, contrasting and cancelling hues in the spectrum of colour. The popular illustration that plays a very important role in art and visual media today, developed […]

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Recording the Horrors of the Bengal Famine: The Social Realist Art of Chittoprasad, Somnath Hore and Zainul Abedin

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Saptarshi Ghosh The year was 1943. The Indian freedom struggle had intensified following Mahatma Gandhi’s launch of the Quit India Movement the previous year. It is at this crucial moment that the state of Bengal was hit by one of the worst famines in the history of modern India. Around three million people lost their

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Byzantine Architecture: Origin and Story of an Imperial Art

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Byzantine architecture is a witness to the luxury and spiritual yearning of the Eastern Roman Empire in the annals of architectural history. Byzantine architecture developed as a singular fusion of Roman, Greek, and Oriental influences over a millennium, from the 4th to the 15th century CE. Its grand domes, elaborate mosaics, and imposing structures that

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Twenty Well-Known Abstract Painters Who Changed the Way We Look at Painting

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The post-World War II American art movement known as abstract expressionism first appeared in the 1940s. It emphasises the spontaneous and dynamic application of paint on the canvas, often using large brushstrokes to depict the emotional and subconscious aspects of the artist’s experience. This movement greatly impacted the development of contemporary art and the mid-20th-century

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Remembering Manjit Bawa’s Art as the Confluence of Sufi Poetry, Spirituality, and Music

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30th July, On This Day Manjit Bawa (1941–2008), a well-known Indian painter best recognized for his vivid and ethereal canvases, was a significant source of inspiration for Indian artists. Born on July 30, 1941 and raised in Dhuri, Punjab, attended the Delhi College of Art after first attending the School of Art in New Delhi.

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