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Vandana Shukla Speech blurbs, thought bubbles and the nuances of graphic illustration enter the canvas to express the absurdity and the hybrid reality of the times we live in. Dhruvi Acharya introduces speech blurbs while she plays on comic values by juxtaposing narratives of reality and fantasy, alongside a dark vision of contemporary urban life. […]
Texting the laugh-lines Read More »
Vandana Shukla Since the time man began to express himself by painting the walls of a cave, humour was used to express what could not be said otherwise; ridicule is used to critique the times. Humour was made pivotal to Indian art by the post-modernists; it was not an invention of the post-modernists though. What
Postmodern humour in the vernacular Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art
Lucian Freud’s Painting of His Daughter Could Fetch $24 M. at Auction Read More »
Abhishek Kumar February 23, ON THIS DAY “Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes that it can exist, in and for itself, without “things” (that is, the
The Suprematist Art of Kazimir Malevich Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
Florida Art Dealer Pleads Guilty to Selling Fake Warhol Read More »
Rajesh Kumar In an urge to strengthen the relation between art and its popularity within the millennial world, Pop Art came into existence. Themes and techniques drawn from popular culture and mass media, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects summarize the pop art culture. The South Asian countries also have an impact
South Asia’s pop culture strengthening it’s spot in the Pop Art market Read More »
Vandana Shukla Through the cultural renaissance of India, especially in Bengal, artists were targeting social evils. Social satire emerged as a major theme in art, replacing the monkeys and donkeys, to tickle the laughing bone. The caricatures of Gaganendranath Tagore (1867-1938) place the opposites and the odd in the same frame. The Brahmins and rich
Mocking the white sahebs and thereafter Read More »
Ved Prakash Bhardwaj S Harshvardhan, who has taken a different approach to abstraction in contemporary Indian art, currently has a solo exhibition titled Serene i.e. calm or Nirmal at Art Alive Gallery in Delhi. The title is taken from Thomas Gray’s poem Elegy in a Country Churchyard: Full many a gem of purest ray serene
S Harshvardhan’s Poems on Canvas Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
Joan Mitchell Foundation sends cease-and-desist to Louis Vuitton over handbag ads Read More »
Abhishek Kumar February 22, ON THIS DAY Everyone sees for himself, the artist also sees for himself. Others see where ideas coincide, or whether they agree or disagree. There is no binding, no forcing of things. It has to be a free association of ideas. S.H. Raza Syed Haider Raza, popularly known as S.H. Raza,
The Transformative Power of S.H.Raza’s Art Read More »