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How to Paint a Landscape?

Ways to Begin an Easy Landscape Painting The word, Landscape originates from a Dutch word, landscape, which translates to a region or a tract of land. The scenic view of a landscape is a secular and easily accessible subject for beginners learning to paint. A landscape can be a picture depicting scenery on land. It […]

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M. Pravat’s Terraform Is a Vendetta Against the Biodiversity Crisis

Terraform: A Solo Exhibition by M. Pravat Artist M. Pravat brings his latest creation to STIR Gallery, Delhi with his newest solo, Terraform. Presented by Vida Heydari Contemporary, this series of artworks is being presented for the first time in New Delhi. The exhibition will be on view from 19th to 25th January 2025. A

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Witness Jayasri Burman’s Mystical Connection in ‘The Whisper of Water, The Song of Stars’ 

Jayasri Burman, Weeping Grace-7, Oil on Canvas, 72 x 96 inches, 2024

Art Alive Gallery’s Newest Solo Art Alive Gallery is opening its doors to its newest solo exhibition, Jayasri Burman: The Whisper of Water, The Song of Stars. The show will be on view from 18th January to 25th February 2025. The show will be accompanied by the release of a new publication on Burman’s body

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Ashok Vajpeyi Conveys Mithu Sen’s Many Forms of Synthesis

A Picture of Mithu Sen

Ashok Vajpeyi in conversation with Piyush Daiya Editor’s Note Poet and cultural cognoscenti Ashok Vajpeyi turns 85 today and is documenting his memoirs with writer Piyush Daiya. As part of the memory project, we publish his detailed impressions of four women artists. This is the fourth of a four-part series. Read the first part (Nilima

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Oliviero Toscani: The Maverick Who Gave Advertising a Conscience and Turned It Into Art

Oliviero Toscani with his camera

Advertising Now Advertising is boring. Mostly. Very few people look at an advertisement and go, “Wow, now that’s how I want to tell my truth!” If you said this in the society of the art cognoscenti, you are putting yourself up for some easy ridicule. At least, that is how it is with most of

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Swaminathan wanted to create a museum of The Western Man: Ashok Vajpeyi

Among the many hats Ashok Vajpeyi wears besides being a poet, a columnist, critic and a cultural connoisseur, is running the foundation eminent artist Syed Haidar Raza left behind. Vajpeyi is credited as the moving force behind setting up of Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, Mahatma Gandhi Hindi University in Wardha, Maharashtra and has also been

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