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Jaipur’s City Palace Hosts Groundbreaking Exhibition on Indian Diasporic Art

The historic City Palace in Jaipur will open its doors to a pioneering art exhibition next week, marking a significant moment in contemporary Indian art presentation. “Non-Residency,” opening August 9 at the Jaipur Centre for Art (JCA), represents the first exhibition at the palace to be curated by a single gallery and explores the aesthetic […]

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

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

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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