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Krispin Joseph PX There is enough discussion already happening about what art is. In this western terminology, art is everything we ‘created’. Literature, Music and other creative expressions are treated as art under the domain of art. Then, there are some subdivisions of fine art or plastic art to define the materialistic art form differently. […]
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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
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Abhishek Kumar February 03, ON THIS DAY Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a storyteller. Norman Rockwell Norman Rockwell was an American illustrator and painter
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Rajesh Kumar Glass may be fragile, yet its silicate origin as sand grains persist and undergo transformation across geological durations that are vastly longer than those of our human made world. Glass is the ideal poetic interface between metaphoric world since it is both solid and light-permeable. Glass has already made its presence felt in
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Rajesh Kumar As a society, are we heading towards a tangled reality? Are we forgetting the plain and the simple that make up our life? To deconstruct the complexities that plague the human existence, Jitha Karthikeyan has curated a group show titled ‘Measures of Lucidity’ that includes paintings, drawings and video installations of some of
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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
Anish Kapoor’s bean sculpture is finally complete in New York; Insights from art world Read More »
Abhishek Kumar February 02, ON THIS DAY Oswald Achenbach was a German landscape painter and one of the leading members of the Düsseldorf school of painting in the mid-19th century. He was known for his romantic landscapes, seascapes, and oriental scenes. His works are characterized by a strong sense of mood, colour, and atmosphere, and
Historicism and Romanticism in Oswald Achenbach’s Work Read More »
Saptarshi Ghosh In what appears to be a still from a 1950s black-and-white film noir, a masked woman donning a black hat sits at a table in a cafe, looking directly at the viewer. She reappears in an oleograph purportedly printed in 1908 by the famed colonial-era Calcutta Art Studio, but this time in the
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Krispin Joseph PX Regarding the discussion on Abstract art, Paul Crowther and Isabel Wünsche write: ‘the creative process is rooted in the unconscious, and is thence expressed most effectively through acts when the creative impulse is allowed to develop naturally rather than through conscious control’. When the artist does their creative process naturally, that flow
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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
First exhibition of Sandro Botticelli’s drawings to include five newly attributed works Read More »