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A Tapestry of Life: Why Depicting Animals and Birds in Ancient Indian Art?

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Birds and animals play an important role in human life. They are essential to many facets of human life, including food, entertainment, and ecological harmony. Due of the numerous advantages they provide, humans have frequently equated them with deities and given them supernatural abilities. Human and animal existence have been intertwined since the stone era. […]

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The Current Role of Urban Street Art in India 

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This long-read-research article about Street Art- Graffiti in the Indian context brings multi-layer ideas about social life and street art as a context itself. Read the first part of this research article here: Street Art and Graffiti In Indian Public Spaces. Read the Second article: Historical Background of Graffiti and Street Art in India. The third article: The

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Art Education Systems in the Colony: Success or Failure?

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Any research done in the field of art education is based on historical inquiry. On this journey, we uncover overlooked events and individuals, debunk complex concepts, and view history from various angles. This historical investigation makes an effort to contextualise colonial Indian art education’s past within a larger historical context for art education. It analyses

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Spatial Interaction of Street Art and Graffiti

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Kritika Verma This long-read-research article about Street Art- Graffiti in the Indian context brings multi-layer ideas about social life and street art as a context itself. Read the first part of this research article here: Street Art and Graffiti In Indian Public Spaces. Read the Second article: Historical Background of Graffiti and Street Art in

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The Influence of Medieval Sanskrit Text From India in This Painting

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Kritika Verma This Article is the second part of research on 17th Century Krishna Leela’s painting; it illustrates the text of devotional songs, a genre known as Krishnalila. The first part of this Article: The Hidden Metaphors in the 17th Century Krishna Leela Painting from Nepal A third aspect of reading and separating an entirely

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The Hidden Metaphors in the 17th Century Krishna Leela Painting from Nepal

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Kritika Verma This was my first official internship in a different country, Nepal, at the Patan Museum, Lalitpur, Nepal. The Patan Museum was inaugurated in 1997 by his Late Majesty Bir Bikram Shah. The museum quadrangle, known as Keshav Chowk, takes its name from the temple in the centre of the central courtyard and is

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Historical Background of Graffiti and Street Art in India

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Kritika Verma I knew little about street art or traditional Graffiti when I began working on this thesis. I needed to immerse myself in the street art scene to understand it from an insider’s perspective. This method helped me better understand the relationships between individuals, art, and public spaces. I began communicating with street artists

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India In Western Video Games: Either a Mysterious Land or a Trashy Slum.

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Vaishnavi Srivastava What makes a typical South Asian or Middle Eastern portrayal in media from a white man’s point of view? How about Sitar music, while we’re at it add in a couple of spears for weapons, throw in a couple of elephant tusks, oh! And the turbans! never forget the turbans. This predominance and

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Aesthetics of Curation: The Art of Display and Argument

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Krispin Joseph PX What is Curation? Is there any definition for Curation? Every event is curated by someone who is an artist or an expert, called a curator. Curation considers an art practice, curating things, spaces, narratives, works of art, experience, music, performances and anything under a thematic idea with an aesthetical- political- historical perspective.

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