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Ved Prakash Bhardwaj Prabhakar Kolte’s solo exhibition opens on 7th February at TAG Art Gallery, Delhi, and is titled “Discovered Poetry”. He is a major signature of contemporary Indian art. The experiments he did with art in the initial period are remembered even today. He is considered the most important abstract painter today. The intellectuality […]
The Abstract Juxtaposition of Colours in Prabhakar Kolte’s Art Read More »
Ved Prakash Bhardwaj Akbar Padamsee’s name is prominent among the artists who gave direction to modern Indian art. He has been doing both abstract and figurative works. He also sculpted, did photography, wrote on art, made films and digital prints. He worked in all fields of expression. That’s why his art cannot be tied to
Psychological Expressions in Akbar Padamsee’s Head Series 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
The Many Avatars of Pushpamala N. Read More »
Ved Prakash Bhardwaj Abstract paintings are not very verbose in their content; there is a kind of silence in them. Looking at Bimmi’s paintings, this silence descends somewhere deep and takes us to the world of feelings where much of life remains untold. According to Bimmi, when she creates paintings, she only focuses on her
Mute expression : The world of Bimmi’s creation Read More »
Abhishek Kumar JANUARY 11, ON THIS DAY “I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life. In fact, my idea is to counteract everything I’ve ever learned or been taught about those things – to find something that is inevitable that is my life, my feeling, my thoughts.”
Investigating the Impact of Eva Hesse’s Minimalist Aesthetics Read More »
Rajesh Kumar With an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, Chitra Ganesh in her twenty year of practice has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings, collages, computer generated imagery, video and sculpture. She’s a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her works connects histories of surrealism, mythology and cultural iconography with
Amar Chitra Katha: a modern take by Chitra Ganesh Read More »
Rajesh Kumar With eight years of rigorous practice in making images without any formal education and training in photography, Biju Ibrahim is a documentary photographer from Kerala. He captures the essence of rustic geographies, the people who are now becoming archive of the earth, the mythic and mystery of spaces and places, broken vessels and
Abhishek Kumar Knowledge can be gained at any age. After having a detailed study on topics there are things unknown to us. So, we at Abirpothi present before you the lesser-known facts about artists around the world. Willard Wigan People find it very, very difficult to believe what I’ve done. Scientists have seen my work
11 Things You Didn’t Know About Willard Wigan Read More »
Drawings inspiration from the pioneering and prophetic work of Rachel Carson, who has written passionately about the future of the planet and all life on Earth, Vibha Galhotra derives the title of her solo exhibition ‘Silent Seasons’. In her work Carson calls for humans to act responsibly, carefully and as stewards of the living earth
\’Exuberance on the earth is constant, with or without us.’ – Vibha Galhotra Read More »
DECEMBER 19, ON THIS DAY “For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colours, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I\’m looking
Nathan Oliveira\’s canvases depicted human solitude and alienation Read More »