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Os Tyagi Zarina was the celebrated printmaker and sculptor, her work a witness to the most grievous conditions of our modern world. She worked in intaglio, woodblock, lithography, and silkscreen on handmade paper on which she rendered the human conditions of separation and belonging. I remember standing in front of one of her pin drawings […]
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Marcel Duchamp was an influential French artist and sculptor who is best known for his groundbreaking work in the Dada and Surrealist movements. He is credited with introducing the concept of readymade art to the world, and his works such as the iconic \”Fountain\” (1917) have become iconic works of modern art. He also revolutionized
DECEMBER 29, ON THIS DAY \”Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. The artist must paint as he would speak. I don\’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.\” David Alfaro Siqueiros David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican painter, muralist, and
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DECEMBER 28, ON THIS DAY “The life I live is literally the opposite of the life I dreamed of. I love seclusion, silence, cultivated thinking and reasoned action – and I have to deal with machinations, foolish talk and vain affectation.\” Felix Vallotton Felix Vallotton was a Swiss-born French painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer. He
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Khanna’s deep commitment to the pictorial space was not to be confined by the limits of the easel. He got an opportunity to break free of this confinement. Sometime in the early 80s, the chairman of ITC showed him the blank, dome like space of about 4000 square feet on the ceiling of ITC Maurya,
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By Vandana Shukla Khanna’s works deal with a realistic world, the goings on; the play of maya caught in its own momentum, its own web; blurred under its own momentary existence against the eternal march of time. The moments caught on canvas seem to have a rhythm about them, as though, they are flowing over
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By Vandana Shukla The centrality of visual art is governed by geometrical considerations. But it is the discovery made in the process that underlines its longevity. Krishen Khanna, a self-taught artist, has been engaged in making these discoveries through his entire span of life. His art has come to be celebrated globally for the fresh
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DECEMBER 27, ON THIS DAY Hermann Paul was a French painter and lithographer best known for his caricatures, illustrations and posters. He was a member of the artistic movement known as the Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionists who favoured flat shapes and bright colours in their work. His artistic style was heavily influenced by the
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NT: I remember this amazing essay by Octavio Paz long back, Poet in the Marketplace, so it\’s like Painter in the Marketplace. So Christopher, what do you think about the kind of market art has become in this country; not just in this country, I think we have just caught up with what was
Nidheesh: I was thinking when you were saying about your journey from the US to these places and looking with a very keen eye on art from different times. Ram, I was thinking of the journeys of people who came from small places; I came from a small town myself and I think you too