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Alka Chadha Harpalani

Alka is an artist and art writer with a diverse career spanning teaching, e-learning projects with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), and editorial work. An alum of the Government College of Art, Chandigarh (BFA) and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (MFA, PhD), she has been recognised with numerous prestigious awards and honours.

Senior Artists Uncover ‘Timeless Treasures’ at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath

Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath Presents Timeless Treasures An exhibition of works by senior artists of Karnataka, who shaped the province’s visual identity in the 20th century, is being held from 23-30 October’24 at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru. This exhibition, ‘Timeless Treasures,’ presented by Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath marks Volume-1 of a series as a tribute to the […]

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Delectable Artworks: Palate and palette in ‘Recipes and Cookbooks’

Food and Culinary Practices in Art A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. Thomas Keller Food has been a subject in visual arts since aeons ago, symbolising both sustenance and cultural connotation, where the artists depicted lavish feasts as symbols of affluence and abundance, to contemporary art,

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A Dive into “Beautiful: Black & White” Artistic Domain

“Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.”- John Berger ‘My Lily Pond’ –an art hub in Bangalore became a cosy place for twenty five artists and their fifty works in the Art exhibition ‘Beautiful Black & White’ – welcoming, inclusive and

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Prahlad KV Acharya: Landscapes Embracing Incandescent Quality and Emotive Timbre

Prahlad KV Acharya’s landscape paintings evoke a sense of timeless allure, ethereal beauty and serene composure. From the subtle washes on the paper to the bold, expressive strokes of the canvas paintings in oils and acrylics, the artist has arrested unfading spirit and suggestive appeal in a simple routine. It offers glimpses of boundless grandeur

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Ramayana Art Contest ‘Khula Aasman’: Platform for Creative Expression

“The sky is a reminder that many things are possible even though they seem beyond our reach.” – Brandon Royal The exhibition of the selected paintings, with projections of fevered imagination by children and young artists from India and abroad, from Ramayana Art contest under the banner of ‘Khula Aasman’ is being held on 20th

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Srinath Bidare’s Inkesthetics: Inspired by the Stoicism of Life in Monochrome

“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.” -Camille Pissarro   Srinath Bidare’s drawings unfurl bold and expressive lines to convey an emotion or drive in his drawings. An experimental approach has led to an

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Vijay M Dhore: Exploring Undertones and Resonances of Worldly and Spiritual Connections

“I honour myself. As the divine feminine blends with the divine masculine, I now come into balance.”-Trudy Vesotsky. Nature and creation can repeatedly be seen interlacing in the art of Vijay M Dhore. Along with exploring the harmony in nature, the artist captures its grandeur, complexity, and eventually its transformative or metamorphic processes through his

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KANNADA CALLIGRAPHY EXHIBITION: An Epitome of Typographic Proficiency

Calligraphy is the most intimate, private, and spontaneous expressive means. Like a fingerprint or voice, it is unique with every person. – Hermann Zapf The thickness of strokes, switch of pressure and letter spacing adapted by the calligraphers add contrast and enhance the visual appeal. There are countless flairs of calligraphy, each with its exclusionary

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‘MARKINGS OF A HAND’- Solo show of Left-hand drawings by Pa Sa Kumar

Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently. Vik Muniz ‘Markings of a

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