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Claude Monet’s water lily paintings are significant in art history. In the 1890s, artist Monet had financial worries and bought a property in Giverny. After owning a home and Garden, Monet started to create a garden and pond on his land. He works in the Garden and begins to paint the Garden after completing the […]
What is Inside to See the Monet’s Water Lilly Ponds? Read More »
Mostly, painting has many layers of stories. One picture may bring many layers of narratives and other materials alike. Some paintings, like ‘Isabella (1849), a creation of John Everett Millais, have a multi-layered story, which brings many unfamiliar things into the dialogue. One painting has many roots that went into literature, poetry and that time,
Isabella: Love, Blood and Tears in a Feast Table? Read More »
Conceptual art gives art practitioners more possibilities, equipping ambiguous space for arranging visual arguments and setting them into a ‘laboratory’ to encounter the audience freely. Khaal Gaon is an art project of Anga Art Collective, designed as a laboratory for the collectivity of ideas, individual practices and observations, displayed in Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Khaal Gaon: Stories of Climate Change and Displacement from North-East India Read More »
Visual art has relied upon Visuals. What we see is the principal thing in visual art, and what we carry and sublimate also matters. Artwork can come anywhere, literature or folklore, a song or resistance, political uprising and revolution. Any event can stimulate artwork. What we see is a manifestation of other things. An artist,
Fictional Characters of Afra Eisma in Textile Art Projects Read More »
Kauna Grass is reed, Available in abundance in North-Eastern Manipur, and harvested thrice a year in the region. This water reed gives an income and presence to women’s craftsmanship in these regions; these days, Stories from Manipur bring water reeds as objects crafted for utility. Kauna grass is essential for an ecosystem that relies on
Weaving Wonders of Kauna Grass; Exciting Stories of Manipuri Women Crafts Read More »
What do we do when the army boots come into the dream of reality? What do we do when we see the army boot print in our hills on an everyday basis, and what do we do the army boots become part of our childhood memory? How can we erase the memory of an army
The memory of Lost Water Stream and Army Boots in the Chittagong Hills Read More »
Kerala people mourn the loss of artists Namboothiri and adore the legacy of a great illustrator that covered the elegant periods of notable literary works of giants writers. The period illustrated by Artist Namboothiri is the time of serialising the great writers’ magnum opus in prominent Malayalam literature weekly’s. Artist Namboothiri is always remembered for
Artist Namboothiri: Mourn the Loss of the Artist and Adore the Legacy Read More »
K M Vasudevan Namboothiri, popularly hailed ‘Artist Namboothiri’ in Kerala’s social-cultural scenario for the prior seven decades, passed away. Namboothiri (1925-2023) was a prolific literary illustrator, illustrating many popular characters for literary publications in the southern state of Kerala—an Artist renowned for his iconic drawings and gifted life to fictitious characters in Malayalam writings. Artist
Artist Namboothiri: Doyen of Drawings, Sketched ‘Malayali Life’ Passed Away Read More »
After Indian independence, a group of artists started to think about ‘modern Indian art’ differently, and they thought loudly and formed a group baptised with the name of Progressive Artists Group Bombay. The group reflected that a ‘newly independent country required a face of a new art movement. Progressive Artists Group Bombay (1947-1956) is now
Revisiting the Legacy of the Progressive Art Movement and the Modern Indian Art Read More »
Artists and creative people’s voices are assumed to be the voice of the landscape and the social settings of a time and space. Artists and writers knowingly or unknowingly use a landscape’s territorial element, reflected in their works, like as a skeleton or armature of a design. Because of this, scholars use artwork and literature
Chinedu Ogakwu, Nigerian Artist Who Inspired the Farming Childhood Read More »