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Fonseca, A Portuguese Painter Who Painted South Indian Hindu Women

Indian women’s attire and ornaments have a story that has fascinated many travellers and invaders for centuries. The evolution of classical dance in South Indian territorial space is also a fascinating story and history. Indian dance, the ornamental beauty, has seduced the audience with their dance and attire. With their ornaments, dancers can distinguish from […]

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Lalit Mohan Sen: Rediscovering a Modern Maestro of Indian Art

A large-scale retrospective exhibition is all set to open on the legendary yet fairly unknown artist, Lalit Mohan Sen (1898-1954) at Emami art gallery on 14th July 2023 curated by Debdutt Gupta. An exhibition that shall highlight the life story of this unknown personality and showcase some of his seminal works of art including paintings,

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Parviz Tanavoli: The Poet and the Beloved King of Iranian Pop Art

Is Parviz Tanavoli a poet or a Prophet in contemporary Iranian Art? Parviz became a popular and pioneering figure in Iranian Art over the last six decades, and he used Persian traditions to modernise and reinterpret Iranian Art. After completing his studies in Art in Tehran in the 1950s, Parviz started to create Artwork that

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Shaping Clay and Consciousness: The Artistic Journey of Ray Meeker in India

One of India’s most renowned ceramic artists, Ray Meeker – an American by birth – was born in California in 1944. Meeker did his BFA in architecture and ceramics from the University of South California during the 1960s when he also met his partner and artist Deborah Smith before both moved to India in 1971.

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Photograph or Painting? Hyper realism Blurs them Both in Koo Kang Style

Krispin Joseph PX Hyperrealistic Art is always a fascinating topic; photography is almost forever changing Art’s history. Now, photorealism is operated in identical depth to express the artistic skill on the top of photography. By definition, hyperreality is the view that the fact is lost in representation, replaced by copies in its image. Hyperrealistic artists

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Meet the Artist Who Uses Stones and Rocks to Create Breath-taking Paintings

Tsuktiben Jamir Manzooz Ahmad Bhat has carved out a unique space for himself in the world of art. He collects stones and rocks from the trekking routes of Jammu and Kashmir, as well as Ladakh. Bhat, a 34-year-old artist from Ganderbal district in central Kashmir, uses mortar to grind these stones and rocks, extracting their

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A Chronicler of the Indian Everyday: Bhupen Khakhar and ‘Our’ Quotidian World 

Digvijay Nikam  “The exotic in the painting doesn’t really interest me because the novelty of it wears off very easily whereas our day-to-day thing interest me because it is there all the time – a person sitting on a chair combing his hair. You see them totally unaware. And that is what interests me, how

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