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Satyendra Kumar’s Forms Enliven the Remenants of Banaras

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Reflection of Banaras, Bronze, (11x10x8 in)

Meet Satyendra Kumar Satyendra Kumar is an artist from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. Despite hailing from a backward family, with no educational environment, he cultivated a passion for art. After graduating 12th grade, he enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He developed the nuances of sculpting simultaneously completing his BFA, MFA […]

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Naina Somani’s Artwork Is a Message of Humanity and Peace

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Enclosure beneath the Marine Foliage (2021), Woodcut, (22x32 in)

MEET Naina Somani!! Naina Somani is our Artist of the Week. She is a freelance artist, Printmaker and Research Scholar based in Udaipur, Rajasthan. She has a knack for creative visualization. She completed her Bachelor’s in English (Hons.) & Visual Arts in 2018. Soon she found herself in Masters in Visual Arts at Mohanlal Sukhadia

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Saroj Prakash Bandi Explores Memory and Silence by Capturing the Essence of Forgotten Spaces

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Saroj Prakash Bandi is a visual artist, whose works come forth as still meditations on time, memory and space. Bandi’s painting of the poetry of silence is rooted in a highly personal relationship with the ephemeral and the overlooked. In a poetic dance of abstraction, shadow and texture, the artist beckons us into the quiet

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How Does Rishin Zaman Combine Realism and Emotion in His Figurative Art?

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Rishin Zaman, a final-year painting student at the Government College of Fine Arts in Thrissur, Kerala, has become something of a quietly probing artist, whose pieces present private snapshots of the mundane. Descent for beauty is the ordinary: Zaman’s subjects are from his own world of family and neighbours, of quotidian tenderness. His grandmother serves

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How Does Shweta Naina Capture the Timeless Essence of Human Connections Through Art?

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Shweta Naina is a highly skilled artist currently based in Jaipur with a strong academic background in Drawing and Painting, which includes a master’s degree from the University of Rajasthan. Her artistic journey, spanning nearly 10 years of professional involvement, is characterised by a fluid exploration of mediums and styles that probe the intricacies of

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How Does Shruuti Kapoor Transform Monochrome Into a Language of Emotion?

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How Does Shruuti Kapoor Transform Monochrome Into a Language of Emotion?

Shruuti Kapoor is a multidisciplinary artist who journeys through 25 years of artistic pursuit in her work; a practice that is not in a singular box. Shruuti, known for her prowess with black-and-white media, explores the emotional and philosophical aspects of human experience through ink, charcoal, and watercolours. Her abstract works are a meditative study

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Award-Winning Impressionist Suvvro P Basu Brings Nature to Life

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A nemophilist and an impressionist artist, Suvvro P Basu seamlessly weaves the patience and dynamism of nature in an intricate matrix. Suvvro constructs steps of his artistic path buoyancy across his reverence for nature sweeps up the magnificence of trees and undergrowth while sky might lift him into the dazzling belts of building. Working mostly

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What Makes Nishtha Jain’s Art Capture Daily Life So Powerfully?

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Nishtha Jain’s art practice is grounded in the quotidian yet intimate spaces of life. This resonation comes, in part, from the way her paintings expose simple human presence and relationship in scenes so recognisable. be it a mother performing the balancing act of a lifetime, a group of individuals gathering in common spaces or coming

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How Does Aryan Nandakishor Patil’s Art Explore the Connection Between Dwarf Figures in Indian Temples and Social Inequality?

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A sculpture by Aryan Nandakishor Patil featuring a red, dripping figure seated on a traditional base, juxtaposed with a black-and-white portrait of the artist standing amidst a bamboo structure.

Aryan Nandakishor Patil is an artist whose practice dug deep into the rough soil of our social issues rooted in labor rights and social inequality somewhere out of Indian traditional temple architecture. His inspiration also comes from the dwarf figures often represented in Indian temples that are depicted as holding beams, platforms, etc. Although these

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