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Today marks an auspicious festival in the Hindu Calendar, ‘Mahashivratri’. Devotees offer their heartfelt homage to the Lord of Destruction and Transformation, seeking blessings for spiritual growth, prosperity, and inner peace. Lord Shiva stands as a symbol of destruction and creation, embodying cosmic forces beyond human comprehension. Modern artists have seized upon the enigmatic essence

While most associate the colour black with mourning, death, and sadness, it also connotes wealth, power, and restraint. It was the first ink colour used in prehistoric times, engendering the first-ever black art. It was also the top choice of printers since its invention. Hence you may say that the color engendered art and literature.

If you are planning to redecorate your home, you’ve come to the right place. There are so many ways that can breathe a new life into your living and working space. You may decide to buy carpets and rugs. You may opt for a popcorn-textured wall. You may hire an architect and an interior designer

Drawing is an exquisite skill. You may collect numerous graphite pencils for sketching, but it takes a point of view and technical expertise for a sketch to be successful. But what do I sketch? That’s a question which has thrust aspiring artists into disarray. Do I make a still-life or sketch Gian? In the realm

We all are aware of the impact that Thomas Edison’s light bulb has had on humanity and of course invariably on visual arts and how one views art. His light bulb was the end for gaslights, whale oil lamps, and candles in homes all around the world. Edison’s version of incandescent illumination, which was patented on

Now that you may know what a Bhadralok is, we move on to seeing different caricatures of the same. These intellectual gentlemen who brought about a Bengal Renaissance were cultural icons in more ways than one. These Babu’s and Bibi’s soon were seen in Bengali cinema, and literature and they still exist many centuries later

When we think of landscape, we think of the mountains, the meandering streams, flora, and fauna. But nobody has contributed more to landscape paintings than the Chinese. For centuries, simple Chinese landscape paintings have bewitched viewers with their serene and calming beauty, intricate detail, and profound symbolism. Rooted in ancient traditions and philosophical principles, Chinese