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Krispin Joseph PX “Never once did I paint a work with the expectation that it would be fine as long as the woman depicted was beautiful. My earnest hope is that all my works are like fragrant jewels, always with a sense of fresh purity, never with even an iota of the vulgar,” said Uemura

Tsuktiben Jamir A hundred years after Guttenberg’s Bible was printed for the first time, printing arrived in India in 1556 as a colonial import. It was initially used as a medium for evangelistic goals and afterwards for advancing commercial and political objectives, shaping a new purpose. However, printing was only employed to replicate and reproduce

Krispin Joseph PX Art always talks about Time and space. Where do these things happen, and when? That is the fundamental question of the Artwork. Artwork from the past encounters us at a certain point in history, bringing ideas about history into our contemporary society. How we reach here is a gradual process; we, or

Krispin Joseph PX There is always something to do or create by humans. We are constantly working on something; creating, recreating, moulding, remoulding, shaping, and reshaping has been a never-ending practice for humans since our existence. Before artistic expression has taken place, the identity of an artist, what do we bring in different mediums, or

Tsuktiben Jamir Every week, Mithipoov, age 70, drives 45 minutes to Ooty with a bag of embroidered fabrics. She hails from Porthimandu in the Nilgiris. The embroidery, known as Toda embroidery, is a proud tradition in her village and is a common practice among the household women. This exquisite Toda embroidery inspired Sheela Powel to

Krispin Joseph PX We may have yet to learn about the prehistoric connections between two distant land. How they are connected and what kind of dealings happened in antiquity are fascinating. Indo-Greek relationships are ancient, and many links between these two greatest civilisations are disclosed in different scholarships. In the ancient Greek text, India is