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Manjeera March 16, ON THIS DAY Aubrey Beardsley liked to draw what one would flinch away from. Yet, there was a sense of serene yet macabre beauty in his illustrations that fascinated people. Beardsley’s career was a short one; he passed away when he was just 25. This was largely due to the one […]
Amidst the ink stains: Aubrey Beardsley’s grotesque and decadent illustrations Read More »
Manjeera March 15, ON THIS DAY Naturally many may naively and rambunctiously ask why would a black artist concern himself with the wider questions of art and humanity? …my answer is art and ideas belong to no particular people exclusively. If they did this art has failed to reach the transcendent state that artists have
Figurative Expressionism: Emilio Cruz and his explorations of humanity Read More »
Manjeera March 14, ON THIS DAY “I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus The lens is a very powerful tool. It has the ability to capture and record realities for the future, document what is
Through the lens of empathy: Diane Arbus, the photographer of the margins Read More »
Manjeera March 11, ON THIS DAY “The power of expressing historical events in painting with perspicuity is one of the most impressive powers that can be given by man to convey useful lesions to others” – Benjamin West History can be revisited and re-experienced as one gazes upon the intricate and bold paintings created by
Mythization of history in the works of Neoclassical painter Benjamin West Read More »
Manjeera March 10, ON THIS DAY When I feel I’m telling the truth, then there is no restraint. – Bhupen Khakhar Bhupen Khakhar was a radical artist– he was as true to his own self and the process of creativity as one can be. Being the first Indian artist who openly depicted homoerotic and gay
An ode to love and sexuality: Bhupen Khakhar’s vibrant and fearless paintings Read More »
Manjeera March 9, ON THIS DAY Luxury in clothes to me has no meaning. It belongs to the past. My problem is not rich embroidery, useless lavishness – it is to harmoniously resolve function problems – just like the engineer who designs a plane, like the man who conceives a car. There is no real
The Intersection of Futurism and Constructivism in Andre Courrèges’ Designs Read More »
Manjeera March 7, ON THIS DAY “In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.” – Piet Mondrian Abstract art has many manifestations to it that can be observed as one looks through the repertoire of 20th-century modernist
Piet Mondrian’s Neoplasticism: Art finds harmony in the simplest forms and colours Read More »
Kanō Tan’yū (1602-1674) is regarded as one of the greatest painters of Japan from the early Edo period. He was born into an elite family of artists of the Kanō surname associated with the Kanō school of painting and had inherited an artistic legacy that he would later take into newer grounds. His grandfather, Kanō
Master of the Brush: Kanō Tan’yū’s sublime paintings Read More »
Manjeera “Tintin is me… my eyes, my feelings, my lungs, my guts!… I believe I am the only person able to animate him, the only person able to give him a soul.” -Hergé Georges Prosper Remi, better known as Hergé, is one of the most well-recognized cartoonists in the world; you hear his name and
Legacy of the Beloved Cartoonist Hergé and His Iconic Creation Read More »
Manjeera I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. Dr. Seuss If there was a man who understood humour