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Smriti Malhotra A Book Review of Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India by Rupika Chawla Published by Mappin Publishing in the year 2010 Rupika Chawla is an art conservator, a profession that requires the utmost patience and dedication to work with paintings covered in soot and dust accumulated over time. It takes ages to […]
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Krispin Joseph PX As an artist, Raja Ravi Varma has been the most celebrated in India for the last two centuries. Ravi Varma creates or fulfils the people’s imagination concerning their God and Goddess. The story of the art of Ravi Varma is a mesmerising episode of Indian art history and at the same time,
Legacy of Ravi Varma’s Paintings in Contemporary Culture Read More »
Iftikar Ahmed Raja Ravi Varma’s artistic interpretations of Indian gods and goddesses were a departure from the magnificently idealised depictions found in the Ajanta frescoes and Vishnu or Shiva stone sculptures. Instead, Varma’s works embraced a florid and imitative English academic style, paying homage to the naturalistic idiom of colonial rulers’ art. Although this feeble
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Raja Ravi Varma is regarded as one of the best painters in Indian art history. He is well-known for his depictions of episodes from the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics. Raja Ravi Varma is most known for his paintings of lovely sari-clad women who are depicted as shapely and elegant. He is considered as contemporary among traditionalists
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1 August, ON THIS DAY Ravishankar Raval was born in a Brahmin family in Bhavnagar, Gurajat, and is known as a painter, art teacher, art critic, journalist and essayist. He worked for Vismi Sadi until it closed in 1921 and founded the cultural magazine, Kumar. Raval is significant for bridging Gujarat and the Bengal revivalist
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April 29, On This Day One of India\’s first modern artists Considered among the greatest and most prolific painters in the history of Indian art, Raja Ravi Varma was born today, 173 years ago — April 29, 1848. He died at the age of 58 in October 1906, till which time he is believed to
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Introduction One of the two major epics of ancient India, the Ramayan has influenced every facet of Indias culture and artistic expressions for millennia. Such timeless themes, such as dharma (righteousness), loyalty and heroism are still revered by all artists, who continue to re-cast these same motifs in fresh forms for the modern times. The
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Artists Drawing Draupadi We’ve all read the Mahabharata, or atleast seen a pop culture rendition of one. While the epic has numerous heart-wrenching and valorant moments, none is as tear-jerking as the injustice against Draupadi. Despite this, she remains strong and resilient. And artists have been taking note of it. Often depicted as a symbol
Draupadi as Drawn by 9 Famous Artists Read More »
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the Dhyana Chitra-Visual Cultural Lab at Durbar Hall Art Gallery on Sunday, commemorating the late artist A Ramachandran’s contributions to art. The lab, established by Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, will house Ramachandran’s personal collection of books, a reference library, and a visual resource centre. During the inauguration, Vijayan praised Ramachandran for
29 AUG, 1935: ON THIS DAY “To me, art should be as good as [Munshi] Premchand, as good as [Rabindranath] Tagore, as good as Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. It should be read by each and every one. They should feel thrilled by it and feel it is my own life, it is my own culture that
From Political to Poetic: The Artistic Evolution of A. Ramachandran Read More »