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Introduction Renowned abstract painter and poet Amit Kalla, hailing from the vibrant city of Jaipur, is set to embark on an artistic adventure of a lifetime. He has been selected as one of the distinguished participants in the 6th Tao Hua Tan Autumn Chinese International Artists Exchange Residency Program. This prestigious opportunity promises a unique […]
Ved Prakash Bhardwaj Art expands human consciousness making people aware of themselves and their surroundings. When the desire to express memories and experiences beyond words awakens, then only is art born. Bhopal-based artist Sanju Jain’s solo exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai expresses this sublimity of emotions that words cannot convey. Sanju Jain, well-recognized
The Colors of the river Narmada: Sanju Jain’s abstract paintings 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 »
OCTOBER 27, ON THIS DAY One could go on forever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man. But
Into the abstract and expressive world of painter Lee Krasner Read More »
When we dig into the past, we always find something that is false to the claims of the present. The founders and discoveries are claimed by someone only till the world don’t know about the other. Although Vassily Kandinsky is considered to be the founder of abstract art, the history of art remains shrouded in
OCTOBER 12, ON THIS DAY Al Held, a significant player in American post-Abstract Expressionism, is best known for his enormous, hard-edged canvases. Although Held\’s distinctive embrace of depth and spatial illusion defies easy categorization, his sharp outlines, geometric forms, and clarity of vision are characteristic of post-painterly abstraction. His work rejects reductive geometric flatness in favour