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Arvind Dubey, a passionate artist, employs his artistic surface to portray his surrealist hybrid characters, infusing his paintings with a riot of bright colours that echo the thoughts, feelings, and observations he has gathered while living in society and experiencing life on this planet. With a touch of whimsy and humour, Dubey weaves elements of […]
Artist of the Week is a special category that recognises and highlights the works of talented artists. Each week, new artists are featured, showcasing their unique styles, techniques, and themes. From emerging artists to established veterans, the Artist of the Week category celebrates creativity and diversity in the art world and provides a platform for
Avneet Chawla – Exploring the Sublime Through Vivid Colors and Meditative Forms Read More »
Iftikar Ahmed Artist of the Week is a special category that recognises and highlights the works of talented artists. Each week, new artists are featured, showcasing their unique styles, techniques, and themes. From emerging artists to established veterans, the Artist of the Week category celebrates creativity and diversity in the art world and provides a
Iftikar Ahmed Artist of the Week is a special category that recognises and highlights the works of talented artists. Each week, new artists are featured, showcasing their unique styles, techniques, and themes. From emerging artists to established veterans, the Artist of the Week category celebrates creativity and diversity in the art world and provides a
Digvijay Nikam No matter where I was in the world, I would step outside with my paints and materials and paint as if I were touched by a force that gave me an inner realization of the reason for living. There was no one else around. Just the cold wind or warm breeze, the empty
The Captivating Photorealist Paintings of Shibu Natesan Read More »
Digvijay Nikam What kind of relationship might the distinct mediums of sculpture and photography share? What are the limits of artistic expression? The work of the celebrated and equally censored American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is the right place to unpack these concerns. Born in 1946 in New York and brought up in a strict Catholic
The Elegant and Provoking Sculptural Photography of Robert Mapplethorpe Read More »
Digvijay Nikam What kind of relationship does the work of art bear with the artist’s body? Is the latter only an agent to aesthetic creation where the locus of any transformation is the art work and not the body? The contemporary Indian artist Nikhil Chopra has tried to bridge this chasm by foregrounding the body
Using Time as Material: The genre-bending durational performances of Nikhil Chopra Read More »
Digvijay Nikam Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, born in 1962, is a British-Nigerian artist exploring the issues of cultural identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism through his works in today’s globalized world. He was nominated for the Turner prize in 2004, commissioned to create an installation on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth in 2010, and was elected as a
The colourful political frenzy of the fabrics of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Read More »
The Pakistani-American artist currently has a groundbreaking feminist public installation on display in New York While the miniature is a long-standing motif of her formidable oeuvre, there is certainly nothing minuscule about the stature of acclaimed Pakistani-American visual artist Shahzia Sikander in the art world. In fact, the 54-year-old’s most recent public project could definitely
Rajesh Kumar The creepy-crawlies are no longer just a part of the soil, all ignored and disgust upon, they are now a major part of the paintings by Smitha GS. The paintings are full of creepy crawlies and that’s what she loves. You name them, there they are, crawling of flying all over her canvas.