Usha Bhatia
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In the history of Vaishnavism the Bhagavata Purana exercised a profound influence on the development of the Bhakti cult in mediaeval India as its doctrines proved a turning point in religious thought. The Bhagavata concentrated upon the boyhood and youth of Krishna around whom the Purana weaves its theories of personal devotion. Although Radha, whose enchanting figure flitting through the lilting songs of Jayadeva, is absent in the Bhagavata, the gopis figure ...
Our knowledge of the various schools of Rajasthani painting has greatly increased in recent years. The discovery of the Kishangarh school is associated with the name of the late Eric Dickinson, one time Professor of English at the Mayo College, Lahore. His ambition to bring out a monograph on the subject with the present writer was thwarted by his untimely death in 1951. However, in 1959 the Lalit Kala Akademi published a beautiful monograph entitled ...
The beginning of mural painting in Kerala is still in obscurity and it is not known when these paintings found a place in these temples. An architectural survey of Kerala has listed some important temples embellished with murals, spread over the length and breadth of the state but this list is not very exhaustive. However, it gives a glimpse of the rich treasures of Kerala so far and traditional wall paintings are concerned. The Kerala mural paintings generally ...
Anjolie Ela Menon (b. 1940 in Bengal) is one of India's best known artists. She had her first solo exhibition in 1958 in Delhi and at the time, renowned critic, Richard Bartholmew (a former Secretary of the Lalit Kala Akademi) while reviewing this debut predicted: "I have no doubt that before long this gifted young woman will be joining the ranks of our very best painters." These words have been truly prophetic and Menon's trajectory over ...
'Resonance', a group exhibition of art works in a range of methods, materials and oeuvre from all over the country is the last in the series of events planned to celebrate the five decades of Akademi's work. Contemporary Indian art has gained significantly in both national and international arena in terms of its inherent quality and merit as well as in sheer monetary value during the last 50 years. Simultaneous to the growth of the new media and ...
"An artist is like a man on a journey, always seeing the topography or the various aspects of life," believes Satish Gujral. Between this belief and its expression, ranging over 59 years from the time he first literally exploded visually in the realm of pain with his Partition paintings to his latest work which exults with joy at the rhythms of the human body in sports, you can almost glean the biographical progression of Gujral through his work ...
The set of miniature painting now on display in Arpana Fine Arts Museum in the Academy of Fine Arts and Literature is the exquisite collection of Dr. Makhan Singh Bajaj. An intellectual and spiritual man with a developed eye whose judgment and taste for acquired these during his stay and travel in Pakistan before Partition. This was Later passed on to Ajit Caur ji, a great benefactor of culture and an eminent to have them displayed for scholars, artists and ...
The Diverse World of Indian Painting is a stimulative and perceptive survey of different aspects of Indian painting. Authorities of Indian painting in India and aborad have contributed essays to this volume in honour of Dr. V.C. Ohri, the first curator of Bhuri Singh Museum, Chamba who was also the founding curator of the Himachal State Museum, Shimla. The publication covers a range of subjects and their various aspects relating to the tradition of Indian ...