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Let’s Paint the Sky Red is a celebration of the sheer bliss (ananda) that marked the art of Manjit Bawa. It is also, an exhibition and a catalogue of works from selected periods of his remarkably multi-faceted and eventful life that blazoned across the Indian art scene as modernism’s last comet. Delving deep into the Indian tradition though well informed of western modernism, Bawa’s allegorical works turn pure colour into voluminous spaces ...
George Martin P.J was born in 1973 and trained in Thiruvanthapuram and Kolkata. This publication features recent works by the artist held at Vadehra Art Gallery, Okhla in the October of 2009. Martin has always ventured towards new mediums and possibilities. This body of work aims at deciphering certain assumptions about the visual language that is executed and ameliorated constantly by the artist. The assemblages look back at a reservoir of memories and images. ...
This important artist occupies a distinctive niche in contemporary Indian art. Since her first exhibition in 1958, her oil on masonite paintings and mixed-media works have continued to intrigue and enthrall art lovers both in India and abroad. Menon's oeuvre ever the last six decades is vast and spans many genres. In this trajectory she has constantly reinvented herself and each phase of her work has spawned an ardent following amongst young Indian artists, ...
Exhibition catalog and articles on the works of the artist.
Catalog of an exhibition of needle work designs of Rakhi Peswani, b. 1977, Indian artist with a brief essay on her art.
For the last 50 years, Ram Kumar's paintings have continued to enthral and mystify viewers, in India and abroad be it his early figuratives, the sad, desolate and lost faces or his acclaimed Banaras series which brought an entirely original response to the 'elernal city' or the deeply meditative landscapes that were to follow in later years, bringing a certain inherent silence and 'awe' in his paintings--not to be found anywhere else in contemporary Indian art. ...
A Ramachandran, one of our most distinguished artists, has ceaselessly experimented with visual language for more than 40 years. Painter, sculptor, graphic artist and designer, Ramachandran's vision and style has changed from sombre expressionism to lyrical and metaphysical engagement with nature. In the process, the artist has explored diverse scale and mediums. On the occasion of a retrospective mounted at the National Gallery of Modern Art showcasing the works ...
Benodebehari Mukherjee, born on 7 February 1904 in Behala, a suburb of Calcutta, was a painter and muralist of great distinction, a teacher of immense resources and influence, and an insightful thinker and writer on art. Following a childhood illness that left him with impaired vision and kept him away from a formal education, at age thirteen, he joined the school founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan. Two years later he enrolled as one of ...
Click. As a "person of Indian origin" returnee this word completely fascinated me. I hadn’t heard it in this way before and it was being so commonly used in Delhi, that I thought, hello, what have I missed in the intervening years during my rather lengthy absence. People of all ages and all walks of life said it. It appeared in the press and seemed to have reached a point beyond the vernacular. "I clicked a picture," my ...
In this book, Ranesh Ray's sensitively written and well-structured text captures the distinctive impressions and expressions of art that reflect the merging of two great cultures into a single entity personified in Chameli Ramachandran. The text evokes Chameli's memories and the profound influences of Rabindranath Tagore and Tan Yun-shan; her feeling for nature, from whose magic she draws her inspiration; and observes her style with its sensitive - and poetic - ...