Page 3 - Paintings
The pandemic is finding eloquent expression in India's folk art traditions
Contemporary works by folk artists are increasingly documenting the pandemic, relaying, through the songs of bards and works in colour, ways to keep oneself safe.
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A prescient artist
Surveying a century of art practice in India, one is struck anew by how artists have reacted to situations and crises in their lifetimes.
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The largest retrospective of Raja Ravi Varma's ubiquitous works goes online
2020 marks 150 years of Raja Ravi Varma's first commissioned painting, a family portrait of Krishna Menon, a sub-judge of the Calicut Court.
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Art world wide open
While the confinement is chafing to us Indians as well, the concern in the art world isn't about an absence of footfalls at galleries and museums - as about the loss of business.
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The cathartic and unifying art that is being created in confinement
Artists are now seizing this pandemic-induced opportunity to draw their interpretations of their life as they see it
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How might artists be keeping themselves occupied in forced confinement?
Those with home studios are fortunate to be able to work, saved from distractions - one can be sure no gallerists or collectors are pursuing them for works required for exhibitions
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How CCDF is helping tribal artists and local artisans tap urban markets
The Gondwana Art exhibition managed to gain support from 20 donors and a couple of institutions
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After Gaitonde and Raza, who are the new Old Masters of Indian art world?
Subodh Gupta is set to enter the big league but there are others too
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Sudhir Patwardhan's tireless documenting of Mumbai's people and places
It is impossible for Mumbaikars not to glimpse themselves or someone they know in Patwardhan's oeuvre
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F N Souza's grandson, Solomon, is in Goa and painting the town red
While he was painting, people in neighbouring offices watched fascinated, and passersby stopped and offered their views
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Man rips off and eats $120,000 piece of art -- a banana taped to wall
The banana was, in fact, a work of art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled 'Comedian' and sold to a French collector for $120,000
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A legacy takes root
Parekh's great ability is taking risks and refusing to confine himself to a trope
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High art of the past
The Early Bengal paintings had their brief hiatus from the mid- to the late-nineteenth century
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Fake-believe canvases
One of the gravest concerns among collectors is the lack of a platform, or authority, to which one can turn should one want a work authenticated, or a dispute resolved
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Newton Souza's 1948 painting to go under the hammer in New York on March 18
The title "Golgotha in Goa" suggests that while this scene is rooted in Goa, it is a reflection of Golgotha nonetheless
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Through her eyes
Arpita Singh's are thoughtful paintings that make one pause and think. When that body of work covers 60 years, it makes one reflect on the extraordinary career of an artist
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