Search results for: 'pigmented matters'
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Events and ProgrammesAssemblage: Material Matters$1.00
A presentation and workshop with artist Hiran Mitra to examine intersecting ideas of montage-collage-assemblage in art-making.
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Events and ProgrammesPhotograph: Material Matters$1.00
A visit to Studio Goppo in Santiniketan to learn the process of wet plate collodion, which was used to develop photographs in 19th and early 20th century India, with the artist and pedagogue Arpan Mukherjee.
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Events and ProgrammesPigment: Material Matters$1.00
A workshop on making botanical pigments with the Patachitrakars at Naya Village, who will share their songs and painted scrolls.
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Collection StoriesA Tryst with Destiny: A Visual Journey$1.00
Colonization is perhaps best understood as a process that unfolded over time than as a single historical event. In India and South Asia it began with the East India Company acquiring rights over land in different parts of the country, with the occasional political victories won on the battlefields. Since the Battle of Plassey (1757), their power over legislative and judicial matters grew steadily, backed by a strong military presence. Following the First War of Independence in 1857, the British Crown brought most parts of the Indian subcontinent under its direct rule, continuing to hold power until 1947.
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ArtistsAnonymous (Ravi Varma School)$0.00Raja Ravi Varma’s singular impact on Indian art is unparalleled by any artist. Largely self-taught, he is probably the first Indian artist to have articulated Indian subject matters through naturalism and the use of oil paints with brilliant mastery, considered until then a European idiom. Learn More