Search results for: 'Home is a place interiority in Indian art 12 April 23 May 2021'
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JournalIn the Snows of Kashmir by G. R. Santosh$1.00G. R. Santosh created a hugely accomplished career without formal training in art. His abstract paintings made in the early 1960s had Kashmir as his muse, and often used encaustic and beeswax—a process he learned from Shanti Dave. Architect and designer Pinakin Patel shares his views about In the Snows of Kashmir, Santosh’s masterful painting with textural relief in a monochrome palette.
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JournalUntitled by Nasreen Mohamedi$1.00When the Met-Breuer opened in New York, its very first exhibition was a retrospective of Nasreen Mohamedi. Nasreen’s work is regarded as extremely important in the context of abstraction with delicate lines marking her compositions with a strength that is as remarkable as it is astounding, altering the way we see the world. The artist preferred drawing and sometimes photography, as a result her canvases are extremely rare to find. Sasha Altaf tells us more in this film about a canvas painted by her in Bahrain in 1969.
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Teaching Through ArtFables of Freedom$1.00A project idea on using artworks as prompts to write about the figures in the freedom movement marginalized in or left out of the history books.
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Events and ProgrammesPhotograph: Horizons$1.00A photographic expedition around Kolkata with contemporary artist Surajit Mudi and his portable box camera and mobile studio.
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ArtistsBipin Behari Goswami$0.00Born in Calcutta, Bipin Behari Goswami studied at the city's Government College of Arts and Crafts, from where he graduated in 1956 with a diploma in sculpture and modelling. Learn More -
ArtistsAvinash Chandra$0.00Born in Simla on 28 August 1931, Avinash Chandra studied painting at Delhi Polytechnic, where he also taught for a few years. His students included Paramjit Singh and Arpita Singh, who would go on to make a name for themselves in later years. Learn More -
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Events and ProgrammesPebet$1.00Pebet is a ‘phunga wari’, a type of traditional fireside story told to Manipuri children by their grandparents. Directed by the renowned theatre practitioner Heisnam Kanhailal and performed first in 1975, it subverts the familiar icon of the bird and the cat to comment on political and cultural indoctrination.
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