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Confessions of a Chromo-Maniac -Bose Krishnamachari
Johny M L |
| These days Bose Krishnamachari quite often travels between Kochi and Mumbai. In Aluva, a small town near Kochi, Bose has acquired a huge piece of land for establishing a ‘museum’....» |
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"Come, Give Us a Speech" N.S.Harsha
H.A. Anil Kumar |
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| Harsha's painting titled "Come, Give Us a Speech" (2008) contains too manyfigures. But (and) because of the innumerable figures, the 'memory' of what is seen is erased immediately.. ...» |
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Of Being and Nothingness - Babu Eswar Prasad
Rollie Mukherjeea and V.Divakar |
| The representational world of Babu Eswar Prasad is an ambiguous site of unending tropes. Ambiguity shrouds the paintings via images/ objects drawn from varied sources like historical, popular, art historical and photographic. The viewers are made to take respite for a moment from one image to another, which leads to a stillness which is not silent.....» |
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A Victim of Tindrum Secularism -M.F.Husain
K. Bikram Singh |
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| In a recent interview to a weekly magazine (Tehelka, 2 Feb. 2008), Husain has bitterly commented, "The only way I can come back to India, perhaps, is if the BJP comes to power at the Centre.....» |
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Citing the City- Sudhir Patwardhan
Gopika Nath |
| As an artist, Sudhir Patwardhan has made a signifi cant contribution to the landscape of contemporary Indian Art. Working in a distinctly individual style, his paintings have focused in different ways, over the years, on the working classes....» |
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Kazi Nasir on Life’s Fragile Beauty
Pranabranjan Ray |
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| Among a plethora of disservice, that the colonial system of art education followed in the institutions established in the India metropolises during the alien rule, was impregnation in mentality, the notion that all kinds of representation of phenomena (objects, events and situations) in illusion is ic modes and fi delity to retinal sensation in art is to be regarded as realism......» |
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The Random Order of Being - Jai Jharotia
Shukla Sawant |
| The marvellous begins to be unmistakably marvellous when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality (the miracle), from a privileged revelation of reality, an unaccustomed insight that is singularly favored by the unexpected richness of reality or an amplifi cation of the scale and categories of reality perceived with particular intensity by virtue of an exaltation of the spirit that leads it to a kind of extreme state.....» |
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Telling Stories: Remembering -Jaidev Thakore
Sandhya Bordewekar |
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| Jaidev Thakore was a master story-teller. He could tell a story very well, indeed, but he painted one even better. It is now two years since Jaidev Thakore passed away in early February at his home on the outskirts of Baroda.......» |
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