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‘yesterday was dramatic, today is ok.’
Published by June 12th, 2009 in Art, Photoblog and Photography. 0 CommentsSamyuktha PC pays a tribute to Lala Deen Dayal who ‘used his lens to show us the “ways of seeing” back in Colonial India’:
Lala Deen Dayal (1844-1905) used his lens to show us the “ways of seeing” back in Colonial India, of the British and the nationalist. This was time before automatic cameras, and definitely [...]
Art Futures Kolkata
Published by March 16th, 2009 in Art, Culture, Literature, Music, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Society and Theatre. 0 CommentsRama, fellow Blogbhartian, has started a new art blog, Art Futures Kolkata, with this admirable goal: Making Art Accessible, Relating Art to Community.
In the latest post, Rama questions the been-there, seen-that smugness of some Kolkatans:
Do they visit other painting or scuplture exhibitions of local or Indian artists in galleries or museums in Calcutta or elsewhere [...]
On women’s day Shubhangi recounts an evening with India’s two prominent ladies Kishori Amonkar and Vijaya Mehta.
They talked of defining moments when they felt a oneness with their art and which left lasting impressions on their lives. Kishori, when she sung the Raag Baageshari once as a young girl had the experience which changed her [...]
Your 30-second blogger introduction
Published by February 23rd, 2009 in Art, Blogging and Humour. 1 CommentSriks6711 has loads of funny/satirical cartoons on his blog. Here is how James Bond would introduce himself if he had a blog:
Very entertaining! Do read the rest of the posts!
Bindu shares her love for Asterix and Obelix and her love for drawing.Head over to see more of her pictures.
Bindu rediscovers them:
Now as we drove over to the public library after finding these books on the catalog online, we could remember exactly how exciting this process of discovering a stash of books used to be when we were young! Nothing has changed, and it’s been almost 25 years!
An eye-catching illustration for a children’s book by Priya, another interesting artist, who blogs here.
Go check a five year old’s creativity at this blog.
Archana, as a commenter on her blog says, ‘can’t help see art in everything around her’. Check everyday things turn into great pictures on her blog.
Nilofer Suleman is a Bangalore based visual artist.
She paints:
with her eyes.
with her hands.
with her soul..
She is inspired by:
colour.
old film reels.
emotion.
Those lines are from the sidebar of this great blog.
Kicking up a row
Published by November 21st, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Art, Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights. 0 CommentsMore updates on the One State Solution Week 2008, White Ribbon Campaign’s IRC tête-à-têtes continue and with more gusto than ever before!
Join them and some entirely new host characters at their room on the internet relay chat channel, IRC, at the Dalnet Servers.
… or does everyone else notice the change in Delhi? Asks Munna:
Hat tip: Mekhala
Saad Akhtar runs a very interesting and funny set of web comics, themed around India. This is among the latest ones:
Check the rest of the archives out… you’ll have your daily dose of smiles!
Unmesh Dasthakhir has posted a very creative art work into his photoblog. As one of the commenters mentioned there it is more like an installation art. Check it out and some other works from his photoblog.
Art and responsibility
Published by October 12th, 2008 in Art, Development, Politics and Religion. 0 CommentsWhat are our contemporary artists doing? Johny ML answers his own question- they ‘refuse to see the darkness as the light is so strong and the light, for the time being looks like eternal’:
In Orissa, Christian missionaries and those poor people who just for food and education converted to Christianity are burnt down and brutally [...]
‘Communal comics’
Published by September 3rd, 2008 in Art, Books, History, Religion and Secularism. 0 CommentsDo we have ‘communal comic books’? An article in Tehelka takes Adnan back to his own childhood favourites:
Firstly, I did read a few Amar Chitra Katha comics in my childhood. And I have absolutely no problem with a publisher only printing comics on Hindu culture, as I grew up as much on Khilauna (Urdu) and [...]
Nitesh Rohit writes about cinema, art and activism.
It is a constant struggle between truth and deceit, the boundaries are so thin that one can easily slip into the other territory, that is the reason giants of the art form are slowly becoming a rare species, since the “ struggle” to pull together each day of [...]
That’s Mid Day’s Graphics Editor Satish Acharya’s blog. The sidebar says:’I love to blog here because it connects me with the loads of non-midday readers too and helps me to get some desperate feedback. I love those comments, they help my cartoons shape up better’. The cartoons on the blog are very, very [...]
The Hand That Wields the Pen
Published by August 22nd, 2008 in Art, Spotlight Series and Women. 10 Comments[ This is Essay No. 30 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
The Hand That Wields the Pen
By Anindita Sengupta
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Civilisations are judged and remembered not by their most successful businessmen but by the art they leave behind.
~ Kwame Kwei-Armah
That art is important for a civilization is undeniable. That it oils its rusty [...]
Bellur has a series of about 22 (and counting) hilarious cartoons on blogs, blogging and bloggers up on his blog. Don’t miss them!
Ujjwala has another wonderful portrait done in her blog. Check it out.
This piece gets its name from an old hindi song called “Paan Khaye Saiyan Hamaro” since it was on my mind when I was painting. There’s been a long tradition of eating Paans ( betel nuts, anis and other mouth fresheners rolled into a [...]
Arvindh has posted a drawing that he has done with his non-dominant left hand. He has a couple of such drawings, that he did with his left hand, in his artlog.
Arvindh has posted his first outdoor painting, a 12X18 inches acrylic on canvas painted at the tree house in Cleveland. I particularly liked that sun light effects.
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