Paul Gauguin (born June 7, 1848, Paris, France—died May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor
Living in and out of this body I always wondered What makes a house a home...
CREDO I am; we are A million miles or more from our nearest star. We absorb us, I absolve me, Profligate in our insensitivity. One
Holi means a riot of colours. One cannot imagine Holi without colours. Yet, my photographs are devoid of external colours. Why? Because it is the
Interestingly, of the nine, six are the Bengal Masters. Yet, like a Picasso, or a Van Gogh, why are these Masters remain relatively unknown internationally,
The Shigmo festival comes to our village bringing with it thronging crowds. Drums beat men dance bodies smeared with coloured powders. But best of all
‘Lest We Forget, A Sisterhood Called White’, is a powerful and heartening exhibition of thirty-five large black-and-white photographs of the elderly widows of Vrindavan. The
Post-Impressionist painters worked independently rather than as a group, but each influential Post-Impressionist painter had similar ideals. They concentrated on subjective visions and symbolic, personal
My mirror has the shape of a Greek lyre. Its frame is back-to-back swan-like inverted S’s of painted black wood. Bas-reliefs of golden laurel leaves
Javed Akhtar, as we all know, wears many hats. He is an activist, poet, lyricist and a screenwriter who is the recipient of prestigious civilian
Degas, though Parisian by birth, spent three important years of his youth in Italy, where he immersed himself in European Renaissance art. He filled sketchbooks
from the get-go, Partha was working with different mediums on a variety of surfaces. Now an engineer, Partha sells his paintings and donates the proceeds
Coke Studio Pakistan was, majorly, the brainchild of the head of The Coca-Cola Company, Nadeem Zaman. He wanted to create a musical show for Pakistan,
In the 1980s, he had done a series called Anti-Burqa from which a mother-daughter portrait made it to the cover of Desh, the prestigious Bengali
Pt. Birju Maharaj has given a new dimension to Kathak, by experimenting with his technique in the application of dance dramas, which has today become
Soumitra started writing poems in his late school days but seriously took to it once in college. Having the likes of Shakti Chattopadhyay and Sunil
