Satidaha to Single Motherhood: Celebrating Womanhood Through Art
The walls of the South Gallery were adorned with her canvases…painted mostly with acrylic and oil…bringing alive bold statements of her artistic and individual thoughts where women ruled.
The Impressionist Movement
The founding Impressionist artists were united by their desire to cast off the existing restrictive rules of painting, promoted by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and its annual Salon (which was, at the time, considered the greatest art show in the Western world).
Water Lilies, Boats and Haystacks: Claude Monet
These blooms so fascinated Claude Monet, a French artist of the Impressionist period, that he created a garden with a large water body in rural France, in a place named Giverny, so that he could paint water lilies in different kinds of light and changing weather conditions, focusing on the flowers in the water, with the sky and surrounding greenery acknowledged only as reflections in the pond.
Ballerinas, Racehorses and the Cabaret: Edgar Degas
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 with studies of Michelangelo, Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian’s sculptures and paintings, as well as drawings of historic buildings and the Italian landscape from his travels to Naples, Rome and Florence.
Coffee, Art and More- A Heartwarming Kolkata Story
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 to help vulnerable, low-income people dealing with health and other personal and family emergencies or tragedies.
My Garden (Part One)
Our house is situated approximately 3 miles from the famous Walden Pond, the glacial lake made famous by Henry David Thoreau, the nineteenth-century transcendentalist, naturalist, abolitionist, and philosopher.
My Father Paul Gauguin: An Excerpt
Paul Gauguin, the post-impressionist artist who redefined the art of his time, had a tumultous life ridden with poverty, illness and personal tragedies. His youngest son Pola Gauguin wrote ‘Mon Pere Paul Gauguin’. Here is the preface to the book as a tribute to the great artist on his birth anniversary.
Art as an Act of Resistance
Swayam organized six interactive workshops of about fifty women each for women they work with, from urban and peri-urban communities, could come together in solidarity to express themselves, feel renewed and empowered, in a nurturing environment.
The Great Wall of Canvas
Street art has evolved into complex interdisciplinary forms of artistic expression. From graffiti, stencils, prints and murals, through large-scale paintings and projects of artistic collaboration, to street installations, as well as performative and video art, it is safe to say that street art has found its way into the core of contemporary art.
My Art is a Vehicle for Soul Searching
I became convinced that as much as I loved to weave on a loom, I loved to get my hands dirty with dyes and paints on fabrics. And with that evolved my mixed media fiber art.
The Portrait of a Poet
Atul Bose was an artist of the European academic school who is most strongly remembered for his portraits. The anti-British nationalist movement of the early 20th century shaped his identity as an artist to a great extent. He received his formal education in Kolkata and England. Ilora Basu, the daughter-in-law of the legendary artist shares […]
The Art of Tagore
The key to Rabindranath’s mystery lies in the realm from where light springs forth out of the heart of darkness transforming everything, every event into a strange presence.