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Message on the wall

So, what do you know about graffiti? Is it just scribbling on walls with paints drawing swirls and butterfly and faces or do you feel it has any meaning? Graffiti was painted on rocks with soil during the ancient era to pass on short messages… this style of art has always been around. Since the […]

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Runner who makes art on the way!

What’s the relation between running and art? A lot if you ask Lenny Maughan. For the past four years, Lenny Maughan has been turning his routes into art. His paths through the city of San Francisco are carefully chosen so that, viewed on a map, they form illustrations of everything from a simple heart shape […]

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The art of our times

So have your parents told you about how when they were kids they had a radio, or VCR player… or even a television in their house for the first time? Or how they would run to their neighbours to catch a glimpse of what images or sounds that machine was transmitting? It sounds so outdated […]

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The Art we feel!

Modern Art is such a common term for the art you see around that it doesn’t make sense to many of us, isn’t it? We use it or hear it being said by people who see only colours on canvas or a subject that we don’t necessarily understand. But here’s the thing. Modern Art began […]

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Romanticism!

It is such a beautiful feeling to process your thoughts and imagination and make something tangible in order to let the world know what you’re thinking. This was the fairytale era of Romanticism. Artists during this time were focused on emotions, feelings, moods of all kinds including spirituality, imagination, mystery. They painted landscapes and religion, […]

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From selfie to portrait…

During the rebirth of the art era which was Renaissance period, the artist we learnt were very focused on smaller groups of people as well as individual people. These individual portraits were the fine art version of ‘selfies’. Close up of these subjects were painted in great detail keeping the perspective in mind. Then came […]

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The art of revival and rebirth

Renaissance was a beautiful era of art history (1400s) which gave the society a chance to dream as well as believe. Renaissance literally means ‘rebirth’. Rebirth of ideas, desires, dreams and also the realistic outcome. Painters took an increasing interest in the representation of the visible world instead of being confined to that exclusive concern […]

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Let’s go underwater, to sketch!

You never know where an artist finds an inspiration. Some go to mountains, few search for picturesque locations while some even find solace on busy bylanes of a crowded city. But a Cuban artist has gone where no (wo)man has gone before for an inspiration. Under the sea! Sandor Gonzales, 42-year-old artist, sketches several meters […]

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From bland to realistic art

From bland to realistic art Last time we spoke about Ancient Classical Art which was predominant in Ancient Greece and Rome. This also means there were different areas of land where the civilisation were already finding different forms of expression to communicate among themselves. Coming to Medieval Art (400 – 1500 BC) Western Europe This […]

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The evolution of drawings in art

We talked about introduction to the Ancient Art world. How communication started much before the languages were used to express thoughts and feelings. During this time there were no borders drawn in land to differentiate you from me. We were all living on earth trying to make sense of our surroundings and being one with […]