KNOWLEDGE, ART AND MEMORIES JOGEN CHOWDHURY 1/2 – He is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century. His most famous paintings are ink, watercolor and pastel color. T
Giampaolo Tomassetti, an Italian painter, was so fascinated by the Indian mythological epic Mahabharat that he studied it thoroughly for 5 years and then painted breathtaking pictures of it. Tomassetti was also a member of International [...]
A highly prolific artist, Tagore was best known as a poet, but not many know that he was also a gifted painter.
Gaitonde’s works are known for evoking subliminal depths. Plain, large surfaces with paint layered subtly characterize his work. His paintings have a quality of light that seems to be complet…
An initiative by Hanif Kureshi, Hand Painted Type is a one-of-its-kind initiative that focuses on preserving the hand lettering of the streets of India
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Alphabet sample from Hanif Kureshi's HandPaintedType project; ATypI 2011; Reykjavík, Iceland
DESCRIPTION A limited edition porcelain jar with figures and relief decorations, with a vast range of greenery recreating the tropical hues of a virgin jungle paradise. As if it were a canvas, the artists of the Lladró High Porcelain workshop have depicted on the surface of this jar - the largest created by the brand to date - an earthly paradise in a virgin forest. It is said that the Indians in the virgin forests of the Amazons have numerous different words to name the number of shades of green in their surrounding landscape. Lladró has also employed the most exotic greens in its palette to decorate this limited edition, which represents a landscape inspired by the collection of paintings by the French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) dedicated to the portrayal of an exotic world full of dreamlike visions. What most stands out in this work is the complex treatment of depth. It is with good reason we have a vase with the most planes Lladró has created to date. Men and women rise up in relief in the first phase, followed by lush vegetation and animal species of the most varied species and origins. It is a paradise born of the imagination, with an extraordinary decorative and evocative power. Lladró is the leader in luxury porcelain since 1953 and have developed proprietary processes that resulted in a wide range of products and styles that is unparalleled in the world of porcelain. The brand still makes every piece in their workshop in Valencia, Spain. DETAILS Brand: Lladró Reference: 01001997 Height (cm): 90 Width (cm): 38 Length (cm): 38 Finish: Gloss Limited Edition: 150 Sculptor: Marco Antonio Noguerón
Artist John Fernandes India, 1951 - 2007
The renaming of a painting by the late Canadian artist Emily Carr has sparked a debate about art history and cultural sensitivity.
PAINTING 7000 HORSES IN TEN YEARS SUNIL DAS 1/2 – To prevent the production of the same type of work, he continued to change his vision of art. From the day, when people began to regard him as a paint
Suchitra Bhosle is an India-born artist based in California. Suchitra paints in a representational realistic style drawing inspiration from 20th century Naturalist painters. She embraces impressionism
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Santhi Mayadevi is an accomplished Indian lawyer, actress, and emcee with a decade of legal experience and notable roles in Malayalam and Tamil cinema. She is also a skilled Bharatanatyam dancer and painter. Name: Santhi MayadeviDate of Birth: 29 June 1990Age: 34 years old (as of 2024)Birth Place: Trivandrum, Kerala, IndiaMaterial Status: MarriedHusband's Name: Shiju
Tom Baldwin's Horse. Photography: Courtesy Glenn Green Galleries The Navajo artist's love of animals inspires her colorful creations. Melanie Yazzie has just come inside from walking her dog, a bearded collie named Gus Gus (after the fat mouse in Cinderella), at the home she shares with her husband, Clark Barker, an abstract painter, in the suburbs of Boulder, Colorado. It’s not far from the University of Colorado, where she’s a professor of printmaking, but that’s not why they’re living there. “It was for the dog!” says Yazzie, who grew up on the Navajo Nation in Ganado, Arizona, where all of the animals roamed free, just as they do in her paintings, prints, and sculptures. Whether it’s an image of an orange dog with puffy blue rain clouds scattered all around or a pink polka-dotted critter that might be a dog, a cat, or a little of both, Yazzie’s animals bring her artwork to life in all their whimsical glory. “It’s not unusual for my animals to be wearing cowboy boots or riding in their own car,” she says. With her brand of joyful imagination, Yazzie could win a Caldecott Medal if she ever decided to illustrate a children’s book. But this is actually deceptively grownup stuff: Yazzie has had more than 100 group and solo exhibitions around the world, and her work is held in prestigious museums, from the National Museum of the American Indian and the Denver Art Museum to the Kennedy Museum of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. A Navajo of the Salt Water and Bitter Water clans, Yazzie purposely blurs the lines between fact and fiction in pieces inspired by the animals she knew on the reservation. “When you live in a small area where all of the cats and dogs are inbred, there’s some wackiness that goes on and sometimes they look kind of strange,” she says. “The relationships between the animals were different. The dogs and the sheep, they were friends, and they would take care of each other. My grandfather’s dog, Beebee, would jump on the back of the horse and ride.” These playful, lyrical images — dogs on horses, animals as pals, along with imagery that appears in her dreams — are recurring motifs. They appear in bronze sculptures, multilayered monotypes, and paper paintings created with colorful paper pulp applied via squeeze bottles. Afternoon in Fairbanks. Photography: Courtesy Glenn Green Galleries “My grandma would see Navajo designs [based on images of sand painting Yeis, Navajo gods that keep the world in balance] on curtains or on placemats in restaurants and she said those images were important — they shouldn’t be used that way. The way I draw and make my work comes from trying to respect that. That’s why I tried to come up with my own symbols to tell my stories.” Storytelling, Yazzie says, is her art’s chief aim. It’s rooted in her Navajo heritage. “The artworks stem from the thought and belief that what we create must have beauty and harmony from within ourselves, from above, below, in front, behind, and from our core,” Yazzie explains in a recent artist statement. “We are taught to seek out beauty and create it with our thoughts and prayers. I feel that when I am making my art — be it a print, a painting, or a sculpture — I begin by centering myself and thinking it all out in a ‘good way,’ which is how I was taught from an early age.” It wasn’t always so. After graduate school, Yazzie’s paintings were downright heavy. But she found that focusing on the reality of her tribe was so depressing that people tuned out when she spoke to them about it. Then her health began to suffer. So Yazzie began creating art that was happier. “The work changed to creating a beautiful place and a calm place,” she says, “and I started educating a lot of different people.” Today when she speaks to groups about how living on the reservation influenced her as an artist, it’s a short segue to a discussion about the current state of affairs on some reservations, including her own, where many live in poverty with no running water or electricity. “I’ve educated more people about what it means to be a Native American with this whimsical work,” she says. “I know these paintings empower people.” Melanie Yazzie is represented by Glenn Green Galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Tesuque, New Mexico. From the May/June 2016 issue. Explore:Art & Culture
