Stories By Urvi Chheda
20th century
Stunning Abstracts by Seven Indian Modern Painters
April 30, 2021It was the early 20th century when Modernism spread its wings in India. This happened as a result of an exposure to various European artists. The exchange of ideas inspired Indian modern painters to experiment and...
Literature
Book Review: Frida Kahlo’s Unimaginable Life
November 17, 2020Fridamania is contagious. Reading the Frida Kahlo book written by Hettie Judah almost drags us to the brink of melancholic stroke despite being armed by detachment. Although the story has been adapted and retold several times,...
20th century
Impressionism Features in Bombay Progressive Artists Group
September 24, 2020Progressive Artists Group (PAG) was an answer to the existing Indian institutional structure of exhibitions in the mid-20th century. It was a collective primarily formed by FN Souza, SH Raza, KH Ara, HA Gade, MF Hussain...
Museums And Exhibitions
HERE: Black in Rembrandt’s Time. Rembrandthuis Decolonizes
August 4, 2020Afro-Amsterdam was not like what you think it was! During the 17th century, the African community lived amicably with the white community in the neighborhood where Rembrandt’s home was located. It is also the present-day location...
19th Century
Painting of the Week: Kikukawa Eizan, The Courtesan Hinaaya of the Chōji House
May 24, 2020Vincent and Theo van Gogh, the close-knit brothers, extensively collected Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. Van Gogh had already bought a few in Antwerp before arriving in Paris. However, by the mid 19th century, Paris had already been...
Contemporary Art
Chitra Ganesh Visualizes Sultana’s Dream by Begum Rokeya
May 22, 2020Chitra Ganesh’s Sultana’s Dream exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG), University of Rochester, attributes a few pivotal reasonings to artworks, which carry the weight of idealism and redemption. The radical artist has exhibited 27 linocuts,...
19th Century
Company School – Transition to Indian Modern Art
November 7, 2019Painting in rich Mughal and Rajput styles, the court painters shifted their renderings to the demanded adjustments of British East India Company thereby having projected a palpable change in the map of Indian art. The shift...
dailyart
Five Indian Modern Sculptors
September 7, 2019Modernism in India did straddle, sneaking lopsided avenue from the ancient to the present. The post-colonial art is typically mentioned as Modern art because many Indian artists had begun their sojourn of westernised abstract expressionism. India...
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