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  • Green Tara Dispensing Boons to Ecstatic Devotees

    by Vikas Kumar

    Tara, a bodhisattva of compassion and protection, is shown dispensing boons to the surrounding devotees, as indicated by her lower hand held in varada mudra. From the tips of her fingers she drips nectar into the mouth of the hungry ghost (preta) who sits below, his belly swollen because of starvation.
    Learn more about this painting, presently at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  • How it felt to be proven wrong by kids? Wonderful, and Happy

    by Gaurav Tiwari

    Team SHURUA(R)T along with Professor Suresh K. Nair Nair from Visual Arts Faculty, Banaras Hindu University, spent 2 hours with kids, full of awe, admiration and inspiration. We organized a workshop intended to give the students the very basics of art.

  • Ratnapani: A bodhisattva

    by Sana Sabah

    The painting of Ratnapani, a bodhisattva, the one who bears the wish fulfilling gem. The video is about the elements of this painting, explained by B.N. Goswami.

  • Km. Sadhna - SHURUA(R)T Artist

    by Sana Sabah

    "I have an interest in Science. Things in Arts that are related to Science, excite me".
    Sadhna, our young artists, is pursuing Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Banaras Hindu University.

  • Expression and Medium - An Interview with Shravanti

    by Sana Sabah

    To the question, "What is your favorite medium ?", Shravanti suggests to be open to the choice. It's the expression that dictates the choice of medium for her.

    When it comes to expressions that aren't confined by shape or boundaries, acrylic is her choice. When it comes to depicting random thoughts, pen and ink help her convey through doodles.

  • Brush is My Pen

    by Sana Sabah

    Pankaj Verma, 3rd year, Bachelor of Fine Arts student drawing a cover photo for us

  • Hiranyagarbha: The Cosmic Egg by Manaku

    by Sana Sabah

    It is written in Matsya-purana that after the great dissolution of the universe, the SWAYAMBHU, the self manifested being, arose.It created the primordial waters first and placed the seed of creation into it, which turned into a golden womb, the Hiranyagarbha. Manaku, the 18th century painter from Guler, made this dazzling painting, depicting the seed of creation, as described in Puranas.

  • Anand Verma - SHURUA(R)T Artist

    by Sana Sabah

     

    Anand Verma is a 3rd year student at Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu University.

  • A folio of Bhagavata Purana Series from 16th century

    by Sana Sabah

     

    A folio of Bhagvata Purana series of pre-mughal era of 2nd quarter of 16th century India, this painting, depicts Uddhava, friend of Krishna, carrying Krishna's message to Gopis in Vraja.

  • Abu'l Hasan - The Wonder of the Age

    by Sana Sabah

     

    Nadir-al Zaman – the Wonder of the Age – it is a small, seemingly simple painting, quite unlike the spectacular work that one ordinarily associates with him: ambitious groups of people, allegorical portraits, virtuoso copies of European etchings, and the like.

    For more, read: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000820/spectrum/art.htm

  • Why Buy a Painting

    by Sana Sabah

     

    “How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”, wrote Van Gogh to his brother Theo in one of his letters. A recent visitor to Varanasi bought a painting to carry a place with her, in a form best representing the Egyptian art.

  • Why Buy a Painting

    by Sana Sabah

    Shama Zaidi, award winning Screenplay writer, art director, theatre person, columnist and Documentary film maker has a long association with Art. Her father bought a painting by M.F. Hussain in 1952. She feels that contemporary art has become unaffordable and high prices of paintings, now a days, are absurd.