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.
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.
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.
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.
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“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.
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.
The chase had stopped. The conflict had resolved. The white had played its role. The lightening ghost was slept under the twinkling night. Breaking all the mirages the dark has raised and the light of his life became a white.
"The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas", remarked Edvard Munch, the great Norwegian painter. A recent visitor to Varanasi feels the same. She is from Norway as well. Theme is important but so are colors.
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced". Leo Tolstoy, the greatest novelist, said this.
Hannah, who visited Varanasi from Norway, shares the same reason for buying a painting. Above everything else, a painting has to speak to her.
