There’s Kartikeya, the god of war, depicted as a British-style dandy astride a peacock, sporting English buckled shoes and a modish, Prince Albert haircut. There’s the blue-skinned Krishna, lovingly ...
As part of the popular museum educational program series “Do and Learn†of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya among children, housewives and students, a workshop on traditional Kalighat ...
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum was staging one of the oddest special exhibitions in its history. Amidst the elaborate splendor of Indian carpets and inlaid furniture last week were close to 100 ...
There is a tactile quality about Becharam Das Dutta’s paintings, be it the Narasimha Vishnu-Avatara or Shiva Panchanan. Created in watercolour and natural dye in the middle to late 19th century, these ...
Kalighat painting" developed in the vicinity of the Kali temple in Kolkata, India, in the mid-nineteenth century. The paintings were completed on mill-made paper, stripped of decoration and ...
Born in Shahpura, Rajasthan, Phad is a scroll art form originally practised by members of the Chhipa caste. These paintings served as visual aids for the bhopas and bhopis, priest-singers of the ...
Kalighat pat paintings are among some of the most eye-catching Indian art sold online. But at Kalighat Patuapara, the place of their origin, you don’t get them any more. With only a few days to go for ...
With a strong repository of art from Bengal spanning not only the modern epoch of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but also artworks made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, DAG, ...
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