1. Jeff Wall based this elaborately staged photograph on the prologue of Ralph Ellison’s celebrated 1952 novel, Invisible Man. Image ©2016 Jeff Wall, courtesy MoMA. The novel’s protagonist, an unnamed African American man, relates that he lives secretly “in my hole in the basement,” where he has “wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it” with 1,369... Continue Reading →
A flashback on the Painter who made the gods human…
A journey to rediscover and appreciate our artist. Indian art’s fons et origo can be traced back to thousands of years. Like the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters, in Madhya Pradesh, are said to be approximately 30,000 years old. However we still don’t know anything about the ones who created those works. And while India was famous for its temples and artistic carvings, it was only in the 1800’s that Hindu art and paintings started making waves in the international scene.