“Everyday I am more amazed about being here and rolling through space on a sphere. Everything amazes me. I paint my amazement, which at the same time is delight, fear and laughter. I do not want to exclude anything from this amazement. I want to paint pictures with many things, […]
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– Aruna Bhowmick Goodness is both an ethical and an aesthetic standard. To be genuine and pleasing art must be honest as well as good. In fact, honesty should and has always been the most important criterion for art. Art is an incarnation of the artist’s honesty of presenting what he […]
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Can drawings be the works of art dreaming in black and white? Drawings essentially, are abstract structures that embody the possibilities of a fully formed work of art whether it is a painting or a sculpture, a digital work or an architectural edifice. When an artist makes a drawing, which […]
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Stand on your own two feet. Have confidence in yourself. Fight, resist, don’t be afraid. Maintain the idea that you will win, then you will win. The very secret of competition, ambition, contest, is in keeping confidence in yourself. If you lose confidence in yourself you will waver and fall. […]
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If everything is art, then nothing is art. by Vikash kalra Since World War I art lovers have grown accustomed to viewing what we call “modern art.” Modern art fills our museums, our schools, our magazines, even jump out of our television sets. Furthermore, modern artists—beginning with Matisse and Picasso and […]
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byVikash Kalra Let’s start by differentiating between two things: 1) the object, and 2) the action. In my opinion, it is the action, not the object itself that is “art.” Art objects are a necessary manifestation of any creative act with a specific, exploratory intention. For the artist, the work […]
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What is art? Why is it important? and Why am I an artist? Vikash kalra :– There never used to be any such thing as art. People painted on cave walls to record their trance-like hallucinations in the here and now. They made effigies to try and guarantee harvests, bring good […]
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by Vikash Kalra Almost everything that can be conceived by the human mind and portrayed in traditional formats (music, art, architecture, etc) is said to be art. Yet art is more than that. When car companies advertise their product as “a work of art” we see what our concept of “art” […]
Read MoreA Riot of colour, forms, texture, feverish strokes and lines greets you, rather hits you when you look at a Vikash Kalra painting. A self taught artist Kalra’s initiation into art is an amusing tale. In the early part of the millennium when the art boom had just started in […]
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Love and meditation are two side of the same coin….. Love is an entirely different matter . It has no relation whatsoever to the intellect; it is quite unconnected to thought. Just as meditation is thoughtlessness, so is love . And just as meditation cannot be managed by the intellect, […]
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