After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.⁣ -Albert Camus⁣ ⁣ Several existential enquiries intersect to find a deeper meaning in Sudhir Patwardhan’s artworks. On Doctors Day, Desee Art has…

    Painting in the Time of Corona⁣⁣ Watercolour on Paper ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ We're afraid of everyone⁣⁣ Afraid of the sun⁣⁣ Isolation⁣⁣ The sun will never disappear⁣⁣ But the world may not have many years⁣⁣ Isolation⁣⁣ - John Lennon, Isolation ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Isolation in these times has not only cast a shadow over our sunny days but…

    Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan Curated by Dr.Devika Singh with Amy Tobin and Grace Storey 12 November 2019 – 2 February 2020 Desmond Lazaro, one of the participating artists, sojourned in Cambridge for three months to interview migrant families from Bangladesh, Chile, Hungary and the US. He took references from their family photographs and portraits…

    Hunarmand,⁣⁣⁣⁣ 'Each night put Kashmir in your dreams' series by Nilima Sheikh⁣⁣⁣⁣ Scroll painted on both sides,⁣⁣⁣⁣ 305cm x 183cm⁣⁣⁣⁣ Casein tempera on canvas⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣This is a series of 9 artworks wherein Nilima Sheikh weaved memories and histories with text into a visual language that speaks about an idyllic Kashmir as opposed to the reality of…

  The Illumination of the Shadow⁣ Gaganendranath Tagore⁣ Watercolour and oil on card⁣ 27 cm x 18.8 cm ⁣ ⁣ “Beauty is illumination born of the dark.” ― Thomas Lloyd Qualls ⁣ And it is this darkness on the new moon night of Diwali that has been illuminated by the light of festivity in this rare painting of Gaganendranath…

'Worship of Dasamata'⁣ A. Ramachandran⁣ Oil On Canvas⁣ 78”X192”⁣ 2014⁣ ⁣ “The Earth has its music for those who will listen.”–Reginald Holmes⁣ ⁣ A Ramachandran's art, predominantly oozing a sense of decorativeness, witnessed a shift in its theme from urban angst to the peaceful aesthetics of the rural life. Village women have appeared in his…

    Khobar in the Madhubani Style by Karpuri Devi⁣ Vegetable Ink on Paper⁣ Early 1970’s ⁣ ⁣ “Love is to join and separate,⁣ To walk alone and together,⁣ To find a laughing freedom⁣ That lonely isolation does not permit.”⁣ - James Kavanaugh ⁣ ⁣ Madhubani painting, indigenous to Bihar and Nepal, is known for its religious, mythological and social themes, painted…

    Parvatinandan by Subrata Ghosh 34 in x 24 in Acrylic on Canvas 2019 You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The little feet along the floor - Robert Louis Stevenson On the day of ‘Gauri Ganpati’ let’s celebrate the day of motherhood and prosperity…

    Devi by Kanchan Chander 36 x 60 in. Acrylic on Canvas 2010 But I was not made with a fire in my belly So I could be put out I was not made with a lightness in my tongue So I could be easy to swallow I was made heavy Half blade half silk - Rupi…

    Door II by Abir Karmakar 84 x 32.5 in Oil On Canvas 2013 Through creaking doors walk my ideas of people. Cracked frames, bent and sullen. Groaning hinges, bones bruised and rusted. - Lisa Bellissimo Door II is an oil-on-canvas painting by Abir Karmakar, created in 2013. Born in 1977 in Siliguri, West Bengal, Karmakar graduated in…

    36 x 36 in Acrylic On Canvas Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy evil, and to reestablish dharma. - Krishna (Bhagvad Gita) Is it not magnificently striking to see mythology depicted as illustrations inscribed on the…