Art, India and Information

Color Models The joy of the colour wheel !  A  color wheel  is an abstract illustrative organization of colors in a circle, which shows the relationships between primary,secondary and tertiary colors in a diagrammatic form….., says Wikipedia. Very few know that  a color wheel actually demonstrates color temperatures- hot to cold . In fact, digital teams communicate using hex codes to get the exact color and shade and it is very interesting to know! A color wheel is an illustrative model of color hues around a circle.  It shows the relationships between the primary, secondary, and intermediate/ tertiary colors and helps demonstrate color temperature. Digital teams communicate exact colors through the use of hex codes. Understanding the Color Wheel Many color wheels are shown using 12 colors.  Using this color wheel as an example, it can be read as follows: The Three Primary Colors (Ps) : Red, Yellow, Blue Three Secondary Colors (S’...

With the world attack of the pandemic and the forced lockdown with not much activity to do, there has been a rise in people feeling sad or depressed, anxious or angry and all these emotions are ok as long as they do not hamper the working of our day-to-day life!  It is such an important issue that in today’s blog I cannot ignore it. We all have to understand that the mind controls our lives - our thoughts, our self care, our organs and how we behave, react, respond and basically live!  Sometimes we get up feeling heavy, sluggish, exhausted and confused, but this is not clinical depression , it can be termed as depression only when that happens every single day and for months on end. With the recent spate of suicides; the limelight is back on the benefits of good mental health and nothing heals better than ART. It is indeed therapeutic and has been for ages.  Art is a product of human activity that stimulates the senses and evokes different types of emotions. ...

Lynn Hershman Leeson is an American artist and filmmaker, born Cleveland, Ohio, US, 1941. Her work combines art with social commentary, particularly on the relationship between people and technology. Leeson's work in media-based technology helped legitimize digital art forms. Hershman-Leeson focuses on New media art and Films and her films have been showcased at Sundance, Toronto Film Festival and have won numerous awards. In class though, we focused on her work ‘Roberta Breitmore” where she took on the invented identity of an imagined Roberta Breitmore. she would lead dual lives and had completely different identities, personalities and dynamics for Roberta than her actual personality and it was just fascinating how she documents the work and expands the work, ultimately introducing three more Roberta’s. The fact that Roberta’s identity could be proven through real physical evidence: her drivers licence and her SSN , as well as letters written to her psychiatrist, are w...

Jean Otth was a pioneer of video art in Switzerland in the early 70′s. Influenced by the traditional aesthetics of painting and inspired by the the new found possibilities of computers as an art medium. Otth’s work is provocative and sexual, zooming into women’s genitals, painting over and covering parts of a naked woman’s torso, studying the Cryo-electron microscopy of vitreous sections under a microscope to observe living organisms. Otth is aware of the provocation of his work, often naming his work after synonyms of modesty and eros. The complex combination of layers, both in the physical world and the the virtual realm of the produced image, reveals as well as disguises the true form of the artwork, all at once. Impairing, destroying as well as degrading the form of the virtual helps it truly exist, says Otth. As Otth himself says, ‘the exhibition tells of the illusions of meaning and the illusion of the senses”. This goes to show that the purpose of this work is to...

Professor in the school of media studies and Curator of digital art at the Whitney, Christiane Paul Says New Media Art must be curated differently based on its inherent tendencies to not be defined and boxed. As an inherently process-oriented and participatory art form, new media art has a profound influence on the roles of the curator; artist, audience, and institution. Increasingly, curators must work with the artist on development and presentation of the work. Thus, Paul says we must form new Relationships to how we display New Media art and how we curate it. Because new media art is deeply interwoven into our information society- the network structures and collaborative models that are creating new forms of cultural production and autonomy and profoundly shape today's cultural climate- it will always transcend the boundaries of museums and galleries and create new spaces. Most museums and institutions even today underrepresent new media art, especially interactiv...

Bianca Beck was born in 1979 in Columbus, Ohio. Beck is an artist whose work begins with the body — from the imagined internal spaces of veins and organs to the dynamics of identity and expression. She favors distressed, punctured, encrusted surfaces, an earthy, at times visceral palette and painterly gestures that border on violence. Lacerations, smudges and sgraffito incisions attack the paint as if in a last-ditch attempt to extract imagery from recalcitrant materials. Beck’s scruffy supports and mucky surfaces share with these artists an oxymoronic luxuriance in unprepossessing ingredients.  What is less immediately apparent in the younger woman than in the supremely history-conscious older painters is a way of reconciling studious awareness of precedence with a determinedly improvisatory expressiveness: knowingly making space for innocence.  Beck adopts a striking variety of approaches from piece to piece without a loss of personal style, managing simultaneous...

Jorge Méndez Blake is a Mexican mixed-media conceptual artist. Trained as an architect, the artist builds walls and connects their history to literature. He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico. Given the political discourse surrounding walls, immigration, and border security in contemporary American culture, it’s nearly impossible for viewers not to draw parallels between Blake’s installation and Trump’s desire to build his so-called “big, beautiful wall” meant to partition the United States from Mexico. This exploration of barriers as both a cause and emblem of otherness and exclusion appears to address our aspiring autocrat’s longing to shape an American ideology predicated upon nationalism, isolationism, and xenophobia. To this extent, then, Amerika functions not only as a material barrier that blocks patrons’ view and impedes their movement, but it also acts as a metaphor for the border politics and debates that currently occupy our national and global conversati...

Society requires that architecture not only communicate the need of the building ( For example – a temple is needed for offering prayers) but also showcase the aspirations of its builders.   When architectural forms become the vehicles of content —in plan, elevation, and decoration; they are bound to become symbolic;  their symbolism can be understood consciously or unconsciously by looking at the structure . Since both these structures wanted to show the strength and power of the King sanctioned by religion, it used pyramid shapes or mountain shapes to show strength and power or the circular pathways in Borbudur  and Angor Wat ! Circumambulating the various layers of the massive step pyramid in Borbudur, Cambodia one is reminded of the large tantric Buddhist Mandala sculptures from the life of the Buddha. On the topmost platform, one can clearly notice 72 small stupas surrounding one large stupa. The stupas merge into the landscape, mimicking the mountains b...