Art, India and Information

I have often been told : Dont use colours, think like a "white man", make art for "white audience", your colours are too much and too many . My blog is an answer to that! I have always loved bright colours and movement, l don't know if it is a cultural thing because I am an Indian or is it, my intrinsic love for colours; I find it very therapeutic, relaxing and fulfilling too. The bottom line is, the feeling and message that I want to convey through the medium is only brought forth by the usage of colours. When I paint, every time I think " this time I'm going to not play with colours and just go black or monochrome but then I am unable to capture the myraid emotions of warmth, passion, joy and bliss in colourless objective compositions, somehow, although  I do enjoy experimentation of different media and subjects. My subject varies based on my emotion and statement but my love for colours is constant. In spite of this, viewers of my art se...

If self portrait is an art form, then so is a selfie ! Self portrait by Vincent Van Gogh  For long I have been trying to master the art of taking a selfie and I realised how tough it is to take that perfect selfie ! The light, the focus, the perspective,  all led me to research some more into the art of taking a selfie and I realised it is worthy of its own ART form ! That’s when I stumbled upon the a portrait discussion in a blog which said ,“The selfie has taken self-representation even further and made it even easier, making portraits just might seem like the celebration of a dying art. In our digital age, portraiture might seem to be less and less relevant when you can just snap a picture of someone with a camera. Or, of yourself.?” Well, does seem relevant somewhat ! In my construct that selfie is a potrait art form , I would like to begin with the definition of a portrait  according to the 18th century art theorist Roger de Piles, is that a portrait is an a...