Homage to Veera Santhanam | Times of India

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Anselm Kiefer - The German painter and sculptor - New Documentary

On Cholamandal artists' village | Times of India

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Artist K.C.S.Paniker | Times of India

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M.Natesh: To Raise A Mocking Bird | Sahapedia article

M. Natesh ‘Inside the apple’ (2005); acrylic on unprimed canvas; 3.5 feet x 3 feet - 

"Natesh raises the little mockingbird in his paintings both as a persona and as a commentator. Sometimes, the bird symbolises the primordial fear which Natesh calls the missing link in human evolution. In his apocalyptic cosmology, the fear that is sown in the womb is both the cause of the evolution of the species and the force towards its extinction. The well-fed chick of the womb becomes the bird of terror in flight in ‘Baby Bird’ (Figure 4).  ‘Baby Bird’ is surreal, and the painting manipulates the source of light which is seeping through the transparent wings of the bird. It is almost as if the sun is behind the flying bird. Natesh writes, ‘Can you erase light? Sun’s light? Tall claims are made by those who are ready to climb it all the way! Tallest of the tallest. Till rhetorics commit suicide, or till the object erases its shadow, for it can do nothing with the sun, not even in a dream’. Natesh acknowledges the influence of ‘L'Ange du Foyer’ by Max Ernst (1891-1976) in his painting ‘Baby Bird’. As an early Dadaist, Ernst developed a fascination with birds that was prevalent in his work. His alter ego in paintings, which he called ‘Loplop’, was a bird." 

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C.Douglas: The Mind of an Artist | Sahapedia article

A specific analogy that Baudrillard uses is a fable derived from On Exactitude in Science by Jorge Luis Borges. In it, a great Empire created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map was expanded and destroyed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When the Empire crumbled, all that was left was the map. In Baudrillard's rendition, it is conversely the map that people live in, the simulation of reality where the people of Empire spend their lives ensuring their place in the representation is properly circumscribed and detailed by the map-makers; conversely, it is the reality that is crumbling away from disuse. Douglas would say half-jokingly, 'We will all die looking at our photographs.' - Read the full article at: http://www.sahapedia.org/c-douglas-the-mind-of-artist#sthash.NahLRuMA.dpuf 

Technologies of the Self: Ebenezer Sunder Singh's watercolours | Sahapedia article

Salman Rushdie once wrote, 'The consequence of the gift of self-consciousness, the gift that makes us human is the invention of self-image.' Ebenezer's recent set of watercolours explores his self-image about the burden of bearing the lightness and the heaviness of being an Indian. 

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