Madhubani Paintings
Out of different Indian painting styles like Tanjore, Tribal, Patachitra, Moughal, Kangra Miniature and Contemporary Paintings, Madhubani paintings are unique ones with the amount of saturation of patterns with colors (mostly, RGB) that an artist gets onto the home made sheets.
Madhubani Art Unfolded:
The origins of Madhubani painting or Mithila Painting are shrouded in antiquity. Tradition states that this style of painting originated at the time of the Ramayana, when King Janak commissioned artists to do paintings at the time of marriage of his daughter, Sita, to Lord Ram.
Madhubani painting has been done traditionally by the women of villages around the present town of Madhubani (means forests of honey) and other areas of Mithila. The painting was traditionally done on freshly plastered mud wall of huts, but now it is also done on cloth, hand-made paper and canvas.
Handmade paper that an artist uses is a sheet of paper made of natural ingredients including Kohabar (Cow Dung). Whereas, the colors are from the petals of Flowers.
Madhubani paintings mostly depict mythological characters, devotional events, plants like tulasi and nature like sun, moon and religious planets. Some of the commonly painted themes are:Hindu deities are Lord Krishna, Ram, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi, and Sarasw
From Friday, 1st Feb till Tuesday all the roads in Chennai lead towards an exhibition at Valluvarkottam. There was a display of handicrafts of the artists and manufacturers from all over the country. Among all other stalls I fell in love with the patterns of Madhubani paintings at the stall 45-50 and wish to make a visit to Madhubani District in Bihar, once in my lifetime.
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Madras Terrace House
The Madras Terrace House is an influential space for artistic performance and experience. There are 3 young artists who indeed possess famous artistic skills are from Chennai will paint a 20ft canvas about the city they grew up in, and the city that now influences their work. Vadais & autos, Filter coffee & kakas.
This Artistic event in Chennai is between 14th Jan 09 to 17th Jan 09. So please hurry and I bet it is worth attending.
Facts that you want to know about the place before you make a visit:
This Terrace house was empty for almost 10 years, and was in a crumbling state of disrepair when she first laid eyes on the place. But she fell in love. Not one to waste any time, Lalchand obtained the place and opened TMTH a month ago. In the span of that one month, TMTH has hosted eight events already, including art shows, book discussions, film screenings and music concerts. Interestingly, this Terrace House also has a Tea Kadai (Stall).
Further more, the beams in the structure are unique, as are the bricks which keep the rooms cool. Infact, these type of constructions can be see in Railway houses. Each room has more than one door, and they open out into each other, giving the impression of a house that’s larger than it actually is.
Do Check the Art Gallery!
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Famous Crop-Art in Japan
This stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Closer to the image, the careful placement of thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen.
Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead, different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.
As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.
A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants, the colours created by using different varieties, in the village of Inakadate in Japan.
Napolean on horseback can be seen from the skies, created by precision planting and months of planning between villagers and farmers in Inkadate.
The village has now earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry and this year
the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall.
Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa, Japan. And over the past few years, other villages have joined in with the plant designs.
Various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas of Japan this year,
including designs of deer dancers.
The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori village of Inakadate, 600 miles north of Toyko, where the tradition began in 1993.
Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers plant four different varieties of rice in late May across huge swathes of paddy fields.
Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers.
The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety to create the coloured patterns between planting and harvesting in September.
The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square metres of paddy fields. From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work. 
Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew out of meetings of the village committee. The different varieties of rice plant grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces.
In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year.
But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention. In 2005 agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organisers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.
Here's something important!
And each person is such an infinite mystery, inexhaustible, unfathomable,
that it is not possible that ever you can say that "I have known her," or, "I
have known him." At the most you can say, "I have tried my best, but the mystery
remains a mystery." In fact the more you know, the more mysterious the other
becomes.Then love is a constant adventure.
- Osho
And each person is such an infinite mystery, inexhaustible, unfathomable, that
it is not possible that ever you can say that "I have known her," or, "I have
known him." At the most you can say, "I have tried my best, but the mystery
remains a mystery." In fact the more you know, the more mysterious the other
becomes.Then love is a constant adventure.
- Osho
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Vincent Van Gogh
This Modern Art Painting is a Still Life - Vase with Twelve flowers, Saligramam, Chennai. This is a new addition to my Art Gallary with collection of paintings.
The canvas drawing boards are pretty hard with a Natural cotton duck having double Acrylic Titanum Priming on it.
However, the work is similar kind of the piece that was done by Vincent Van Gogh during Aug 1888. It is a Still Life - Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
Van Gogh is a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist whose paintings had a far reaching influence on 20th century art.
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Saraswati Painting
Goddess Saraswati Painting
Goddess Saraswati (Sarasvati) is the wife of Lord Brahma and possesses the powers of speech, wisdom and learning. She has four hands representing four aspects of human personality in learning; mind, intellect, alertness and ego.
She has sacred scriptures in one hand and a lotus (a symbol of true knowledge) in the second. With her other two hands she plays the music of love and life on the violin (veena).
She is always depicted with dress in white (sign of purity) and riding on a white goose (swan).
However, it is my painting of Goddess Saraswati with Cloth and oil paints with brushes. This painting work took around 1 hour to complete. This work was of free hand with brushes full of colors and without initial outlines or line work that is normally done with pencils.
It was a honor for me to imagine goddess Saraswati on this special day of Dassera Navaratri festival.
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Art and Visual Communication
Visual Communications:
Visualisation, Illustration, Computer graphics, Animation, Art direction, Photography and Typography are all in Fine Arts.
Adishevelled look and uncompromising attitude were the hallmarks of a struggling artist until a few years ago. Today, you wouldn't be surprised to find art students cavorting their way into the corridors of power in the corporate world. This transition can be attributed to a rapidly globalising world, opening doors to countless opportunities for students, who can communicate a message aesthetically.
THE CURRICULUM Design is art that makes itself useful 1984 poster for Die Neue Sammlung, Design Museum, Munich True to this statement, applied art is all about translating your artistic talent into a marketable discipline. The thin line that differentiates commercial art from fine art is that in case of the former, your art is aimed at satisfying a purpose, ie, communicating an idea and not your creative soul, as is the case with the latter.
People were taught traditional drawing board techniques of graphic representation in the first year. After that, they had to choose one of five electives, which included typography, illustration, photography, computer graphics, and display.
FIRST STEPS for the Fine Arts
The earlier the better. Once you know that the bug has bitten you, focus on sharpening your skills, so that by the time you appear for the art college entrance exams after class 12, you have an edge over others. When I was in class eight, I had made up my mind to become a commercial artist. I visited art college campuses that year, and collected information on what I need to arm myself with, before I set sail on this ship. On the advice of my professors, and taking a few cues from some seniors I spoke to, I enrolled myself in an art foundation course.
Check if you fit the BILL
As the canvas of work for commercial artists is vast, students aspiring to make a career in this field, not only need to be good artists, but also need to be adept in the art of communication, marketing and publicity. As a commercial artist, you will be expected to be creative, but will also need to follow an established style or direction, and keep abreast with the latest technologies. In some roles, you will need to have customer service and business skills as well.
If you are attracted to this field because you think this will turn out to be a hobby class, where you can candidly let your creative juices flow, and acquire a university degree at the end of it, you are thoroughly mistaken. This is no doubt a very lucrative and versatile career choice and your options are unlimited. However, it is very demanding. You need to clearly understand that fame and money will not come overnight in this profession.
Your aptitude for art and basic communication skills will be put to the test in any entrance exam that leads to admission in an institute of repute. You will need to constantly update your skills and never stop learning.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
A BFA course will teach you the basics of art, but it is your own initiative that will make you a master in your chosen field. Dont complain about lack of infrastructure or quality teachers in your institute. If you are passionate, nothing can stop you from being the best in your chosen vocation. For students of commercial art, your personal enterprise is most important.
Although the syllabi at art institutes are revamped according to industry requirements, most often, what sells like hot cakes in the market, may not essentially be a part of your curriculum. In such cases, colleges can come to the students rescue.
MONEY Really Matters
This industry produces some of the most highly paid professionals. However, it is also true that an artists marketability depends more on his or her aptitude and skill sets, rather than the degree that he or she holds.
The starting salary of a commercial artist today can range from Rs 15,000 $300 to Rs 25,000 $500, depending on the industry, the pay gets better as you move up the ladder. Graphic designers, visualisers and art directors today, can command very high salaries, often in six digits.
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Painting Styles
Perfect Painting Styles of the world:
First of all I want to introduce my kid's painting (to the left). which is an abstract style and he did it in just few minutes, and guess what?? While he is at the age of two and half!
"Style" is referred in two senses:
It can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that express indirectly an individual artist's work. It can also refer to the movement or school that an artist is associated with. This can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously involved with or it can be a category in which art historians have placed the painter.
The word 'style' in the other sense has fallen out of favor in academic discussions about contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts. Such movements or classifications include the following :
Western styles and Eastern styles
Western Style:
Abstract
Abstract Expressionism
Art Brut
Art Deco
Baroque
Body painting
CoBrA
Color Field
Constructivism
Contemporary
Art
Cubism
Digital painting
Expressionism
Fauvism
Figuration
Libre
Folk
Futurism
Graffiti
Hard-edge
Hyperrealism
Impressionism
Lyrical Abstraction
Mannerism
Minimalism
Modernism
Naïve art
Neo-classicism
Op art
Orientalism
Orphism
Outsider
Painterly
Photorealism
Pinstriping
Pluralism
Pointillism
Pop art
Post-painterly
Abstraction
Postmodernism
Precisionism
Primitive
Realism
Regionalism
Rococo
Romantic realism
Romanticism
Socialist
realism
Street
Art
Stuckism
Surrealism
Tachism
Tonalism
Eastern Style:
Far EasternChinese
- Tang Dynasty
- Ming Dynasty
- Shan shui
- Ink and wash painting
- Hua niao
- Southern School
Zhe School Wu School
- Contemporary
- Yamato-e
- Rimpa school
- Emakimono
- Kanō school
- Shijō school
Korean
Islamic / Near eastern
- Ottoman miniature
- Persian miniature
Indian
- Mysore
- Tanjore
- Madhubani
- Rajput
- Mughal
- Bengal school
- Samikshavad
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