The medium of art that requires the most intimate human touch and undergoes a radical transformation is ceramic. Be it a pot or a sculpture, its clay can be shaped in several ways such as beating in sheets, pinching, or turning a potter’s wheel. The
“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton Diwali aka Deepavali / Kali Pujo is the festival of lights and one of the most important occasions that is celebrated with great pomp and splendor among
It was the fag end of the 19th-century and the year was 1892 (some say 1894) when Binodbihari Pal and Kusumkumari Devi of Ghurni in the neighbourhood of Krishnagar in Nadia district were blessed with the birth of their third child, Gopeswar. Gopeswar displayed immense
HRecently Tarakeshwar-based artist Malay Ghosh’s name appeared in the prestigious ‘India Book of Records 2021’ for drawing a miniature portrait of West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on palm leaf. He took just 25 minutes to execute the entire painting! Not one to sit on his
Actor-producer Rituparna Sengupta, curator Myna Mukherjee, artist Harshit Agarwal, and filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh at the inauguration The man vs machine debate is now more than a generation old. So we’re not going there. However, walking through Harshit Agarwal’s fascinating art exhibition titled ‘EXO-Stential – AI Musings
Kanthalia village in Murshidabad district is renowned for its clay dolls. The potter community of this locality has been making these dolls using centuries’-old traditional techniques which have been passed down for generations. The hand-crafted dolls mostly portray ordinary scenes from rural life like women
A bus operating on Bolpur-Siuri route in Birbhum district stands next to vast expanse of open paddy fields. As you proceed to board the bus, you suddenly realize it is not a bus but a house! A private residence! Potter Uday Das, a resident of
Two mat (madur in Bengali) artisans from Paschim Medinipur, Gouri Bala Das and Gouri Rani Jana, have been selected for the National Handicraft Award this year for outstanding contribution to handicraft, courtesy their work with the Maslandi Madur. The awards are traditionally handed over by
Son of a Hindu father, who made sculptures and a Muslim mother, whose family was Pata painters, Uttam Chitrakar of Medinipur had a different vision of Patachitra since childhood. A very ambitious young Patua, he started learning the art form at a very early age.
