Holding a prism to the twilight sky
As united as the art critics were in lambasting Bikash Bhattacharjee’s work in his early days, in his later years they were as divided in interpreting his work. Because, it’s a common ailment of the common art critic not to rest in peace till he has categorized an artist [...]

Midnight at noon
The most fascinating part of Bikash Bhattacharjee’s journey to the light was that he did not rush towards it like a moth, but became the flame instead. In the early sixties, while Abstract Expressionism spread faster than Jackson Pollock’s paint splatters across the world, Calcutta was no island. Added with the dismal condition [...]

What do you expect of a child who has lost his father at the age of six and left to grow up lonely and neglected? For starters, you can expect growing bitterness and disillusionment. What do you expect of a young boy whose childhood is spent in a decaying neighbourhood, chequered with poverty and stagnation? [...]

Mark Bradford is an admired artist from Los Angeles, California who earned his an MFA in 1997 and a BFA in 1995. Mark, who is known for his grid-like abstract paintings combining collage with paints reveals that the working-class sensibilities and mashed-up cultural influences that shaped his childhood in the southern Californinan community, continue to [...]

Craig Kosak is a Seattle based artist who has been in the artistic profession for the past 35 years. Craig studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California for a year in the late 70s and has taken many classes and workshops at other institutions in the years since then – most [...]

Left write, Right left?
When it comes to a child’s education, literacy is and will be defined as the ability to write legibly and meaningfully to express thoughts. Art literacy is considered dispensable and looked upon more as a play than learning. But what if they learn more during playing than during learning, and to make [...]

A gallery of alphabets
If writing was primarily painting to begin with, then what do you call paintings that are made up of writing? I would prefer calling them ‘history comes full circle’, but they are more commonly known as text art. They can be as nerdy as ASCII art (static or animated art created with [...]

Calliope, the muse of writing and Clio, the muse of painting, were undeniably sisters. Greek mythology bears conclusive evidence of them being daughters of Zeus, the Thunder God and and Mnemosyne, the Goddess of memory. There has been no evidence of them fighting bitterly with each other. These evidences are of course as conclusive as [...]

Joe Sorren, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1970, grew up around Phoenix and later in Flagstaff, Arizona. He started painting in 1991 and received his BFA in 1993 from Northern Arizona University. Joe was first noticed in 1997 as the gold medal winner in the Society of Illustrators of New York competition. He was also [...]

Simon Goinard Phelipot is an illustrator and art director from Paris, France who has been in the artistic profession for the past 7 years. Simon started illustrating naturally with the need to find a media that could express his idea of space, volume, aesthetics, and emotions. The artist mainly works on illustrations for books and [...]