Artist Profile: Shruti Vij

This week we profile artist Shruti Vij, who has an ongoing exhibition at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi until 21st Feb, 2014.

Shruti Vij’s artworks create a visual rhapsody of colour and strokes that come to life on canvas. Her palate includes a variety of reds, blues and greens that enthrall the viewer and are a visual treat. Her uplifting patterns enhance the artworks creating a multi-dimensional effect.

Shruti’s distinctive style has won her a strong fan following not only in India but also abroad. Recently, she held an exhibition in Dubai that saw art aficianados appreciate her work. Her artworks have been selected for India-wide exhibitions and have been appreciated at Delhi International Film Festival 2013, held in New Delhi. Some of her exhibitions include Indo- Korean Art Festival, at AIFACS, New Delhi and an exhibition at The Hungarian Information And Cultural Centre, New Delhi.

FOUR SEASONS

20"x20"

Mixed Media on paper

The painting depicts four different seasons through the use of various textures and colours.

WHIRLING   DERVISH

24"x36"

Acrylics on canvas

The painting is an ode to the Turkish Sufi Saints whose mesmerising dance provides spiritual healing to the audience.

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FILM FESTIVAL: 'Great Artists Biography' at NGMA, Bangalore

NGMA Bengaluru announces the 3rd series of its FILM FESTIVAL 'Great Artists Biography' on El Greco, Giotto Di Bondone, Turner and Vincent Van Gogh at NGMA auditorium on Saturday, 15th February 2014 at 3.00 pm and Sunday, 16th February 2014 at 11.00 a.m.

Admission is free on first come first serve basis.

All are welcome.

'Journey Thus Far' by Shibu Arakkal

'Journey Thus Far' by Shibu Arakkal, special viewing of Florence Biennale 2013 Gold Prize winning work along with a special curation of works from his last seven series

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Artist Profile: Aniqa Fatima

This week we profile artist Aniqa Fatima from Karachi, Pakistan. She has a diploma in fine arts (printmaking) from Karachi School of Arts (1995) and a bachelors degree in philosophy.

She says, "My painting speaks about subject matter, conceived through knowledge and intuition and is based on the concept of being and knowing. In these colourful oil paintings, I use the shadow of an object/s at different times of sunlight. The forms are simple and expressive and their movements show the idea behind. They represent the idea of reflection. My sources of inspirations are, what are the entities to which I am not conscious or what are things I wanted to know about?"

You can see more of her works here

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Social Cause: Gond Art by Rural Children

This week we focus on Ahambhumika, an NGO which is working actively to empower rural children by teaching them arts and crafts in an effort to raise funds and to also equip them with vocational skills. 

 

Ahambhumika, an NGO is an active campaigner on social media and strives to raise funds by direct sale and auction of tribal paintings made by their volunteers. The bright and colourful Gond paintings have found many homes and have thereby helped to support them in their work with underprivileged children. Ahambhumika is a small organization based in Bhopal, comprising of a few like-minded people consisting of artists, housewives, engineers, tourist guides, teachers and government employees. Besides supporting a few rural schools, they have a literacy center which provides basic education to 120 rural children.

The organization aims at helping underprivileged children, destitute and orphans by involving people from cities and by collecting material discarded by them (clothes, bicycles, books, toys, newspapers etc.) for the underprivileged people.According to Subrat Goswami, Founder Ahambhumika, “We also impart training in embroidery and art, especially Gond Art to rural children and women. One of our volunteers does the Gond Art and we are now teaching this to a group of rural children. Besides this we also make efforts to raise funds through sale of paintings made by our volunteers.”

 

The Gond tribe is one of the largest Adivasi communities in Madhya Pradesh and as is common with most tribal communities to express their joys and sorrows collectively and in a ritualistic manner, Gond art follows this trend. Their art form conforms to the belief that ‘viewing a good image begets good luck’, which leads them to decorating their houses and floors with traditional tattoos and motifs. Gond art is now practiced on paper and canvas and many artists have found success through this form of tribal art. (Readers will remember that I had written recently about Nankusia Shyam, the wife of the famous Gond artist Jangarh Singh Shyam, you can read the article here.)

Ahambhumika aims to raise funds through the sale of these paintings. It is wonderful that the organization not only provides literacy to children, but also puts in substantial efforts to empower them by providing skill-based learning. 

If you would like to help them out in any capacity please visit their website or contact them here.