Jump to content

  • Log in with Facebook Log in with Twitter      Sign In   
  • Create Account

Welcome To Travel Swami!

Welcome to Travel Swami , like most online communities you must register to view or post in our community, but don't worry this is a simple free process that requires minimal information. Take advantage of it immediately!
Whats more you can use your Facebook or Twitter account to Sign In


  • Start new topics and reply to others
  • Subscribe to topics and forums to get automatic updates
  • Add events to our community calendar
  • Get your own profile and make new friends
  • Customize your experience here

Show In Philadelphia


  • Please log in to reply
26 replies to this topic

#21 KABAARY

KABAARY

    Frequent Flyer

  • Blogger
  • PipPip
  • 191 posts

Posted 26 August 2008 - 01:36 AM

Quote

This is going far off topic...
Dear Hyderabadi Garo, as Nagesh Kukonoor said in Hyderabad Blues : "Dil pe mat le yaar, haath me le" ;)

Getting back on topic...a sad event :
Hussain vandalised
Btw, has anyone of you seen the painting which originally created the controversy resulting in him fleeing from India ?

#22 Hyderabadi

Hyderabadi

    Guru Member

  • Moderator
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 1,560 posts

Posted 26 August 2008 - 02:04 AM

View PostKABAARY, on Aug 25 2008, 04:06 PM, said:

Btw, has anyone of you seen the painting which originally created the controversy resulting in him fleeing from India ?

Yes.

BTW, is he still running his Cinema Ghar in Hyderabad?
Sekhar

_____________

Fotos on flickr


#23 KABAARY

KABAARY

    Frequent Flyer

  • Blogger
  • PipPip
  • 191 posts

Posted 26 August 2008 - 02:16 AM

Quote

is he still running his Cinema Ghar in Hyderabad
Don't know but difficult to imagine that he is running it personally as he has not entered the country for many a year.

Btw, I was just doing a search on him and came across a site which had an extremely virulent and polluted interpretation of his works by so called upholders of Hinduism. It really upset me no end.

Mods : Can I post the link to that site here or do you think that it is avoidable ?

#24 dzibead

dzibead

    Senior Guru Member

  • Moderator
  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • 2,089 posts

Posted 26 August 2008 - 02:16 AM

There's a group of contemporary painters in Rajasthan that do very realistic "natural history" type paintings - they look very conventional and not like what springs to mind when one says "contemporary art" - i.e., it's not abstract or "expresionist" in any way, but they're wonderful.  A friend of mind has been collecting paintings by Jaggu Prasad, who is probably the best-known of the group.  Here are some of his works:     http://www.artnet.co...ggu-prasad.html

    And here's an article about a group exibition several years ago:    http://query.nytimes...751C0A9659C8B63
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

#25 Somerset

Somerset

    Senior Member

  • Blogger
  • PipPipPip
  • 509 posts

Posted 26 August 2008 - 11:21 PM

Indian art is the thing in the NYTimes this week. Today its about collecting in India: http://www.nytimes.c.../26collect.html
"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore." Ferdinand Magellan

#26 jyotirmoy

jyotirmoy

    Senior Guru Member

  • Moderator
  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • 3,598 posts

Posted 27 August 2008 - 10:11 AM

Another great painter Benodebehari Mukherjee... Ray made a film on him "The Inner Eye" Benodebihari babu completed the frescos at Shantiniketan when he was practically blind.

More here:
http://en.wikipedia....ehari_Mukherjee

www.satyajitray.org/films/innereye.htm

#27 KABAARY

KABAARY

    Frequent Flyer

  • Blogger
  • PipPip
  • 191 posts

Posted 27 August 2008 - 02:57 PM

He was a student of Nandalal Bose. So was Satyajit Ray...