Art Talkies

“He has made everything beautiful in its time”- Ecclesiastes3:11.  The origin of every existing artistic creations hides beneath the monolith of age old human desire to connect themselves with that grand design. Thus the quest begins and thus word “Art” comes to play. Now throughout this epic quest, “artists” invented many “tools” and “techniques” to colour up their thoughts. From the cave art of Lascaux to the renaissance art, they created numerous methods to make their “art” more realistic, more vibrant. They observed the world , the views, the scenarios, the events which to them was “real” and tried to replicate that “realism” through their works, through their own reflections. As the river flows, some of those seekers succeed to create their personal variation of the real world, they understood that words like truth and real can be deceiving and unique simultaneously. Thus all those variations of “traditional art” continue to contribute concentrically to this great quest. Till ...

 If you walk down the picturesque, colourful lane of Fontainhas in Goa, you will come across colours of the colonial past, in structures, architecture and hues. But most importantly, you will come across painted tiles , mostly blue and white, being used as nameplates, to depict the scenes of Goa, in galleries and normal houses alike. These tiles, known as the Azulejos tiles, are the impactful artistic gifts that the Portuguese introduced to this country and its people. While the presence of this art form had vanished from India with the departure of the Portuguese from Goa, it was recently brought back and rejuvenated by artists and these tiles are painted and prepared in bulk all around Goa at present. This art form has been deeply ingrained in the cultural folding of Goa and reflects its past and present alike. The origin of the word Azulejo traces its root back to three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and Arabian. There are several accounts of history depicting the birth of this ...