For decades, paintings held centre stage in Indian art collections. Oils, acrylics, watercolours and miniatures formed the backbone of personal and institutional collections alike....

Making your own fine art prints at home is much more accessible than you might think. The technology involved is advanced and reliable, the costs are affordable for most photographers and artists, and it’s a great investment. It also creates many exciting creative opportunities as you are much freer to experiment, and you have a wider choice of print media.

The right sculpture for home decor should fit your personal taste while enhancing the surrounding environment. A very large metal or wooden sculpture may look out of place in a small room lacking sufficient floor space. Likewise, an abstract sculpture for home decor with a modern aesthetic may appear unnatural in an otherwise traditionally decorated room, unless your purpose is to deliberately juxtapose older and newer styles.

No matter which city you belong to, if you feel like watching a wholesome drama, then I suggest you switch off your mobile phones and turn off your computers because no Netflix or Amazon Prime is going to telecast this.

If you remember your childhood art classes, you would realise that one of the first art exercises of the class was to draw a cube or circle and add a shadow to it.

The artwork is graciously decorated with floral elements, rhythmic plants and birds. Tranquil faces and figure is the forte of the artist. His artworks gracefully portray tranquillity and divine contemplation.

There is mature essence to the way the color ‘brown’ catches the eye, as it’s splattered all over one’s environment. For me, it resonates with the color of the Earth, hard work and labour and artists and photographers alike would agree on how audacious the color seems on the canvas or in print. A lot can be said about any color but something about brown seems as if it’s doused in antiquity, it’s been through a lot of shaping and reshaping and rugged scrutiny and criticism. From the bark of a tree to the deeper layers of the Earth, the ethereal presence of this color remains, like a silent observer, a flaneur of sorts.

Floral motifs have been an intrinsic part of Indian paintings, carrying profound cultural, symbolic, and aesthetic significance. From the exquisite floral patterns of Mughal...

There is insurmountable beauty in the way a myriad of colours and smooth brushstrokes find their way onto the canvas in careful texturing and splatter. That's impressionist art; and one can only attempt to understand its brilliance. These selected, modern artworks are a benchmark in Indian impressionism and take its stand in respect for the era and hope of taking it forward, to educate and appreciate.

The number of people who have told me: ‘I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ART’ is in the vicinity of epidemic proportions.

Perhaps they feel a tad intimidated when talking to an artist. Or perhaps they see us as practitioners of some kind of witchcrafty stuff, through which we can turn people into toads and lizards.