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.

There is no medium that brings you the power of the sea like cinema. The gigantic crawl of the waves, the terrifying sound of submergence or even the bobbing of a boat in the far horizon like a flicker of hope, however distant: it’s all embedded in the grammar of cinema.

Watercolour painting is a popular medium both among professional as well as amateur artists. It offers you a large plethora of creative possibilities and...

Andy has a book in which he writes down all his blessings. All of them since he was 12. And there are 7904 of them at the beginning of the play. Andy is Anindya Chatterjee, a math teacher who is also the Treasurer of Indian Origami, a nation-wide association of origamists.

Witness the creation of India’s most decorative elephant at Rajaji National Park. Painted by international artists Senkoe and Valentina Pinci this mural was made at one of the most challenging spot, a lone wall on a hill!

Here are some of the most popular and sought after folk arts today. Explore through the pages of Mojarto to decorate your walls with an eclectic manifestation of Indian culture.

Warli art, born in the 10th century, was practiced by the warli tribes of Maharashtra. India is a vibrant society where colour, noise, dance, and patterns are primary. Decorating homes is not the latest process of the Homo Sapiens, but also our long-forgotten sibling species, homo neanderthals. Drawings and paintings have been imbued with the culture right from the times of neanderthals. Early, humans used drawings to record history and decorate homes. Their penchant for expressing art later developed into different folk art forms with time and refinement.

Millennial-age Indians are embracing religious and spiritual tattoos, with this unique form of expression increasingly being recognized as ‘wearable body art’ across India’s busiest cities. The artistic value of tattoos has waxed and waned throughout history until reaching its current status as walking art. In India, tattoos were used for diverse reasons – including art, the imitation of embroidery, and to ward off evil. 

Assistive Intelligence exhibition taking place at the Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi challenges traditional ideas about artificial intelligence by showcasing the technology as a tool and part of the media mix in a collection of conceptual, figurative, video works and abstractions. The exhibition explores our current existence by presenting an immediate snapshot of our environment and state of mind through the use of recognizable motifs that highlight the uncertainty, anxiety, and absurdity that pervades cities worldwide.

Drawing is the oldest form of human expression. Much before written communication existed man used pictorial representations to communicate. It is one of the only artistic techniques that has left a profound impact on human race and is the longest surviving practice of art.  Charcoal as a drawing medium is almost as old as the existence of drawing itself. The velvety darks and the ability to create loose, gestural marks impart a satisfaction only an artist can understand. We handpicked our top 5 charcoal artworks to give you a taste of its beauty.