Until the beginning of modernism, Photography, Truth and Art used to be close friends. The most admired quality in Western art was mimesis-objects in painting and sculpture which closely resemble things in real life. Even when the first photographic prints were developed from a negative in 1839 by William Henry Fox Talbot, he immediately saw the mimetic new medium as an art form.

Bridging the unequal divide between communities and granting more access to information through micro museums, Amanda Schochet tells us more about her initiative through her TED talk ‘How bumble bees inspired a network of tiny museums’. 

Photography has drastically changed the lives of human beings today. Not a day passes, for most of us, without a photograph. There seems to be no need for any special occasion to take a photo. A good hair day needs a photo! Your cute little pet’s homecoming anniversary needs a photo for sure! “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”  says American photographer Aaron Siskind. Photography has the real magic to capture the world’s beauty. Photos can speak instantly to the world, and our reminiscence happens in real-time. Every photograph has a story to tell. The photography era has enhanced our need to create, record, and remember. Cameras have become an indispensable part of our lives. It is curating our lives for recording and curating our lives. Precious moments were made into keepsakes, while moments we no longer wished to remember were discarded.

Can you feel it in the air? The subtle warmth creeping in, waking the earth from its slumber? Floral paintings beautifully capture this transformation—where nature shakes off its golden-brown stillness and bursts into a vibrant tapestry of greens, pinks, and yellows.

This Diwali, why not break away from the ordinary and explore the extraordinary world of art gifting? Mojarto, your trusted e-commerce art platform, brings you the perfect blend of tradition and innovation with these exquisite Diwali gift ideas. 

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.

The heavy presence of The Progressive Movement continues to live in and colour the minds of each of us in the art world in India. And it is usually presumed that while the legacy lives on, the artists have all gone.  Thus, it is all the more interesting than the one remaining artist of that set, Manohar Mhatre, now 89, is still living and practicing. Chosen to have long self-marginalized himself, he is finally showing his works in a retrospective solo after decades!

The earliest source of music in India is the Samaveda and it opens with this line: ‘Agna ā yāhi vītaye’ which translates as ‘O Agni, come to the feast’. To a musician, this invitation to Agni, the god of fire, is perhaps a prayer to be touched by fire. To be granted the gift of ‘Duende’.

Sonal Varshneya’s first ever tryst with watercolours and her first ever virtual solo show ‘Jo Jahan Hein Wahin Rahe’ is a fitting illustration of the hope that we must keep in these uncertain times.  Sonal Varshneya’s first ever watercolour series ‘Jo Jahan Hein Wahin Rahe’ is a poignant venture into the depiction of the strangeness of our isolation.

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