As the year 2024 begins, let's approach it with the spirit of artists, ready to create a masterpiece of our own lives. Opening doors to this new year is an act of courage, curiosity, and creativity. Let's paint boldly, collaborate freely, and navigate the unknown with resilience, for within the canvas of 2024 lies the potential for a truly extraordinary masterpiece. 

By the early twentieth century, urban representation fractured dramatically. With Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the city was broken into planes, angles, and intersecting geometries. Today, abstract cityscapes stand at a compelling intersection of history and immediacy.

Story telling, at its root, is a narrative of a person; a stage in their life or an event becomes an inspiration and leads to a creation of something new. Each stage tells a distinctive story, those staple experiences we all have and the dreams that change with times and each stage. It brings up Shakespeare’s poem about the seven ages of life and how the world is a stage and we are mere characters. As we grow, the clothes change, and we adorn ourselves with newer robes. These images capture the story of a person’s growth and the changing view point. 

Art Heritage is exhibiting “Landscapes of Memory and Experience”, an online solo exhibition of artist Kavita Jaiswal. The exhibition “Landscapes of Memory and Experience” showcases a broad spectrum of Kavita Jaiswal’s works ranging from embossed etchings done in the early 2000s to more recent acrylic ink paintings on a variety of specialty papers.

Art is an expression, it inspires its audience and evokes emotions. If that is the case, then every artwork evokes some emotion for that matter. But this genre of art holds the viewer perplexed and a sudden rush of emotions from the inner fragments.

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!

By Team Mojarto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEXLGtKzFM Mojarto presents a short video of  Chifumi's work titled  "Kirtimukha" for Varanasi Arts Project.   Best known from Hindu temple iconography the Kirtimukha, or this fierce...

But in all seriousness, I’ve seen a lot of people get nervous and dubious when they simply get the idea of painting a portrait.

This curation shaped by **Pantone Colour 2026 Cloud Dancer** brings together contemporary artworks defined by soft neutral palettes, minimal compositions, and quiet elegance. Moving away from visual excess, each piece invites stillness and reflection. Through texture, form, and subtle tonal shifts, the collection explores how art can create balance, depth, and a more intentional experience of space.

WHAT CAN BE READ can also be seen. What can be seen can also be felt. What can be felt can also be absented deliberately to let the imagination fill in the gaps. This kind of wizardry comes only to a few artists. My saying this in no way suggests some kind of a natural gift or an inborn genius.