Seeing, and seeing again
Bhuri Bai’s art has come full circle, from being shown in her home to galleries and now many homes via the Internet.
Bhuri Bai’s art has come full circle, from being shown in her home to galleries and now many homes via the Internet.
MAP's latest talk with Ganesh Shivaswamy, an important scholar and collector of Ravi Varma prints, traced the evolution of the popular aesthetic in India, from Raja Ravi Varma to S.M. Pandit, to Raghuvir Mulgaonkar.
Jagdish Swaminathan was instrumental in bringing folk and tribal art from the mud huts of rural India to the living rooms of its busy cities - two of them being Gond-Pardhan artist Jangarh Singh Shyam and Bhil artist Bhuri Bai. But who was Swaminathan and what was his significance?
Camera phones and changing attitudes have drastically cut down our visits to photo studios. So what happens inside a studio today?
How a makeshift photo studio at a village fair empowered young girls
Discovering the painted world that Bhuri Bai secretly created and then shared with the world.