John Xaviers Arackal
Vitruvius to Alberti to Palladio – Principles
Vitruvius — the Roman architect and engineer of the 1st century BCE — outlined Six Principles of Architecture (architecturae principia sex) in De Architectura (Book I, Chapter 2). These six ideas became the foundation of Western architectural theory. Here’s a …
quadratura
Quadratura refers to the illusionistic painting technique in Baroque art that extends architecture. This is different from Capriccio which was architectural fantasy in post-Renaissance painting.
caravels and churches
Today, I was working on a call for submissions by a set of eminent curators, to submit an artwork that may be selected in an art festival that will be happening on the west coast of India in December. While …
haubitz + Zoche : Kerala Churches
https://www.haubitz-zoche.de/churches An exhibition of the photos, titled Postcolonial Epiphany: Churches and cinemas in South-India, is now on view at Zephyr, a modern art museum in Mannheim, Germany
tyranny of context – trading with tragedy
“How do you even begin to say something is flawed, or even bad, if it’s about slavery, the Holocaust or the opioid crisis? Or if the artist has endured personal tragedy? These conditions have engendered a self-perpetuating form of self-censorship …
