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 researching the cultural elements that will be important for artwork submissions, I looked up caravels …
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 on the part of those who view and care about art, a newly ingrained defence …
weltlandschaft – wide angle – vast panorama
I have always been fascinated by wide-angle shots in films, like in Nuri Bilge Ceylan films. It has an art historical antecdent, for which the term is Weltlandschaft
capriccio – architectural fantasy
I have always been fascinated by the perspectiveally accurate architectural universe in post-Renaissance paintings. Good to know that there is a term for it. Capriccio.
native american artist demands indian lands
Nicholas Galanin The artist is demanding everything that have been taken away from them, including the lands. Nicholas Galanin was one of the artists who boycotted the Tear Gas Biennale. He feels that addressing the biological warfare is not sufficient, because there are more deep-rooted problems, that are not addressed, like the reparation of the …
joan didion exercise
Chanakya Vyas told me about Joan Didion exercise. In order to understand how to practice it, I asked Gemini, “hi! please advise me on the joan didion exercise of copying great writers using handwriting. where can i find resources on that please.” GEMINI SAID: Joan Didion famously taught herself to write, in part, by retyping …