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Masculine Regeneration And The Attenuated Body In The Early Works Of Nandalal Bose, Niharika Dinkar
Masculine Regeneration And The Attenuated Body In The Early Works Of Nandalal Bose, Niharika Dinkar
Niharika Dinkar
In 2008, the works of the Bengali artist Nandalal Bose (1882-1966) enjoyed a rare North American museum tour, first at the San Diego Museum of Art and then at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In this first major international excursion, Bose‟s works were celebrated as an exemplar of the new modern visual language adopted by nationalist artists as they rejected Europeanized academic techniques in vogue around the turn of the twentieth century. Along with stalwarts like Abanindranath Tagore, Asit Haldar and Kshitindranath Majumdar, the ‘swadeshi’ (indigenous) artists marked an emphatic turn to revive an „Indian‟ aesthetic that has been seen …
Private Lives And Interior Spaces: Raja Ravi Varma's Scholar Paintings, Niharika Dinkar
Private Lives And Interior Spaces: Raja Ravi Varma's Scholar Paintings, Niharika Dinkar
Niharika Dinkar
Between 1900 and 1904, the celebrated Indian academic painter Raja Ravi Varma painted two depictions of men reading (plate 1 and plate 2). The works are unusual, so much so, as to be quite unrecognizable from the mythological paintings and princely portraits that earned Ravi Varma his reputation with patrons and clients. Ravi Varma was best known for his paintings of lovelorn women gazing comely at the viewer and although men had featured in several commissioned portraits they were rarely presented as idealised figures. His sketchbooks feature several examples of men in everyday scenes, so it is evident that he …