A traditional Indian art form in which colourful patterns are made using coloured sand, powdered colours or flower petals. These patterns are traditionally created to decorate floors, courtyards and thresholds of homes during Hindu festivals across India.
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Monochrome photographs handpainted with colour, often to heighten the degree of their realism or for an enhanced aesthetic affect. Painted…
A traditional form of decorative gesso painting practised primarily in Bikaner, Rajasthan. It derives its name from the Usta community…
A movement originating in France in the 1840s, which rejected then-prevalent ideals of Romanticism in French art and literature in…
An artist in nineteenth century Delhi, Mazhar Ali Khan is best known for his topographical paintings for the Delhi Book,…
A specialised type of mandala or geometric diagram used in Tantric worship in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. A yantra (Sanskrit…
Mangalabai Thampuratty (c. 1865–1954) was a painter and sister to Raja Ravi Varma and Raja Raja Varma. She was a…
Coined by French art critic and curator Michel Tapie in 1952, the term signifies French artistic and painting styles of…
Charlotte Canning (b. 1817; d. 1861) was an artist and the wife of Charles Canning, the first Viceroy of India.…