Samee Eko "The Arts"

Although Victorian interior design doesn’t suit everyone’s tastes, the Victorian style can be adapted and implemented in a variety of pleasing ways. Whether you decide to replicate a true Victorian drawing room, or simply wish to add a Victorian touch here and there, the following general themes can serve as a guide.

Victorian Colors

With color, you can go one of two ways. Light colorwashes typify rural homes in the early Victorian era, while deeply vibrant colors reflect the more upscale Victorian home. Bright colors, including reds, greens, oranges, and blues, are appropriate, as are deep, dark earth colors.

But the Victorian color story doesn’t stop there. Victorian rooms most often used one central color, but incorporated many other colors as well. The Victorians were not known for their tone-on-tone sensibilities. Green, blue, and yellow may be the palette of one room, while red, orange, and brown might be incorporated into another.

Victorian Textures

Color is only the first chapter in Victorian decorating, as the use of texture in Victorian rooms is key. Texture is achieved in a wide variety of ways. Moldings, for example, are a central element in Victorian design. Wallpaper is also used extensively, particularly floral, scrolled patterns and embossed wallpaper. Similarly, texture is achieved through techniques used in the application of paint, such as sponging, stenciling, and even painted leaves and trellises.

Victorian Fabrics

Texture is also expressed in Victorian interior design through the use of fabric. During the Victorian era, fabric was key, and was incorporated into heavy, ornate draperies that often featured elaborate valances with fringe and tassels. Furniture was covered in rich fabrications and upholstered in such a way as to add even more texture to the room.

A Modern Twist

Today’s eclectic decorating styles enable you to successfully bring a Victorian flair into your room or home without having to mimic every element of color, texture, and fabric. You can borrow from the rich color palette while maintaining modern furnishings, for example, or simply carry a Victorian theme throughout a single room or your home by using Victorian old prints.

Victorian Old Prints

Victorian old prints come from publications, such as magazines, newspapers, and books, from the 1800s. The antique prints are originals (as opposed to reproductions), and are prints made from either wood engravings or copper engravings. Many are in black in white, but others are hand colored.

Victorian old prints can reflect the social history of the era, with themes like architectural structures, fine art, and the theatre. They can also reflect historical events, such as war and battle ships. Many old prints depict the Victorian interest in classifying and cataloguing natural history, so you can find amazing botanical, bird, and animal prints.

Decorating with old prints is as simple as matting, framing, and hanging the art in your Victorian room or throughout your home. Victorian old prints bring a sense of authenticity and immediacy to your decorating efforts in a way that today’s fabrics, textures, and colors cannot.

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A throw pillow basically is a decorative pillow that is used for a variety of purposes. Throw pillows are usually small in size, extending no more than twenty-four inches in width. They come in many shapes- square, circular, rectangular, oblong and triangular. The beauty of throw pillow is that they can bring life to any room and define its mood.

Floral pillows can be used at various places in the house like on the sofa, chairs, bed or floor depending on our taste. Floral pillows come in a variety of themes like floral pillows, animal print pillows, paisley pillows, nautical theme pillows, heavy textured pillows, solid color pillows, circle pillows, geometric pillows, stripe pillows and wavy pillows to name some.

One of the most popular throw pillow designs is the floral throw pillow design. Garden looks has always been a favorite theme for many people. They bring a sense of harmony and peace to a room and create an atmosphere that is as close to nature as it can get, which makes us feel invigorated and alive. Floral throw pillows bring more than basic style to a room as they have a character of their own which easily blends in with any room.

Floral throw pillows come in various colors and shades and can be easily coordinated with different solids, stripes and plaids. Exquisite floral throw pillows are manufactured by many companies today with the best ones being manufactured in the Middle East .Pillows have always been used for decoration even during centuries before us. Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Japanese have always been experts in the art of decorating houses with throw pillows and as such even today many people use them to give a warm and rich look to a house.

A sofa usually is a bulk piece of furniture and is often divided into sections, we can break the monotony associated with it by decorating each section with a floral throw pillow. If the sofa is not divided into sections, we can place an odd number of floral throw pillows side by side which can make the sofa to stand out. When it comes to decorating the floor with floral throw pillows, it is recommended to use them in odd numbers. We can either place a single floral throw pillow or stack an odd number of them on top of each other which can both serve a decorative purpose as well as pass off as a great seating arrangement.

We can also use floral throw pillows to decorate chairs depending on the size of the chair. Small size pillows are used for decorating small chairs and larger chairs require larger pillows. When it comes to the bedding, the back layer uses European pillows placed side by side placed against the headboard or wall. The regular bed pillows are used for the second layer. The third layer is where we can use floral throw pillows to add fun and style to the entire design and the last layer can consist of a lumbar pillow. Floral throw pillows can also be used for the purpose of wall décor or table décor. Thus, with so many features to offer, floral throw pillows can definitely be termed as one of the most favored throw pillow themes.

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During hard times of this financial crisis, the auction market situation become unstable. However, the Chinese contemporary art ceramics gone against the market trend and ascending, which make investors sit up and take notice.

Keep Silence as a Perfect Gentlemen when Watching a Chess Game (by Li Jusheng)

The colorful gold bell bottle named “Karaoke Map” owned by Zhu Jianxin sold on the 2008 RongBao Autumn auction with a final price 39,200 Yuan;

On the China JiadDe 2008 Autumn, a color underglazed porcelain bottle named “Boating on River” owned by Bai Lei was sold on price 78,400 Yuan;

On the Beijing HanHai 2008 Autumn, a Zhen Baichong hand-painted color landscape porcelain bottle sold for 89,600 Yuan, at same time, a fine porcelain bottle painted with tiny Wang Zhiwen calligraphy and landscape painting was sold for 224,000 Yuan by the buyer.

On the China Guardian 2008 Autumn Auction a ceramic figurine called “I’m pregnant” made by Zhou Guozhen was sold on price 257,600 Yuan; A high temperature color glazed porcelain ware made by Li Jusheng and named “keep silence as a perfect gentlemen when watching a chess game” sold on a highest price as 1,904,000 Yuan.

I’m Pregnant (by Zhou Guozhen)

As early as on the China Guardian 2007 Spring Auction, the first special auction for “Modern and Contemporary Ceramic Art” in China was launched already, on which the mainly auctioned arts & crafts were came form contemporary artists of industrial arts in JDZ, and there were totally 79 pieces of artworks were sold out and the total mount of sales is 15,784,160 Yuan, with a high transaction rate of 97.4%.

Among them, a high-temperature colored glaze inlay ware named “Teenage Life” produced by LI Jusheng, one of great masters of industrial arts in China was sold for 1.232 million Yuan, which is the highest price on the auction.

Through the Guardian 2007 Spring Auction collectors become to realize the value of Chinese contemporary ceramic art, while on auctions hold on autumn later, Beijing HanHai and RongBao auction also opened its special auction for modern and contemporary art ceramics separately, and both of them has acquired good achievements at this hard times of the auction market caused by the current international financial crisis, and the value of master artworks also show a up trend in the market.

Teenage Life (By Li Jusheng)

Mr. Chen Linlin, the project manager of China Jia De Porcelain Crafts Department believes that with its unique techniques, strong sense of the times, originality and technicality, Chinese modern and contemporary ceramic arts & crafts have attracted collectors, and as the collecting mentality of collectors become mature gradually, the traditional criteria lines of “Judge a hero via ages and times” is now slowly changing, and they thought the artistic value of the artwork is worthy more attention.

In addition, as there are no technique problems in contemporary art ceramics, the art value of a special artwork could be identified easily by collectors, together with the market is still in its infancy, so the average price of which is rather lower and no bubbles in it, so there is a large space for price rising in future.

The head of Beijing HeBiXing Ceramic Art Museum Mrs. Wen Li said that she had realized the collection value of contemporary art ceramics since three years ago, she often visited those masters of industrial arts and professors in Ceramic Academies in Jingdezhen, LongQuan, and buy fine artworks once encountered.

As artworks she collected more and more, she found the current market had not put enough attention on contemporary art ceramics. Upon that she opened the HeBiXing Ceramic Art Museum, and devoted to create the primary market of art ceramics. After three years of painstaking efforts, she found some improvements in the market finally, and the success of the auction market also has given more confidence to collectors aimed for Chinese contemporary art ceramics.

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How do you see contemporary art in our culture and society?

Do you honestly think art still has relevance in interacting with our society, when ultimately popular culture and media rules the mind of most people.
Are artists today just a pretentious bunch trying to come up with something insightful to say with shock value?

Answer
There are times when I worry that being an artist has lost it’s meaning. Some people just create for the mystique of being an “artist type”, and it brings me down. I feel that art should be tangible passion, but art is dying. Especially with art classrooms teaching students the “right” way to create, when there isn’t one.

Back from the Alternative Fashion Show at Spitalfields Market, London. This is the place where young new designers can show their collections and hope to be discovered. Here the audience was an eclectic mix of fashionistas and office workers out on their lunch break , music played courtesy of “The Really Tight Corsettes”;  the models were not all stick thin; the surrounding market stalls were teeming with clothes and accessories to buy and there were plenty of places to eat. All in all, a great place to hang out.

Here’s a summary of the designers showing on Tues 20th:

Hackney Community College Art Dept – “Telling Tales”.

Maybe not something you could actually wear, and definitely not something you could sit down in as the materials used were stiff plastic and paper. There were prints galore of colourful swirls, photo images, handprints and lettering.  Designs included a skirt made from stiff individual petal shapes, a semi transparent dress with hooped hem , and my favourite – a blue and grey photo image print skirt exaggeratedly curved over the hips at the sides but flat at the front and back, matched with a stiff top moulded to follow the model’s curves. The guys were out there too, one in a red ribcage vest  with a very high ( over the head) stand up collar decorated with handprints, and red lettering down his bare arms. Unfortunately he didn’t stand still long enough for me to read the message.

4.2morrow – “Ballet versus Armour “

The main colour was black. Lots of black leather – ruffle layered leather mini skirt, leather petal layered mini skirt, and pleated leather panelled jersey trousers and dress.  Skirts and tops were teamed with black see through mesh tops.  A semi transparent ivory skirt and dress brought contrast to the all black collection.

Charlie Chambers –”Laundry Day”

Using recycled vintage garments, designs included a brightly multicoloured patchwork strapless dress with a slim denim belt and uneven hem (a dress Cinderella would have been proud to wear) and a delicate floral green and white strapless knee length bloomer style playsuit.  This was laundry day out in the countryside on a lovely summer’s day.

Stacey Richards – “Acedia”

Acedia – described as “the earliest and oldest meaning of sloth, one of the 7 deadly sins”. The clothes are designed to appear unfinished, disjointed and fragmented in order to mirror sloth. Silk, cotton and leather were used and the colours were black, red and white.Handmade metal mask jewellery covered the face of some models like muzzles to represent a restraining mask to silence the patient from rambling in their madness.  “Better not get too near those” I muttered to myself. On one model the ensemble looked futuristic with black helmet hairstyle and short white dress wrapped with horizontal black transparent fabric strips. On another the look was an escapee from the asylum with an uneven hemline you get when you button up in the wrong buttonholes and with a few slim leather straps wrapped around the clinically white dress.

Cool Tan Arts – “Twisted Tartan”.

The first designs were of stone coloured plain dresses roughly cut with uneven hems used as the canvas to display the colourful silk batik fabrics worn over the shoulder in the Scottish style and in some cases a more Caribbean style crossed over the front and around the neck. These Batik designs were made using the application of silk and wax. Then models of all shapes, sizes and ages appeared in an array of bold colour combinations of oranges, limes, purples and reds to brighten the more sober start.

Prilly Lewis of Prillywear

Prilly knits and felts using lambs wool with touches of angora.The fine knit knee length swing coats came in ivory and a yellow-green, accessorized with a large green wool felt bauble necklace. The A-lined coats were panelled with contrasting colours of lilac and burgundy or light brown and burgundy giving a classic and wearable look. Again accessorised with contrasting large wool felt bauble necklaces.  Could see Michelle Obama happily wearing one of these coats.

Kimberley Startup- “Come on Now Kimi, Grow Up”

“Once upon a time Kimi sat and attempted to face adulthood but saw only work, debt and death. So she said “When I grow up I want to be a child again”.”Her collection was themed around the small child’s classic toys. A red and yellow large striped dress styled as a soft spongy ball, a mint green t shirt decorated with the colourful keyboards of a xylophone, a padded dress made of colourful ring stacks, and an orange asymmetrical top with a runaway train over the shoulder.  Alphabet blocks made great bangles and head bands, and all were accessorised with candy coloured high heeled platform shoes, worn with a double layer of contrasting coloured ankle socks. It was fun recognising the toys.

Tanya Smith- “The Natural Look”.

Inspired by a trip to Kew Gardens Tanya was captivated by the gorgeous shapes and colours of the plants and flowers.Thinking beiges and creams for the natural look, I was pleasantly surprised to see bright purples, dark greens and coral as the colour palette and finding the mixing of these colours working so well. Mainly block colours; a delicate floral pattern was used in pocket linings and lapels.  Not sure whether the undone trouser zip showing the floral pattern underneath was intentional, but not a good look. Large exposed zips featured on dresses and the high shouldered short cape. Loved the long dark green slim skirt with the very high funnel neck coral top.

Dorota Damian

A fusion of Eastern European tradition with organically inspired sculptural shapes and embroidered floral patterns.Colour palette was black and white with emphasis on texture and embellishments. Texture came in the form of ruffles, drapes and bunches of soft folds. Embellishments in the form of metal studs and beading.  One favourite was the white asymmetrical ruffled blouse with its long sleeve and billowing folds.  Over the knee and knee high socks with strappy studded sandals were worn.

Hayley Trezise from Raggedy – “Compare Readings”

Ethical fashion- Ragged display of scribbly stitch work and asymmetrical sculptural shapes transformed from charity shops clothes to create one off quirky couture for all occasions.Hayley’s disjointed fairy tale reminded me of a combination of Cinderella and her ugly sisters – mixing the flamboyance of the messy (just been dragged through the hedge backwards)bouffant  hairdos, colourful  smudged eye make-up and tilted small felt top hats with Cinderella’s patchwork of rags.  Colours were earthy greens, browns, off whites, rustic reds and oranges. Skirts were either softly folded cocoon shapes (loved the invisible pockets within the folds), a patchwork of similar colours or ragged layers of different textures.  Tweed waistcoats and short sleeved jackets were cropped with uneven lines adding more texture to the outfits.  This collection showed even rags could be stylish.

Georgia Nash –”The Nut was too strong to crack”

Inspired by the Nutcracker and each look based on a character. Attention to detail here was key, from the toy soldier tied to the back of high heels to the scattering of pearls within the black beaded coat and bodices. Zips lined the tip of large ruffle layers giving a hard edgy look to a short cream jacket. The long ruffle layered coat combined different fabrics, embellishments and colours to create a spectacular piece. Fabrics used were lace, velvet, silk and satin; embellishments were black beads, zips and pearls; colours were black, turquoise, red and white. Underneath the model wore a sheer black body stocking adorned with pearls and ribbons which added to the drama. For some reason the models didn’t linger on the catwalk to be seen together. A pity because this collection was worth a second look.

West Thames College –”Galactic Summer Holiday” – Resort wear for a galactic summer holiday.

Metallic silver, grey and white were the colours for summer attire on a galactic holiday. Slinky catsuit with long hanging sleeves, stiff A-line metallic mini dress with quilted edging and a funnel necked sleeveless mini dress gave a more retro futuristic look.

At the end of the show I had decided on my favourites, but the question on every designer’s mind was who will be the fashion industry’s favourite?

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Flowers are a common theme for many weddings. They convey beauty, romance and elegance. So it comes as no surprise that floral wedding invitations are popular among many couples.

From delicately subtle prints to bold splashes of bright flowers, there are so many beautiful ways to bring your wedding invitations to life with floral themes. Whether your taste is elegant, simple and traditional or to contemporary and bold, there are dozens of beautiful floral wedding invitation designs to choose from.

Contemporary Floral Wedding Invitations

Casual floral prints are an ideal choice for a garden or seaside weddings, calling to mind breezy afternoons and bright sunny days. If your wedding is more formal, look for streamline invitations. A single calla lily silhouette against a plain background, for example, can make a traditional and formal statement. Calla lilies are always an elegant choice for wedding stationery, and their graceful shape is influenced by the romantic art deco era. Or, if you’re planning a wedding with a Roaring Twenties or Fabulous Forties theme, embossed calla lily invitations are great ways to get your guests into the mood of the celebration.

Contemporary floral themes can also feature a curvy, stylized botanical design in white across a colored top border. This design can be echoed in the border color, giving the invitation a fresh, bright look that is both elegant and simple at the same time. This design incorporates color, simplistic design and asymmetrical layout to create a fresh, memorable design that you’ll want to frame and display on your wall for years to come. You can also order these invitations in a wide range of colors to coordinate them with your overall wedding theme.

Traditional Floral Wedding Invitation Designs

If your wedding is more traditional, or if you just prefer classic wedding invitation design, there are lots of choices. The most traditional wedding invitations feature white on white embossed flower borders. Whether you choose wedding invitations embossed with daisies or roses, it’s the white on white raised design that makes the invitation timeless and elegant. You can even have the best of both worlds by choosing a non-traditional ink color for your printing and matching it to an envelope liner.

It’s not unusual for wedding invitations to combine both contemporary and traditional elements. You might choose, for instance, an invitation that features a single embossed rose pressed into the lower right-hand corner of the card, combining the traditional rose motif with a non-traditional layout and placement for the design.

Your wedding invitations can incorporate your wedding theme as well. Consider seashells brushed with silver around the border for a seaside wedding, or a tri-fold invitation that features a wedding gazebo imprinted on the front in pearly white for a garden wedding.

In the end, the choice of wedding invitation style comes down to your personal taste. Wedding invitations can represent or reflect the theme of your wedding, so you’ll want to take some careful time and consideration when choosing your invitations. Here a few important things to consider when looking for the floral wedding invitations that are right for you.

Invitation Style

Do you want a flat card invitation, a gate fold invitation or a folded invitation? Those are the most common styles of wedding invitations, but some specialty wedding printers may offer variations or custom styles.

Design Style

Is your wedding contemporary or traditional? Are you leaning toward the whimsical, with cute little bride and groom designs? Do you like casual or formal designs? Realistic or figurative?

Type of Flowers

Roses, daisies, pansies, lilacs, wildflowers, calla lilies? Your options are limitless. If you have a favorite flower or style of flower bouquet, you can tie it into your wedding invitation for a personal touch.

Colors

It can be very helpful to pick a color from your wedding, and then find floral invitations that pull that color into the design. You can choose from invitations with background color, or printed ink that fit your wedding, or add embellishments to your wedding invitations that pull in a color from the bouquet design.

Floral wedding invitations are guaranteed to convey the class and sophistication you’re looking for, while adding vibrant colors that bring your wedding to life. There are plenty of floral designs to choose from. Look for designs and colors that are meaningful to you and your fiancé, and your invitations will be a smashing success.

Jennifer Bailey is a freelance writer who writes about weddings, usually focusing on a specific aspect of a wedding like wedding invitations.

India the land of culture, spices, art and intelligence has many reasons to offer an exploration. With geographical and religious diversity, India has been the largest democratic in the world. A trip to India is a spiritual tryst with destiny. Art in India has been prevalent from classical times in the traditional manner. The palace of kings, old historical monuments and the famous caves of Ajanta and Ellora are the perfect example of traditional art in India.

But today India is said to be blend of Traditions and Modern Art. Human nature explains that he is never satisfied with the present. He insists exploration and modernization. And surely art is not out of the human’s exploring globe. Not only exploring human hooks up the pieces of traditional art to modern art.

Art is said to be nothing but the deception of the society. Artists come from society only and portray things that surround them. Society is marked as the great influencer in encouraging or discouraging artist’s creativity and thoughts. An experiment goes on and on and on and this way tradition art gives birth to new thoughts and hence called modern art. The artist are inspired from the old age, they use that inspiration and reflects that in their modern painting.

Indian art is the form of nature. If you analyze the sculptures and paintings you will clearly see reflection of nature and you will be glad to find an unseen nature in it. The caves of Ajanta and Ellora are scattered parts of Indian art treasure. The emphasis that was made on the culture, old traditions, characters, spiritual message, denoting supreme beings and living styles had clearly presented an absolute reflection of views, beliefs and ethics of the artists and their surroundings. Artists at times also represented real human life offerings including youth, beauty, passion, love, emotion, pity and idealism. To explain the true meaning artists in process of contemplating is capable of translating formless substance into form and give them such a definite shape that touches the heart of the common people.

Indian art movements have been influenced by many rulers and the styles are named after them for example Mughal style or Rajput style. The modern art era was started be the revivalists. They revived India’s past through stories that was depicted in the form of painting. The paintings represented episodes of Sanskrit Plays, scenes from Ramayana and Mahabharata. Modern art era in India has seen many reforms from various artists. Abstract form, Contemporary form, Fine art etc. all of them were revitalized form scratch to top. The modern art also bridged the art styles of Indian and European painting. In the first instance most painting may not be recognized as Indian but in the true sense of term there nature is very much Indian and they reflect the very soul of Indians.

There are no boundaries that can be created for art be it traditional or modern, there is no limit to what we can expect from these pieces. The variety of form and attitude that characterizes art at times often earns negative reactions but yet it has more relevance to our lives. Be it past or present. The blend if traditional and modern art, Indian Art has got a significant recognition among the all art forms.

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It isn’t just India’s politicians but its artists as well who refuse to let age come in the way of their constituency. At different points, different artists have been important not just from the point of view of art aesthetics, or value, but because of the pivotal role they have played in providing the stepping stones with which to monitor the key turns in Indian art styles. These must necessarily include famous master artists such as Raja Ravi Varma less for his kitschy calendar pop-art and more for the fusion of Indian and European idioms that continues to dictate popular taste; the Tagore family for opening up the way art was viewed in India; Nandalal Bose, India’s first truly renaissance artist; and Amrita Sher-Gil for the passion she brought to the form in her very short life.

India’s tryst with modern art traces its origins to roughly the turn of the last century up to India’s independence, and it is the “moderns” — as both the artists and their art is referred to — who define the popular perception of how we view art in this country. Among these, the most radical by far was F N Souza whose provocative contemporary art gallery includes drawings and paintings earned him a fair share of ire and more brickbats than bouquets, though it might be said in the same breath that his sensibility lent more towards European extremism than any obvious Indian sensibility.

Souza was a victim of his own excesses, but among those who once shared the platform with him are three painters who without doubt can be regarded as the greatest living artists of this country. Of them, S H Raza, has been referred to also as the greatest living artist of France, and while that might be arguable — his work is collected mostly by Indians — Raza, 87 years, has said that by the end of this year he would like to wind up his atelier in Paris and return to the country of his birth, to probably New Delhi, where he is in the process, with friend Ashok Vajpeyi, of searching for land to create an institution for the arts.

Raza’s record at a Saffronart auction is Rs 4.2 crore, which must seem formidable given that critics have savaged him for repeatedly painting variations of the Bindu and the Mandala, forms that set him apart from his peers, creating a visual language that is both abstract as well as rooted in the tradition of tantra. Raza’s prices have skittered and gained since 2000, and have consolidated after 2003, casting him as a blue-chip, even though critics — and collectors — say Raza’s paintings don’t compel you to want all of his important works since they seem to replicate each other.

India’s most maverick, most loved and equally hated artist is M F Husain, 94 years this August, who single-handedly broke the cordons of exclusivity and took his famous art works mainstream to the masses. From travelling around the world in bare feet to creating a show of crumpled newspapers, he has mocked critics, courted moneyed buyers yet reached out to people, a bond he built as a hoarding artist painting posters for Bollywood marquees. Some of the most iconic images in Indian art gallery have been created from his palette — Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi, the Lady with the Lamp, vignettes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and of course, his horses. In recent times it seems to be trendy to dismiss Husain’s prodigious talent, but make no mistake: Husain is India’s tour de force of art. Currently at home in Dubai, where he is creating a series on the Arabic civilization and in London, where he has a home, Husain has shied away from returning to India fearing for his life from Hindu fundamentalists who have objected to some of his paintings. His prices, always the bellwether index of the art world, have fallen recently, though he has struck the biggest deals for the largest sums of money that any Indian artist has commanded: a gimmicky Rs 100 crore for one such series in India, and an undisclosed sum for his work on the Arab civilization, making him without a doubt India’s richest living artist.

One reason for the fall in Husain’s price is his proclivity to paint too much, too fast, the exact opposite of Mumbai-based Tyeb Mehta, 84 years, who refuses to let his debilitating health keep him from his canvas. If it appears that Mehta has painted very little, it is because of his tendency to ruthlessly destroy those works that don’t measure up to his critical gaze. In many ways, Mehta could be called minimalist: Since the seventies, his subjects have been mythological. He seems to enjoy scale, but what is most compelling is the energy on his canvases that is at once awesome and fearful. His price point has held steady for many years now, and even though Souza exceeded his auction high of Rs 8.2 crore in a surprise upset last year, there can be no doubt that Tyeb Mehta is not only India’s greatest living artist, his works are most likely to continue to escalate in value over the years.

There is a large scope for Indian art styles world wide.  Artflute kinds of platforms are an endeavor to build India’s first Indian Contemporary Art gallery and artist community.  The philosophy of the Artflute is to create a platform for new talent and at the same time allow young collectors to buy at early artist prices. It is for every kind of collector and artist… from young collectors to veterans, from young artists to Masters.

Artflute is an endeavor to build the contemporary art gallery of Indian arts and artist community. It’s a best platform to share the views and ideas of emerging artists to give the best of their art work. Approximately it has the complete collection of Indian art gallery and bagged the great artists in their community. For more information, visit http://www.artflute.com

What is the difference between modern art and contemporary art?

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modern art – Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic production from the … Art Nouveau and national variants (Jugendstil, Modern Style, Modernisme) …
Quick Links: History – Roots in the 19th century – Early 20th Century
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art
Wikipedia: Contemporary art
… literal adjective “contemporary” to define this period in art history is partly … Studio International – Journal of contemporary art, design and architecture …
Quick Links: Trends in contemporary art – Contemporary Art Museums – External links
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