Oil Painting
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Shahids (martyrs)[1] play a significant role in the history of the Sikh Panth (Sikhism) and its popular visual culture.[2] The shahadat tasveeran (martyrdom images),[3] which is a recurring motif in the delineation of the glorious history of the Sikh…
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This module focusses on the shahadat tasveeran (martyrdom images), part of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sikh visual culture in India. It is an art historical, ethnographic and subaltern study of the grotesque images of martyrdom, and a critical analysis of the artistic…
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Gurvinderpal Singh talks about the importance of Sikh shahids (martyrs) and gurus, and the effects of this martyrdom on Sikh art, the source of inspiration for recreating the past in the form of painting, journey as an artist and the role of the museum authority in his artworks. …
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This module presents the work of Abani Sen, an accomplished, prolific artist and art teacher. It analyses his body of work from an aesthetic and cultural perspective, alongside exploring his pedagogic practice and approach, through reminiscences and anecdotal observations.
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Jigisha Bhattacharya: Today we willl be speaking about the artist Abani Sen to his son Prabir Sen, with regard to his life and his work. Would you like to say something, at a primary level, about the work of Abani Sen, when considered as an entire oeuvre?
Prabir Sen: To cover this,…
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