Visual Art and Culture

The journey from Manglore to mahe was energizing and fantastic. Around 7.30 am, we left Mangalore by train to Mahe. The sun had risen and its rich golden light had spread everywhere, on the foliage, on the fields and on the river.   Touched with the sun rays, the water was glistening like gold, making the scene splendid. The train was speeding up amidst the thick greenery filled with coconut, areca and other trees. The lush green paddy fields soothed my eyes and soul. Train journey that too amidst greenery makes me very romantic. I was ruminating on why the palette of kerala artists is so rich and vivid.   The bright cobalt blue sky was complementary to the sunlight covered lush green paddy fields.   Here and there, I could see white Kerala houses. Most of the houses are painted in white. Probably, they prefer white colour, which is   easily noticed amidst the green nature. The architecture of the house is very different, beautiful and elegant.  Wood...

LANGUAGE OF DRESS                                In 60s and 70s, tailors were very much in demand.   Ready-to-wear clothing was not available in small towns, and in fact, nobody liked to wear readymade dress in those days. To discover a good tailor and get dresses stitched properly by them was an uphill task.   With lot of hopes and dreams, one used to give the fabric material along with a page torn from the magazine, which carried the photograph or sketch of a latest fashionable skirt or top, in it.   Seeing the photograph, the tailor would nod and say he would stitch it the same way. He used to enter the details of measurements in a long note book, which had turned yellow with the passage of time and the pages at the corners had curled by constant usage. He would ask us to come after a fortnight.   Since we were in hurry, th...

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Art and Technology                                                                                                      Art is indispensable to every field.   To the naked eyes, it seems that each field is completely independent, isolated, and has nothing to do with other fields. On the contrary, each field is related to other fields in a smaller or larger way.   Now tastes and choices of people have been refined because of the aesthetically designed sophisticated objects that surface in the marke...