Ten years ago, Indian contemporary art was elated with its success in the industry. It had made a mark at a global level with a slew of survey exhibitions that attempted to define the region’s art scene. The Indian financial media began to track the contemporary art market as an alternative asset class, and artists…
Author: Dipayan Banerjee
Entrepreneur & Art Enthusiast, Dipayan is right brain person who believes that the harnessing of right (creative) brain in the right way can solve most of the problems of life.
Creativity and Right Brain Function for Happiness
The one element that facilitates art is creativity; the process of formation of something novel – a form unseen or undiscovered yet by humanity but lying dormant in the mind of the artist and eventually turned into reality. Since Aristotelian times, happiness has been usefully thought of as consisting of at least two aspects: hedonia…
Reasons Why Painting is Socially Important?
“I take experience and turn it into art. My life is my masterpiece” They say Art is a way of life – one that inspires a human being to achieve, to de-stress and to motive oneself to walk the path of life with the hope of success. Nowadays, people are trampled under work pressure and…
Abstract Art
Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to…
Hyperrealism
If you want to learn how to paint photorealism, these next few pages will walk you step by step through the photorealist painting techniques that I use to create my photorealistic paintings, such as the ones on the right. This step-by-step guide may be an equally interesting read for non-artists who have a deep appreciation…
Expressive drawing
A lot of people who long to draw—but feel too intimidated to try—will rejoice at the wonderful first entry in this brand-new creative series. Written by arts educator Steven Aimone, it’s packed with solid, friendly, hands-on instruction, as well as inspiring images, and backed by the trusted AARP name. Aimone teaches an accessible style called…
Watercolor
In most beginner-level art classes, the teacher gives students an example of a still life settign and just tells the students to start painting. But that doesn’t answer the dozens of questions that beginners and amateurs have about how to use watercolors. Tubes or pan paints? What kind of paper and brushes are best? Damp…
Oil Painting
Painting has been one of my life’s greatest sustaining pleasures. It has enlarged my world. My goal here is to share that pleasure with you and to see painting bring out the world of creativity within you! Oil paints have been most artists’ first choice for hundreds of years, with good reason. The colors are…