Shakha Sivasankaran

The painting as a part of trailblazing movement of putting multiple perspectives on a two-dimensional paper or canvas medium is revolutionary for it makes the subject of the painting absent. In this piece there is the dilemma for the observer as to what is the…

The picture is arresting due to the use of light and darkness in the painting and the coinage of the term ‘narcissistic’ from the name Narcissus makes one actually see for oneself what this self-love will look like.

The founding father of the Russian school of cityscape and thus called "Russian Canaletto", Alekseyev has clearly communicated the human and animal situation in a flood situation happening in a busy street as the city centre.

The familiar stick man imagined in robust Cubist form is striking to the observer due to the bizarre shape. As stated above the modern complexities of being a human in an India during the transition period of British leaving and new independent India coming into…

The art piece conveys the local beauty of the Ural mountains through the intentional use of angle of painter from which he allows the observer to view the beauty of the mountains. The fallen tree as an element allows observer to grasp the depth and…

The monochromatic painting with use of different hues of essentially similar colour effectively conveys distance and nearness to the observer.

As mentioned, the painter has successfully captured the inner world of the subject using lighting, the loose flowy fabric design and the wall print. The painting looks like a candid photograph stolen from the life of a young woman without being served from a male…

The battle scene depicts the Mughal interpretation of the Malwa king Baz Bahadur's defeat intending to portay the Malwan side as weak. The artwork represents the might of the victorious Mughal forces. The very first province to fall in the Mughal invasion into the Indian…