The India Art Fair in Bengaluru at Palace grounds saw art aficionados throng the palace grounds in large numbers, while we went suited and booted in our Spiderman suit we were amazed by the galleries in attendance.
My top picks at the India Art Fair 2023 were the following, all on grammable! The Instagram handles are duly provided.
- The first and foremost artist comes from Udaipur, the Royal city of Rajasthan embarking on Pichwai art. While Pichwai art is generally very beautiful, the Pichwaiwala is a family business with every member of the family contributing to art work, passed down over generations. My favorite was the white ones with such nuances and finesse that wanting one on the walls of my house was but for natural.
- Mysore Traditional Painting by Prerana Achithya @royal_heritage1 has several Tanjores, but the most beautiful work is a modern representation of Raja Ravi Varma’s art, only in more quirky colors and happier proportions.
- Anisha Jain Art @anishajainart is such happy girl-next-door art that any artist could feel that could be done myself, yet the colors provide such whimsical fancy and colorful gaiety that happiness feels like is just round the corner.
- Ganesh Doddamani has a website by that name, has done some worthy allegories on Hampi, but the funnest piece that caught my attention was the upturned terratotta pots painted in bright hues, quite abstractly and summoned together in a grid, fancy as ever.
- Rohan Khuntale communicable @ khuntalerohan@gmail.com impressed by 5 year old, with an effervescent collection of cars, the real fancy ones that are also really vintage. The composition of these fast beauties could be the lucky charm on the walls, where the cars mean for motion.
- Kathraj N (9844300600) on the other hand, deeply appeals to one’s mythological spirit with almost dream-like representations of Gods and Demi-Gods, in action at the very word go.
- Monica Ghule @ghulemonica paints her childhood memories but the girl in the pictures is so endearing, sometimes with a bob-pin in her hair or sometimes looking up at the sky in free wonder.
- Anukta Mukherjee Ghosh @studianukta does the tremendously popular Varanasi river fronts that most artists ask me for these days. The rishis and munis were not such favorites with me as her impressions of the riverfront.
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Vedasri Siddamsetty 