Necessary Looking

Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,500+ posts...This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी"...George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"... श्रीमंत बाळासाहेब पंतप्रतिनिधी : "बहुश्रुतता असल्याशिवाय सुसंस्कृतता नाही"

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Did painting originate from copying a shadow?

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Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh, "The Visual World of Shadows": “…Shadows are a ubiquitous feature of our visual environment...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

हेमेन मजूमदार आणि अमित मैत्रा, सोमभू मित्रा यांच्या घागर असलेल्या अजरामर कलाकृती...Women With Water pots

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  जागते रहो , १९५६ मध्ये नर्गिस  हेमेन मजूमदार (१८९४-१९४८)
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Fascinating Art of Gil Elvgren, Best known for his Pin-up Paintings

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  Wait... Oh No! Did You Hear That Noise? It's My Husband!, 1948  
Sunday, November 17, 2024

अपुरा, नित्य नवा राहिलेला मोरगावचा नंदी...Wabi sabi

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 Maria Popova writes: " Wabi sabi is a beautiful Japanese concept that has no direct translation in English. Both an aesthetic and a ...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

What is More Dangerous? Salt or Zombie Parents?

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Today November 14  is Children's day Artist: K J Lamb, The Spectator UK , April 2016
Monday, November 11, 2024

वॉचमनच्या नजरेतून मेट... Patrick Bringley's The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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After losing his brother to cancer in 2008 Patrick Bringley quit his job in the editorial events office at the New Yorker magazine and spent...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Francisco Goya's Junta of the Philippines c1815...Modernity: its Bareness, Staginess, and Deliberate Cultivation of Mystery

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 Robert Hughes writes in his book "Goya", 2003: "... It was the largest picture he ever made—some eight feet by ten—and one o...
Tuesday, November 05, 2024

W H Auden's Stop All the Clocks and R K Narayan's The English Teacher

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 I have a feeling that this poem was on R K Narayan's mind when he wrote one of his best ( and partly autobiographical) novels "The...
Saturday, November 02, 2024

राम गणेश गडकरींचे 'एकच प्याला' कशावर आधारित होते? Othello or The Gin Palace (L'Assommoir)?

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र वा दिघे (१८९६-१९८०) (रा ग गडकरींशी झालेले बोलणे आठवत):   "... शेवटी एमिल झोलाच्या 'Gin Palace' ची त्यांना आठवण करून दिली. तें...
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