History of Art
LabLab 1ProgramFine ArtCampusKolkata
Fine Arts-Lab 1. Research : Orthographic Unit / Aphabet / Grapheme / Abstraction. Illustrated by Nandlal Bose and written by Rabindranath Tagore, the Shohoj Path helps children learn the Bengali alphabet through rhymes and lino prints.It is a fundamental part of a Bengali kid's childhood. In 2021, an apocalypse hit the district of Chandannagar. Only the chicken and the hens survived. Soon, the flimsy Shohoj Path were discovered in the rubble. In a post-apocalyptic world,the chickens and hens decided to write a Shohoj Path for their own kind. Ganesh Pyne paintings inspired a new alphabet pertaining to the poultry. The rhymes and lino prints depict their present life in Chandannagar.
Explore your house using all your senses other than sight. Now visualise these findings in the form of a map. The assignment has three key elements - learning to use senses other than your eyes, figuring out ways to visualise non-visual information, and finally finding a way to share this information.
Mansi Pasari starred as the interviewer. Raj was Lucio Fontana, the founder of Spatialism. The presentation was an interview between the two that live-streamed on the 93.5 Faffing Channel. Spatialist art is the sort of art that you look at and you think, “I could have made that.” Fake Lucio Fontana and Mansi the Interviewer presented the following argument: do torn billboards and gashes on buildings consist as Spatialism? If we went back to a time before Spatialism was coined as a term, and we made cuts on a canvas, would it still be Spatialism? Thus, they discussed the importance of context and intent in art.