Category: News

A majority of the graphics accompanying stories, poems and write-ups these days dwell too much on the abstract. An abstract drawing is imposed on the reader, said Chandrasekharan, who was an executive member of the Kerala Lalithakala Academy.

Kozhikode: An exhibition of select works by Chandrashekharan, whose illustration technique blended both tradition and modernity and enriched the Malayalam fictional universe. Chandrashekhran known under his pseudonym ‘Chans’ was also quick to reinvent his art at the arrival of computers and has made a mark in Graphics too. The exhibits,…

Those technically sound hundred-odd frames brim with unwavering precision that deliberately conserve the umbrages of blood fluttering and emanating from the killing fields. Even as modern technology has been of service to his work, artistry alone trumps this exhibition of illustrations by Chadrashekharan entitled “Chans” at the Town Hall. Prof.…

The artists’ meet held that the taste of the Malayalam reading community has grown inseparable from illustrations. This observation came from visual artists and readers who participated in the artists’ meet at the town hall on the sidelines of the Chans exhibition. Artist Namboothiri who inaugurated the meet said that…

P. Valsala Kozhikode: Illustration art has morphed into a signpost to literature, says writer P. Valsala. The meaning produced by illustrations attain completion when you are able to speak with total abandon from the heart of the story. She was inaugurating and speaking at the discussion “Literary works and illustrations”…

M. A. Baiju It was in 2014 during his return journey from an exhibition at Canada that he would lose 65 valuable artworks and 7200 dollars due to the negligence of the airline. And this art practitioner’s struggle to retrieve them was set off. He received no support from the…