Thirukural in Paintings

R B Bhaskaran, the principal of Fine Arts College, had the difficult task of co-ordinating the artists and also painting one chapter. "The idea to have an ancient poet's view of the world through the eyes of contemporary artists is great. It really surprised me to see people queuing up in Kanyakumari to see the 133 paintings after the inauguration." Adhimoolam, one of the most famous Tamil painters, illustrated the first...

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Temple Mural Paintings of Tamil Nadu

M.V. Bhaskar and K.T. Gandhirajan have made an important and significant contribution towards helping to preserve the heritage of the Tamil people by setting about the task of systematically digitizing the temple mural paintings of the temples of Tamil Nadu and making them freely available at their website. Theirs is a labour of love and will be received with affection by Tamils living in many lands and across distant seas. "Our aim in...

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The Art of Painting of the Tamils from the Sangam Age to the Age of Kamban

Introductory Of all the arts painting has the least pretensions to immortality. "Though nothing now remains of the paintings of the Greek artists Zeuxis and Apelles," observed the renowned British painter, Sir William Orpen, " We know not only from contemporary appreciation but by the later wall paintings of Pompeii and the memorial portraits of Alexandria that classical painting reached a high standard of realistic efficiency." The position...

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