MATTANCHERRY MURALS AND THEIR FEATURES
The importance of the palace lies in its mural paintings which belong to an exclusive school of artists,whose technique and workmanship is considerably different from the other schools of Indian art. These murals are in the best tradition of the Hindu art, religious, decorative and stylized. They are painted in rich, warm […]
HISTORY OF MATTANCHERY PALACE
The Palace was built and gifted by the Portuguese as a present to the Raja of Cochin around 1555. The Dutch carried out some extensions and renovations in the palace in 1663, and thereafter it was popularly called Dutch Palace. The rajas also made more improvements to it. Today, it is a portrait gallery of the […]
MATTANCHERRY DUTCH PALACE AND THE MURALS
The museum is housed in a palace which is on of the oldest buildings of the Portuguese in the oriental style. Unique form the historical and architectural point of view. This was build around 1555 A.D. by the Portuguese and presented to vira kerala varma in order to pacify him and to compensate having blunder […]
VISVA BHARATI SCRAPBOOK JUNE 2016
For quite some time Kala Bhavana student Vishnu, under the tutelage of Nanda Dulal Mukherjee is engaged with wall painting a portion of Kalobari, following the earlier techniques used. After a few failures where the painted portions simply peeled off, Vishnu has ultimately succeeded after due modification of techniques applied; providing him with an […]
Colors used for Mural Painting
The artist shown in the video is the making yellow colour for mural painting. The colour is made by grinding a kind of yellow coloured stone. Mural painters in Kerala follow traditional practices for the making of colours. A notable feature is that all the colours are derived from nature and no artificial colour is […]
Kerala Mural Painting Workshop
Sarang Cultural Ventures conducted a Mural Painting Workshop at M.G Road, Bangalore from 8th April to 14th April. It primarily aims is at propagation and exchange of different cultures. In today’s increasingly violent world, an understanding and acceptance of different cultures is the only way to peaceful co-existence. Also, the existence and growth of any […]
The beauty of Kerala Mural Painting
Unique Kerala Mural Painting being done by Vishnu using natural color made by himself. Searching for the roots of murals in Kerala takes us back in to the 7th, 8th centuries. They function as a sort of ‘dynamic theater stills’, elucidating characters and episodes, preserving a whole lot of traditions always in communion with the […]
Stella paints to spread message on environment
The graffiti-laden walls of Stella Maris College wore a whitewashed look yesterday. A noble message spearheaded by the students, they started the ‘Hope for the World’ project, a mural painting initiative with an environmental theme. Supported by Gallery Veda, the outer walls of the college have been turned into canvasses for the students to create environmental and folk-art inspired paintings.
Inspiration often strikes in the most bizarre of ways
For artist Kazhakuttam Saji, it was a moment of clumsiness in which he dropped a glass tumbler that led him to take up glass mural painting, an art that he has now perfected. Saji, who has been doing oil paintings for the past fifteen years, painted on one side of a broken glass piece and […]
Mural holds neighborhood together after murder in West Oakland
West Street underneath the 580 freeway in West Oakland isn’t big, but it’s busy: the onramp is right here. About 10 feet off the ground, David Burke is perched on scaffolding with a paintbrush in his hand, right in front of a block-long mural. “I’ve lived here for 15 years,” he says. “This is my […]