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View Resource THE IRONIC EXPLORATION FROM ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM TO MINIMALISM

An art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasizedextremesimplification of form and colour. A school of abstract painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called ABC art, minimal art,...

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v1.i2.2014.3078
View Resource COLOUR: REVEALS YOUR PERSONALITY

Colours are forces radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not in our daily life. The effects of colours should be experienced and understood not only but also psychologically and symbolically. This paper investigates the various effects of light and colours on our visual apparatus –eye and brain and their anatomical ...

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v2.i3.2014.3061
View Resource COLORS IN GOND TRIBAL ART: AN INTERPRETATION AND CRITICAL EVALUATION OF COLORS IN GOND PAINTINGS OF MADHYA PRADESH.

Fork-art forms have the great social mission of creating cultural identity. The integrity of individuals and equipping them to meet social challenges are a part of this. In Madhya Pradesh - the heart of India lies the oldest found art heritage in the world. Gond Tribal paintings ofMadhya Pradesh have gained worldwide recognition in recent years. The Gond tribe, one of...

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v2.i3SE.2014.3514
View Resource PROTECTIVE COLORATION IN ANIMALS

Animals have range of defensive markings which helps to the risk of predator detection (camouflage), warn predators of the prey’s unpalatability (aposematism) or fool a predator into mimicry, masquerade. Animals also use colors in advertising, signalling services such as cleaning to animals of other species, to signal sexual status to other members of the same species. Some...

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v2.i3SE.2014.3515
View Resource DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PAINTING COLOURS & TECHNICAL COLOURS

For a minute can weimagine the world around you without colors, how boring and unexciting life would be. Colors play a very important role in our life and it has been confirmed that our actions and responses are influenced by them. Every color has a unique effect on individuals and arouses various responses. In modern time there are lots of confusions regarding colour theory or colour concepts as...

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v2.i3SE.2014.3517
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