Philatelic Art

Bani Thani

Kishangarh is a town in Ajmer district  of Rajasthan.. It is the birthplace of the Kishangarh style of painting, which is known for the beautiful depiction of a courtesan known as Bani Thani. India Post issued a postage stamp featuring this famous painting on May 5, 1973.

In 1952, by sheer chance, a bundle of paintings wrapped in cloth were found dumped in the corner of an old fort in Kishangarh. On inspection they turned out to be one of the great treasures of Indian art, the Kishangarh miniatures, inspired by the divine lovers Radha and Krishna, and lost to the world for over 200 years.In 1778 the great exponent of the art of miniature painting, Nihal Chand, created the legendary face of the Kishangarh Radha, the quintessence of Indian womanhood and grace.

Stamps in Decorative Frame

 

Here is the famous painting “Bani Thani” featured on Indian Postage Stamp,  in a  more decorative style in a special frame  for Stamp and Art lovers .

Bhavya Crafts offers handmade handicraft Products. All done to Promote Women Power and Dedication and Work From Home Concept. Pictures, paintings and rangoli are decorated with beads, paints, glitter etc. which makes them sophisticated and wonderful.

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World Ski Championship

 

 

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 stamps from Austria

The Austrian post has issued a set of commemorative stamps dedicated to the coming FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, which are scheduled for February 4–17, 2013, in Schladming, Styria, Austria.

 

Austrian Post accompanied the Ski World Championships in various ways, including the publication of the three attractive commemoratives. The motives of these stamps are by the internationally renowned Austrian artist Christian Ludwig Attersee, who created his paintings "Freedom in the snow", "Styrian Heart" and "Slalom dance" in the typical Attersee's manner. Colourful, sensual, powerful and full of poetry, the artist interprets the sporting event by letting the high life passion, exuberance and elegance.

Source : International Stamp News

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Great Masters - Gustav Klimt

 

 

Today,  14th July 2012  is 150th Birth Anniversary of the great Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt

His famous painting ‘The Kiss’ shown above on stamp is a symbol of Vienna Secession. Influenced by European avant-garde movements represented in the annual Secession exhibitions, Klimt's mature style combined richly decorative surface patterning with complex symbolism and allegory, often with overtly erotic content.

Gustav Klimt's style is highly ornamental. The Art Nouveau movement favored organic lines and contours. Klimt used a lot of gold and silver colors in his art work - certainly an heritage from his father's profession.

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the early twentieth century. Klimt’s highly decorative, erotic female figures were influenced by an enormous range of sources: classical Greek art, Byzantine mosaics, late-medieval painting, the woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, photography and the Symbolist art of Max Klinger. The Nouveau Art movement in Austria was called the Secession. As a co-founder of the Vienna Secession, a group of artists and architects who formed their own exhibition society and denounced the classical academic training of the time, his work embodied the high-keyed erotic, psychological and aesthetic preoccupations of fin-de-siècle Viennese intellectuals.

 

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Works of Michal Batory

 

 

Date of Issue : 25 May 2012

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Here is a beautiful set of stamps issued by Polish Post featuring the works of famous Polish artist Michal Batory now settled in Paris. His designs are very unusual and most of his work shows human body parts as art objects. In these two stamp  designs lips and nails are featured as art objects.These stamps are perfect collectible items for art lovers !!

This is all in this Post….Till Next Post…Have a great Time !!

Michal Batory is a famous graphic designer in France.   Michel Batory often works for theatre companies like "le theâtre CHAILLOT" and created a big advertising campaign for it.  His art is his work with the human body : he diverts it and uses it like an object. He uses it in funny or strange positions. On the flip side, he uses objects or food as if they were human. He adds human body parts like hands, eyes or arms.

 

His posters are a shake-up of collage using objects and typography in movement words are used like subjects or pictures.The typography is original, funny and dynamic. You could say that Michal Batory changes and confuses codes of conventional typography.

He uses words not only for information, but also to participate in the picture and accentuate it. Each emotion felt in the poster is the emotion of the theatrical work he is illustrating. In the photo (the mouth), one can suppose that the piece of theatre will be about woman and her sensuality.

Michal Battory is a sensitive artist who uses objects and emotions in a thoughtful manner.

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Born August 25, 1959 in Lodz, Poland Living in Paris since September 1987

1979 – 1985
Studied at the Visual Arts College in Lodz, Graphic Arts Department, major: poster (in Prof. Boguslaw Balicki’s studio)

1988 – 1993
Worked at graphic design agencies in Paris Since 1994 an independent graphic designer

WORKS

1994 · Graphic design for Le fil d’argent, exhibition at Cité des Sciences

AWARDS

1996 · Audience Award
at the Poster Festival in Chaumont, France (for the poster La Femme sur le lit)

1998 · Third Prize in the competition L’enfance n’est pas un jeu d’enfant,
Poster Museum in Essen, Germany

1998 · First Prize in a French cultural poster competition
(for the poster Le Siège de Leningrad)

1999 · 2nd Prize at the International Poster Festival in Chaumont, France
(for the poster IRCAM-EIC)

Read : More details about the artist.

 

 

Works of Michal Batory

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New Stamps from India…

 

Warli and Shekhawati Painting

Date of Issue : 20 June 2012

India Post issued a set of 2 stamps and a Sheetlet on 20th June 2012   featuring  Shekhawati and Warli Paintings.Shikhawati painings are specific Rajasthani art where as Worli Paintings are from Maharashtra.

 

The Warlis or Varlis are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, living in Mountainous as well as coastal areas of Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas.They have their own animistic beliefs,life,customs and traditions,as a result of acculturation they have adopted many Hindu beliefs. The Warlis speak an unwritten Varli language which belong to the southern zone of the Indo-Aryan languages.

Warli folk paintings are the painting of Maharashtra. Warli is the name of the largest tribe found on the northern outskirts of Mumbai, in Western India. The word “ Warli” comes from “warla” which means a piece of land or a field Despite being in such close proximity of the largest metropolis in India, Warli tribesmen are still not urban. Warli Art was first discovered in the early seventies. While there are no records of the exact origins of this art, its roots may be traced to as early as the 10th century AD. Warli is the vivid expression of daily and social events of the Warli tribe of Maharashtra, used by them to decorate the walls of village houses. This was the only means of transmitting folklore to a others who are not acquainted with the written word.

Shekhawati painting originate from Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, known as the open-air art gallery of Rajasthan .It is popular in the districts of Jhunjhunu, Chiru, and Sikar. They were hugely popular during their era, such was the demand that the skilled artists couldn't paint fast enough. Even masons tried their hands at the paintings giving them a wonderful naivete and humorous touch. The subject matters of these paintings vary tremendously, from mythological stories and epics such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to the local legends of battles and hunts, nearly all of which has been painted over.

Stamps & FDC : Ashwani Dubey - Gorakhpur

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