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Friday, April 24, 2009

Visual Art The Indian Paintings Are Going Away Forever After Sunday

Posted by Jen Graves on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:35 AM

Review here, podcast here. If you know what's good for you, you know what to do.

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This really is an amazing show--one of the best I've ever seen at SAAM. Go, people! It's free (they accept donations).

Posted by Meags on April 24, 2009 at 10:01 AM

If I know what is good for me? When did Jen Graves become a mob enforcer?

Posted by kitschnsync on April 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Okay, I'll do it! I am doing it.

Posted by Dominic Holden on April 24, 2009 at 10:28 AM

Thank god it's leaving. When did these painters discover perspective?

Posted by Pat on April 24, 2009 at 11:10 AM

I'm bummed that they didn't have a big Holi celebration in volunteer park last month to celebrate the exhibition.

Posted by kinaidos on April 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM

Expand your perspectives of human existence and our time on this planet.

Posted by Vince on April 24, 2009 at 12:07 PM

@4:
I thought the evolution of perspective was a very interesting part of the exhibit. In some of the early stuff, you were seemingly looking down on a roof from a bird's-eye view, but you could still see all four sides of the building. Then, some of the later paintings combined an isometric view of some parts of a building with a flat depiction of others.

But the best part is how the figures are so finely detailed (check out the nipples on the dancers and courtesans).

Posted by Luke on April 24, 2009 at 11:21 PM