Fine Line | Renuka Narayanan, Hindustan Times Who is the most-painted figure in the history of European art? Mary. Which Indian deity has more representations of him in formal and informal places of worship than any other? Shiva, as the shivling. Who is modern India’s most-collected icon? Ganesha. Keeping divinity out of art is virtually impossible as most cultures tell us. Author-psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar says, “You know what they’re predicting in the West? That if the focus of biology in the last century was the gene, in this century it’s going to be Memory and Desire, on how the brain works.” And who has occupied centrestage longest as the focus of these two important activities of the human brain? The gods of Indian mythology.. Cut to a fairly recent show in Delhi by Gallery Nyva, called Dakshinayan, that showcased the...
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