Apr 30, 2020 13:46 Vanatanvi

This episode features VanaTanvi an art practitioner / PhD student and Associate professor at Kala Bhavan which is part of Shanti Niketan. Kala Bhavana (Institute of Fine Arts) is the fine arts faculty of Visva-Bharati University, in Shantiniketan, India. It is an institution of education and research in visual arts, founded in 1919, it was established by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. VanaTanvi has BA/ MA in Fine Art specialising in Textile Fibre Art and is currently pursuing her doctoral thesis on the philosophical basis of art. She is also researching on the relationship between sound and painting through the study of Ragamala paintings of India. Ragamala paintings are a form of Indian miniature painting, a set of illustrative paintings of the Ragamala or "Garland of Ragas", depicting various of the Indian musical modes called ragas. They stand as a classical example of the amalgamation of art, poetry and classical music in medieval India. ARTiculate is a podcast that aims to provide a platform for budding artists to express themselves and ultimately build connections with other artists across the world.