Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Every individual possesses a dynamic character which is given off as an illusion depending upon time and situation.

Once felt like a blissful moment, is now a deception,

Limiting the observation of the infinite universe, the state of illusions tends to surpass the real boundaries of vision and temptations.
Katarpillar art is proud to collaborate with, Young but very talented Aakash Sarkar, in a mind blowing photography project. Each of his Captures tends to recreate a niche in our mindset obviously changing all our perception about the time and narration. His stories and inspirations are the baritone of the dense thought he put forward to formularise his shape of mind, capturing the essence of the same through camera techniques. His Art can trick your mind and you can feel the senses struggling to grasp the thematic subject. His young talent is still been polished in one of the pioneer institute of India – NIFT. Pursuing his graduation in fashion Communication, Aakash is getting ready to dazzle the fashion journalism as well as niches of conceptual art through his lens.
Katarpillar Art wishes him a great future ahead!


In this series he amazed us with a series of Self photographs indulged in the senses of paranoia but they represent dark truth.

His sensibilities of the character and expertise of camera mutually comprehend each other to achieve this sort of visual delights for every one of us to see and explore a new perspective of this world. 




 The photographs are appealing and really it’s hard to stop writing about it.
Feel free to share your views and encourage the young talents that are budding around us.
Certainly,We would like to see more of your creation Aakash.



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Wednesday, October 26, 2016



Video compiled by Swati Sharan.
Composed and scripted by Katarpillar


The festival of lights is almost here and most of us are still anxious how to get everything right when the guests arrive at our doorsteps.

Diwali, the festival of light, represents all of our zeal and positivity towards life. We have lights, sweets, family, friends and drinks; decorating our home is something that we can’t miss and off course it helps create the lasting impression. 

But are we all set to blaze our homes with diya, candle, and lights?

Sadly most of us are still wondering and confused what we can do to make it happen and that too in a really less time.

Don’t panic fellas !

We compiled a great list of Art of “Do-it-yourself” videos that are only super cool but time saving as well. We guarantee a few hour on investment will make your home stunning. 

Do-it-yourself is an alternate way to recycle few products to create beautiful art/utility products, It reuses some Thrown away or neglected products potentially capable of ease out the pollution pressure on ecology and reduce the use of heavy electricity consuming cheap Chinese Products to ensure happy and safe Diwali.


Check them out!


1.Beautiful Pentagonal Lantern


2. Fairy glow jars



3. Pendant light

 


4.Stary lampshade


5. T-Light Holders 




6. Decoration Ideas



7. Lampshades to Lampglobes


8.Oil candles


9. Water candles



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Tuesday, October 18, 2016



Art world is a fascinating place, it amaze us by its appearance and sometimes by the monetary value they posses. 
Stay amazed!!!

Here a list of 20 most expensive painting sold so far. Update your art knowledge and share this love with others.

# 20. $75.1 million. No 1 (Royal Red and Blue) by Mark Rothko, 2012.



The majestic canvas was one of eight works hand-selected by Rothko for his landmark solo show of the same year at the Art Institute of Chicago

#19. $76.7 million. Massacre of the innocents by Peter Paul Ruben, 1610. 


Bought by Kenneth Thompson at Sotheby’s London, July 2002. The flamboyant and dramatic work by Rubens – though recently some voices discussing its authenticity have been heard could also fight for the title of „most unexpected success“: Christie’s had estimated its price at a mere £5 million.

#18. $78,100,000. Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Le Moulin de la Galette.



At the time of its sale in 1990, it was the second most expensive painting ever sold. This masterpiece even went to the same person that bought number one at the time, Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co. chairman Ryoei Saito. Again, he wanted this one cremated with him as well, but his companies ran into problems with loans and debt so it had to be sold on as collateral.

#17. $80 million. Turquoise Marilyn by Andy Warhol, 1964-2007.


Bought by Mr. Steve Cohen, the price was not confirmed but is generally accepted to be true.

#16. $80,000,000. Jasper Johns – False Start.

Another painting formerly owned by Geffen and allegedly sold to CEO of the Citadel Investment Group, Kenneth C. Griffin, making it the most expensive painting to be sold by a living artist, the iconic Jasper Johns.

#15. $82,500,000. Vincent van Gogh – Portrait of Dr. Gachet.


Up for auction in 1990 and purchased by Japanese businessman Ryoei Saito, this was – at the time- the most expensive painting in the world. Saito (then 75) caused controversy at the time, stating that when he died, he’d have the painting cremated along with him. This was later cleared up as he claimed that he was only using the expression to show his intense affection for it.

#14. $86,300,000. Francis Bacon – Triptych, 1976.

Breaking the previous sale record of his work ($52.68 million), Bacon’s 3-piece masterpiece was sold to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, smashing the previous estimate of $70 million.

#13. $87,900,000. Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II.


The only model to be painted twice by Klimt and sold a few months after the first version, this portrait of Bloch-Bauer was part of a lot in 2006 of four Klimt paintings that went on to fetch a total of $192 million. Buyer unknown. Click Here and go compare other paintings by Gustav Klimt.

#12. $95,200,000. Pablo Picasso – Dora Maar au Chat.


Another Picasso, the second highest price ever fetched at auction, and another anonymous buyer. Auctioned in 2006, a mysterious Russian bidder took this home (along with a Monet and a Chagall, spending over $100 million) and no one has since found out who he was. The ownership of the painting has still not been made public.

#11. $104,200,000. Pablo Picasso – Garçon à la pipe.


So far the highest price a painting has ever fetched at auction (as the others were all sold privately), and was the first painting to break the $100 million barrier (it was sold in 2004, whilst 1-3 were all in 2006). The strange thing is that it was never made public as to who expressed such an interest in Picasso’s portrait of a smoking Parisian.

#10. $105.4 million. Silver Car Crash [Double Disaster] by Andy Warhol, 1932.


The most expensive work by the most famous legend of Pop Art, Andy Warhol’s monumental „Silver Car Crash“ was the star of the Contemporary Art evening sale at Sotheby’s.

#9. $106.5 million. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso, 1932.


This sensual and colorful masterpiece is the most expensive work by Picasso ever sold at auction. The work, formerly in the collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, had been never exhibited in public since 1961.

#8. $110 million. Flag by Jasper Johns, 1958


„Flags“ are Jasper Johns most famous works. The artist painted his first American flag in 1954–55, a work now at the MoMA.

#7. $119.9 million. The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1895


This iconic work was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction until it was surpassed by Bacon’s „Three Studies of Lucian Freud“. The work is the most colorful of the four versions of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece „The Scream“, and the only one still in private hands.

#6. $135,000,000. Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.

This was sold by Maria Altmann, who – after a lengthy and complicated court battle – was deemed rightful owner of this Klimt and several others. Altmann was named as an inheritor of the painting in the will of by the widowed husband of the model herself, despite the efforts of the Austrian State, as Adele Bloch-Bauer had originally left the painting to the State Gallery in her own will. The painting was bought by Ronald Lauder for his Neue Galerie in New York, to be the centerpiece of a collection of Jewish-owned art rescued from the Nazi looting that took place in the Second World War.

#5. $137,500,000. Willem de Kooning – Woman III.


Another painting sold by Geffen in 2006, but this time bought by billionaire Steven A. Cohen. It is part of a series of 6 painted by de Kooning in the period of 1951-53, which revolved around the theme of a woman, and is allegedly the only Woman still in private hands.

#4. $140,000,000. Jackson Pollock – No.5, 1948.


It is claimed by the New York Times that this painting was sold by David Geffen (of Geffen Records), to David Martinez (managing partner of Fintech Advisory). However, a press release issued on behalf of Martinez states that he didn’t actually purchase the painting. So the truth is shrouded in mystery, and it can only be rumored to have sold for a record-breaking $140 million.

#3. $142,4 million. Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon, 1969.


Not only the most expensive painting ever auctioned, but also a record for a contemporary work of art. Christie’s explained that when this work was painted, „the relationship between Freud and Bacon was at its apex“.

#2. $155 million. La Rêve (The Dream) by Pablo Picasso, 1932.


„La Rêve (The Dream)“ is one of Picasso’s most sensual and famous paintings, depicting her lover Marie-Therese Walter sitting on a red armchair with her eyes closed. In 2006, Steve Wynn agreed to sell the painting to Steven Cohen for $139 million, but the sale was cancelled when Mr. Wynn accidentally damaged the work.

#1. $250 million. The Card Players by Paul Cézanne,2011.


The exact price of The Card Players (even the currency of sale) is not known, with estimates from $259 million to even $320 million. The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne’s final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. Keep in mind though guys, the Royal Family of Qatar didn’t buy the series – they bought just that one painting for ~259 million). The series is considered by critics to be a cornerstone of Cézanne’s art during the early-to-mid 1890s period, as well as a „prelude“ to his final years, when he painted some of his most acclaimed work.The models for the paintings were local farm hands, some of whom worked on the Cézanne family estate, the Jas de Bouffan. Each scene is depicted as one of quiet, still concentration; the men look down at their cards rather than at each other, with the cards being perhaps their sole means of communication outside of work. One critic described the scenes as „human still life“, while another speculated that the men’s intense focus on their game mirrors that of the painter’s absorption in his art.


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Wednesday, October 12, 2016


Since the inception of commercial art, the debates over the inter-mingling margin and roles of fashion with that of art are intense. Accept it or not, Art, design and fashion, all these terms confused us whenever we were to pick definitions. No matter what you try, which logic you imply, there’s always a chance of hitting some exception on your way. But we are not talking about how big of intensified this debate could be, we are focussing on the exception part.


Yes! Here’s a list of top 9 fashion/items that are considered Art now-a-days and you can’t deny their position. The Metropolitan Museum of Art curated these wearable garments and now the world spectre them as masterpieces.


1. . Design House: House of Dior (French, founded 1947)
Designer: Christian Dior (French, Granville 1905–1957 Montecatini)
Date: spring/summer 1947
Culture: French
Medium: silk

Christian Dior

2. Designer: Elsa Schiaparelli (Italian, 1890–1973)
Design House: House of Schiaparelli (French, founded 1928)
Date: fall 1938
Culture: French
Medium: synthetic
Elsa Schiaparelli



3. Designer: Paul Poiret (French, Paris 1879–1944 Paris)
Date: 1922
Culture: French
Medium: metallic, silk
Paul Poiret




4. Design House: Yves Saint Laurent, Paris (French, founded 1961)
Designer: Yves Saint Laurent (French (born Algeria) Oran 1936–2008 Paris)
Date: fall/winter 1965–66
Culture: French
Medium: silk, wool
Yves Saint Laurent


5. Design House: House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937)

Designer: Cristobal Balenciaga (Spanish, Guetaria, San Sebastian 1895–1972 Javea)

Date: fall/winter 1965–66

Culture: French

Medium: silk
Cristobal Balenciaga


6. Design House: Attributed to House of Chanel (French, founded 1913)

Designer: Attributed to Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (French, Saumur 1883–1971 Paris)

Date: 1926–27

Culture: French

Medium: silk, metallic thread, sequins.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel


7. . Design House: Fortuny (Italian, founded 1906)

Designer: Mariano Fortuny (Spanish, Granada 1871–1949 Venice)

Date: 1925–49

Culture: Italian
Medium:  Silk, glass
Mariano Fortuny


8.Design House: House of Worth (French, 1858–1956)

Date: 1925

Culture: French

Medium: silk, beads, metal thread
Charles F. Worth



9.Designer: Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris)

Date: spring/summer 1938

Culture: French

Medium: rayon
Madeleine Vionnet







(The following content is with reference of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. all the images and information are thereby the copyright of The museum. for more art reference you can visit
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Today we are celebrating a craft, 8000 years old. Korean pottery and porcelain stands out and speaks for itself. The craftsmanship and intricacy remain undoubtedly above all. here a presentation of the masters of this craft. These artists are shaping new dimensions and expanding to new horizons with their master pieces.  





Monday, October 10, 2016


In the time of festivity, all our hopes halt at your face glistering with the mythical charm. You give us strength and gorgeous sight to behold.  Your eyes always made us wonder and we go deep into the sanctity of your love.O mother, help us uphold this rhythm of life, Survival or death. Keep us under your grace. As there only, one seeks solace.

 This is what you mean to us.





























Bless us all to live with glory and prosperity.


(***Disclaimer : This article is dedicated to the love and respect we share about our beloved goddess Durga, The author doesn't claim to own any of the artworks presented above. the copyrights of concerning artists remain intact.)

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