{"id":5496,"date":"2015-03-01T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T05:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=5496"},"modified":"2019-03-26T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T10:01:54","slug":"brushstrokes-amrita-sher-gil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-amrita-sher-gil\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Seeing Through The Bold Strokes of Amrita Sher-Gil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;5490&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>To some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ngmaindia.gov.in\/sh-amrita.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amrita Sher-Gil<\/a>\u00a0is the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/asia\/india\/articles\/-india-s-frida-kahlo-amrita-sher-gil-s-contribution-to-indian-modern-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Frida Kahlo<\/a>\u2019. This month we feature five of her paintings which show women from varying walks of life, different socioeconomic classes and ages. Drawing inspiration from her own cross-cultural experiences, her mixed parentage, her art school background in Paris, and her own queer sexuality, Sher-Gil uses bold strokes and earthy tones to explore gender expressions and sexuality. From her self-portrait to her\u00a0depiction of a young tribal girl examining a flower, to that of a bride getting ready for her wedding, Sher-Gil captures\u00a0the various textures of desire through gendered bodies and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Her artwork is housed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ngmaindia.gov.in\/sh-amrita.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi<\/a> and is out in the public domain in India.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;5490&#8242;] To some\u00a0Amrita Sher-Gil\u00a0is the \u2018Indian Frida Kahlo\u2019. This month we feature five of her paintings which show women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,7,360],"tags":[361,114,22,362],"class_list":{"0":"post-5496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-visualcorner","10":"category-women-and-sexuality","11":"tag-amrita-sher-gil","12":"tag-art","13":"tag-body","14":"tag-womens-sexuality"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16738,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/16738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}