Jam and Yam: May 2012

The Grade of Earthly Delights lll,Raqib Shaw, 2003.

1974 born in Calcutta, India, lives and works in London, UK.

Grew up in Kashmir.

Mixed media on board

(Car enamels / industrial paint, glitter, semi-precious stones)

3 panels, each 305 x 152.5cm

•Prehistory

Hinduism (Kashmir- home to Hindu divinites)
Late Neolithic in the early Hareppan period (5500-2600 BCE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism#History

Mesopotamian and Persian art
Mosaic second half of 3rd millennium BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic

vitreous enamel Ancient Egypt,around 3150BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_enamel

Mural around 30,000 BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mural

•Ancient history c3350BCE- 500

Animals studies between 5th & 3rd century BC

http://www.animalstudies.bayer.com/en/history.aspx

Indian carpet 500BC
http://sourcing.indiamart.com/apparel/articles/history-indian-carpets/

Kama Sutra between 400BCE and 200BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra

•Medieval history c500 -1500

Magic carpet -(One thousand and one nights) early 8 centry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_carpet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights

Mohammedan blue/ Prussian blue 1368

http://www.taimantis.com/chinese/blues.html

Hieronymus Bosch - The Garnden of Earthly Delights 1500- 05

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Dull Gret/Mad Meg 1562

(Flemish Renaissance)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mad_meg.jpg

•Modern era c1500-onwards

Rajput painting/Rajasthani Painting 18th century
(A style of Indian painting.
Evolved and flourished during the 18th century in the royal courts of Rajputana,India.
Flowing from the style of Mughal painting, itself derived from the Persian miniature.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajput_painting

Ukiyo-e Picture of the floating world (Japanese woodblock print)

Edo period, Early 16 century1567- 1790
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e

Shunga 春画 1336-1573
(spring pictures- A Japanese term for erotic art)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga

Artists:
Katsushika Housai (1760 - 1849)

Hishikawa Moronobu (c.1618-94)

•Modernism c1875-1975

Deep sea exploration mid 19th century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_exploration

Surrealism early 1920s

Joan Miro - The Tilled Field 1923-24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Tilled_Field.jpg

Salvador Dali

Jägermeister (herbal liqueur) 1935

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jägermeister

Glitter 1934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitter

•Post - Modernism c1975-Present

Futurma 1999

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama

Dialectic:

A system of inquiry into the nature of reality.

The dialectical method is dialogue between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter by dialogue, with reasoned arguments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic

"What is rational is real and what is real is rational."

-- Georg W.F. Hegel (Early 19th century German philosopher)

Examples: