ART AND CULTURE

Painting is the action or skill of using paint, either in a picture or as decoration.

I was watching a dancer friend of mine perform a very demanding and complex dance piece. I remembered how hard she worked on it, for over a year, practicing every day until she got it perfect. You could tell the audience was riveted. The technique was perfect. The passion she expressed while dancing it connected everyone in the audience to her and towards an inner focus of appreciation. It made me think about this performance as a gift. For surely one who works so hard to create such perfection is in actuality creating a gift. She will never see her performance. And once the performance is over nothing remains but the memory. It was for the audience and therefore created as a gift.

It made me think about my art medium – painting, and how this plays a part in our process as an artist. Perhaps a work of art is successful or has the chance to be very powerful when the artist is so obsessed in the making, that the artist loses a piece of themselves in the artwork. This art then is a precious gift or offering, and equipped with an important ingredient – a piece of the artist themselves.

And so the opposite may be true as well. If the art is made for vanity alone, to show off the artist’s skill as a means of ego enhancement, or for profit and sales alone, then it may lose the opportunity to contain this “essence of artist”, and to be a gift that carries that awe, the mystery of human life it.

Painting techniques are:-

1. Formulate what you hope to achieve, and devise a workable route to that objective.

2. Research the market if you wish to sell the work.

3. Approach the painting process in logical steps, which usually entail:

a. drawings to investigate compositional possibilities.

b. blocked-out charcoal/pencil/oil sketches to arrange tonal values.

c. oil sketches to experiment with various color schemes and harmonies.

d. preparing canvas and paint for the anticipated tasks.

e. applying paint to canvas, either incorporating the results of b and c in direct painting, or by tackling them in distinct phases.

f. varnishing, framing and hanging the work.

Theatre art has been a strong part of the art and culture of Karnataka as a whole and Bangalore, in particular right from the days of the Wodeyar dynasty and British raj.

While we bask in the glory of these big names, there is so much more that goes into creating that much needed magic onstage, lights, props, costumes, the actors, scripts, make-up, set design and arrangement, promotions … the list is simply endless.What happens onstage is followed up with months of hard-work and effort from several individuals with a limitless pool of talent and passion to bring out the best.

A theater actor performs in plays and other types of live productions, such as skits, dinner theater and cabaret shows. Sometimes, they go on tour. Actors have a talent for performing and entertaining others. With the most common venue being a live stage, theater acting does not include the benefits of multiple takes and editing that film and television actors enjoy.

In Bangalore, the idea of theatre or anything else as a second or part-time profession seems difficult to digest, especially after visualizing the traffic ridden drive to a swanky tech park. However, like the cliché goes, “Where there is a will, there is a way.” There are a few warriors who wade through the regular battles of life and find that reserve source of energy to pursue their passion in theatre

Skills Required

Natural talent, persistence in pursuing auditions and luck are prominent factors in the success of a career in theater acting. The ability to memorize scripts and improvise under pressure are also helpful for aspiring actors.

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