The umber pigment was first made from Italian soil. Kelly Grovier looks at how a shade of brown came to depict sinfulness and shadow. Umber is a conundrum, a rusty riddle of a colour. A cross between ...

At the beginning of the color world, there are three primary colors -- red, yellow and blue. If you mix any of these colors together, the mixtures are called secondary colors. If primary and secondary ...

Lord Narasimha, ferocious and leonine, has a prominent space in Dinesh R Shenoy’s first floor home-cum-studio in Mattancherry. The deity in place of pride beatifically oversees the artist’s works ...