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Featured Paintings

Taj Mahal -Morning Haze

watercolor and charcoal

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A little modesty

drawing in graphite and colored pencils

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The evening thinker

watercolor

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ghats in monochrome

Ghats in monochrome

watercolor, pen, graphite and charcoal

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this site is about the art - paintings , illustrations , studies , cartoons and what not- of Gurmeet. It is also about encouraging high quality realistic art which is sadly devalued today ( especially in India ).

Great ( and good ) paintings and artists are highlighted as are links to illuminating articles and analyses on art and art world's foibles. we are also endeavoring to collect a database of good realistic work of art from India . The content is added and updated regularly .

But why is it called - Light and the Rational Universe ?

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What the heck is art? part 1

The question is said to be as old as the caveman himself. When he was making the first drawings with the charred sticks on the wall of a cave, the art critic sitting outside, chewing idly the last of the Mammoth kebab, was ruminating - “is this art?" Unfortunately, the theories of the first art critic have been lost in the mists of the time. I wonder if he had been able to answer definitively this most eternal of all questions- What the heck is art?

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Plumber or artist?

Suppose your pipes (your houses’, that is!) are leaking. You phone a plumber. He arrives, takes out from the back of his van a few dozen cans of beer. He then climbs a ledge, begins to empty can after can of beer down his throat, and then jumps!

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Are They Talking About the Same Picture ?

According to Roger Kimball this painting "concerns a hunting expedition".

the quarry

According to Michael Fried , the main purpose of the work "is to elucidate Freud's theory of castration".

Are they talking about the same picture ?

light and the rational universe - the art of gurmeet

as it moves from the old to a new version and look; therefore if it behaves funnily for a while and some links don't work, we hope that you will restrain your urge to kick our butts! This message will remain till the renovation is complete.

this site is about the art - paintings , illustrations , studies , cartoons and what not- of Gurmeet. It is also about encouraging high quality realistic art which is sadly devalued today ( especially in India ).

But why is it called - Light and the Rational Universe ?