{"id":1842,"date":"2010-08-03T21:58:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T04:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/08\/art_on_the_bollywood_rebound\/"},"modified":"2010-08-03T21:58:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T04:58:28","slug":"art_on_the_bollywood_rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/08\/art_on_the_bollywood_rebound.html","title":{"rendered":"Art on the Bollywood rebound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is dedicated to the insanely great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dil_Se\"><i>Dil Se<\/i><\/a>, especially the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nMsv3MrbDcs\">dance sequence<\/a> below and on the link. In the West, if two or more people encounter each other on top of a moving train, one of them will die. In Bollywood, there are other options:<\/p>\n<p>\n<object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nMsv3MrbDcs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nMsv3MrbDcs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\">Bollywood posters not only reflect a graphic cultural stew, they have inspired one, sampling art and advertising from around the East and contributing to a wildly hybrid global tide.<\/object> Using posters from a Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry, artists throw in Indian<br \/>\nminiatures, traveling carnivals, folk paintings in a florid vein and Mexican shrines with an occasional touch<br \/>\nof anime.<br \/><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><br \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taschen.com\/pages\/en\/catalogue\/film\/all\/01578\/facts.the_art_of_bollywood.htm\"><i>The Art of Bollywood<\/i><\/a>, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/gallery\/2010\/mar\/27\/art-bollywood-posters#\/?picture=360754872&amp;index=5\">Guardian<\/a>.<\/object><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bollywoodposter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/bollywoodposter.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"500\" width=\"329\" \/>Below, Bollywood fellow travelers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mymilgayi.typepad.com\/milgayistylediary\/2009\/06\/artistically-inclined-meet-san-francisco-artist-namita-kapoor.html\">Namita Kapoo<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mymilgayi.typepad.com\/milgayistylediary\/2009\/06\/artistically-inclined-meet-san-francisco-artist-namita-kapoor.html\">r<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NamitaKapoor .jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/NamitaKapoor%20.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"292\" width=\"482\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherinepersongallery.com\/exhibits\/54\/index.htm\">Timothy Siciliano<\/a> Torture in pastel shades.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TimothySicilianobolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/TimothySicilianobolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"597\" width=\"426\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisthinker.com\/residencies\/sime.html\">Donald Fels<\/a> Even the Wizard of Oz is working for a living.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"donaldfelsbolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/donaldfelsbolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"309\" width=\"455\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/slideshow\/?slide=1744&amp;artindex=185\">Lari Pittman<\/a> Remote but dreamy. The veil covers nothing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laripittmanbolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/laripittmanbolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"146\" width=\"500\" \/>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/pittman\/index.html#\">Lari Pittman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"larripittmanbolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/larripittmanbolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"613\" width=\"491\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dosremedios.com\/piece.php?pc=20&amp;ex=4\">Cheryl dos Remedios<\/a> Chinese dragon (five claws for the emperor) in a girl&#8217;s girl narrative.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cheryldosremebolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/cheryldosremebolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"691\" width=\"500\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcluxury.com\/?p=874\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Manish Arora<\/span><\/a> Who needs to sit down?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ManishArorabolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/ManishArorabolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"623\" width=\"426\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesharrisgallery.com\/Artists\/Maki%20Tamura\/tamura.html\">Maki Tamura<\/a>&#8211; Everything together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"makitamurabolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/makitamurabolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"397\" width=\"504\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelafraleigh.com\/angelafraleigh.com\/2005-06.html#8\">Angela Fraleigh<\/a>. Overheated romance, anyone?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"angelafraleighbolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/angelafraleighbolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"374\" width=\"493\" \/>Finally, more Bolly than Holly, a fake movie campaign from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.0100101110101101.org\/home\/unitedwestand\/index.html\">Eva and Franco Mattes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"evafrancomattesbolly.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/evafrancomattesbolly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"452\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is dedicated to the insanely great Dil Se, especially the dance sequence below and on the link. In the West, if two or more people encounter each other on top of a moving train, one of them will die. In Bollywood, there are other options: Bollywood posters not only reflect a graphic cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}