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Hello everyone! BabbleOn will be featuring a local artist every week. We shall interrogate said artist in a bid to understand surrealism and the jokes accompanying it. If you'd like your work to be featured then do write to us at  blog.babble@gmail.com.  We look forward to hearing from you! :) 29th January 2016 We met Maitreyi Bhatia. Perpetually excited, perpetually paranoid and perpetually hungry. Muralist, Graphic Designer and Illustrator.   Did you ever go for 'Drawing Classes' as a kid? Your opinion on those classes? In my opinion a talent for artistic skills isn't something 'special people' are born with.  When I was small I loved drawing and my Mom always encouraged me to do it and everyone I showed my work to always praised me, (because it isn’t right to tell a 3 year old that their drawings of a typical geometrical house and triangle mountains in the distance sucks.) but being praised made me feel like I was something special which made me wan...

The BabbleOn Glossary: Pastiche 101   BOOM! *mind blown* .   Postmodernism as a scholastic discourse hit the mediums of literature and fine art long before influencing more popular media like film and tv Warhol’s recreation of culture industry iconography made him an important figure in the New York art scene. Avant garde musicians like Philip Glass and John Cage brought forth a death of metanarratives and a postmodern style to rock and classical music. The piece 4:33 is a good example, where the audience is witness to an orchestra that sits in silence for the titled time, until the audience realizes                 that the shuffling sounds of their own confusion and discontent is in fact the music. ...

        There are countless articles on the Internet that advise you about blogging, more importantly, how to make your first post count. Listicles, more or less, dole out the same advice; be funny, intriguing, offer incentives etc. However, none of them include "being original" in their pointers.         Is that really an unrealistic expectation? In a podcast by Ted Radio Hour, titled "What is original", Mark Ronson talks about the art of sampling music, something that over 500 artists have been doing including, and yes we didn't believe it either, Bob Dylan. No hate comments, please. The proof is in the podcast  (What is Original - Ted Radio Hour) . But, Ronson's full disclosure on the practise of sampling music leads to a wider scope of debate that touched upon where ideas come from, and the distinction between building on something that already exists and crude imitation, which is not always flattering. We have been on a steady diet of...