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Show some love for desi art
Updated On: 28 April, 2020 09:29 AM IST | Mumbai | Sukanya Datta
A bunch of culture buffs want you to draw inspiration from your home and dress up to recreate South Asian artworks

Artworks and their interpretations displayed on the page
From masterclasses by artists to virtual tours by museums, the world of art has been quick to come to the rescue of the locked-down mind. And in doing so, it has found hundreds of new enthusiasts, who are discovering, learning and making art for the first time in their lives. Take for instance, the Los Angeles-based Getty Museum's recreate-an-artwork-at-home challenge that has got people pulling off David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist with inflatable pools in their backyard and Nicholas Hilliard's The Ermine Portrait using sourdough bread. "While we appreciate the great work being done by museums across the world, we felt that very little Indian art was getting traction, although we have thousands of years of works. That's why we decided to start a desi version of it," says Supriya Menon, an interpretive writer and co-founder of the social media page The Museumwallas, about the #HomemadeIndianArt challenge that has found many takers within a week.

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