Witty Words [Crescendo 2021], Seth MR Jaipuria Schools

The Heritage Lab is proud to partner with Seth MR Jaipuria Schools for the “Witty Words” competition at their annual cultural festival, Crescendo.

Art paves a way to express deeper thoughts. Sometimes an artwork can speak way more than the artist intends. It lies on the beholder to form their own perspective. Let’s write some witty words for the artworks.

Instructions:

1. Choose an artwork (from the relevant category*) to caption. Please choose only from the templates given below on this page.
2. Read our note on using the meme-maker tool.
3. Once you are satisfied with your work, click on “Save”
4. You will then see your work appear on the page (wait for it to load): make sure you download your creation.
5. Upload it to the competition folder to submit it.

*Category 1 [Class 5-6]; Category 2 [Class 7-8] ; Category 3 [Class 9-10] ; Category 4 [Class 11-12]

Category 1: Maestros

Two men using a pulley drawn by oxen to draw water from a well. Watercolour by an Indian artist.

bhisti-the water carrier

women spinning white threads

Birds

Aristocrat seated in a palanquin, carried by four bearers

kite flying

Category 2: Trendsetters

Women_Enjoying_the_River_at_the_Forest’s_Edge_-_2013.351.a_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif

An Ayurvedic medical practitioner taking the pulse. Watercolour, ca. 1825

Clouds and Rain

Storm

Two musicians playing the shehnai

Court Ladies Playing with Fireworks

Category 3: Legends

Two birds – a red, brown, white and black spotted bird and a white, grey, black and red spotted bird sitting on a branch. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

a pair a wrestlers with referee

Woman YoYo

Cholera vaccination of the Third Gurkhas in India at the time of the 1893 epidemic. Reproduction, 1894, of a wood engraving.

Two Indian women working on the quern to grind the grain into flour.

spotlight deer hunting

Category 4: Elites

Air Man by John Gantz_Yale Center for British Art

Raja_Ravi_Varma,_Lady_Juggler

A shopkeeping weighing grains for a customer.

A Punca Bearer

Seated blacksmith surrounded by tools

Women grinding and sieving grain into flour

1. Your caption can be in the form of a dialogue or can simply be a witty statement
2. You can interpret the artwork with a caption that is funny, dramatic, serious or sarcastic.
3. Best entries will be judged on originality, creativity and imagination; content – articulation, grammar and expression, interpretation; overall presentation (aesthetics).

All the best, and we hope you enjoy #creatingwithTHL.