Modern Art Gallery

BCOM (H) Section 5Made By: Srishti Saraswat 8021

Vishaka Narang 8080Shivali Pandey 8146, Shruti Santosh 8292

Varsha 8201Smita Aggarwal 8319

Shreya Gupta 8335

Modern Art Gallery The idea of a national art gallery to germinate and bear fruit was first mooted in 1949. It was nurtured carefully by Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and Maulana Azad, sensitive bureaucrats like Humayun Kabir and an active art community. Vice-president Dr S Radhakrishanan formally inaugurated the NGMA in the presence of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and artists and art lovers of the city on March 29, 1954.

The choice of Jaipur House, one of the premier edifices of Lutyens’ Delhi, signified the envisaged high profile of the institution. It is Designed by Sir Arthur Bloomfield, as a residence for the Maharaja of Jaipur, the butterfly-shaped building with a central dome was built in 1936. The Gallery is the premier institution of its kind in India. It is run and administered as a subordinate office to the Department of Culture, Government of India.The gallery is a repository of the cultural ethos of the country and showcases the changing art forms through the passage of the last hundred and fifty years starting from about 1857 in the field of Visual and Plastic arts.

Exhibition of parsis @ jaipur house Sooni Taraporevala's exhibition showcases her depository of photographs, beautifully chronicling the Parsi community. Well aware of the Parsi's lesser - known presence, Sooni has been obsessively photographing the community for the past 36 years.

Why have the Parsis become an endangered species?

Most community members Hindustan Times spoketo felt there are three reasons for this: late marriages, a high incidence of intermarriages that leads to loss of faith, and a self-imposed ban on conversions.

Pictures of Parsis

MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN

Born 1915, Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India

BiographyM. F. Husain is the most recognised figure of modern and contemporary Indian art; he joined the Progressives Artists Group in 1948. A self-taught artist, Husain moved to Mumbai at an early age and began his artistic career by painting the billboards for cinemas.

MF Husain's paintings and even his simple pencil drawings became status symbols for India's wealthy elite, with his works commanding price tags running into millions of dollars.MF Husain's paintings and even his simple pencil drawings became status symbols for India's wealthy elite, with his works commanding price tags running into millions of dollars.

Amrita ShergilAmrita Shergill was a revolutionary painter of her time. Born of a Hungarian mother and Sikh father in 1913, she blended beauty with boldness.

Though her career and life, both were short, she left a deep mark with her creativity on the art scenario of 20th century India. The majority of works by Amrita Sher- Gil in the public domain are with the NGMA, which houses over 100 paintings by this meteoric artist.

Born of a Sikh father from an aristocratic, land owing family, and a Hungarian mother, Amrita Sher-Gil’s life veered between Europe and India. She was blessed with beauty, breeding, charismatic personality and extra ordinary talent as a painter.

Creations of amrita shergil

Jamini RoyBorn in 1887 in Bengal, this artist was amongst the most dominant painters of the past century.

He received passion for paintings in legacy as his father gave up his government job to pursue his fascination for painting.

Without a doubt, Jamini Roy’s work deserved delightful acknowledgement.

Raja Ravi Varma

Ravi Varma was born on April 29, 1848 at kilimanoor, Kerala. His visit to palace at Thiruvananthpuram was at the age of 14, in 1862. Rama Swamy Naidu was the palace painter then, under whom Ravi Varma learned basic of painting. Theodor Jenson palace in 1868 and Ravi Varma learned oil painting under him. It was in 1870 he travelled to Mookambi and when coming back did first painting for money.

Paintings of Ravi Varma

Oil Paintings on canvas• Oil painting is the process of painting

with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil. Commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, poppyseed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.

• The popularity of oil spread through Italy from the North, starting in Venice in the late 15th century. By 1540 the previous method for painting on panel, tempera, had become all but extinct, although Italians continued to use fresco for wall paintings, which was less successful and durable in damper Northern climates.

Wood karting

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