Showing all 2 books
This book takes the reader on an exciting visual adventure. It showcases modern masterpieces from the collection in the National Gallery of Modern Art, the premier institution for modern and contemporary Indian art, established in 1954 in Delhi. NGMA has a collection of 16,000 works of art that comprises paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphic prints and photographs from 1850 onwards. That the gallery's gradual growth over the last fifty years has been marked by ...
There are recurrent motifs that appear in Paresh's images. The boats are patent in almost all his work. To him, they are hypnotic in character. They are not only symbols of movement and journey but are also evocative of his boyhood memories. Then there are the old buildings with their moldering surfaces, water bodies, the nayak and the nayika, the archetypal man and woman, who reenact the drama of life without which the world would cease to continue. There is a ...