Lalit Kala Akademi
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Pt. 1. Art manifestations under the colonial impact.; Pt. 2. Art manifestations under the naturalism.; Pt. 3. Manifestations of early modernity.
With a sculptural sensibility shaped by his early contacts with the masters of modern sculpture in the west, Sarbari Roy Choudhury is essentially a modeller in the best modernist tradition for whom sculpture is the magical act of turning clay into flesh. And in this he is almost without a parallel among his contemporaries.His work is figurative and animated by a deep sense of the organic, and this, despite his work methods, connects him with the Indian traditions ...
In the history of Vaishnavism the Bhagavata Purana exercised a profound influence on the development of the Bhakti cult in mediaeval India as its doctrines proved a turning point in religious thought. The Bhagavata concentrated upon the boyhood and youth of Krishna around whom the Purana weaves its theories of personal devotion. Although Radha, whose enchanting figure flitting through the lilting songs of Jayadeva, is absent in the Bhagavata, the gopis figure ...
Dhanapal is not with us now but his memory is so much alive that we cannot believe that he is not with us. My association with him starts from 1972 onwards when I was involved in the spade work of establishing the College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, the first college of its kind in Kerala. He associated with me along with the other great artists like K.K. Hebbar, Prof. Ambedkar, K.G. Subramanyan, Hanumante and N.S. Bendre, in building up the College of Fine Arts, ...
Our knowledge of the various schools of Rajasthani painting has greatly increased in recent years. The discovery of the Kishangarh school is associated with the name of the late Eric Dickinson, one time Professor of English at the Mayo College, Lahore. His ambition to bring out a monograph on the subject with the present writer was thwarted by his untimely death in 1951. However, in 1959 the Lalit Kala Akademi published a beautiful monograph entitled ...
Ramachandran's creative activity as a painter extends over many decades. The structure, language and colour in his works have undulated into several themes and pictorial effects during all these years. This portfolio presents a collection of his paintings from 1990-2000. This decade is represented by a synthesis of some of his favorite elements altered and redefined as the years pass by. There is also a kind of revisit to visual themes of earlier decades and ...
The beginning of mural painting in Kerala is still in obscurity and it is not known when these paintings found a place in these temples. An architectural survey of Kerala has listed some important temples embellished with murals, spread over the length and breadth of the state but this list is not very exhaustive. However, it gives a glimpse of the rich treasures of Kerala so far and traditional wall paintings are concerned. The Kerala mural paintings generally ...
This volume is a collection of articles and talks spread over fifteen years. They are mostly, as the title itself suggests, round the focal changes as have taken place, or are still taking place in the art situation of our time and attempt to get it into a kind of perspective in their light. As each of these have been written for a different occasion certain points have been made over and over, though in the editing an effort has been made to avoid very obvious ...
Anjolie Ela Menon (b. 1940 in Bengal) is one of India's best known artists. She had her first solo exhibition in 1958 in Delhi and at the time, renowned critic, Richard Bartholmew (a former Secretary of the Lalit Kala Akademi) while reviewing this debut predicted: "I have no doubt that before long this gifted young woman will be joining the ranks of our very best painters." These words have been truly prophetic and Menon's trajectory over ...
'Resonance', a group exhibition of art works in a range of methods, materials and oeuvre from all over the country is the last in the series of events planned to celebrate the five decades of Akademi's work. Contemporary Indian art has gained significantly in both national and international arena in terms of its inherent quality and merit as well as in sheer monetary value during the last 50 years. Simultaneous to the growth of the new media and ...
"An artist is like a man on a journey, always seeing the topography or the various aspects of life," believes Satish Gujral. Between this belief and its expression, ranging over 59 years from the time he first literally exploded visually in the realm of pain with his Partition paintings to his latest work which exults with joy at the rhythms of the human body in sports, you can almost glean the biographical progression of Gujral through his work ...
In this volume an attempt has been made to indicate a broad-based classification of several styles as well as to establish a reasonably certain chronology without being dogmatic. It is hoped that this will prove useful to students of this subject for further research. Apart from the well-known masterpieces, many fine examples little known to the world at large have also been included in this publication, with a view to a better understanding of the glorious ...
Most Political critiques of the dominant order rely heavily on caricatures. This was my first reaction to Savi Sawarkar's works which I saw as images projected on the walls at a conference on Art and Activism held in the department of Art History in Baroda in 2002. The question that I had asked the paper presenter, Y S Alone, was why did the artist need to confront one set of which portrays the dalit as equally typecast into as a brutalized entity. Now in ...