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• An Inspirational Collection Of Indian Art At The National Gallery Of Modern Art in New Delhi
• Leslie Sacks Fine Art showcases Important Works on Paper
• Frida Kahlo ~ Through The Lens of Nickolas Muray
• Musée du Luxembourg exhibits " Maurice de Vlaminck a Fauvist Instinct "
• Fernando Botero opens Abu Ghraib-El Circo Exhibition at Casa das Artes de Vigo
• Nationalmuseum in Stockholm opens Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition
• Hammer Museum exhibits 'Between Earth and Heaven ~ The Architecture of John Lautner'
• MODERNISM EXHIBITION AT ULRICH MUSEUM OF ART
• The Colby Museum of Art Hosts Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break Installation
• BA-CA KUNSTFORUM HOSTS 'EROS in MODERN ART'
• R.W. Firestone Solos at Walter Wickiser Gallery
• Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Show Maximilien Luce
• Rebels & Martyrs at The National Gallery
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

An Inspirational Collection Of Indian Art At The National Gallery Of Modern Art in New Delhi Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:09 PM PST The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in New Delhi was created to acquire and preserve works of modern art from 1850s onward, to organize, maintain and develop galleries for permanent display, to organize special exhibitions, lectures, seminars and conferences (not only in its own premises but in other parts of the country and abroad) and to develop an education and documentation center and library to acquire, maintain and preserve documents relating to works of modern art. The idea of a national art gallery was first proposed in 1949, and with support from the government, the NGMA was formally inaugurated on March 29, 1954 and opened to the public. . The choice of Jaipur House, one of the premier edifices of Lutyens' Delhi, signified the envisaged high profile of the institution. 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 alongside the India Gate circle. NGMA's inauguration was marked by an exhibition of sculptures including all the prominent Indian artists of the time. Its collection includes artists such as Thomas Daniell, Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil as well as foreign artists, apart from sculptures by various artists. Some of the oldest works preserved here date back to 1857. Debi Prasad, Roy Chowdhury, Ramkinkar Baij, Sankho Chaudhuri, Dhanraj Bhagat, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury and others. The Gallery is the premier institution of its kind in India, and is run and administered by the Department of Culture, Government of India. The NGMA has two branches one at Mumbai and the other at Bangaluru, opening shortly. 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. The NGMA collection today is undeniably the most significant collection of modern and contemporary art in the country today, containing almost 20,000 works of art. Visit the museum's website at … http://ngmaindia.gov.in/ The art collection of the NGMA is vast and eclectic, though concentrating on artworks produced after the 1850's, it also contains some miniatures dating back to the 10th century. The almost 20,000 works within it testify to a rich and resplendent past even as they pay tribute to the present. Its treasures span miniature paintings to modernist interventions and contemporary artwork. The NGMA's sculpture collection is amongst the richest in the country and includes works by Indian artists such as D.P Roy Chowdhury, Fanindranath Bose and V. P. Karmarkar, Ram Kinker, Ramkinkar Baij, Sankho Chaudhuri, Pradosh Dasgupta, Piloo Pochkhanawalla, Adi Davierwala, Chintamani Kar, Amarnath Sehgal, Dhanraj Bhagat, Meera Mukherjee, Piraji Sagara, Raghav Kaneria, Nagji Patel, Himmat Shah, K.G. Subramanyan, Balbir Singh Katt, Latika Katt, Jeram Patel, Nagji Patel, Jagdish Swaminathan, Satish Gujral, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Madan Lal, KS Radhakrishnan, S Nandagopal, PV Janakiram, Ravinder Reddy, NN Rimzoh, Pushpamala N, Valasan Kolleri, Prithpal Singh Ladi, Karl Antao and Sudarshan Shetty. The Gallery is further enhancing the collection with the acquisition of contemporary works that blur the boundaries between sculpture and installation alongside a small, but representative, collection of foreign sculpture, including works by Henry Moore and others. The NGMA has built up a discerning collection of print works and is in the process of building its photography collection which already includes the Lala Deen Dayal collection and other contemporary photographs by Sanjeev Saith, Parthiv Shah, Dayanita Singh, Vivan Sundaram, Nemai Ghosh and others. The NGMA's collection of miniatures includes some of the oldest works in the museum. Paintings on palm leaves from the 10th century and on paper from the 14th century are contrasted with Moghul works from the mid-16th century, included portraits, court scenes, flora and fauna. Early Hindu religious works are represented by items from the Tanjore and Mysore traditions of painting. As India became a colony of the British Crown, British artists travelled to India between 1770 and 1825 in search of commissions, they not only created works themselves, but introduced Indian artists to wider influences. Amongst the earliest European artists who visited India were John Zoffany, William Hodges, Tilly Kettle, William and Thomas Daniells, Emily Eden (all of whom are represented in the collection) and others. These European artists recorded the new colony in prints and paintings that explored the vast landscapes, the numerous historical edifices and monuments and the many communities that inhabited the land. Filtered through the 'orientalist' lens, these works imagined India as an exotic and mysterious land in paintings depicting the Ghats of Benaras, dancing girls in princely courts, colorful caste costumes, portraits of local rulers and their courtiers, different native occupations and the local flora and fauna. Indian artists of that time took on these influences, producing works that came to be known as belonging to "the Company School". Paintings in the collection display an amalgam of naturalistic representation influenced by European artists and the lingering nostalgia for the intimacy and stylization of medieval Indian miniatures. A selection of company school paintings from the collection currently feature in a special exhibition in the New Wing. During the 19th century, Indian art began to reassert itself, and one of the first examples of this was the Kalighat group of artists from Calcutta. Artists from the traditional patua and other artisan communities evolved a quick method of painting on mill-made paper to sell to pilgrims visiting the Kaligat temple. Using brush and ink from the lampblack, these artists defined figures of deities, gentry and ordinary people with deft and vigorously flowing lines and represented the first reassertion of traditional Indian arts. From the 1870s onwards, Indian art underwent major transformations, fuelled by European aesthetics, growing interest from Indians themselves and the founding of British art schools in India. Academic realism became the new mantra for a whole generation of artists trained in the art schools of Bombay and Calcutta. These artists were not only trained in naturalistic representation of figures and objects, but also in the skillful use of a new medium (for Indian artists), oil. Amongst the artists included in the NGMA's collection are Pastonji Bomanjee, Raja Ravi Varma, Manchershaw Pithawalla, Antonio Xavier Trindade, Mahadev Vishvanath Dhurandhar, Sawalaram Laxman Haldankar, Jamini Prokash Gangooly and Hemendranath Majumdar. In the early years of the 20th century there was a renewed upsurge of nationalist fervor. In the arts this resulted in the revitalisation of Indian cultural history and spirituality reviving indigenous techniques and material. Amongst the leaders of this movement Abanindranath Tagore looked to ancient murals and medieval Indian miniatures for inspiration both for subject matter as well as indigenous material such as tempera. The philosophy of a Pan-Indian art that he developed found many enthusiastic followers and came to be known as the Bengal School. Alongside an impressive collection of works by Abanindranath Tagore, the NGMA includes other Bengal School artists Sunayani Devi, Asit Haldar, Kshitindranath Majumdar and M.A.R Chughtai. In the 1920s a number of Indian artists took note of what was happening in European art, and by combining elements from European art with Indian and other influences, became pivotal in determining the course of Indian art. The museum contains a large collection of works by Gaganendranath Tagore (elder brother of Abanindranath Tagore), who although associated with the Bengal School, worked outside its stylistic influences taking inspiration from Japanese wash technique and cubist, futurist and impressionist trends in European art. The museum houses the largest collection of works in the world (over 100) by Amrita Sher-Gil and a similarly impressive selection of Jamini Roy's paintings. In the 1940s a group of young artists decided to reject the lyricism and the romanticism seen in the work of earlier Bengali artists. Six among them formed the Calcutta Group. The founder members were sculptors Pradosh Dasgupta, his wife Kamala, painters Gopal Ghosh, Nirode Majumdar, Paritosh Sen and Subho Tagore. Others like Pran Krishna Pal, Govardhan Ash and Bansi Chandragupta joined later. NGMA includes works by all these artists. By 1947, when India gained its independence, restless stirrings among the artists in Bombay led to the formation of the Progressive Artists' Group (PAG). The members who joined the group were Francis Newton Souza, Maqbool Fida Husain, Syed Haider Raza, Krishna Hawlaji Ara, Hari Amba Das Gade and S. Bakre, a sculptor. Alongside these, other artists close to the PAG were Akbar Padamsee, Tyeb Mehta, Bal Chhabda, Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Ram Kumar and Krishna Khanna, while their contemporaries Narayan Shridhar Bendre and Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar were also striving to push boundaries. This pivotal period in Indian art is well represented at the NGMA, with all these artists featuring in the collection. The "Young Turks" (also from the 1940s), including P. T. Reddy, Bhabesh Sanyal and Sailoz Mukherjee, are also prominently featured in the NGMA collection. Abstract art from the 1950s and 1960s includes works by Vasudeo S Gaitonde, Jeram Patel, Nasreen Mohamedi, Ganesh Haloi, Syed Haider Raza, Krishen Khanna, Jehangir Sabavala, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, Jagdish Swaminathan, Eric Bowen, Mona Rai, Biren De, GR Santosh, OP Sharma, Soha Qadri, SG Vasudev, Prabhakar Kolt's and V Viswanadhan. By the early 60s a strong feeling of nationhood was palpable, and works from Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Bhupen Khakhar, Jyoti Bhatt, Neelima Sheikh, Laxma Goud and others in the collection chart this new course. During the 1970's Indian artists explored myth and fantasy in their works, and K.G. Subramanyan's "Goddess at Goalpara", A. Ramachandran's "Incarnation" and Prabhakar Barwe's "Blue Lake" alongside works by K Khosa, Madhvi Parekh, Gogi Saroj Pal, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Amit Ambalal and Dharmanarayan Dasgupta are excellent examples of this style. In the 1980s, Indian art again began to chart a new direction. Works by Sudhir Patwardhan, Vivan Sundaram, Veena Bhargava, Arpita Singh, Nalini Malani, Paramjit Singh, Manu Parekh, Manjit Bawa, Rameshwar Broota, Jatin Das, Anjolie Ela Menon, Arpana Caur, Amitava Das, Chittrovanu Majumdar, Jaya Ganguly, Jayashree Chakravarti, Rekha Rodwittiya, Rajeev Lochan, Atul Dodiya, Jitish Kallat, Subodh Ghupta, Anju Dodiya, Hema Upadhaya, Chintan Upadhaya, Riyas Komu, Probir Gupta, Anandajit Ray, and NS Harsha in the NGMA collection beautifully capture the eclectic spirits of contemporary art practices that flourished in Indian art at that time. ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to visit Museums and cultural sites worldwide, and they are featured on our Home Page (center). Because of the Editor's travel we will be posting many interesting articles from our archives, some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in your magazine during the past six plus (6+) years . . and we are publishing current art news articles on the left hand side under RECENT NEWS .. Enjoy

Leslie Sacks Fine Art showcases Important Works on Paper Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:07 PM PST LOS ANGELES, CA.- This exhibition includes works by Sam Francis, Shane Guffogg, David Hockney, Wassily Kandinsky, Minjung Kim, André Masson, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Jules Pascin, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Andy Warhol. The exhibition is generally divided between works by European masters, from impressionism through the mid twentieth century, and American masters from then onward to the present day. The schematic of the show is similarly organized, with geographically discrete groupings installed in four areas of the gallery. On exhibition at Leslie Sacks Fine Art fom 14 November through 21 December, 2009.

Frida Kahlo ~ Through The Lens of Nickolas Muray Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:06 PM PST   WILMINGTON, DE - The Delaware Art Museum presents Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray, an exhibition of nearly 50 photographs of Frida Kahlo, on view in the Brock J. Vinton Galleries February 2, 2008 - March 30, 2008. Known for the rich colors and deeply personal meanings of her paintings, Frida Kahlo was often her own subject as well as a subject for other artists. The photographs in this exhibition, taken by Nickolas Muray, date from 1937 to 1941.

Musée du Luxembourg exhibits " Maurice de Vlaminck a Fauvist Instinct " Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:04 PM PST Paris - This exhibition, at Musée du Luxembourg,  brings together works of the period 1900-1915, from Maurice de Vlaminck's (1876-1958) earliest known paintings - Vlaminck's career started when he was 17, but none of his juvenalia has been preserved - in which he already asserted his characteristic violence, down to the works produced at the beginning of the First World War, which reflect his contemporary research on the rendering of space.  On exhibition through 20 July, 2008.

Fernando Botero opens Abu Ghraib-El Circo Exhibition at Casa das Artes de Vigo Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:59 PM PST VIGO,SPAIN - Casa das Artes de Vigo presents an exhibition of works by the world-renowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero. These works are strongly personal statements of his reaction and feelings stemming from his reading of news media accounts of the events taking place at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003. The show consists of approximately ninety-five works and includes both paintings and drawings. The subject of the works deals with the abuses, both physical and moral, that were inflicted on the Iraqi prisoners.

Nationalmuseum in Stockholm opens Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:57 PM PST   STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - The exhibition devoted to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm is the first comprehensive presentation of the French artist in Sweden for forty years. The exhibition will include some 200 items: drawings, posters and oil paintings. We meet a small but highly imposing artist who abandoned a life in aristocratic circles to spend his days among the bohemian pleasures of Montmartre, portraying the people he met there. His works will be on view at the Nationalmuseum from 21 February to 25 May 2008.

Hammer Museum exhibits 'Between Earth and Heaven ~ The Architecture of John Lautner' Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:56 PM PST LOS ANGELES.- John Lautner (1911-94), one of the most important and influential architects of the twentieth century, had a remarkable career spanning nearly six decades. Residing and working in Los Angeles during much of that time, his designs are known for their radical innovation with specific attention to materiality, space and a consciousness of the natural environment. The Hammer Museum brings John Lautner's legacy and creative process by presenting the first major exhibition survey of his work: Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner, on view through October 12, 2008.

MODERNISM EXHIBITION AT ULRICH MUSEUM OF ART Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:54 PM PST WICHITA, KANSAS — Modernisms: Selections from the Collection 1900-1940, an exhibition of works drawn from the Ulrich Museum's rich (and rarely exhibited) holdings of early 20th-century art will be on display at the museum February 1-March 4.  This interpretive exhibition samples some of the exciting artistic movements in Europe and the United States before World War II.  Works by William Gropper, Emil Nolde, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and others illustrate basic principles and aims of modernism.  Artists responded to strong social, economic, political and cultural shifts as well as to the transformations that new technologies introduced to daily life.

The Colby Museum of Art Hosts Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break Installation Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:53 PM PST WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art presents a special installation of the exhibition Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break that includes a group of works by other artists and artisans displayed in conjunction with works from Lockhart's Lunch Break project. The opening of the exhibition coincides with the release of the Lunch Break Times, a special-edition newspaper conceived of by Lockhart for the Maine communities involved in the making of Lunch Break. On view 10 July through 17 October.

BA-CA KUNSTFORUM HOSTS 'EROS in MODERN ART' Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:51 PM PST Vienna, Austria - BA-CA Kunstforum presents Eros in Modern Art, on view through July 22, 2007.  The encounter with all forms and varieties of Eros – love, passion and lust, desire, union and secret longings – has always been and still is one of the basic impulses for artistic inspiration.  The BA-CA Kunstforum is now addressing this theme with an exciting exhibition.  More than 200 works by prominent artists from the late nineteenth century until the present day give striking and immediate expression to the fascination exercised on artists by the theme of eroticism.  But the exhibition is not confined solely to the subject of the human body and portrayal of the act of love. The concept far more involves works that address the erotic sphere of temptation and union, desire and fantasy, dream and the subconscious, in a multitude of forms.

R.W. Firestone Solos at Walter Wickiser Gallery Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:50 PM PST New York City - Santa Barbara psychologist, author and artist R.W. Firestone uses computers, computer software and computer-driven printers not for their own sake, but for the way they can offer a new world of the emotions as can be seen in his forthcoming January 2007 exhibition entitled "Feelings" at the Walter Wickiser Gallery, 210 11th Avenue #303, New York, NY.On exhibition until 31 January, 2007.

Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Show Maximilien Luce Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:48 PM PST San Francisco, CA- Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, "The Calm of Nature and Gentleness of Things: Paintings by Maximilien Luce (French, 1858-1941)" Maximilien Luce was born in 1858 to a working-class Parisian family. Despite his modest beginnings, Luce went on to become one of the founders of the Neo-Impressionist movement along with Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. The Neo-Impressionists sought to improve upon the Impressionist style with a scientific method of painting called Pointillism.

Rebels & Martyrs at The National Gallery Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:45 PM PST London - The artist as a rebel battling against society, a tortured and misunderstood genius, has a powerful hold on our collective imagination.  This exhibition traces the development of this idea, from the birth of Romanticism through to the early 20th century and the avant-garde.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:44 PM PST This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

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