Artist James Wales and his passion for art

This is an article which appeared in the loksatta newspaper. It's about a British artist James Wales,who was so fascinated by the buddhist caves and sculptors, that he came to India all the way, only to paint them in the 18th century. Unfortunately not much is known about him in the recent times.

Art society of India's annual art exhibition

The dates for the Art Society of India all India annual art competition and exhibitions are out.
The dates for submitting the artworks are 3rd, 4th and 5th January 2009, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bal Bhavan, churni road, Mumbai. The exhibition for the selected entries would be held at the jehangir art gallery from 21st Jan to 27th Jan.
Also the last date for the submissions for the Camel Art Foundation 12th Western Region art exhibition is 31st december.
So be prepared.
This is a demonstration given by Late. John Fernandes Sir, at the Art Society of India. Visit the society office at Churni road, if you want to see the original.

exhibitions this week

This week two of our senior artists Shri Ravi Paranjape and Shri Vasudeo Kamath would be displaying their works. Do not miss this opportunity to see this exhibitions as we do not get to see the paintings of this artists very often.
The first one is going on at jehangir art gallery and the other one will be starting from tomorrow i.e. 18th Nov at the Nehru centre art gallery.

Exhibition of paintings by Prakash Ghadge

Artist Prakash Ghadge is displaying his works at the Point of View Gallery in Colaba, Mumbai. He's exhibition will continue at the Jehangir Art Gallery starting next week.
He has got a mastery in pen and ink and it shows through his works. Just check out for this medium of pen and ink, not explored by many in India.

Valuable collection

This article appeared in the Maharashtra times. A Senior art teacher P.R. Dharmadhikari from jalgaon, collected the covers of magazines way back from 1959. In those times the covers used to be paintings of renowned artists such as shri. Baburao painter, Satawalekar, Haldankar etc. Many of this paintings, might be those which never came in the view of today's new generation of artist. This valuable collection should get the right platform so that not only today's artist, but also many art lovers could get to see them.

Great Achievement

Artist Sachin Naik from Pune, has won the First award for his watercolor landscape, at the Patchings Art Exhibition, Nottingham, UK.

The reason to take a notice for this is that it was not just another art competition but it was a Annual International competition held by a reputed art organisation like The Artist. In which over a thousand entries were submitted by artist around the globe.

I am giving the links below which displays two of his entries for the competition. In which the painting titled Grass hut won the award.

http://www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk/old_website/onlinegallery/exhibition2008/painting.php?ta&pic=19

http://www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk/old_website/onlinegallery/exhibition2008/painting.php?cat=ta&pic=20

One more thing, if you like his paintings do vote for him for the people's choice award which is still open. You will find the button
( Click here ) to vote on the link page itself.


So let's Congratulate him for his achievement.
Bye.

Landscape Camp at Wai

A Watercolour Landscape Camp will be organised by Artist Sachin Naik at Wai. It is a 3 day camp from 21st to 23rd of March08. Also a exhibition would be held which will display the paintings done during the camp by the artist group.
For registration and others details click the image below.

Exhibition of Masters

A never before exhibition is going to happen at the JJ college of arts. As a part of the 150 years celebrations, the college is going to put 300 masters pieces on display. The paintings date back to as old as 1878.
Dont miss this opportunity to see the originals which we had seen only in prints or books.
I have given below the articles which appeared in the Times of India.

Kala Ghoda Festival

Recently I had been to the Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai. It is held every year this month. It is a creative treat for everyone. This festival includes artistic stuffs like Handicrafts, sculptures, furnitures, T-shirts hand painted with calligraphic compositions, bags, books, food.......the list is endless. There are stalls erected on both the side of the road and the traffic is closed during this period. A proper stage is erected for live music shows and plays. It goes on for some 10 day or so.
I am sharing with you some of the snaps i took there, so that you all can get a glimpse of the festival.

This huge installation caught everyones eye. It depicts a human mosquito. It was made from metal wire wound around a iron structure to support it.

This big boot had small small shoes and chappals stuck over it.

Take a closer look.....

This small table was made with the help of painting elements as a theme.

You can see the wooden frames, brushes and the color pallette used.

Non polluting cars.... this run on batteries.

This one came straight from kashmir...

This was a actual giant wheel used as a installation. The cycles here are symbolicaly used to show the dabba wallahs of mumbai.

These cycles were the real one with the dabbas on there rears.

Some more installations..

Many foreign tourist visit this festival. Some make it more memorable this way.

These were a row of creative installations showing the evil addictions in our society.

Anti Smoking...

This shows about the internet mania which is grappling the youth of today.

This one was against betting, gambling etc..

I liked this one. As you can see there was this man sitting with aremote in his hand in front of a TV. It shows the television addiction that has spread in the society. The Bhompu inserted in his ears clearly shows how TV has deprived the peace in our life by hammering the Saas Bahu serials and cheap Breaking news on common man. The background wall was painted with a chakkar revolving and all the satellite channed logos on it.

This one was against Shopaholics.

Anti boosing...

Anti drugs....

So that was all..

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Catalogue cover

Here is the painting which was printed on the cover of the Art Societies exhibition catalogue.
This was one of the awarded painting done by Artist Manoj Paturkar. The medium is Dry Pastels.

You should try not to miss this kind of exhibitions which have entries from artists around India. Here you can see such a diverse kind of arts works, with so many styles to see. There are portraits, sketches, landscapes, sculptures, compositions ....done with various mediums ranging from huge sizes to small ones.
It is really a treat for you.
So for those who have missed this one, catchup with the Bombay art Society annual exhibition starting from the 25th of Feb at Jehangir art gallery, Mumbai.

Ranga-resha Mahotsav

An art event "Rang-resha Mahotsav" would be organised by Loksatta and Jyotsna Prakashan from 16th to 18th Jan08 in Mumbai. Senior Landscape Artist Shivaji Tupe would be giving a watercolour demonstration on the 16th. And Artist Suhas Bahulkar would be giving a portrait demonstration in oil on the 17th of Jan.
There's an interview of Artist Vasudeo Kamath on the 18th.
There are also many others things like art books on sale and a workshop on Still life.

Please read the newspaper article for details.
It is a nice event, so try to be there.

Annual Art Competition - The Bombay Art Society

The entry dates for the Bombay art society's annual art competitions are 25th to 28th Jan08.
The venue for this is at the Sir J.J. School of Art between 11.00am and 5.00 pm.
So be prepared for the same. All the best...

Portrait demonstration by Manoj Sakale

A demonstration of portrait in oil colours was given by Artist Manoj Sakale recently at the Art society of India. I have put some images of the steps of the demonstrations for all of you.

The model who sat for the demostration is also a senior artist from Mumai, Mr.Babubhai Mistry.
Here you could see the first wash on the canvas.
Scroll down and check out the finished one down here.

Really amazing isn't it...?

Watercolour Landscape Camp - By Sachin Naik

Artist Sachin Naik from pune, will be conducting a Watercolur Landscape camp in Konkan starting from the 25 th of January. It is a three day camp, which will have good sessions, demonstrations on watercolours and outdoor painting.

It is really important for any Landscape artist, to once in a while get away from his city and go and stay in small villages of this kind. Here you feel free from the worries that accompany with you in our city life. You have full day to do nothing but just concentrate on your practice.

You also develop more by working together with others artist as you can observe others.
Moreover Konkan is a heaven for Landscape painting.


So all you guys. Check out the registration dates. Before its too late.
Click and enlarge the image to get the details.
Bye.

Article on M.R. Achrekar

I came across a news article written on Senior artist M.R. Acharekar. I am sharing this with you. He is known as one of the Great Master artist of India. His skill of portraiture was acknowledged even in England, Europe.
Although it is a very good article. But I think it would have created more understanding with the readers who don't know the artist, if it had a few of his good portraits, paintings in colour with it.

M. R. Acharekar also did art direction in Hindi movies.
I surfed through google and got some images of the movie 'AAN' which had the sets designed by him. It had Dilip Kumar and Premnath in the main leads.