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ExhibitionsThe HindusAs low as $1.00Among all attempts by foreign artists to present a complete view of India, none is so focused on people as the work of François Baltazard Solvyns, who lived in Calcutta for a decade starting in 1791. While picking up odd jobs, he embarked on an ambitious project to produce a comprehensive survey of ‘the manners, customs, and dresses, of the Hindus’. The first edition contained 250 hand-coloured etchings and was published by Solvyns between 1796 and 1799.
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JournalChronicling the Durbar: Images and voices from Delhi$0.00Who were the significant chroniclers of the Durbars?
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Events and ProgrammesYellow, Blue and Art on the Move$1.00A close look at bus art with artist Sumantra Mukherjee as we join him on a walk through a bus depot, and a bus ride through the city where we try our hand at this popular visual language through paint and text.
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Events and ProgrammesIconic Impressions$1.00A printmaking workshop with artist Rahee Punyashloka of @artedkar, drawing from his own practice to visualise the absent protagonists of the freedom movement.
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Institutional CollaborationsNemai Ghosh: Satyajit Ray and Beyond$1.00Nemai Ghosh (1934-2020) is primarily remembered today as the photographer who, through his lens, composed a visual biography of Indian filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, for a period spanning close to three decades. This exhibition draws from DAG's extensive collection of Nemai Ghosh's ouevre to explore his work with Ray, while also exploring his contribution to documenting and immortalising the best of Indian cinema.
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ArtistsM. Suriyamoorthy$0.00An important artist of the Madras Group that synthesised modernism by melding Indian traditions with Western modernist techniques under the direction of K. C. S. Paniker, M. Suriyamoorthy’s visual language employed emphatic regional and folk imagery. Learn More -
ArtistsJeram Patel$0.00Jeram Patel, who earned renown as an abstractionist, was among those artists who rebelled against modernistic approaches and altered the Indian art scene of the 1960s by formulating a new visual identity and method of abstraction. Learn More -
ArtistsBikash Bhattacharjee$0.00Born in a middle-class Bengali family on 21 June 1940, Bikash Bhattacharjee gathered his visual and intellectual ideals from the politically charged atmosphere of Calcutta during his growing up years. Learn More
