PUNJAB LALIT KALA AKADEMI IN COLLABORATION WITH DAG
ORGANISED
THE PRINTED PICTURE: FOUR CENTURIES OF INDIAN PRINTMAKING
at the Gallery of Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Punjab Kala Bhawan, Sector 16 B, Chandigarh, India
India’s leading private art gallery, DAG, in association with the Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, came together to present The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking. Curated by artist and scholar, Dr. Paula Sengupta, the exhibition marks the first-ever comprehensive survey of its kind in the country. Charting the foundation of printmaking in India, when visiting Portuguese Jesuits had brought a printing press to Goa, the exhibition showcases the evolution of the medium in the subcontinent over the following centuries before attainting its contemporary state. The exhibition on display in Chandigarh from September 17, 2018 – October 16, 2018.
Visitors embarked on an engaging chronological narrative which examines the impactof history, religion, culture and the development of newer printing techniques on the medium. The exhibition begins by exploring printmaking’s role in the British colonial enterprise, and subsequently to its rapid success in the vernacular printing industry. It looks at the entry of the Indian bazaar-print, both in the hands of the artisan and the art-school trained artist, the affects of modernism on printmaking’s themes and aesthetics, and the subsequent expansion of the printmaking practice to various regional art centers across the country.
The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking presents 124 artworks by modern Indian artist-printmakers, including Ramendranath Chakravorty, Haren Das, Somnath Hore, Jyoti Bhatt, Krishna Reddy, Jagmohan Chopra, Anupam Sud and R. Palaniappan.
Artist Names
Anupam Sud, Vijay Bagodi, Ramkinkar Baij, Bampada Bannerjee, Maniklal Banerjee, Amitabha Banerji, Suranjan Basu, Bengal Lithograph, Bengal Oleograph, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Bengal Woodcut, R B Bhaskaran, Jyoti Bhatt, Nandalal Bose, Ramendranath Chakravorty, Kanchan Chander, Chittaprosad, Shobha Broota, Sakti Burman, Jagmohan Chopra, Jogen Chowdhury, Shail Choyal, Devraj Dakoji, Naina Dalal, Thomas Daniell, , M F Husain, William Daniell, Walter Emilio D’Souza Haren Das, Shanti Dave, Dharamnarayan Dasgupta, M. V. Dhurandhar, Dinkar Duttatraya Apte, Partha Pratim Deb, Mukul Dey, K. Laxma Goud, Robert Grindlay, Sushanta Guha, Satish Gujral, Zarina Hashmi, Himmat Shah, Somnath HoreSanat Kar, Sudhir Khastgir, Devayani Krishna, Ram Kumar, Punjab Lithograph, Madhvi Parekh, Nalini Malani, Nasreen Mohammedi, Rabin Mondal, Navjot, Kavita Nayar, Ved Nayar, Gogi Saroj Pal, Ramanathan Palaniappan, Manu Parekh, Ravi Varma Print, Qadri Sohan, Jayanti Rabadia, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Krishna Reddy, Hiranmoy Roychaudhuri, Jamini Roy, P. Gouri Shanker, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Paramjit Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, F. B. Solvyns, K. R. Subbanna, K. G. Subramanyan, Vivan Sundaram, Surendran Nair, Thota Vaikuntam, V. Viswanadhan, Jai Zharotia, Moti Zharotia, Krishan Ahuja, Akkitham Narayanan, Arun Bose, Annoda Prosad Bagchi, Radha Charan Bagchi
