Project - National Museum and Modern Art Gallery

Group members – Richa Mahendroo (8334) Shaifali Gaba (8368) Rupankshi Aggarwal (8067) Sakshi Sharma (8320) Sanghamitra (8100) Rashmi Singh (8087) Sameer Ansari (8371) Saurabh Kardan (8376)

Supervisor -Manish Karmwar

NATIONAL MUSEUM

Harappan Civilization Harappan City Potteries Sacred Corpored Gandhara

Harappan CivilizationOne of the most fascinating yet mysterious cultures of the ancient world is the Harappan Civilization. This culture existed along the Indus River in present day Pakistan.  It was named after the city of Harappa which it was centered around.  Harappa and the city of Mohenjo-Daro were the greatest achievements of the Indus valley civilization. The Harappan people were literate and used the Dravidian language. Only part of this language has been deciphered today, leaving numerous questions about this civilization unanswered.

Harappan is an archaeological site in Punjab, northeast Pakistan, about 24 km (15 mi) west of Sahiwal. The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River.The current village of Harappa is 6 km (3.7 mi) from the ancient site. Although modern Harappa has a railway station left from the period of British administration it is today just a small crossroads town of population 15,000. The ancient city of

Harappa was heavily damaged under the British rule, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan

Railroad.

POTTORIES

Harappan pottery is bright or dark red and uniformly sturdy and well baked. It consists chiefly of wheel made wares both plain and painted. The plain pottery is more common than the painted ware. The plain ware is usually of red clay with or without a fine red slip. The painted pottery is of red and black colours. Several methods were used by people for the decoration of pottery.

Early Harappan PeriodC.3000-2000 B.CKalibangan, Dholovira and Rakhigarhi.

SACRED CORPORED

This pavilion enshines the holy relics of Lord Buddha. It was crafted from teak wood and built by thai artist. The toy part of the pavilion and the parasols are made from 109 grams of gold. The tip is decorated with diamond. The royal thai government presented this pavillion to the National Museum of INDIA, New Delhi on Friday,10th October’1997.

Trumpet20th Century A.DLadakhi Tribe, Ladakh

GANDHARAGandhāra was an ancient kingdom in the Swat and Kabul river valleys and the Pothohar plateau, in modern-day northern Pakistan and eastern  Afghanistan. Its main cities were Purushapura (modern Peshawar), literally meaning "city of men", and Takshashila . It attained its height from the 1st century to the 5th century under the Kushan Kings.

MODERN ART GALLERY Amrita Sher Gil Paintings of Amrita Sher Gil Marriage Ceremony Jamini Roy Paintings by Jamini Roy

AMRITA SHER GILAmrita Sher-Gil spent her short life of 28 years searching passionately fir her own path, as a painter and as a women in art and in society. The distinctive merit of her European oeuvre is the rich, sensual pictorial quality and the fact that, thaugh raised in the tradition of European academicism at the Ecole des Beaux- Arts and French post- impressionism in Paris, as well as plein -air painting in Hungary , she revived and renewed her Indian painting heritage as a living source of art. Later , independent of all ‘modern – isms; she created her own world of painting.The works embody a heightened intensity of colour and form, with its individual themes, its objectivity and subjectivity and can be considered the creator of Indian modernism.

“Three Girls”

by Amrita

Sher-Gil

“Three Girls” was painted in 1935 by Amrita Sher-Gil. It was the first painting after her return from Europe following her art studies in Paris. This painting won her a gold medal from the Bombay art society. The influence of GAUGUIN in the flattened treatment of figures is noteworthy.

MARRIAGE CEREMONY

K.K.Hebb

arMarriage

Ceremon

y,1957Oil on Canvas74.9x100

.5 cm

JAMINI ROY’S LIFE STORY1887 Born in Beliator,Bankura District, West Bengal.

1916 Graduated from govt. school of arts and craft,Calcutta.was a skilled portraitist and received plenty of commission.

1920 Changed his paintings style from European nationalism to new idioms, started a series of paintings featuring santal women.

1924 Once again began searching for a new way to express pure form painted a series of images with Calligraphic brushwork.

1927 Began painting with traditional mediums and materials. His search for pure form led him to rediscover the simplicity of folk art and crafts of Bankura.

1929 Held his first solo show at the govt. school of art and craft. circle of friends and admirers began to grow. Also received severe criticism.

1935 Received top prize at the All-India Academy of fine arts exhibition.Recived commission for a series of Ramayana paintings from well-known Calcutta confectioners,K.C.Das.

1942 Left Kolkata for some months and went to Beliatore to escape the threat of Japanese bombing.

1946 Held a solo exhibition at the Arcade Gallery in London,U.K.

1953 Held an exhibition in New York,U.S.A.

1955 Honoured with Padma Bhushan by the government of India.

1956 Elected fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi.

1972 Death

1976 The govt. of India declared Jamini Roy’s work as National Treasure along with those of seven others.

PAINTINGS BY –“JAMINI ROY”

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