Gobardhan Ash Explained

Gobardhan Ash
Birth Date:1907 8, df=yes
Occupation:Painter

Gobardhan Ash (5 August 1907 - 22 December 1996) was an Indian artist and an early modernist as per the art critic Sovom Som.[1] [2] [3] [4] Ebrahim Alkazi[5] states that "Gobardhan wielded considerable influence as an artist in the 1940s". He co-founded the Art Rebel Center in 1933 and was a member of the Calcutta Group. He was mentored by and close to the artist Atul Bose.[6] Gobardhan was employed as the Chief Artist at the Indian Institute of Arts and Industry in Kolkata in 1946 for a period of two years and subsequently employed from 1953 as a Senior Teacher at the Indian Art School of Kolkata.[7] [8] Ranjit Hoskote specifically identifies Gobardhan's 1948 - 1951 period wherein Gobardhan "focusses on creating a style similar to various idioms within pattachitra into a consciousness that is clearly aware of cinema and animation".[9]

Education

Gobardhan Ash had initially joined the Government College of Art, Kolkata as a student in 1926.[10] He lost his scholarship at the school due to his involvement with the civil disobedience movement in 1930's.[11] Differences with the teaching methods and an open skirmish with the then principal Mukul Dey ultimately led to the formation of a group called the Young Artist's Student Union in 1931[12] and the Art Rebel Center.[13] [14] He subsequently studied under Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury at the Government Art School in Madras.[15]

Lifetime achievement awards

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Book: Art Heritage Season 1983 - 84 . 1984 . Art Heritage . New Delhi . 24.
  2. Web site: Sovon . Som . Art Critic . Amazon.
  3. Web site: A Mumbai NFT auction looks back at Gobardhan Ash's prolific oeuvre . Architectural Digest.
  4. Web site: The power of ideas in art . Forbes.
  5. Book: Art Heritage Season 1983 - 84 . 1984 . Art Heritage . New Delhi . 3.
  6. Web site: Gobardhan . Ash . Artist .
  7. Web site: Gobardhan Ash Employment .
  8. Web site: Indian Art School Prospectus, 1955 .
  9. Web site: Ranjit Hoskote on Gobardhan Ash .
  10. Web site: AstaGuru - Gobardhan Ash Profile .
  11. News: A lifetime on canvas . Economic Times . 28 August 1993.
  12. Web site: Young Artists Student Union .
  13. Web site: Gobardhan . Ash . Rebel Artists Center .
  14. Trouilloud . Julia . The Reception of Modern European Art in Calcutta: a Complex Negotiation (1910s-1940s) . Academia.edu . 2017 . Artl@s Bulletin 6, no. 2 (2017): Article 7. . 106 .
  15. Web site: Nag . Ashoke . 2012 . Kolkata art gallery, Aakriti, celebrates famed Bengal artist Gobardhan Ash's 105th anniversary . . July 30, 2012.
  16. Web site: Award From the Academy of Fine Arts .
  17. Web site: Ash . Gobardhan . Abanindra Puraskar for Gobardhan Ash . Delhi Art Gallery . DAG.
  18. Web site: SaffronArt - Gobardhan Ash Awards .
  19. Web site: AIFACS AWARD 1988 .
  20. Web site: Award from Art Heritage .
  21. Web site: Calcutta University . Calcutta University Institute Art Exhibition .
  22. Web site: Gobardhan . Ash . Art Rebel Center .
  23. Web site: First Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts .
  24. Web site: Second Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts .
  25. Web site: Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts .
  26. Web site: Society of Modern Art Exhibition .
  27. Web site: Twenty Third Annual Exhibition by the Students and ex-Students of the Government College of Art .
  28. Web site: Catalogue of Indian Exhibition in Singapore .
  29. Web site: Exhibition of the Calcutta Group and the Bombay Progressives .

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