This document summarizes information about the Harappan civilization and various artworks related to it. It discusses the Harappan cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, Harappan pottery styles, the Gandhara kingdom, and paintings by Amrita Sher-Gil and Jamini Roy depicting aspects of Indian culture. It also provides background on the artists and timelines of their works.

1. Project - National Museum and Modern Art Gallery
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Shaifali Gaba
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Sakshi Sharma
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Supervisor -Manish Karmwar

2.  Harappan Civilization
 Harappan City
 Potteries
 Sacred Corpored
 Gandhara

3. One 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

5. Early Harappan
Period
C.3000-2000 B.C
Kalibangan,
Dholovira and
Rakhigarhi.
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.

6. Trumpet
20th Century A.D
Ladakhi Tribe, Ladakh
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.

7. Gandhāra 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 Pesh
awar), literally meaning "city of
men", and Takshashila . It
attained its height from the 1st
century to the 5th century under
the Kushan Kings.

8.  Amrita Sher Gil
 Paintings of Amrita Sher Gil
 Marriage Ceremony
 Jamini Roy
 Paintings by Jamini Roy

9. Amrita 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.

10. “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.

12. 1887
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.

13. 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.