The Modern art gallery has been explored in this project. it has been made by the students of Shyam lal College Delhi University..

1. Modern Art
Gallery
BCOM (H) Section 5
Made By: Srishti Saraswat 8021
Vishaka Narang 8080
Shivali Pandey 8146,
Shruti Santosh 8292
Varsha 8201
Smita Aggarwal 8319
Shreya Gupta 8335

2. Modern Art Gallery
The idea of a national art gallery to
germinate and bear fruit was first
mooted in 1949.
It was nurtured carefully by Prime
Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and Maulana
Azad,
sensitive
bureaucrats
like
Humayun Kabir and an active art
community.
 Vice-president Dr S Radhakrishanan
formally inaugurated the NGMA in the
presence of Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru and artists and art lovers of the
city on March 29, 1954.

3. The choice of Jaipur House, one of the premier edifices of
Lutyens’ Delhi, signified the envisaged high profile of the
institution.
It is Designed by Sir Arthur Bloomfield, as a residence for the
Maharaja of Jaipur, the butterfly-shaped building with a
central dome was built in 1936.
The Gallery is the premier institution of its kind in India. It is
run and administered as a subordinate office to the
Department of Culture, Government of India.
The gallery is a repository of the cultural ethos of the country
and showcases the changing art forms through the passage of
the last hundred and fifty years starting from about 1857 in
the field of Visual and Plastic arts.

4. Exhibition of parsis @ jaipur house
Sooni Taraporevala's exhibition showcases her
depository of photographs, beautifully chronicling the Parsi
community.
 Well aware of the Parsi's lesser - known presence, Sooni
has been obsessively photographing the community for the
past 36 years.
Why have the Parsis become an endangered species?
Most community members Hindustan Times spoketo felt
there are three reasons for this: late marriages, a high
incidence of intermarriages that leads to loss of faith, and a
self-imposed ban on conversions.

5. Pictures of Parsis

6. MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN
Born 1915, Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India
Biography

M. F. Husain is the most recognised figure of modern and contemporary Indian art; he
joined the Progressives Artists Group in 1948.
A self-taught artist, Husain moved to Mumbai at an early age and began his artistic
career by painting the billboards for cinemas.
MF Husain's paintings and even his simple pencil drawings became status symbols
for India's wealthy elite, with his works commanding price tags running into millions of
dollars.
MF Husain's paintings and even his simple pencil drawings became status symbols
for India's wealthy elite, with his works commanding price tags running into millions of
dollars.

8. Amrita Shergil
Amrita Shergill was a revolutionary painter of her time. Born of a
Hungarian mother and Sikh father in 1913, she blended beauty with
boldness.
Though her career and life, both were short, she left a deep mark with
her creativity on the art scenario of 20th century India. The majority of
works by Amrita Sher- Gil in the public domain are with the
NGMA, which houses over 100 paintings by this meteoric artist.
Born of a Sikh father from an aristocratic, land owing family, and a
Hungarian mother, Amrita Sher-Gil’s life veered between Europe and
India. She was blessed with beauty, breeding, charismatic personality
and extra ordinary talent as a painter.

10. Jamini Roy
Born in 1887 in Bengal, this artist was amongst the
most dominant painters of the past century.
He received passion for paintings in legacy as his
father gave up his government job to pursue his
fascination for painting.
Without a doubt, Jamini Roy’s work deserved
delightful acknowledgement.

12. Raja Ravi Varma
Ravi Varma was born on April 29, 1848 at kilimanoor, Kerala. His visit to
palace at Thiruvananthpuram was at the age of 14, in 1862. Rama
Swamy Naidu was the palace painter then, under whom Ravi Varma
learned basic of painting. Theodor Jenson palace in 1868 and Ravi
Varma learned oil painting under him. It was in 1870 he travelled to
Mookambi and when coming back did first painting for money.

13. Paintings of Ravi Varma

14. Oil Paintings on canvas
• Oil painting is the process of painting
with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying
oil. Commonly used drying oils include linseed
oil, poppyseed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.
• The popularity of oil spread through Italy from the
North, starting in Venice in the late 15th century. By
1540 the previous method for painting on
panel, tempera, had become all but extinct, although
Italians continued to use fresco for wall
paintings, which was less successful and durable in
damper Northern climates.

16. Wood karting

17. Thank You !!!