Portrait of Udham Singh Shaheed By Kanwal Dhaliwal
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Portrait of Udham Singh Shaheed alias Ram Muhammed Singh Azaad
Sikh Art and Film Festival – November 13-15, 2009
Sikh Lens is proud to offer its inaugural—and independent—Sikh Arts & Film Festival. The Festival celebrates Sikh culture and heritage, and will offer a variety of avenues for contributors to share their talent.
Get ready for a sumptuous treat that will light up all senses with a diverse assortment of films, books, art, performance pieces, and music that is “Sikh-centric.” To mark the 25th anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, we will have a special dedication with rare photographs and independent documentaries on 1984 riots; and lectures and a panel discussion by esteemed speakers from around the world. The festival premieres stirring documentaries, book signings by notable authors, creations from world-renowned artists, and a special event showcasing youth performing music, poetry, rap, and everything else their creative imagination can conjure. We want to prove that “Sikhs’ Got Talent.” You will also get a chance to take a piece of our culture home through a silent auction.
Further details: http://www.sikhlens.com/
Popsamiti
Popsamiti paper is a collection of articles and ideas by writers and artists. Popsamiti is a free paper, a limited edition, A3 in size and printed on recycled paper. A limited limited edition includes a handloom textile sample from Akaaro.
http://www.popsamiti.com/paper.html
Popsamiti is a project curated by Tajender Sagoo. It is a platform for artists and writers to explore themes in art and culture with the aim to forge new narratives for the 21st century. A multi disciplinary project, popsamiti is a print publication, a pdf download,a website, and a debate.
Popsamiti is an attempt to move beyond being defined by post colonialism. In short, the aim is to create space for the culture of everyone.
Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
Perceiving the Indian culture comprehensively with all its artistic impulses, conflicts, contradictions and limitations, the Akademi aims to function with a panoramic view to involve all genres of creativity in its activities.
The Akademi aspires to become a hub of cultural activity in this unique architectural marvel called Chandigarh, planned and designed by the legendary architect Le Corbusier and the capital city of the states of Punjab and Haryana, by engaging into various activities to satiate the aspirations, expectations and the desire to participate by its citizens in the artistic life of this very special city symbolizing the modern along with the traditional values of India.
The objectives and guidelines of the Akademi are development and dissemination; encouragement and promotion, study and research in the field of creative arts such as Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Drawing, Photography, Installation art, Multi Media and other such forms.
Aesthetic Modernism in the Post-Colony: The Making of a National College of Art in Pakistan (1950–1960s)
By Nadeem Omar Tarar, Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan. Email: notarar@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
With the formation of Pakistan as a modern Islamic republic in 1947, the institutions of art and design education were transformed under the sway of modernization theories of development. A conceptual and physical infrastructure was put in place to modify existing institutions and to create new ones for encouraging modern art and artists in the country. The 1950s saw major developments taking place in the former Mayo School of Art which was upgraded to the National College of Arts to train designers, artists and architects to meet the requirements of a new nation. The distinction between arts and crafts formed the discourse through which the changes in art education were articulated. The process of change unleashed in art education is emblematic of the changes taking place in the other sectors of economy and culture. The Bauhaus influence which formed the initial impulse to bring artists and craftsmen in the service of national industry gave way to the competing fine art movements in painting resulting in abandoning the synthesis of arts and crafts envisaged in the earlier approaches to art education.
Kanwal Dhaliwal – painter and sculpter
Do have a look at the Kanwal Dhaliwal’s website http://www.art-d-kanwal.com/
He is a contemporary Indian artist living in London and draws on many themes including the co-existence of multiple identities which creates both diversity and conflict.
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