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| 150 Years of Income Tax |
Art Exhibition & Workshop at Pune
 On the occasion of completion of 150 years in India, Income Tax Department organised a series of unique initiatives.
These include an Art Exhibition, an art workshop by 14 city based professional artists and creation of a large canvas collectively by officers and staff of Income Tax Department as well as other visiting dignitaries.
The art exhibition and workshop was inaugurated by Shri. S. K. Jha, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax – II. Shri. Jha underlined the importance of Income Tax as an important contributor to the national kitty and as a significant catalyst for the national development and infrastructure creation. |
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| Earth Hour - Live Painting |
by Sudhir Deshpande on 28th March 2009
 "Earth Hour was celebrated worldwide by switching off lights and all electrical appliances for one hour on Saturday 28th March 2009.
Indiaart celebrated Earth Hour in a unique way by teaming up with maverick artist Sudhir Deshpande who painted a canvas in candlelight during that one hour period. The painting that Sudhir created at Indiaart symbolises Green Earth. He used Blue, Yellow and Black colours on a canvas. Sudhir feels that Blue stands for Depth, Water, Sky and a sense of floating whereas Yellow symbolises Life, Passion and Light. Blue and Yellow give rise to Green which speaks for Nature and what we need. The colour Black indicates attributes such as Support, Truth, Death, Backbone and Odds. |
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| National Ceramic Camp |
On 23rd February - 3rd March 2008 at Pune
 Organised by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and hosted and supported by Art India Foundation, Pune. |
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| Live Painting & Sculpting by Women Artists |
On 10th - 16th March 2008
 On the occassion on World Women's Day , Indiaart had organised "Live Painting and Sculpture Show" Where in women artists and sculptors had created colourful paintings and beautiful sculptures.
The inauguration of this event was done by hands of Social worker Sister Karuna Mary Braganza. Artists Anuradha Thakur, Debjani Datta, Ananya Banerjee, Deepa Vedpathak, Arpita Kolhatkar, Manjiri Apte, Amruta Kulkarni, Sheetal Nanaware, Vaibhavi Kasekar, Yogini Deshmukh, Mukta Avachat and Sculptors Gauri Gandhi, Vidya Dengle, Sonali Bolar, Bharati Pitre and Madhuri Kolte were participated in Live Painting and Sculptures event at Indiaart.
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Exhibition of painted umbrellas by Achyut Palav & Demonstration |
 Indiaart Gallery had arranged a show of specially painted umbrellas and T-shirts by celebrated calligrapher Achyut Palav to raise funds for the flood affected people of Maharashtra. These were displayed at Indiaart Gallery on the 27th of August 2005. A lively atmosphere was created with the colourful display of open umbrellas and the brisk sale of T-shirts and Achyut Palav giving a live demonstration which was admired by the audience present.
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| Live demonstration by Vasudeo Kamath |
 Live demonstration by Vasudeo Kamath - 4th July 2004
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| Live painting demonstration by John Fernandes |
 Live painting demonstration by John Fernandes - 12th December 2004
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| Mithila (Madhubani) Painting Demonstration |
by Shanti Devi on 5th Sept. 2010
 Demonstration of Mithila art was conducted on 5th Sept by renowned artist Shanti Devi, originally from Bihar now settled in Delhi. The workshop was open to all. While answering queries on Mithila (Madhubani) art form, she also explained how old this art form is and the how they use to make the colours from. Like from Haldi they use to make yellow, from yellow mustard seeds and Sindoor they use to make red, from Parijaat flowers stem they make orange and from green from leaves and black from kajal.
She explained the process how to make the paper by using buffalo dung to make the paper useful for doing this painting. This kind of special paper is only used for this creating these Mithila paintings and how they use nib to draw outline and to add glue and fevicol in a colour which is to be used to make these paintings. |
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| Patua Painting Workshop |
by Smt Karuna Chitrakar
 Patua Painting is a form of Scroll Painting indigenous to West Bengal, a state in India. They narrate mythological and historical stories and are a part of an elaborate cultural performance, where they are unrolled while the story accompanying the pictures is sung. They paint Hindu stories in their scrolls.
The Patuas of Mednipore (West Bengal) have practiced this art for centuries and have adapted their art form according to the needs of the time, which has ensured that Patua Painting is one of the few surviving indigenous art forms of the region. The Patuas visit villages and go from house to house with their bag of scrolls. They narrate stories while unrolling the scrolls; in return of his services he is paid in cash or kind. |
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| 150 Days to go for Commonwealth Youth Games |
Painting of 150 feet Canvas, organised by Indiaart gallery on 15th May 2008 at Pune
 This Event was organised by Commonwealth Youth Games organisation and Indiaart was associated for creating live painting related to the youth games 2008.
Around 25 senior and young artists participated in this live painting event held at Sarasbaug, Pune. Opening of the event was done by Shri. Suresh Kalmadi. 150 ft. Canvas was used for creating the painting. Paintings created were on different Sport games.
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| Live Portrait Painting Demonstration |
by Suhas Bahulkar
 Indiaart Gallery invited eminent artist, Suhas Bahulkar to give a live demonstration of portrait painting at the gallery, on the occasion of the release of a special catalogue of his work.
The live-model painting demo of a priest dressed in a typical ‘bhataji'dress was appreciated and enjoyed by an enthusiastic crowd of art-lovers and students. The portrait was rendered using acrylic colors on canvas in a realistic manner. |
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| Exhibition Inauguration |
Exhibition by Padmashree Ar. Balkrishna Doshi
 Inauguration of the Exhibition
"Work of Ar. Balkrishna Doshi" |
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| Inauguration of exhibition for Flood Relief Fund |
 An exhibition to raise funds for flood affected people has been arranged in Indiaart gallery. Currently there are paintings and sculptures of nearly 75 artists from different parts of the country on display. Opening of the exhibition took place at the hands of Dr. Vijay Bhatkar. Some of the eminent artists that are taking part are Shri. Diwakar Dengle, D. S. Khatavkar, Suhas Bahulkar, Vasudeo Kamath, Milind Mulick, Maruti Patil, G. A. Dandekar, Shobha Patki, Mukund Kelkar, R. D. Kamble, Chandramohan Kulkarni, Prakash Bhende, Anwar husain, Debjani Datta etc.
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