Over 2000 works of art on display at ongoing art exhibition

Students depict Anna Movement, Land Acquisition & Sexual Harassment

About 2000 works including promos through Animation, Posters, Campaigns, Layouts, Window Display, Packaging Design, Photography, Sculptures in bronze/fiber glass/cement/stone/marble and Ceramics are on display at the ongoing Annual Art Exhibition of the College of Art, Govt of NCT Delhi.

The 59^th Annual Art Exhibition at the college premises on Tilak Marg, also features Assemblage, Prints in Etching, Lithography, Silk-Screen, Mosaic and Weaving apart from a separate section carrying Paintings, Drawings and Photography made by students of IIIrd year Specialization classes on their respective Study Tours.

Inaugurated by Delhi Lt Governor, a major highlight of the week-long event is the display of work done by the invited senior students of Fine Art from 14 premier Art Colleges across the country who attended ‘Samhita’, the Seminar-cum-Workshop hosted by the College in September, 2011, according to College Principal Prof M Vijayamohan.

In their creative works, the young minds have touched all aspects of life from land acquisition to Anna Movement, Baba Ramdev to Lalu Yadav, railway safety to busy life to spirituality, smoking, global warming, sexual harassment, women trafficking and even fashion.

This event facilitates the formation of a platform for students to expose their talent to the external professional field and create avenues of opportunities for them to establish lasting foot-holds for future security and financial gain. Also, it is an important and a much awaited event for their interaction with Art Connoisseurs, Curators, Art Galleries, Artists, and students of other institutions, he said.

About College of Art, Govt of NCT Delhi

Established in 1942 for advanced training in Visual Art (Creative and Applied) as an Art Department in the erstwhile Delhi Polytechnic, the institution has come a long way. Known today nationally and internationally as College of Art, New Delhi, it is fully funded by the Govt. of Delhi, and affiliated to the University of Delhi.

The training leads to Degrees in the four year Bachelor of Fine Art and the two year Master of Fine Art Courses with Specializations in Painting, Sculpture, Applied Art, Visual Communication, Print Making and Art History. The objective of the teaching programmes is to achieve overall refinement of the students’ perception not confined to the skills of the profession alone but also to create the right kind of intellect as well as emotional cultivation to arrive at a level of composite creativity and thought.