Sunday, April 17, 2011

WHEN AISH TURNED MONA LISA THANKS TO KASHMIRI ARTIST RATAN PARIMOO



WHEN AISH TURNED MONA LISA

In 2008 Actor Lalit Parimoo's veteran uncle and the former Dean of Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts, painter, Ratan Parimoo, exhibited his works in Mumbai's Jehangir Art Gallery The show displayed exotic Indian culture and heritage. And the main attraction of the exhibition was Ratan Parimoo’s portrait of Aishwarya Bachchan.Her beauty was compared with the Leonardo da Vinci's Monalisa by the painter. Ratan Parimoo displayed his unique piece of art in Mumbai's Jehangir Art Gallery.

Ratan Parimoo (born 1936 in Srinagar, Kashmir) is one of the major art historians and painters of modern India. He was for a long time a professor at the M.S. University in Vadodara. He is married to the artist Naina Dalal. His paintings are included in the collection of India's National Gallery of Modern Art. Prof Parimoo was one of the youngest painters to respond to the 'abstract style' of the first modernist movements of the country after Independence. He has been a life-long teacher of art history and aesthetics .

Collections

Hermitage, Leningrad
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Punjab University, Chandigarh
Air India, Mumbai
Shyamal Builders, Vadodara
Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad
Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi
Madhavan Nair Foundation, Cochin
Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
Welcome Group of Hotel, Vadodara

Publications

Has extensively written and published many articles and books on classical Indian and Modern Indian Art as well as films aiming at evolving a new direction in Art Historical studies, including:

1973 Paintings of the Three Tagores, Abanindranath, Gaganedranath and Rabindranath, Baroda
1975 Studies in Modern Indian Art, New Delhi
1982 Life of Buddha in Indian Sculpture, New Delhi
1983 Sculptures of Sheshashayi Vishnu, Baroda
1989 The Paintings of Rabindranth Tagore
1995 The Pictorial World of Gaganendranath Tagore, New Delhi
1999 Studies in Indian Sculpture: Essays in New Art History, New Delhi

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