Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 2: The Indian Art Centre organisation today organised the Basohli painting exhibition and prize distribution function at Presentation Convent School, Gandhi Nagar here today.
Many students admired paintings and gained the knowledge about the Basohli art. Speaker J&K Assembly, Kavinder Gupta was chief guest and BJP Mahila Morcha District vice president, Rekha Mahajan was guest of honour on this occasion.
While speaking on this occasion, the Speaker said that Basohli, a small town of Kathua, is widely known for its paintings called Basohli paintings. Immortalised by its artistic eminence, Basohli today is a metaphor for a vigorous, bold and imaginative artistic style. These paintings are considered to be the first school of Pahari paintings which evolved into the much prolific Kangra paintings school in mid-eighteenth century.
The major attractions of the exhibition were world famous paintings of Jammu, Basholi and Kangra schools, promoting and popularising the Jammu Dogra art heritage.
Rekha Mahajan appreciated the work done by this organisation and stressed that more such organisations should come forward to impart training to the children. The Indian Art Centre is doing wonderful job in developing and propagating the world famous Indian miniature art, she added.
The organizers of exhibition said that purpose of this exhibition is to promote Dogra art and create awareness among the children for the miniature art.
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