Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 20: A painting exhibition (Avlokan) was organised by a renowned artist Subhash Anand at basement gallery of Amar Mahal Museum, here today. The exhibition will remain open for next two days (i.e. June 21st and 22nd).
AVLJ Rao, Deputy Commissioner of KVS was the chief guest for the occasion. VK Sambyal, Station Director of Radio Kashmir Jammu presided over the function whereas Anjali Sharma, Director Incharge of Doordarshan, was the guest of honour.
Subhash Anand is a qualified (BFA 1982) painter. He has also done 2 year National Apprentices course in painting (1985), from National Council for Training in Vocational Trades, New Delhi. He is not only an extra ordinary painter but also the first Cartoonist and illustrator of the State. He has been awarded as Best Painter for 2 times by the Academy of Art, Culture and Languages in the year 1990 and 1996. He has also been awarded by the Fine Arts & Craft Society, New Delhi, in 2000.
Previously he held his exhibition at Abhinav Art Gallery in 1995. Now his latest work has been displayed at Amar Mahal Museum in which his compositions depicting sacred iconic figures gaze at us out of boxes, arterial traffic, touched to decorative preciosity by the painters brush, burdensome dreams and mythologisation of men in yogic or material postures.
Follow our WhatsApp channel