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Gobardhan Ash

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Gobardhan Ash
Born(1907-08-05)5 August 1907
Died22 December 1996(1996-12-22) (aged 89)
OccupationPainter
Movement
Standing third row second from right – Gobardhan Ash. Seated middle row from right second Percy Brown and third Jamini Roy. Front row from right fourth Atul Bose at the Government College of Art & Craft 1929
Standing from left: Abani Sen, Gobardhan Ash, Bimal Dey, Jahar Sen, Ardhendu Chatterjee, Haridhan Dutta.Sitting from left: S.N. Dey, Atul Bose, Amiya Basu at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata First Annual Exhibition, Kolkata -1933

Gobardhan Ash (5 August 1907 - 22 December 1996) was an Indian artist and an early modernist as per the art critic Sovom Som.[1][2][3][4] Ebrahim Alkazi[5] states that "Gobardhan wielded considerable influence as an artist in the 1940s". He co-founded the Art Rebel Center in 1933 and was a member of the Calcutta Group. He was mentored by and close to the artist Atul Bose.[6] Gobardhan was employed as the Chief Artist at the Indian Institute of Arts and Industry in Kolkata in 1946 for a period of two years and subsequently employed from 1953 as a Senior Teacher at the Indian Art School of Kolkata.[7][8] Ranjit Hoskote specifically identifies Gobardhan's 1948 - 1951 period wherein Gobardhan "focusses on creating a style similar to various idioms within pattachitra into a consciousness that is clearly aware of cinema and animation".[9]

Education

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Gobardhan Ash had initially joined the Government College of Art, Kolkata as a student in 1926.[10] He lost his scholarship at the school due to his involvement with the civil disobedience movement in 1930's.[11] Differences with the teaching methods and an open skirmish with the then principal Mukul Dey ultimately led to the formation of a group called the Young Artist's Student Union in 1931[12] and the Art Rebel Center.[13][14] He subsequently studied under Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury at the Government Art School in Madras.[15]

Lifetime achievement awards

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Exhibitions

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References

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  1. ^ Art Heritage Season 1983 - 84. New Delhi: Art Heritage. 1984. p. 24.
  2. ^ Sovon, Som. "Art Critic". Amazon.
  3. ^ "A Mumbai NFT auction looks back at Gobardhan Ash's prolific oeuvre". Architectural Digest.
  4. ^ "The power of ideas in art". Forbes.
  5. ^ Art Heritage Season 1983 - 84. New Delhi: Art Heritage. 1984. p. 3.
  6. ^ Gobardhan, Ash. "Artist".
  7. ^ "Gobardhan Ash Employment".
  8. ^ "Indian Art School Prospectus, 1955" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Ranjit Hoskote on Gobardhan Ash".
  10. ^ "AstaGuru - Gobardhan Ash Profile".
  11. ^ "A lifetime on canvas". Economic Times. 28 August 1993.
  12. ^ "Young Artists Student Union".
  13. ^ Gobardhan, Ash. "Rebel Artists Center" (PDF).
  14. ^ Trouilloud, Julia (2017). "The Reception of Modern European Art in Calcutta: a Complex Negotiation (1910s-1940s)". Academia.edu. Artl@s Bulletin 6, no. 2 (2017): Article 7.: 106.
  15. ^ Nag, Ashoke (2012). "Kolkata art gallery, Aakriti, celebrates famed Bengal artist Gobardhan Ash's 105th anniversary". Economic Times (published July 30, 2012).
  16. ^ "Award From the Academy of Fine Arts".
  17. ^ Ash, Gobardhan. "Abanindra Puraskar for Gobardhan Ash". Delhi Art Gallery. DAG.
  18. ^ "SaffronArt - Gobardhan Ash Awards".
  19. ^ "AIFACS AWARD 1988".
  20. ^ "Award from Art Heritage".
  21. ^ Calcutta University. "Calcutta University Institute Art Exhibition" (PDF).
  22. ^ Gobardhan, Ash. "Art Rebel Center" (PDF).
  23. ^ "First Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts" (PDF).
  24. ^ "Second Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts" (PDF).
  25. ^ "Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts" (PDF).
  26. ^ "Society of Modern Art Exhibition" (PDF).
  27. ^ "Twenty Third Annual Exhibition by the Students and ex-Students of the Government College of Art" (PDF).
  28. ^ "Catalogue of Indian Exhibition in Singapore" (PDF).
  29. ^ "Exhibition of the Calcutta Group and the Bombay Progressives".