OFAC is India’s first Online Fine Art Competition, a unique contest offering artists a platform to value their creative talent and an opportunity to shape their future. This is the first time that Indian Artists will get the opportunity to participate in an ONLINE ART COMPETITION. The nature of the competition does away with geographical limitations, thus enabling artists across the country to compete.
The contest will remain open for a period of 45 days, from 15th April ’08 until 31st May ’08.
In order to ensure quality content & participation, the OFAC will accept entries from only BFA, MFA Graduates, Diploma Holders & Final year Diploma Students. Each participant will submit 2 entries through our website http://www.smartnu.com/
To view details please click on link below
http://www.smartnu.com/ofac/main.html
From the applications received, the jury will select 12 finalists.
The winner and runner up will be selected from amongst those 12 finalists.
The results of the competition will be announced on 20th June 2008.
Do go through the terms and conditions carefully
http://www.smartnu.com/ofac/OFAC-TermsConditions-English.pdf
Best of Luck!
NM
Showing posts with label Art News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art News. Show all posts
15 Apr 2008
4 Mar 2008
Art market buoyant again
First, let’s have a look at the results of a couple of auctions held earlier this year. Remember Bid and Hammer, the new auction house in Bangalore? It created a lot of interest and in fact quite a stir in the city. Art connoisseurs were very excited at having this auction house in Bangalore.
Now, Bid and Hammer had their first auction of fine art and other works of art on January 24. The results are now finally up on their website and according to them 46 percent of the lots have been sold for Rs 2.78 crores. In contrast, Emami Chisel Art - a Kolkata based auction house that held a physical-cum-online bidding - brought the hammer down on February 23 and have sold 81 out of 89 lots from 70 artists. Plus, M F Husain’s ‘Tribute to Hashmi’ created a record for being the first Husain to cross the $1 million mark at an auction. The other highlights of the evening were Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Kali III’, which fetched Rs. 4.4 crores, and J Swaminathan’s ‘Bird & Mountain’, which fetched almost Rs 2 crores.
The sales touched a total of Rs 24 crores. That is a good sign. It means there is a lot of interest in Indian modern and contemporary art and the market might well be on its way to recovery.
One of the shows that I visited last week and simply had to talk about was noted artist K G Subramanyan’s. Titled ‘The magic of making’, the exhibition had a phenomenal number of works - 120 on canvas and paper, and in various sizes - no mean feat by any standards. For those who are not familiar with his name, he is a multi-faceted personality, and has donned the role of a painter, art educationist, sculptor, writer, art historian and more with aplomb. Born in 1924, Subramanyan studied at Shantiniketan and went on to teach painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda.
His art is rooted in the cultural milieu of Shantiniketan and is inspired by Indian crafts, myths and folk traditions. Based on simple everyday events and people, his visual language forms a powerful medium that follows no rules. One of the major artists on the contemporary art scene today, the exhibition is a must watch for all art lovers. However, do be aware that on the day of the preview itself, more than 100 paintings were already sold (this incidentally is a traveling show).
(The exhibition is on till March 8 at Gallery Sumukha, 24/10 BTS Depot Road, Wilson Garden, Bangalore 27. Phone: 22292230)
Now, Bid and Hammer had their first auction of fine art and other works of art on January 24. The results are now finally up on their website and according to them 46 percent of the lots have been sold for Rs 2.78 crores. In contrast, Emami Chisel Art - a Kolkata based auction house that held a physical-cum-online bidding - brought the hammer down on February 23 and have sold 81 out of 89 lots from 70 artists. Plus, M F Husain’s ‘Tribute to Hashmi’ created a record for being the first Husain to cross the $1 million mark at an auction. The other highlights of the evening were Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Kali III’, which fetched Rs. 4.4 crores, and J Swaminathan’s ‘Bird & Mountain’, which fetched almost Rs 2 crores.
The sales touched a total of Rs 24 crores. That is a good sign. It means there is a lot of interest in Indian modern and contemporary art and the market might well be on its way to recovery.
One of the shows that I visited last week and simply had to talk about was noted artist K G Subramanyan’s. Titled ‘The magic of making’, the exhibition had a phenomenal number of works - 120 on canvas and paper, and in various sizes - no mean feat by any standards. For those who are not familiar with his name, he is a multi-faceted personality, and has donned the role of a painter, art educationist, sculptor, writer, art historian and more with aplomb. Born in 1924, Subramanyan studied at Shantiniketan and went on to teach painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda.
His art is rooted in the cultural milieu of Shantiniketan and is inspired by Indian crafts, myths and folk traditions. Based on simple everyday events and people, his visual language forms a powerful medium that follows no rules. One of the major artists on the contemporary art scene today, the exhibition is a must watch for all art lovers. However, do be aware that on the day of the preview itself, more than 100 paintings were already sold (this incidentally is a traveling show).
(The exhibition is on till March 8 at Gallery Sumukha, 24/10 BTS Depot Road, Wilson Garden, Bangalore 27. Phone: 22292230)
(Published in Bangalore Mirror)
2 Jan 2008
Chitra Santhe - Art Fair (Bangalore) Dec 30, 2007
Most of the 'artists' this year too were hobby painters et al. However, there was a sprinkling of fine arts students from other districts of Karnataka. According to official figures there were 1,700 art stalls and at least a 100,000 people attended. I also heard that more than Rs 1 crore changed hands!
There were very few works that I liked, amongst them were pen and ink drawings by an artist from Chikmaglur and a couple of paintings by an artist from Hassan. Unfortunatley, there were many reproductions right from SL Haldenkar's 'Glow of Hope' painting (please visit Jaganmohan Palace, Mysore to see the original), to John Fernandes to even SH Raza! The different versions of Glow of Hope, which incidentally is on sale at every Santhe, was truly pathetic this year. At least all the copies I saw had no resemblance to the original except for the fact that they featured a woman holding a lamp. The magic created by Haldenkar was completely missing!
Prices were as high as Rs 5 lakhs (the painting of an elephant was priced at Rs 5 lakhs - see below). Here are a few images from the Santhe.
If you visited the Santhe, what did you think about it? Did you like the paintings on display? Did you buy anything? Were the prices reasonable? What is the best part of an event like this? Mail your comments to me.
There were very few works that I liked, amongst them were pen and ink drawings by an artist from Chikmaglur and a couple of paintings by an artist from Hassan. Unfortunatley, there were many reproductions right from SL Haldenkar's 'Glow of Hope' painting (please visit Jaganmohan Palace, Mysore to see the original), to John Fernandes to even SH Raza! The different versions of Glow of Hope, which incidentally is on sale at every Santhe, was truly pathetic this year. At least all the copies I saw had no resemblance to the original except for the fact that they featured a woman holding a lamp. The magic created by Haldenkar was completely missing!
Prices were as high as Rs 5 lakhs (the painting of an elephant was priced at Rs 5 lakhs - see below). Here are a few images from the Santhe.
If you visited the Santhe, what did you think about it? Did you like the paintings on display? Did you buy anything? Were the prices reasonable? What is the best part of an event like this? Mail your comments to me.
5 May 2007
Writing for Matters of Art
You can now read some more of my write-ups on the Bangalore art scene on the e-zine Matters of Art
Clink on the links below to see the latest articles
http://www.mattersofart.com/Artistofm.html
http://www.mattersofart.com/may_5/exhibh_pages/2.html
As always your comments and suggestions are welcome...
- Nalini
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- Nalini
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