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Cart That Art painting show in Kolkata inspired by e-commerce jargons
07 Mar 2016, 08:20 am
Kolkata, Mar 6 (NITN): Cart That Art-Priceless Art@ Artful Prices is an eclectic mix of around 75 attractive paintings that represent everything from spirituality to various facades of Kolkata and a plethora of moods and melodies on canvas that were exhibited in the city with price tags to the works.
At the ICCR, Kolkata, the exhibition was inaugurated by fashion designer Agnimitra Paul and Tollywood actress Sayani Datta while US Consul General in Kolkata, Craig L. Hall was also present.
The exhibition features six painters, namely Ashok Haralalka, Kavita Bhuwalka, Nidhi Bhadani, Madhabi Sarkar, Ritu Khetriwal and Usha Bubna, who are painting for more than a decade and a half on a diverse range of subjects, from landscape to cityscape, from nature to abstract, from the muted to vibrant, primarily using acrylic on canvas.
The paintings on display has a price range from Rs 7,500 and goes up to Rs 25,000
Curator and exhibiting artist Ashok Haralalka said, “The name came from e-commerce. Whenever someone goes to an online site, they cart items they want to purchase. The name came from there. Cart that Art."
The paintings on display has a price range from Rs 7,500 and goes up to Rs 25,000
Curator and exhibiting artist Ashok Haralalka said, “The name came from e-commerce. Whenever someone goes to an online site, they cart items they want to purchase. The name came from there. Cart that Art."
"Online art does not sell. So what we have tried to recreate is make it tangentially possible for viewers to see and buy, with an eventuality of making it available online.”
Adding further he said, “Cart that Art will regularly exhibit multiple bodies of work and add more artists to create a repository of veritable artworks and a percentage of the sales will be donated to the Denmark based NGO Little Big Help operating in Calcutta, providing boarding lodging and education to abandoned street children.”
Speaking at the event fashion designer, Agnimitra Paul said, “The paintings are extraordinary representations and each person has encompassed a completely different style on the canvas."
Speaking at the event fashion designer, Agnimitra Paul said, “The paintings are extraordinary representations and each person has encompassed a completely different style on the canvas."
Actress Sayani Datta too was all praise for the exhibits. She said, “The paintings are not garbed in modern jargons. They are aesthetic representations that any lay man can comprehend and are pleasing to the eye.”
The paintings that are being displayed encompass a variety of styles. From wall paintings and murals in Ajanta and Elora that are some of the inspiration behind Madhabi Sarkar’s etchings to spirituality that forms a basis of Kavita Bhuwalka’s frames or an eclectic mix of colours.
Nidhi Bhadani’s canvasses are replete with deft brush strokes that can leave enthusiasts contemplative.
Artist Usha Bubna’s Sangam shows a dextrous convergence of the two forces of man and woman represented through Shiv and Shakti and Ritu Khetriwal’s Embedded and Unified in Love is replete with beautiful murals and cerulean shade
The paintings that are being displayed encompass a variety of styles. From wall paintings and murals in Ajanta and Elora that are some of the inspiration behind Madhabi Sarkar’s etchings to spirituality that forms a basis of Kavita Bhuwalka’s frames or an eclectic mix of colours.
Nidhi Bhadani’s canvasses are replete with deft brush strokes that can leave enthusiasts contemplative.
Artist Usha Bubna’s Sangam shows a dextrous convergence of the two forces of man and woman represented through Shiv and Shakti and Ritu Khetriwal’s Embedded and Unified in Love is replete with beautiful murals and cerulean shade
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