Birds from India and New Found Lands

By IANSlife.1800 to 1835, and New Found Lands: The Indian Landscape from Empire to Freedom, DAG announces the opening of these two historical exhibitions at Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum in Mumbai this month.

New Delhi, November 17, (IANSlife).

To continue its collaborations with stellar institutions like The Wallace Collection (London), The National Gallery of Modern Art(Mumbai), The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library [New Delhi], and Jawahar Kala Kendra (“Jaipur”), and after the overwhelming success of Birds of India c 1800-1835 and New Found Lands.The Indian Landscape From Empire to Freedom, DAG announced the opening of the two historic exhibitions at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum (Mum) in Mumbai City Museum (Sl Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai City Museum, which will be open to the Museum, Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, this month.

Curated by Dr Giles Tillotson, Senior Vice-President, Exhibitions and Publications, both exhibitions collectively showcase art from the DAG collection across 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.Both exhibitions are curated by Dr Giles Tillotson (Senior Vice President, Exhibitions and Publications), and showcase artwork from the DAG collection through 17th, 18th and 20th centuries.

Premiering on 27 November 2021, the exhibitions will welcome visitors at Mumbais oldest museum, an institution dedicated to excellence in cultural education through exhibitions and unique visual and intellectual media, until 16 February 2022 embarking a fresh public-private dialogue in the world of art.The exhibitions, which will be open to the public until February 20, 2022, are inaugurated at Mumbais oldest museum.This institution is dedicated to excellence through cultural education and innovative visual and intellectual media.

While Birds of India, the first-ever exhibition in the country dedicated to an extraordinary selection of Company Paintings of Indian birds, combines the delicacy and details of Mughal atelier-trained artists with the refinement and rationalisation of European art featuring works that signify a hybrid Indian art of rare and exceptional beauty, a style unique to the Indian subcontinent whose patronage was almost entirely British, New Found Lands explores landscape painting in India over a period of two hundred years, from 1780 to 1980, unfolding a visual story that moves from an imposed colonial gaze, through Indian accommodation and adjustment, to rejection, and the profusion of new forms of imagery, rooted in the land.Birds of India is the nations first exhibition devoted to an exceptional selection of Company Paintings of Indian birds.

It combines the delicate and detailed work of Mughal-trained artist with the rationalisation and refinement of European art.New Found Lands examines Indian landscape painting over two centuries, 1780-1980.This visual narrative moves between an Indian colonial gaze and Indian adaptation and adjustment to rejection and the profusion of new imagery that are rooted in India.

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