{"id":84996,"date":"2020-05-27T00:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15670"},"modified":"2020-05-27T00:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T19:05:43","slug":"ngma-to-organise-virtual-tour-to-mark-ramkinkar-baijs-115th-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ngma-to-organise-virtual-tour-to-mark-ramkinkar-baijs-115th-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"NGMA to organise virtual tour to mark Ramkinkar Baij&#8217;s 115th birth anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Ministry of Culture\u2019s National Gallery of Modern Art will organise a virtual tour to commemorate the 115th Birth Anniversary of Ramkinkar Baij.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ramkinkar Baij(1906-1980) was an iconic sculptor, painter and a graphic artist.<\/li><li>He studied at Kala Bhavana, the art school at Santiniketan and was under the guidance of Nandalal Bose.<\/li><li>He along with Nandalal Bose and Benodebehari Mukherjee played a pivotal role in making Santiniketan one of the most important centres for modern art in pre-Independent India.<\/li><li>He assimilated the idioms of the European modern visual language and yet was rooted in his own Indian ethos.He also introduced cement concrete casting as an alternative to expensive plaster.<\/li><li>He integrated elements of Santhal tribal art and life into his own work and enhanced them by understanding of Western expressionism.<\/li><li><strong>Recognition:<\/strong><ul><li>In 1970, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan.<\/li><li>In 1976, he was made a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Ministry of Culture\u2019s National Gallery of Modern Art will organise a virtual tour to commemorate the 115th Birth Anniversary of Ramkinkar Baij. Facts: Ramkinkar Baij(1906-1980) was an iconic sculptor, painter and a graphic artist. He studied at Kala Bhavana, the art school at Santiniketan and was under the guidance of Nandalal Bose. He&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ngma-to-organise-virtual-tour-to-mark-ramkinkar-baijs-115th-birth-anniversary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NGMA to organise virtual tour to mark Ramkinkar Baij&#8217;s 115th birth anniversary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956,2122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700783414,"cached_date":1704834007},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}