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Duration: 1 month
Alongside organising drawing and painting classes, and workshops on pottery and printmaking, over the last three years KCC has been successfully running art appreciation courses both online and at the centre for junior as well as senior participants. However, this year we wish to curate courses for art enthusiasts and students that will encourage them to engage discursively with certain modes of art-making while interacting with renowned practitioners and scholars. Our first in the series is on Indian sculptures from the Ancient to the Contemporary with prominent sculptors K S Radhakrishnan and L N Tallur, and renowned scholars like Prof. Jayaram Poduval and Prof. Parul Pandya Dhar as the facilitators.
This course would hark back to the memories of sculptures one had seen in their school's history textbooks and provide the skill sets required to appreciate them as works of art and to understand their evolution as cultural symbols. In the Indian context, modern to the contemporary period itself has illustrious sculptors like Ramkinkar Baij, Somenath Hore, Sankho Chaudhuri, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Meera Mukherjee, Himmat Shah, K. P. Krishnakumar, Kanayi Kunhiraman, KS Radhakrishnan, Dhruva Mistry, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Shilpa Gupta, LN Tallur, N. N. Rimzon, Anish Kapoor among others. Their contribution has been immense. What did they appropriate from the past or how did they break free and strike new paths?
This course aims to help the learners understand this evolution of sculptures from ancient to contemporary times while equipping them to better appreciate the same.

Outline of the course:
Topic | Overview of Indian Sculptures: The language of sculptures, and its multiplicity | Contemporary Art Practice between Past and Future | Modern and Contemporary Sculptures in Practice | Stone Sculptors and Sculptures of the Early Medieval Deccan |
Sculptor/Scholar | Prof. Jayaram Poduval | LN Tallur | K S Radhakrishnan | Prof. Parul Pandya Dhar |
Date | 6th & 7th August | 20th & 21st August | 13th & 14th August | 27th& 28th August |
Day | Saturday & Sunday | Saturday & Sunday | Saturday & Sunday | Saturday & Sunday |
Time | 11 AM | 11 AM | 11 AM | 11 AM |
Duration | Not more than 2 hours | Not more than 2 hours | Not more than 2 hours | Not more than 2 hours |
Medium | Zoom | Zoom | Zoom | Zoom |

Bios of Facilitator
Dr. Jayaram Poduval is a professor at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics. He specializes in the subject of Indian Architecture. His research is in South Asian Art & Architecture. Dr. Poduval has written extensively on Chalukya, Vijayanagar, Ellora, Kerala, and Christian Art of Kerala and Gujarat Architecture. Having been a Fellow of Advanced Studies in Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, he now teaches Indian Architecture, Renaissance Art, Islamic art and Contemporary Western Art.




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KCC BLUE is our training and capacity-building platform that engages with participants ranging from children, young students, emerging artists, art managers, professional artists and enthusiasts.Through various well-curated programs and appreciation courses designed for the concerned groups and led by panels of experts and experienced faculties, the program exposes the participants to different disciplines of art and craft practices. Besides honing skills, it also encourages critical thinking and creative engagement.A recent addition to our partners has been University of Jammu, Central University, Jammu.