How green was my valley?, a retrospective showcase of paintings by Kishori Kaul. Presented by Anant Art
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The exhibition spans the length of Kishori Kaul’s artistic practice, featuring paintings that represent her transition and transformation at every point of her artistic career. Through the works on view, one journeys with the artist as a student of painting in Baroda, influenced by her teachers’ styles, to finding her own expressionist wings in the years to follow, to harking back to her roots by referencing the environs of her homeland.
Kishori Kaul (1939 - 2018) was born to a Kashmiri Pandit family in Srinagar. She was trained in painting by stalwarts like K. G. Subramanyan and N. S. Bendre at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from where she graduated with a Master’s Degree in painting in 1966. Kishori Kaul’s artistic oeuvre is deeply rooted in and inspired by the verdant vistas of Kashmir. Her works have been exhibited widely in India and abroad in venues such as Gallery Art Heritage, the Lalit Kala Akademi, the Tokyo Biennale, and India House London to name a few. Kishori Kaul received the National Award from Lalit Kala Akademi in 1981, and her works feature in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and the Patiala Museum, Punjab.
