‘Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama : A creative visual dialogue in Miniature painting style’

‘Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama : A creative visual dialogue in Miniature painting style’

“Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama: A Creative visual dialogue in Miniature painting style”

By Shelly Jyoti Artist, Designer, Poet and an independent curator

View the full 23 min lecture at The ATWS conference  IIT Chennai

Video credits:  Dr Kehbuma Langmia

Image : ‘Lincoln ,Gandhi and Obama: A visual Dialogue’,Gouache  on  wasli paper,11×8 inches, 2013

 For

Association of Third World Studies (ATWS)

31st Annual International  Conference

28-30 December 2013

Chennai, India                                            

Venue: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)

Erik H. Erikson records in his book “Gandhi’s Truths” that when Mahatma Gandhi met with the British viceroy in 1930 after the Indian salt protest campaign, Gandhi took some duty-free salt from his shawl and said with a smile that the salt should ” remind you of the famous Boston Tea Party’.

From the Boston Tea Party to Gandhi’s Salt March, struggles over economic issues have historically had great importance in anticolonial movements. This artwork has multiple parallels and references of Boston Tea party, blue pottery from china and Obama’s self-confessed wisdom derived from Lincoln and Gandhi.

Abstract: Using a visual language , I am exploring  within my recent artwork titled  ‘Lincoln ,Gandhi and Obama: A visual dialogue’(2013)  the commonalities between legends Lincoln and Gandhi, the two great political leaders of their times who fought for the freedom of their countrymen . Further they both have been personal mentors and inspiration to Obama . I am attempting to create the imagery in Persian miniature art form engaging by weaving a dialogue between Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama . As a contemporary artist, my works are centred on historical iconographic elements within the cultural context of Indian history. I explore and construct the hermeneutics of period histories, its contemporary representation of socio-economic and political inquiry within my art practice. This artwork is an extension of my previous projects ‘Salt: The Great March’(2013) and ‘Indigo Narratives’(2009-13) which examined Gandhiji’s involvement in freedom struggle as an anti-colonial resistant movements.

My paper would explore in facilitating a visual dialogue and also investigating the technique of traditional miniature artwork that originated from Persia and came in India through Mughals and still prevent in India in different styles.

‘Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama: A visual dialogue’(2013)  series of artworks will be discussed by   Mandakini V Jha(Dept of Sociology M.S university Baroda)in her paper titled “A Painting on Lincoln: Sociological Theory , Art and Artists”

          

 

SHELLY JYOTI REVIEW 2013

Shelly Jyoti                                                                                                       

Artist, Designer, Poet and an independent curator

 

REVIEW 2013    Newsletter

January –April 2013

INDIGO:SHELLY JYOTI &LAURA KINA (Two woman show)

Chicago Cultural Centre IL USA

Public lecture: Chicago rooms, Chicago Art Galleries  IL

Talks: Art Institute of Chicago ,Textile Dept of chicago, DeePaul Univ chicago

In part supported by ICCR  New Delhi and Gujarat lalit kala Academy

 

Sept- October   2013

SALT: THE GREAT MARCH

Re-contextualising Azrakh textile tradition in contemporary art and craft (Solo show)

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts IGNCA New Delhi

Catalog: Publication by IGNCA

Public lecture: Re-building a Sense of Nationalism , Lecture Hall at IGNCA

The show supported by IGNCA

 

November  2013

CARE package  C/o India (Group show of 5 Asian or Asian descent artists )

India International Centre, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi India

 

November – January 2014

INDIGO: SHELLY JYOTI &LAURA KINA

Gandhi Memorial Centre Washington DC

Supported by Embassy of India , ICCR  New Delhi

 

December 2013 Conferences

SALT AND INDIGO : A VISUAL TRANSLATION IN REFRENCE TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY

For  XVI International Conference, Forum for Contemporary Theory

Theme: “Translation, Comparatism and the Global South

Date: 15 – 18 December 2013  Mysore India

 

Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama: A Creative visual dialogue in Miniature painting style

The 31st Annual conference of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS)

Theme:Prioritizing the Future:Continuing and change in the Global South in the 21st Century

28-30 December 2013

Chennai, India

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)

 

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