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50-465: India Art Fair , previously known as India Art Summit founded by Sunil Gautam , is an annual Indian modern and contemporary art fair held in New Delhi, India . The fair includes paintings, sculptures, photography, mixed media , prints, drawings and video art . The first three editions of the fair were organized at Pragati Maidan , one of India's largest and oldest exhibitions grounds. Starting from

100-450: A documentary titled From the Shadows that features survivors of child trafficking. Menacherry began work on the film five years prior, after seeing the #missing stencil art and finding Kejriwal. In 2016, Missing: Game for a Cause was distributed as a free interactive game for mobile and PC to raise awareness about the experiences of child victims of sex trafficking. Kejriwal developed

150-504: A member of the jury at the Salon d'Automne where he exhibited three of his dreamlike works: Enigma of the Oracle , Enigma of an Afternoon and Self-Portrait . In 1913 he exhibited his work at the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d'Automne, and his work was noticed by Pablo Picasso , Guillaume Apollinaire , and several others. His compelling and mysterious paintings are considered instrumental to

200-596: A search for more realism in the depiction of common life, as found in the work of painters such as Jean-François Millet . The advocates of realism stood against the idealism of the tradition-bound academic art that enjoyed public and official favor. The most successful painters of the day worked either through commissions or through large public exhibitions of their work. There were official, government-sponsored painters' unions, while governments regularly held public exhibitions of new fine and decorative arts. The Impressionists argued that people do not see objects but only

250-494: A young woman as the main character and includes information about legal rights. The organization also conducts educational campaigns across India that include programs for schools. In 2017, the organization conducted the "MISSING on a Journey" campaign, which included presentations at schools, street theatre, and public stencils in Ranchi, Lucknow, Agra, Jaipur, and New Delhi. The organization has also worked with experts to develop

300-655: Is a four-part public awareness campaign. It tackles the first P of the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking four P strategy on anti-trafficking, prevention through advocacy and awareness. Missing has operations in 6 countries Including India, United States, UK, Germany, Sudan, Tanzania. Missing has worked with NGOs and organizations including the Rotary Teach Programme, Yes Foundation, Rotaractors, iPartner India, Women and Child Development Ministry, iVolunteer, Association for

350-512: Is appointed as Fair Director in March 2021 for its 14th Edition. Modern art Art of Central Asia Art of East Asia Art of South Asia Art of Southeast Asia Art of Europe Art of Africa Art of the Americas Art of Oceania Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes

400-438: Is characteristic of much modern art. More recent artistic production is often called contemporary art or Postmodern art . Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh , Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin , Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec all of whom were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including

450-532: Is closely related to Modernism . Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern painting can be located earlier. Francisco Goya is considered by many as the Father of Modern Painting without being a Modernist himself, a fact of art history that later painters associated with Modernism as a style, acknowledge him as an influence. The date perhaps most commonly identified as marking

500-481: The pre-cubists Georges Braque , André Derain , Raoul Dufy , Jean Metzinger and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild," multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism . Matisse's two versions of The Dance signified a key point in his career and the development of modern painting. It reflected Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art :

550-586: The 1980s and 1990s, as evidenced by the rise of neo-expressionism and the revival of figurative painting . Towards the end of the 20th century, many artists and architects started questioning the idea of "the modern" and created typically Postmodern works . (Roughly chronological with representative artists listed.) Missing (awareness campaign) Missing Link Trust is a nonprofit organization that uses art and educational campaigns to raise awareness and prevent child sex trafficking . Their work includes public sculpture installations, stencil campaigns,

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600-646: The 4th edition, Sunil Gautam divested his full stake in India Art Fair to three partners; Neha Kirpal (Associate Summit Director, India Art Summit), Sandy Angus (Chairman of global exhibitions group Montgomery Worldwide) and Will Ramsay (Founder of PULSE Art Fairs, and Affordable Art Fairs). 2012: For the fourth edition of India Art Summit, which was renamed as India Art Fair moved to the NSIC Grounds in Okhla and hosted 90 galleries from 20 countries, 1000 artists from around

650-423: The 4th edition, the venue was shifted to NSIC grounds, Okhla . First held in 2008, it is India's largest art fair. The art fair includes several pavilions of exhibits by galleries and solo projects by several artists. It also has an art education series with guided walks conducted by curators and students of art history . Simultaneously, there is a speakers' forum with panel of Indian and international experts from

700-616: The Design Store located in the new IAF Courtyard, as well as a new rooftop restaurant 2016: The eighth edition: BMW joined as Presenting Partners, and the fair was restructured into 5 main sections: Galleries , featuring leading Indian, South Asian and international galleries; Focus , showing solo presentations which have been curated by participating galleries or institutions; Institutional , showcasing leading international and Indian museums and art foundations presenting elements of their programmes or collaborations commissioned specially for

750-700: The JSW Foundation, and a smartphone app was created to provide viewers with more information and links to NGOs working to prevent child trafficking. In 2018, the project included sculptures throughout Kolkata . There are more than 5000 project stencils across villages and cities in India. Missing's stencil projects are in 17 cities, including Anupshahr , Bengaluru , Berlin, Chennai , Delhi , Dodoma , Goa, Jaipur , Kishanganj , Khartoum , Kokrajjar, Kolkata , Los Angeles, London, Mumbai , Pune and Salt Lake City . In 2021, filmmaker Miriam Chandy Menacherry released

800-561: The Mark Rothko Museum in Latvia both participated in the fair for the first time. A public sculpture installation titled M.I.S.S.I.N.G. highlighted the gender gap in India . 2015: The seventh edition hosted 91 exhibiting booths and over 80,000 visitors. Sales were up 25% and were reported not just from Delhi, but also from tier-II and tier-III cities such as Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Jaipur. A number of new spaces were launched, including

850-509: The Promotion of Social Change (APSA), Jamghat, Nedan Foundation, Paint Our World, Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES), Prerana, RAHAT, STOP, Udayan Care, and Vatsalya. As a photographer, Leena Kejriwal became motivated to raise awareness about the prevalence of sex trafficking in India. When she first started working with NGOs like Hamari Muskan and New Light as an artist, she created complicated installations within gallery spaces on

900-408: The art domain to discuss issues pertaining to the art in the region. It focuses on key issues related with the art production, art market and its reception in India. The first fair targeted over 6000 visitors with 34 exhibiting galleries at the fair, and over 550 contemporary and modern artworks. The fair rapidly gained popularity, and the first three fairs had a total 146,000 visitors, making it among

950-604: The art fair circuit, sold its entire stake in India Art Fair (IAF) to Angus Montgomery Arts in 2019, making Sandy Angus the sole-owner of the India Art Fair, New Delhi. The current portfolio of Chairman Sandy Angus led Angus Montgomery Arts includes Taipei Dangdai, India Art Fair, Sydney Contemporary, PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, Art Central Hong Kong, Art Düsseldorf, Photo London and the forthcoming Art SG, Tokyo Gendai  and PHOTOFAIRS New York. 2008: Inaugural edition, known as India Art Summit, opened at Pragati Maidan The first fair targeted over 6000 visitors with 34 exhibiting galleries at

1000-484: The attention of curators and critics, at the expense of more traditional media. Larger installations and performances became widespread. By the end of the 1970s, when cultural critics began speaking of "the end of painting" (the title of a provocative essay written in 1981 by Douglas Crimp ), new media art had become a category in itself, with a growing number of artists experimenting with technological means such as video art . Painting assumed renewed importance in

1050-519: The birth of modern art as a movement is 1863, the year that Édouard Manet showed his painting Le déjeuner sur l'herbe in the Salon des Refusés in Paris. Earlier dates have also been proposed, among them 1855 (the year Gustave Courbet exhibited The Artist's Studio ) and 1784 (the year Jacques-Louis David completed his painting The Oath of the Horatii ). In the words of art historian H. Harvard Arnason : "Each of these dates has significance for

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1100-494: The development of modern art, but none categorically marks a completely new beginning .... A gradual metamorphosis took place in the course of a hundred years." The strands of thought that eventually led to modern art can be traced back to the Enlightenment . The modern art critic Clement Greenberg , for instance, called Immanuel Kant "the first real Modernist" but also drew a distinction: "The Enlightenment criticized from

1150-521: The early beginnings of Surrealism . Song of Love (1914) is one of the most famous works by de Chirico and is an early example of the surrealist style, though it was painted ten years before the movement was "founded" by André Breton in 1924. The School of Paris , centered in Montparnasse flourished between the two world wars. World War I brought an end to this phase but indicated the beginning of many anti-art movements, such as Dada , including

1200-612: The estimated tens of thousands of girls that disappear each year and over a million children working in the sex industry in India. Kejriwal used crowdfunding to help raise money to expand the project. The NGOs Apne Aap and Hamari Muskan collaborated in the stencil campaign in West Bengal . The organization launched a website, Savemissinggirls.com, with downloadable stencil kits featuring silhouettes of girls and an emergency government helpline number (1098) for children. The sculpture project expanded with support from Sangita Jindal and

1250-579: The exception of 2010. Sunil Gautam, the owner of the India Art Summit fully divested his 100% stake in early 2011 to three stakeholders, Neha Kirpal (51%), Sandy Angus(35%) and Will Ramsay (14%), co-founders of the Hong Kong Art Fair. In 2009 the highlight of the fair was a display of Pablo Picasso 's works, exhibited by Beck & Eggeling, a German gallery. The same year Lisson Gallery brought diaspora artist Anish Kapoor 's sculptures to India for

1300-471: The fair, and 550 contemporary and modern artworks. 2009: The second edition saw the number of exhibiting galleries increase to 54 with attendance of over 40,000 visitors. Mr.Sunil Gautam, Founder and Managing Director of India Art Summit,(then chairman, Hanmer & MSL) divested his entire stake in 2011 by the time of 3rd edition 2011: The third edition hosted 84 gallery booths, and visitor levels significantly rose to 128,000. Also in 2011, in advance of

1350-537: The fair; Platform , representing young emerging artists or collectives from throughout South Asia, open to galleries and foundations within the region; and Projects , showing artworks, including large scale sculptures or site specific installations, at the fair. On the 12 September 2016, MCH Swiss Exhibitions (Basel) Ltd., a company of MCH Group Ltd., acquired 60.3% of the shares in Seventh Plane Pvt. Ltd in New Delhi,

1400-412: The first clear manifestation of cubism, was followed by Synthetic cubism , practiced by Braque, Picasso, Fernand Léger , Juan Gris , Albert Gleizes , Marcel Duchamp and several other artists into the 1920s. Synthetic cubism is characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements, papier collé and a large variety of merged subject matter. The notion of modern art

1450-496: The first decade of the 20th century were Fauvism , Cubism , Expressionism , and Futurism . Futurism took off in Italy a couple years before World War I with the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 's Futurist Manifesto . Benedetta Cappa Marinetti , wife of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, created the second wave of the artistic movement started by her husband. "Largely thanks to Benedetta, her husband F.T. Marinetti re orchestrated

1500-506: The first time. The New owners renamed India Art Summit as India Art Fair before 2012 edition. In Sept 2016, just before 2017 edition of India Art Fair, Neha Kirpal divested her majority stake in the India Art Fair to MCH Group, the owner of Art Basel Franchise, retaining just 10% stake to play minor role in the art fair. At the same time Will Ramsay too divested his stake in the India Art Fair to new owners MCH Group(60.3%), Sandy Angus (29.7%) and Neha Kirpal(10%). Later MCH Group, Swiss giant in

1550-473: The focal point of new artistic movements. The 1950s and 1960s saw the emergence of Abstract Expressionism , Color field painting , Conceptual artists of Art & Language , Pop art , Op art , Hard-edge painting , Minimal art , Lyrical Abstraction , Fluxus , Happening , video art , Postminimalism , Photorealism and various other movements. In the late 1960s and the 1970s, Land art , performance art , conceptual art, and other new art forms attracted

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1600-628: The game with Flying Robot Studios in Kolkata , India. By 2017, the team was developing a role-playing game version, Missing: The Complete Saga , and raising money on Kickstarter to expand the development team. The team raised $ 50,795 on Kickstarter to develop the game. The game is intended for a mature audience, and aims to expose the player to the dark world of human trafficking and raise awareness about it. The game developer Satyajit Chakraborty travelled with Kejriwal to different red light districts in Kolkata and to rural Bengal to better understand

1650-614: The installation M.I.S.S.I.N.G. was shown outdoors at the India Art Fair , consisting of three female figures cut from steel and painted black to reflect the gender gap in India , described by Kejriwal as "like sharp, black holes cut out of the sky. Holes into which millions of girls disappear from the face of this earth." In 2015, the M.I.S.S.I.N.G. project expanded into a nationwide public art installation, with stencils used to spraypaint black silhouettes of girls in cities including Bangalore , Delhi and Chennai to raise awareness about

1700-505: The intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism . At the start of 20th-century Western painting , and initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec , Gauguin and other late-19th-century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first Cubist paintings based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube , sphere and cone . With

1750-510: The interactive video game Missing: Game for a Cause , and the interactive online comic Web of Deceit - A missing and trafficking casefile . The organization was awarded the 2021 Stop Slavery Campaigns Award from the Thomson Reuters Foundation . The mission of the organization is "to combine art and technology in creating mass awareness amongst the public, through innovative ways, leading to prevention of sex trafficking." Missing

1800-442: The issue. By 2021, MISSING: Game for a Cause had over a million downloads between 70 countries. Missing Link Trust worked jointly with International Justice Mission to develop a mobile app for Android devices titled "Web of Deceit - A missing and trafficking casefile" that was released in 2021. The app is an interactive comic designed to educate people about human trafficking and resources to get help. The comic features

1850-433: The light that they reflect, and therefore painters should paint in natural light ( en plein air ) rather than in studios and should capture the effects of light in their work. Impressionist artists formed a group, Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs ("Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers") which, despite internal tensions, mounted a series of independent exhibitions. The style

1900-594: The next edition of the fair in February 2017 although the value of its engagement will not be fully felt until 2018. India is the “first region of focus” for MCH, indicative of the growing international interest in Indian and South Asian art, and the building of a strong cultural ecosystem in the region, from Kochi Biennale to Dhaka Art Summit . 2017 : Jagdip Jagpal was appointed as Fair Director in August 2017. 2021 : Jaya Asokan

1950-607: The organiser of India Art Fair. With the participation of MCH Group and the co-ownership with Angus Montgomery Ltd. (29.7%) and the Founding Director Neha Kirpal (10%), India Art Fair will have new ownership for its ninth edition taking place 2–5 February 2017. Kirpal, who took over the charge of the fair in 2011 from the founder of the India Art Fair(Summit) Mr.Sunil Gautam, will still play a role in its development. The new ownership comes into effect ahead of

2000-402: The outside ... . Modernism criticizes from the inside." The French Revolution of 1789 uprooted assumptions and institutions that had for centuries been accepted with little question and accustomed the public to vigorous political and social debate. This gave rise to what art historian Ernst Gombrich called a "self-consciousness that made people select the style of their building as one selects

2050-434: The painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), Picasso dramatically created a new and radical picture depicting a raw and primitive brothel scene with five prostitutes, violently painted women, reminiscent of African tribal masks and his new Cubist inventions. Analytic cubism was jointly developed by Picasso and Georges Braque , exemplified by Violin and Candlestick, Paris, from about 1908 through 1912. Analytic cubism,

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2100-448: The pattern of a wallpaper." The pioneers of modern art were Romantics , Realists and Impressionists . By the late 19th century, additional movements which were to be influential in modern art had begun to emerge: Post-Impressionism and Symbolism . Influences upon these movements were varied: from exposure to Eastern decorative arts, particularly Japanese printmaking , to the coloristic innovations of Turner and Delacroix , to

2150-719: The shifting ideologies of Futurism to embrace feminine elements of intuition, spirituality, and the mystical forces of the earth." She painted up until his death and spent the rest of her days tending to the spread and growth of this period in Italian art, which celebrated technology, speed and all things new. During the years between 1910 and the end of World War I and after the heyday of cubism , several movements emerged in Paris. Giorgio de Chirico moved to Paris in July 1911, where he joined his brother Andrea (the poet and painter known as Alberto Savinio ). Through his brother, he met Pierre Laprade,

2200-434: The styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency away from the narrative , which was characteristic of the traditional arts, toward abstraction

2250-531: The subcontinent. Following in the tradition of international art fairs and other global platforms for art exhibition and sale, then Founder and Director of India Art Summit Sunil Gautam realised the need for a similar platform in India to respond to the global interest in Indian art. This led him to conceptualize the first ever India Art Summit (IAS) in 2008. It was patronised by prominent Indian artists like Anjolie Ela Menon , S H Raza , Krishen Khanna and Keshav Malik . Since then it has taken place every year with

2300-557: The subject. Kejriwal began working in Kalighat with Rotary International as a volunteer in 2007 and wrote the book Kolkata Repossessing the City , which later developed into art exhibitions. After gallery exhibitions did not reach a wide audience, Kejriwal decided to develop public art installations to raise awareness. Kejriwal founded the Missing Link organization in 2014. In January 2014,

2350-518: The work of Marcel Duchamp , and of Surrealism . Artist groups like de Stijl and Bauhaus developed new ideas about the interrelation of the arts, architecture, design, and art education. Modern art was introduced to the United States with the Armory Show in 1913 and through European artists who moved to the U.S. during World War I. It was only after World War II , however, that the U.S. became

2400-484: The world's most popular art fairs. India Art Fair is the biggest fair of modern and contemporary Indian art in the world. Its first three editions attracted over 146,000 visitors and its fourth edition held in 2012 canvassed 91 exhibitors from 20 countries. Over the years the fair has mainly showcased Indian modernists (including Bombay Progressive Artists' Group ), Indian diaspora artists such as Anish Kapoor , contemporary Indian artists, international artists and art from

2450-894: The world, with 80,000 visitor and visits by 26 Museum groups including representatives from the Tate, Guggenheim, New Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Pompidou Centre, MOMA and the Singapore Art Museum. 2013: At the preview alone of the fifth edition over 3,000 works of art were sold by 105 exhibitors from 24 countries. YES Bank joined as Presenting Partners, maintaining the partnership for the next three editions. 2014: The sixth edition featured 91 booths and modern and contemporary works by over 1,000 artists from India and overseas. Participants included 12 new galleries from outside India, including Israel, France, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Turkey and Karachi, Pakistan. The Himalayas Art Museum in Shanghai and

2500-463: Was adopted by artists in different nations, in preference to a "national" style. These factors established the view that it was a "movement." These traits—establishment of a working method integral to the art, the establishment of a movement or visible active core of support, and international adoption—would be repeated by artistic movements in the Modern period in art. Among the movements that flowered in

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