"Buddhist Art in Dunhuang and the Silk Road in China" Talk by Anu Jindal at IHC

"Glimpses of China" an illustrated talk at IIC on 19 July 2016

"Sakura Spring" by Anu Jindal upcoming show at Purple Streak Centre for Arts

Happy Dussehra

Happy Dussehra

This Ravan was the collective creation of 5 kids ranging from 5-7 yrs made in Purple Streak's art classes

"Mesmerizing Momiji-Japanese Crimson" Exhibition of Artworks by Anu Jindal

images from the show

Purple Streak Centre for Arts

announces upcoming show

Mesmerizing Momiji

Japanese Crimson

Exhibition of Artworks by Anu Jindal

December 2014

an image from the show 

Jean Arp The Biomorphist

Birth anniversary of 

Jean Arp

(given name Hans Arp)

French Artist: sculptor, painter, collagist, printmaker, constructivist

16 Sept 1886 born in Germany; d. 1966

Movements: Abstraction, Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, Biomorphism

Jean Arp  Human Concretion

1935, plaster, 49.5 x 47.6 x 64.7 cm. MOMA

Jean Arp was born in Germany to a German father and French mother. He studied and worked in France, Germany and Switzerland.  He was one of the founders of the Dada movement in Zurich in a group that included Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, and others. The Cabaret Voltaire which opened in 1916 became the center of Dada activities for this group.

In the 1920s Jean Arp painted wooden wall relief and by the 1930s he shifted to making sculptures in the round, in wood and plaster, the initial forms being human torsos. Gradually he gravitated towards biomorphic forms originating from concepts of metamorphosis and growth. Amoebic, rounded forms demonstrated fluidity and ambiguity

An interesting oeuvre was a series of small works which encouraged interaction by the viewers, whereby they could separate and rearrange the formations to their liking.

Jean Arp in his studio 1950s. Photo by Ida Kar

Jean Arp  Forest

1916, painted wood relief. 32.7 x 19.7 x 7.6 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington

Jean Arp  Head and Shell (Tête et coquille)

ca. 1933. Polished brass, 19.7 x 22.5 cm. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation,

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Jean Arp  Growth

1938. Marble, 80.3 cm high. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Jean Arp  The Navel Bottle (Die Nabelflasche)

plate 4 from portfolio of seven lithographs. Edition of 50, 1923

composition (irreg.): 41.6 x 24.8 cm; sheet: 45.1 x 34.9 cm.

Publisher: Merzverlag(Kurt Schwitters), Hannover, Germany. Printer: A. Molling & Comp., Hannover, Germany probably. Edition of 50. MOMA