National Gallery of Modern Art

The National Gallery of Modern Art celebrates the art-culture of India. India has a rich tradition of paintings and the National Gallery of Modern Art highlights the strife of the Indians towards this goal.

Established in 1954, the National Gallery of Modern Art stores the traits of the evolution in the history of Indian paintings. National Gallery of Modern Art records the changing forms of art since the Great Revolt of 1857.

The National Gallery of the contemporary art houses a large collection of paintings (around 4000 paintings), graphics, and sculptures made by different renowned artists, as well as amateurs. In this gallery we find paintings, sculptures and graphics from mid 19th century till date. The paintings of many famous painters have found resort in the National Gallery of Modern Art. Among the famous painters, we can name a few:

Rabindranth Tagore

Abanindranath Tagore

Nandalal Bose

Binod Bihari Mukherjee

Ramkumar Kinkar, and so on.

The essential motive of the National Gallery of Modern Art is to set a standard to be followed by up-coming artists. In fact, the National Gallery of Modern Art sticks to certain parameters, in order to ensure an over-all development of the said tradition. The aims and objectives of the gallery can be summed up as:

To preserve the various forms of modern art.

To ensure the permanent display of the paintings and sculptures.

To organize exhibition, seminars and workshops in order to create an awareness about the art and the artists.

To facilitate the publication of books, periodicals and other such study materials in order to encourage further studies in the vocational courses such as painting, sculpture, etc.

Thus, it seems that the National Gallery of Modern Art is the holy shrine for painters where tourists inclined towards painting must pay a visit at least once!