{"id":2514,"date":"2023-02-01T02:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:46:59","slug":"who-was-amrita-sher-gil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-was-amrita-sher-gil\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Amrita Sher-Gil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>About Amrita Sher-Gil:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Amrita was an <strong>Indian-Hungarian painter<\/strong> and one of the avant-garde women artists.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Though her art education was from Paris, she has discovered the artistic traditions of India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>She travelled widely in India during 1939 which brought a robust impact on the style of expression, figuration and composition in her artwork.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Her famous works are<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A group of three girls.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Brahmacharis, Bride\u2019s toilet.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Lady Daljit Singh of Kapurthala, Musicians, women on Charpoy, Camels and Village girls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the objective of the National Gallery of Modern art?<\/h3>\n<p>Some of the objectives of the National Gallery of Modern art are to acquire and preserve works of modern art from the 1850s onward, organize, maintain and develop galleries for permanent display etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1895112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The National Gallery of Modern Art in association with Liszt Institute, Hungarian Cultural Centre, celebrates the 110th birth anniversary of Amrita Sher-Gil.<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amrita was an Indian-Hungarian painter and one of the avant-garde women artists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}