BACHHAWAT FOUNDATION:
The Legacy Continues
Art and Deal Correspondent
With an aim to uphold their interest in promoting art and artists, writers and litterateurs, critics, craftsmen, poets, collectors, theorists, connoisseurs, the Bachhawat Foundation lays the foundation stone of building a culturally sound society in the city of joy, Kolkata, for generations to come, reports Art and Deal Correspondent.
The ‘Bachhawats of Kolkata’ stand emblematic in their contribution to the field of art, literature, aesthetics and culture. The legacy of their patronage to the wide range of beneficiaries including visual artists, poets, writers, litterateurs, critics, raftsmen, collectors, theorists, connoisseurs and many more is unprecedented and unparalleled in the City of Joy. They are one of the primary initiators to set the discourse of creative connectivity, artistic freedom and cultural interaction between different cross-sections of art practitioners from the local identity to the global vintage. The dynamics and the dialectics of contemporary Indian art and its intellectual propagation has been geared up by the Bachhawats for more than two generations and now it’s time to add another feather in its cap of accomplishments as a much bigger signifier in the world of art and aesthetics.
Before naming it, let’s take a look at the opening remarks to a series of lectures by one of the legendary artists of Modern Indian Art, K. G. Subramanyan where he stated, “What concept does a modern artist or critic have of current art activity? How does a modern artist react to his environment and cultural inheritance? What perceptions or illusions or emotional urges does he work under? And what general norms of achievement can we think of in the highly heterogeneous art scene of today?”– The answer to these issues in the form of this set of questions has been delivered by the Bachhawats in several ways for an age, but now, standing on the verge of cultural conglomeration globally, setting up its apex model, the only one of its kind in the art- scape of the nation, they re-define the cultural spirit and heritage of the city once more.
