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akkithamnarayananc.douglask.s.gopal

p.gopinathm.v.devan

k.r.hariek.v.haridasanp.s.nandhan

s.nandagopals.p.jayakar

k.jayapalapanickera.selvaraj

m.senathipathis.g.vasudev

venkatapathyv.vishwanathan

richardjesudossmuralidharan

palaniappans.paramasivam

Address:Cholamandal Cultural Centre for Contemporary ArtEast Coast RoadInjambakkam, Chennai 600 041T: +91 44 24490092E: cholaartist@yahoo.comW: www.cholamandalartistsvillage.org

Cholamandal ArtistsVillage

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Akitham Narayanan (b. 1939)UntitledAcrylic on canvas24 x 24 inches

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The beaches of Cholamandalam village on the Mammallapuram coast at village Injambakkam, 9 km from Chennai, have witnessed a quiet and beautiful movement since 1966. That was when the Cholamandalam Artists Village was established. It is the largest artists commune in India, whose artists are credited for the Madras Movement of Art (1950s1980s), which brought modernism to art in the South India. Their work is widely recognized as some of the best art produced in postwar India, and is shown regularly in galleries across the country.

The community was founded by K. C. S. Paniker, the principal of the Madras School of Arts, along with his students and a few artists associated with the college. It used the `art-meets-craft approach where artists made handicrafts for a living even as they pursued their art. It has over twenty resident painters and sculptors, who live as a community and pool their skills; they also run the Artists Handicrafts Association, a cooperative which manages the village and sale of works through the permanent exhibition at the complex, which includes paintings, sketches, terra-cotta/stone/metal sculptures, batiks and handicrafts etc., made by the artists living the village, making the village a self-supporting entity. By 1970s, the village became self-sufficient, and grew into one of the most important meeting places for international artists in India, and today, it remains one of the few artist-driven movements that India.

Several Cholamandalam artists have also shown in Europe, the United States and South America. Four decades on, it is one of the few artists colonies in the world to survive successfully and its foundation remains one of the 10 biggest art moments in India.

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C. Douglas (b. 1951)UntitledMixed media on paper mounted on canvas48 x 36 inches

K. S. Gopal (b. 1938)OmGraphic print18 x 18 inches

P. Gopinath (b. 1948)UntitledAcrylic on canvas48 x 36 inches

M. V. Devan (b. 1928)CompositionPen & ink drawing12 x 15 inches

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K. R. Harie (b. 1941)RockscapePen & ink drawing30 x 22 inches

K. V. Haridasan (b. 1937)BrahmasutraOil on canvas48 x 48 inches

P. S. Nandhan (b. 1940)Twisted formGranite34 x 11 inches

S. Nandagopal (b. 1946)SleepWelded copper and brass

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S. P. Jayakar (b. 1931)Rama & SitaAcrylic on paper16 x 22 inches

K. Jayapala Panicker (b. 1937)UntitledMixed media on paper22 x 15 inches

A. Selvaraj (b. 1943)UntitledAcrylic on canvas36 x 48 inches

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S. G. Vasudev (b. 1941)RhapsodyAcrylic on canvas48 x 36 inches

Venkatapathy (b. 1935)UntitledAcrylic on canvas44 x 36 inches

V. Vishwanathan (b. 1940) UntitledAcrylic on canvas36 x 36 inches

M. Senathipathi (b. 1939)UntitledAcrylic on canvas48 x 36 inches

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Muralidharan (b. 1954)UntitledMixed media on canvas29 x 18 inches

Richard Jesudoss (b. 1939)UntitledBronze15 inches

Palaniappan (b. 1957)AlbuquerqueLithograph22 x 30 inches

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S. Paramasivam (b. 1942)UntitledWelded copper sheet60 inches