Academy Montmartre: a new service to patronize and promote art and artist

Academy Montmartre –is a place where all kinds of artists will gather, create and sell their creations at a throw away price every Saturday  from 2 to 6pm.It is yet another milestone that we are going to cross on 15^th October 2012, the sacredday of Mahalaya.This endeavour is to take ART to the courtyard of commons.

Academy of Fine Arts, the most famous and prestigious art organizations of eastern India is thus going to fulfill its commitment of promoting art as it is doing tirelessly for last seventy nine years.

The word ‘Montmartre’ was originally Roman meaning ‘Mount of Mars’ but later changed by pagan French to ‘Mount of Martyrs’ or Montmartre was a small art village in the outskirts north of Paris,French where the downtrodden were pushed in order to give more space to rich and influentials. This small village had become a pilgrimage of art as it became studios and homes to many legendary artists of nineteen century.

We have borrowed the name and attached it to ours as Academy of Fine Arts is also considered a pilgrimage to all artists and art lovers.

Therefore, erect your easel or sharpen your chisel and come, join us in the inauguration of Academy Montmartre.

A documentary on artist Sri jahar Dasgupta will be screenedon the sameday at 6.30pm at the conference hall of the Academy.

Date: 15^th October 2012

Venue:Academy of Fine Arts, 2 Cathedral Road, Kolkata

Time: 2pm to 6pm

Documentary: 6.30pm to 7.30pm

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Many artists had studios or worked around the community of Montmartre such as Salvador Dalí, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. Montmartre is also the setting for several hit films. In the mid-19th century, artists such as Johan Jongkind and Camille Pissarro came to inhabit Montmartre. But only at the end of the century did the district become the principal artistic center of Paris.
Artists' associations such as Les Nabis and the Incoherents were formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen, and African-American expatriates such as Langston Hughes worked in Montmartre and drew some of their inspiration from the area.
Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and other impoverished artists lived and worked in a commune, a building called Le Bateau-Lavoir, during the years 1904–1909. Composers, including Satie (who was a pianist at Le Chat Noir), also lived in the area.
The last of the bohemian Montmartre artists was Gen Paul (1895–1975), born in Montmartre and a friend of Utrillo. Paul's calligraphic expressionist lithographs, sometimes memorializing picturesque Montmartre itself, owe a lot to Raoul Dufy.