Ashima Sharma, 9th August, 2014, Shimla
The Children Art Exhibition organised by the Charu Castel Foundation in association with the Department of Language Art and Culture Himachal at Gaiety Theatre, Shimla saw some astonishing art work by students from different schools during the seven days long exhibition starting from 9th to 15th August, 2014. The chief organiser of the exhibition Kapoor V. Bhan said, “This exhibition has been put up by all of us so that people can experience the finest art work produced by the students all around the country as these are some best scanned works that we received during the International Devbhoomi International Painting Competition and CCF Female Fine Art Workshop and Camp held in November last year. Thousands of students participated in the competition and more than 1,200 students won prizes worth one lakh, mementos and gold medals. Many dignitaries, bureaucrats, educationists, fine artists have been our guest for this exhibition”.
This is the fifth time that the Charu Castle Foundation came up another brilliant idea of displaying art work by children and organised competition in Himachal. They received numerous paintings from school all over Himachal on various social evil themes like ‘Save Wild Animals’, ‘Grow More Trees’ and ‘Save Girl Child’. Apart from this there were paintings on the themes of religion, sketches and females.
A local resident Megha Teshta expressed her views on the painting displayed in the exhibition and said, “The art work displayed is awesome and I am sure the students must have put in an immense amount of hard work in them”. Another resident Sharad Sharma said, “I was awestruck by looking at the sketches in the exhibition; they are as good as professional’s work”. More than 750 paintings were on display, which were being changed at regular intervals.
The exhibition was a good opportunity for both, the art lovers and artists, to share, learn and appreciate the work of young artists with marvelous drawing skills.