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INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART HISTRY

     Some remarkable years of INDIAN ART HISTORY............     ·         1850      Madras College of Art is established. ·         1857      Bombay College of Art, later named as Sir J. J.   School of Art is       established.                                    ·         1913      Rabindranath Tagore receives the Nobel Prize for Literature for his book “GITANJALI”, he is the first non western to receive this honoured. ·         1921      Vishva Bharti Shantiniketan is inaugurated by Tagore. ·         1945       Dhoomimal Art Gallery is founded by Ram Babu Jain ·         1967      M.F. Husain wins the Golden Bear for his documentary in Berlin.   Souza Receives the Guggenheim International Award in      New York. ·         1973      Husain honoured by Padma Bhushan. ·         1987     The first auction of Indian Contemporary art is held in India and M.F. Husain’s “Mother Teresa” sells for Rs.5 lakh. ·         1987     National Institute of Fashion Technology established. ·         199