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Swing
Vidya Shankar Sthapathy2008/2008
Cholamandal Artists' Village
Chennai, India
Vidya Shankar Sthapathy happens to be the only craftsman who turned to contemporary sculpture and is one of the pioneers of the Madras Metaphor (the contemporary sculpture movement in Madras). This sculpture depicts a girl on a swing with the background of a tree and is crafted out of copper sheet.
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Details
- Title: Swing
- Creator: Vidya Shankar Sthapathy
- Date Created: 2008/2008
- Location: Cholamandal Artists’ Village Injambakkam, Chennai, India.
- Type: Sculpture
- Medium: Embossed Copper
- Movement: Madras Movement
- Creator's Lifetime: 1938
- Artist Biography: 1938 Born in Srirangam. 1962 Diploma, Government College of Arts & Crafts, Madras. 1976 Bombay Art Society Award. 1991 'The Madras Metaphor' Exhibition, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi. 1993 National Award of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; featured in the book 'The Madras Metaphor' by Oxford University Press.
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