Meeting with Living Legend!!!
Shri Nek Chand Ji
Shri Nek Chand Saini
is an Indian self-taught artist,
famous for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen acre
sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh,
India .
He hailed from
Shakargarh region (now in Pakistan )
of district Gurdaspur. His family moved to Chandigarh in 1947 during the Partition. At the time, the city was being
redesigned as a modern utopia by the Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier.
It was to be the first planned city in India , and Shri Nek Chand Ji found work there
as a roads inspector for the Public Works Department in 1951. He was awarded
the Padma Shri
by Government of India in 1984.
Mrs. Shivani Rajpal (Director of Bharat Academy of Fine Arts) explaining the details of art work done by Academy to Shri Nek Chand Ji
Shri Nek Chand Ji going through the Catalog of Annual Art Exhibition of Bharat Academy of Fine Arts
Shri Nek Chand Ji with Mrs. Shivani Rajpal (Director of Bharat Academy of Fine Arts)
and other reputed Personals
Shri Nek Chand Ji with Mrs. Shivani Rajpal (Director of Bharat Academy of Fine Arts) and Mr. Amit Saxena
Shri Nek Chand Ji having an word with Students of Bharat Academy of Fine Arts
Shri Nek Chand Ji admiring and encouraging the Students of Bharat Academy of Fine Arts
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