Workshop on various Art forms Day - 2

      

          Today on 25^th September, it was a second day of a workshop related various art forms, organized by Balvant Parekh centre, Vadodara, and Department of Gujarati MK Bhavnagar University.

Blog link of Day – 1 – Click here

       

     The second day has started with the feedbacks from students. Dr. Mahendrasinh Parmar has invited two students of Gujarati and English department to give their feedbacks, so everyone can measure the understanding level of students that how they are getting the knowledge and learning.

     

    The interesting thing in the session was that the organizers have given chance to students to introduce the guest speakers. After feedback the student of Gujarati department Nehalba Gohil has introduced the first speaker Raksha Bhatt.

      

   Raksha Bhatt is a photographer and a teacher at B. M. Commerce School Bhavnagar. She has started her presentation by the history of photography, the first slide of very interesting that she has given a reference of Aristotle and how he said that,

“The soul never can think without a picture”

while reading this feedback, those who have attended the workshop they are recalling their memories and those who have not attended they are imagining the things. So the basic idea of Raksha madam was to connect us with visuals and its deep effect.

       

    Raksha Bhatt has included the importance of camera from the starting of photography to the contemporary time. The first was Dub Camera and from 15^th century dark chambers or we can say camera obscure has started, from 17^th century there was Box camera and from 18^th century process of using negatives has started and in 19^th century wet and dry glass plates were used for photography. 

   

   She has also mentioned some name and photographs of well known photographers and photojournalists like, Henry Cartier who has evolved street photography, the second was Ashvin Mehta whose books of photographs like “Gifts of Solitude”, “Himalaya” and “the cost of India” are very famous. The third was Raghu Rai a renowned photojournalist, the fourth was Kishor Parekh and lastly she mentioned Jyotibhai Bhatt a photographer and a painter.

        

     After the introduction of these great photographers she has presented a collection of her photographs, you can take a look of it by clicking here (PC: FB wall of Dr. Dilip Barad). Mostly the photographs were of tribal life of Kutchh and ghats of Varanasi and Hardwar. There were projection of real India and culture; a photograph of a widow with bald head, Sadhubabas, shamshan ghat (Cemetery) of Varanasi shows the cultural aspects and also the condition of society in one or the other way. The speech and presentation has ended with the video of her collect photographs.

    The second speaker was Dr. Rutul Joshi and a professor at CEPT (centre for environmental planning and technology) University. Rutulsir has explained his idea of architecture study by its nine parts with its best examples of buildings. The nine parts are Structure, Space, Light, Form, Materials, Colours, Texture, Climate and Culture.

       

     The examples of various buildings were there like, Salk Institute US, Church of Light at Japan, A house in Wada at Maharashtra, Florence at Italy, Church on water at Japan, Gandhi museum and many more. He has given the names of five best buildings as per architecture research, Mill Owner’s at Ahmadabad, Newman Hall at Ahmadabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Ahmadabad, A farm house at Sihor and Aranya Township at Indore. Some photographs are here(PC: FB wall of Dr. Dilip Barad).

      

    The third and last speaker was Ashish Kakkad a Voice artist, actor, writer and director. He is the producer, writer and director of “Better half”. Ashish Sir has presented some parts of his film Better half and also described the way of making scenes and implement of emotions in character by going out of the stereotypes of film making. His best suggestion for film making was about casting, as per him the actors should be appropriate for character, it’s good to choose appropriate rather than best.

     

    The session has ended with the feedback speech by Dr. Dilip Barad and thanking speech by Piyush Thakkar.

   

    I have really enjoyed the workshop and learned so many new things about various art forms. Every art has its own value and after attending the workshop, my interest has increased in further reading and research about these arts.