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| Exhibition on rarest paintings | | Regional school of drama soon in J&K: Verma | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 17: While inaugurating the week long exhibition depicting 50 rarest miniature paintings at Kala Kendra here today, N K Verma Commissioner Secretary Department of Culture said that a drama school is shortly being set up in Jammu and Kashmir.
Verma said that government is planning to set up at least lone museum in each district of the state and the first one would come at Leh, and added that the centre has agreed to provide all possible help for this purpose.
He said that National School of Drama New Delhi is going to open a Regional School of Drama at Jammu in next few months.
Eminent Art Critic of the State, Dr. Lalit Gupta who spoke about the exhibition and said that the style of Miniature painting characterized by vigorous use of primary colours and a peculiar facial formula prevailed in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in the foothills of the Western Himalayas in the Jammu and Punjab States. The earliest paintings in this style have been dated to the time of Raja Kirpal Pal, he said |
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