VADODARA: MS University’s famed Faculty of Fine Arts celebrated Teachers’ Day in style.
As the faculty opened the door of its exhibition hall that was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with a pictorial tribute to the teachers who were instrumental in shaping the faculty which has made Vadodara known as a major arts hub.
The show — Pathfinders — was inaugurated on Saturday jointly by Padma Shri awardee professor Jyoti Bhatt and former dean Vijay Bagodi. “The show is a collection of 44 portrait photographs of the former teachers of our faculty right from its inception in 1950,” said Dr Jayaram Poduval, officiating dean of the faculty.
The photographs included that of the first dean professor Markand Bhatt who was entrusted with the responsibility of creation and formation of the faculty by MSU’s first vice-chancellor (VC) Hansa Mehta.
If royalty of Baroda had patronized the idea of setting up a world-class residential university in Vadodara, it was Mehta, who as founder vice-chancellor ensured that the university branches out in the faculty of fine arts with the support of teachers like Bhatt.
Interestingly, most of the photographs displayed at the exhibition were taken by professor Jyoti Bhatt during his students days and later as a teacher serving at the faculty.
The photographs also include many Padma awardees that the faculty has gifted to the country like late professor K G Subramanian, who was fondly known as ‘Mani sir’; late Bhupen Khakhar; professor Gulam Mohammed Sheikh; Sadashiv Gorashkar and G R Santosh as well as that of professor Jyoti Bhatt.
“We felt this is an apt time to organise such an exhibition as many of the senior teachers who studied under the pioneering teachers are finishing their service and the new generation have to take inspiration from these pioneers whom we lovingly call – Pathfinders,” said Poduval.
As the faculty opened the door of its exhibition hall that was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with a pictorial tribute to the teachers who were instrumental in shaping the faculty which has made Vadodara known as a major arts hub.
The show — Pathfinders — was inaugurated on Saturday jointly by Padma Shri awardee professor Jyoti Bhatt and former dean Vijay Bagodi. “The show is a collection of 44 portrait photographs of the former teachers of our faculty right from its inception in 1950,” said Dr Jayaram Poduval, officiating dean of the faculty.
The photographs included that of the first dean professor Markand Bhatt who was entrusted with the responsibility of creation and formation of the faculty by MSU’s first vice-chancellor (VC) Hansa Mehta.
If royalty of Baroda had patronized the idea of setting up a world-class residential university in Vadodara, it was Mehta, who as founder vice-chancellor ensured that the university branches out in the faculty of fine arts with the support of teachers like Bhatt.
Interestingly, most of the photographs displayed at the exhibition were taken by professor Jyoti Bhatt during his students days and later as a teacher serving at the faculty.
The photographs also include many Padma awardees that the faculty has gifted to the country like late professor K G Subramanian, who was fondly known as ‘Mani sir’; late Bhupen Khakhar; professor Gulam Mohammed Sheikh; Sadashiv Gorashkar and G R Santosh as well as that of professor Jyoti Bhatt.
“We felt this is an apt time to organise such an exhibition as many of the senior teachers who studied under the pioneering teachers are finishing their service and the new generation have to take inspiration from these pioneers whom we lovingly call – Pathfinders,” said Poduval.