Kiran Nadar shares her feelings on Padma honour-desires people to appreciate art
Kiran Nadar shares her feelings on Padma honour-desires people to appreciate art
Kitan Nadar, Delhi-based art collector was honoured with the prestigious is one of the Padma award for 2024 for her contribution to Art.
While speaking to the media she expressed her desire to make people appreciate art.
She went on to assert that when she picked up art collection, she wanted people, specifically in India, to see and relate to it…
For being honoured with the Padma award was never on her agenda. But, getting has been a fantastic feeling for Kiran.
Kiran Nadar, the founder-chairperson of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, is also an international bridge player and a philanthropist.
For this Delhi-based avid art collector India’s highest civilian awards would ease her endeavours of making art accessible to the masses.
However, she feels otherwise and says, that she is been recognised for something that she has undertaken and feels happy about it, but not saying that now that the Padma has happened, it will make her journey much easier. No, these two are not linked. The journey has to take place anyway.
She went on to add that she has collected 13,000 works so far. She always hopes to see more people walk into art shows and museums. A lot of people find it difficult to relate (to art) or become nervous about going to a show or an artist because they feel they don’t belong there. So, the negative perception is there. She feels people need to break that. Anyone can appreciate art!
This is the kind of education that we are trying to impart.
We are trying to educate children at the school level and hoping that children will find this in their parents, and reverse psychology will work. The process is slow, but from the time we started till today, there’s more acceptance of people coming into art, and there has definitely been growth.
It’s not that usual for those who are not artists and only patrons to be conferred this award. State this, and Nadar opines,
She also goes on to add that there are many different areas of art, but one thing that is very important is to democratise caring for art. If we can get people involved in caring for art, that is one of the main aims that I’m trying to follow. So while she is not an artist, but a lover of art, and wants to make art an easily understandable subject for the common man.
She thinks that’s why the award is being given to someone who is a not an artist but works in the sphere of art.
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