'43 Group (art collective)

20th-century modern art school in Sri Lanka '43 Group 29 August 1943–1964 Sri Lanka Lionel Wendt, Geoffrey Beling, George Claessen, Aubrey Collette, Justin Daraniyagala, Richard Gabriel, George Keyt, Ivan Peries, Harry Pieris, L. T. P. Manjusri Thero and others. Sri Lankan art, European art, Charles Freegrove Winzer Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) The '43 Group was a 20th-century modern art school established in August 1943 in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then British Ceylon). The group was essentially an association of like-minded artists who had broken away from the Ceylon Society of Arts, led by photographer and critic Lionel Wendt, and originally included nine painters as key members (listed alphabetically): Geoffrey Beling, George Claessen, Aubrey Collette, Justin Daraniyagala, Richard Gabriel, George Keyt, Ivan Peries, Harry Pieris (the first and only Secretary of the Group), and the Ver. Manjusri Thero.Modern Art in Sri Lanka (later known as L. T. P. Manjusri). Albert DharmasiriElements of an art lover https://web.archive.org/web/20150612064838/http://www.ceylontoday.lk/35-11996-news-detail-elements-of-an-art-lover.html 2015-06-12 , Ceylon Today, Retrieved 10 June 2015Remembering a patriotic artist by Godwin Witane, Retrieved 11 June 2015 The group were influenced by Charles Freegrove Winzer, to whom Keyt and Beling had been pupils.Charles Freegrove Winzer https://www.artceylon.com/artist63.html Art Ceylon 14 August 2020George Keyt http://taprobanecollection.com/artist/george-keyt Taprobane Collection 14 August 2020 10 August 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200810152859/http://taprobanecollection.com/artist/george-keyt dead 43 Group: A Chronicle of Fifty Years of Art in Sri Lanka Winzer provided a window into a fresh and unfamiliar world of painting. He introduced them to the work of the Impressionists; to Pissarro, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh; and Picasso and Matisse. 16GEORGE KEYT (1901-1993), Bhima and Jarasandha https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-george-keyt-1901-1993-bhima-and-jarasandha-5717649/? Christie's 14 August 2020 The paintings of the group constituted a historic break in Sri Lankan and, more generally, South Asian tradition. Art historian Jagath Weerasinghe wrote that the most significant achievement of the 43 Group was their localization of European modernist trends into a distinctively Sri Lankan modernist art.Art and social change : contemporary art in Asia and the Pacific 2005 Pandanus Books 174076112X Turner Caroline Canberra 191935321 Lester James Peries became a later associate of the group. The Group also promoted Kandyan dance and other Sri Lankan dance forms.Traditional dance in British Ceylon https://web.archive.org/web/20161022024433/http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=152784 2016-10-22 by Kamalika Pieris (The Island), Retrieved 22 October 2016 External links 43 Group https://web.archive.org/web/20161022152442/http://www.artsrilanka.org/43group/ 2016-10-22 Birth Anniversary of Harry Pieries: A Life in Art References Category:Sri Lankan art movements Category:20th-century Sri Lankan painters Category:20th-century Sri Lankan artists Category:Sri Lankan photographers Category:Sri Lankan cartoonists Category:Arts organisations based in Sri Lanka Category:Culture of Sri Lanka