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Dina Nath Walli 'The great water colour Kashmiri artist'-

Dina nath walli or Almsat Kashmiri (1908-2006) is a renowned artist from Kashmir who lived at Badyar Bala in Srinagar city. This area has been homes to many Kashmiri pandit artists including S.N.Bhat and Mohan Raina. He was aware of various forms of modern art especially Salvador Dalli’s surrealism, Pablo Picasso’s Cubism, expressionism, impressionism, Pop art and Abstract art; still he concentrated on landscape paintings of Kashmir. But his paintings are good examples of impressionism; they were unique in their own way. He has his different style of painting which is truly marvellous. Under his pen name of Almast Kashmiri, he wrote two books, each carries dozens of poems with their magical effects. Two of his publications are, BALA YAPAIR (This side of Mountains) and SAHAAVUKH POSH (Desert Flowers)

History

He had his early education in Srinagar, then he continued his three years course at Amar Singh Technical Institute Srinagar and then he moved to Calcutta in 1930 for his further training, where he learned various forms of art under the guidance of Percy Brown.

In 1936, he returned to Srinagar, where he concentrated on landscape painting in water colours mainly. He wsa also awarded gold medals by the government of Kashmir in 1939 and in 1940 he was awarded a highly commended medal from the academy of fine arts of Calcutta.

From then he did many shows consistently:

1. He did first one man show at Nedou’s hotel, Srinagar 1953, opened by Percy Brown.
2. He did second one man show at Jahangir art gallery, Bombay on January 1954, opened by late Sh. S.K.Patil
3. He did third one man show at AIFACS, New Delhi on December 1954, opened by late Shri Sardar K.M.Panikkar
4. He did fourth one man show at NDA, Puna, 1964
5. He did fifth one man show at Aristry House, Calcutta, 1956, opened by Dr. Kail Dass
6. He did sixth one man show again at AIFACS New Delhi, 1964
7. His seventh show was done at Kuwait, in 2004
8. His eighth show was done at kela Kendra, Jammu, on march 2010
   

His major collections are in Punjab Museum, Chandigarh and Hotel Taj, Mumbai Some of his paintings

References:
http://www.shehjar.com/list/127/1520/1.html

http://autarmota.blogspot.in/2010/03/almast-kashmiri-dina-nath-walli.html

http://www.koausa.org/Paintings/Walli/index.html

http://www.ikashmir.net/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=22

http://ikashmir.net/dnwalli/doc/dnwalli2.pdf

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