{"id":18360,"date":"2014-05-19T17:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=18360"},"modified":"2014-05-19T17:25:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T11:55:47","slug":"bringing-art-to-public-buildings-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/bringing-art-to-public-buildings-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage buildings in Trivandrum to become canvas for artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram<\/strong><\/em>: Like the Berlin Wall in Germany where popular artists from all over the world have come to paint big murals, heritage buildings in the Kerala capital are getting ready to turn into a canvas for artists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The district administration in Trivandrum has come up with a plan to paint beautiful pictures on the walls of the city buildings, mostly the government offices, with the help of artists. The aim is to preserve the old traditional charm of Trivandrum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of the walls of the public building are defaced by ugly graffitis and film posters. &#8220;The graffitis and wall posters have largely taken their toll on the beauty of heritage buildings in the city. Seeking to check this menace, we are planning to paint pictures on the walls of selected buildings here,&#8221; District Collector Biju Prabhakar told PTI<\/p>\n<p>Interested artists could obtain permission from the authorities and draw whatever the artists want on the space. The painting will be removed after one month to give chance for another artist. The collector also said that the panel of artists will be decided later. Eminent artists like Kanayi Kunhiraman and B D Duttan have already offered support to the project.<\/p>\n<p>The beautification project will be carried out with the support of state cultural and tourism departments. The authorities are also seeking sponsors for getting enough funds. The painting programme will start during Onam festival season in September. There are plans to provide a permanent canvas on the compound wall before the Fine Arts College.<\/p>\n<p>The new initiative will not only help conserve the elegance of old structures in the city, but also provide a medium for the artists in the state. Such art projects are already done by many cities in India and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: Like the Berlin Wall in Germany where popular artists from all over the world have come to paint big murals, heritage buildings in the Kerala capital are getting ready to turn into a canvas for artists. The district administration in Trivandrum has come up with a plan to paint beautiful pictures on the walls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-18360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}