Showcase of paintings by children at Hungarian cultural centre

A collection of paintings sketched by a handful of students from different schools across the National Capital Region are being showcased at the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre (HICC) here.
The paintings based on folktales from Hungary and being showcased in the art gallery are the compilation of those that won the first three prizes in the on-the-spot children's painting competition hosted by the centre.
The competition held in last February was the 36th edition of the contest organised by HICC and was based on the theme Hungarian folktales.
About 120 students aged between 6 years and 16 years from 11 city-based schools took part in the contest.

"We use to conduct this painting competition every year, this time the theme of competition was Hungarian folk tales," Johanna Balchandani, senior cultural advisor at the centre said.
"We had prepared a special book in Hindi based on three Hungarian folktales. We distributed the book among the candidates and told them to draw a picture about any characters, plots or any parts of the story, we left the choice to them," she said.

Three different prizes were given for each category, and one Director's special prize was given to the best painting among all the different sections.
The winners of the children's painting competition were felicitated by Szilveszter Bus, ambassador of Hungary to India and Subir Roy, Art Executive at Shankar international Children's painting competition on a function held at Janpath premises of HICC .

Roy had himself selected the winners of the competition.
The theme of last year's painting competition was gypsies in Hungary.
Meanwhile the present exhibition that began on May 26 is scheduled to continue till August 28.