Ranchi's Seven Year Old Student Vivaan gets Star Artist Award | 17 Oct 2023

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On October 16, 2023, Vivaan Shaurya, a seven-year-old student from Ranchi, received the Star Artist Award in the Creative Brilliance-2023 of the world's prestigious painting competition 'Picasso Art Contest'.

Key Points:

• Seven-year-old Vivaan was awarded the Star Artist Certificate of Achievement for scoring 92 marks out of 100 in the 6 to 10 years group. Last year also Vivaan had won this title in the competition.
• This year the competition had more than 1100 participants from 38 countries, including Italy, Hong Kong, Canada, Turkey, Austria, Vietnam, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, UAE, Iran, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and others.
• This competition has been organized every year since 2014. The competition is judged on all parameters including innovation, creativity, attractiveness, completeness, age of the artist, presentation and artistic ability.
• Let it be known that Vivaan Jawahar Vidya Mandir is a second class student of Shyamali. Vivaan's guru and father Dhananjay Kumar is also a renowned painter and the founder of Kalakriti School of Arts.
• It is noteworthy that by making good use of the lockdown time, Vivaan started making paintings and made more than 150 paintings. During this period Vivaan also won more than 21 international, national, state and district level awards.