coimbatore marking the international mens day nov 19 knitwear fashion students at nift tea college painted an abstract wall at metropolitan club in tirupur the theme of the painting is to tell the present and future generations stories of men who contributed much to the world during the age of revolutions and early modern history some of the men they want to talk about through their painting include sailors and discoverers christopher columbus and vasco da gama and artists leonardo da vinci michelangelo and pablo picassoa group of six students from the college painted a 3600squarefoot abstract wall with a monochromatic colour scheme using acrylic colours we decided to use only colours belonging to the red colour family says assistant professor g boopathy vijay who guided them the artwork on the wall which is 70 feet high and 60 feet wide depicts the world map along with certain essentials like a gun telescope an anchor shop sharks treasure box and othersvijay said the idea was to depict how people travelled before the age of technology and how people had to struggle to paint and pursue art in those historic times for the current generations who accesses pictures and videos of anyone or any part of the world through instagram and facebook and books tickets with a click of a button we wanted to show how the worlds first travellers travelled across the world with so much difficulties and risks involved things they required and others it is because of their travels that we even discovered so many countries near us he said we also pay tribute to the first artists like da vinci and michelangelo who managed to create masterpieces and promote art when even art material must have been difficult to procure he addedthe students began to paint the wall on october 25