The transition from west to east (Jamini Roy)
Jamini’s earlier works did not only comprise of commissioned portraits but of Howler monkeys also. According to the sources, while searching for the inspiration he tried…
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Essays and notes on the masters, the movements and the artists who came after them.
Art Creating Path To The New Artist And Insight For The Already Working Creators
On 12th March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi started the civil disobedience movement against the British monopoly on salt. The world was facing a great depression and the…
Dawn an Underdog Artist in The Pre-independence India
After recognition of 1929, Jamini had to work upon his new identity which he was going to show to the art world’s elites. A little light…
Kalighat Paintings- From The Soil To The Royal House of England
It was the year 1929; Mukul Dey was the principal of the Government School of Art, Calcutta. It was the first noted exhibition of Jamini Roy’s…
An Artist Searching Passion in The Soil
In the world of art and creativity, it is unconditionally true that there should be a zeal to learn and relearn. In the case of Jamini…
Jamini Roy: Santhal Mother & Child
Jamini Roy used organic substances in his paintings; it is well known that he only uses organic paints and pieces of cotton & tempera for his…
Middle Class and Womanhood in Jamini Roy’s Works
Working on commission is not bad but it does allow the artists to really show up what they are gaining for and most of the times…
Jamini Roy a torchbearer of Folk-art on the world stage
A long time ago Indian fine art got the blend of eastern culture. I am not saying that Indian art was not eastern but in the…
Arpana Caur
Arpana Caur was born in 1954, in Delhi. She comes from a Sikh family who fled the Pakistani West Punjab to the Republic of India in…
Somnath Hore (1921-2006)
Born in 1921 in Chittagong, Somnath Hore was an Indian sculptor & printmaker. Most of his works are the recreation of the incidents that happened in…