Tag: drawings
Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998)
She was an Indian artist, sculpture, and writer. She is known for bringing modernity and freshness to ancient Bengali sculpting art. Her sculptures were heavily influenced by the Dhokra method of Bastar Chhattisgarh. She was awarded Padma Shri in 1992 by the Government of India. She was born in Kolkata in 1923. At age 14,…
Paresh Maity
Paresh Maity was born in Tamluk, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and graduated at the top of his class with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Delhi College of Arts. Paresh Maity has 81 Solo Exhibitions in forty years…
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 to work upon the animals in his art, while the howler monkey got the special treatment not due to some kind of Easter egg or due to the Darwin…
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 life of common people was getting worse. Jute prices were going south, there was a scarcity of money and in that situation, it is very hard to imagine how…
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 Roy, it is clear that he was a pupil for the lifetime. The bend in his works and the learning curves throughout his life can be seen easily by…
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 works and his works are amazing. The word amazing would maybe something underestimating. It is his art that was great and more valuable than the other contemporary artists. His…
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 1947 during the confusion over the partition of British India. Her mother Ajit Kaur (born in 1934), is a writer who writes in Panjabi. She has not had her…
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 his life such as the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Tebhaga movement. Somnath Hore lost his father in his early childhood and was schooled by his uncle. His…
Ramkinkar Baij (25 May 1906 – 02 August 1980)
Ramkinkar Baij was one of the pioneers of modern Indian sculpture and a very important figure of Contextual Modernism. He is considered as “Father of Modern Indian Sculpture”. He began his journey in art at a very young age. He use to copy local idol makers; sketching, making idols, and drawings were some of the…
Neeraj Goswami
Born in Patna in 1964, Neeraj completed his education at the Delhi School of Art. He earned both a Bachelor’s and Masters degree and has been feted by the Government for his significant contribution to art. Neeraj received the Bharat Bhavan Award at the Second Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art in the year 1988. The…
