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K.G. Subramanyan
Subrahmanyan was born in 1924, Kuthuparamba in Kerala, India. He was involved in the freedom struggle and known for following Gandhian ideology. He was later banned from joining the government colleges and was imprisoned during British Rule. As an artist, his turning point came into the existence when he visited Kala Bhavan, the art faculty…
Nandalal Bose
Nandalal Bose was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art. He was the key figure of contextual modernism. He was the pupil of Abanindranath Bose. He was known for the ‘Indian Style’ of painting. In 1922, he became the principal of Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan. His most prominent paintings are from the Indian mythologies, village…
V.S. Gaitonde
He was regarded as one of India’s most important abstract painters. Born in 1924, Nagpur, Maharashtra. He completed his art diploma at Sir J. J. School of Art in 1948. In 1950, he was invited to join the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group. He actively participated in the group’s activities as well as exhibitions in India…
Badri Narayan
He was an artist, storyteller, author, and illustrator. He started painting without any formal training and his first public showing was in 1949. In 1954, he exhibited a solo show. There are more the 50 solo shows by Badri Narayan and his artworks are in several collections such as the National Gallery of Modern Art…
Kalal Laxma Goud
He is an Indian printmaker, painter, and draughtsman. His works are present in various mediums i.e. glass painting, sculpture, pastel, gouache, and etching. He is known for his eroticism in a rural context. Goud was born in Nizampur, Medak district in Hyderabad. He was one of the seven siblings in the family. His childhood was…
B. Prabha
She was a prolific Indian artist who primarily worked in oil paintings and was known for depicting elongated graceful pensive rural women. Her paintings are dominated by a single color theme. Some of her paintings are collected in the National Gallery of Modern Art, India. She was deeply inspired by the works of Amrita Shergill.…
A. Ramachandran
A.Ramachandran, is an Indian painter, born in 1935 in Attingal, Kerala. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi and in 2005, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour, for outstanding service to the nation. In 1957, he obtained his master’s degree in Malayalam literature, but art…
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…
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…
