Tag: painting
Tyeb Mehta— Progressive Artists’ Group
Tyeb Mehta was an Indian painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. He was part of the Progressive Artists’ Group and a man who embraced modernism, post-impressionist colors, cubism, and expressionism instead of nationalist art of Bengal School of Art. One of his most noted painting is the triptych Celebration which was sold in Christie’s auction in 2002…
Anjolie Ela Menon
Anjolie Ela Menon was born on 17 July 1940, in Burnpur, Bengal [now in West Bengal], India and is of mixed Bengali and American parentage. She went to Lawrence School, Lovedale in the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu. By the age of 15, when she left school, she had already sold a few paintings. Thereafter, she…
Thota Vaikuntam
Vaikuntam was born in Burugupalli, Karimnagar district, Telangana. His father used to run a grocery shop. He studied at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad, and Painting and Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (On a Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship from Andhra Pradesh). He was under the tutelage…
Jogen Chowdhury
Jogen was born in Daharpara Village, a village in the Faridpur district of Bangladesh in 1939. His father Pramatha Nath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar. Jogen received the interest on art from his parents as both his parents were artists. Pramatha Nath was interested in Hindu mythological incidents and characters. He had painted several mythological…
Madhvi Parekh
Madhvi’s works revolve around her childhood memory, women’s craft, folk art, and Indian myths. She was influenced by Paul Klee and Francesco Clemente. Her inspirations were traditional art but her style was contemporary. There are many works that represent folk art although they are not drawn from any specific folk tradition. Madhvi was born in…
Progressive Artists’ Group— S.H. Raza
Introduction Born on February 22, 1922, in Babaria, Central Provinces, British India; Sayed Haider Raza was one of the six children of Sayed Mohammed Razi a deputy forest ranger of the Mandla District. S.H. Raza shows an early interest in drawings. At age 12, he was showing some skill for drawings and paintings and at…
Hemen Majumdar
Hemen Majumdar was born in Kishoreganj in British India (now in Bangladesh). In 1910, he joined The Government School of Art in Calcutta (now Government College of Art & Craft Kolkata), and from 1911 to 1915 studied at Jubilee Art School, Calcutta. Hemen Majumdar painted the gates to welcome King George V, on his visit…
Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta was born in Khagaul, a small town in Bihar. His father, a railway guard, died in his early forties, when Gupta was 12 years old; his mother, who came from a farming family, sent Gupta to live with her brother for a few years in a remote village. Gupta moved to Delhi after…
Progressive Artists’ Group- F.N. Souza
Francis Newton Souza was born in Goa, India, in 1924. He is one of the most influential artists in the Indian art world. In his childhood he attended St. Xavier’s High School then runs by Jesuit priests. It was the time when he learned about paintings, drawings and explores the oleographs, prints, and pictures imported…
Arpita Singh
Arpita Singh is an Indian artist born in Baranagar in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She is known to be a figurative artist and a modernist. Her works show both storylines and carnival images arranged in a curiously subversive way. Her artist endeavor is an expedition without destination. Her works are images of her surroundings. She…
