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,…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Narayan Shridhar Bendre
Narayan Shridhar Bendre was a 20th-century Indian artist and one of the founder members of Baroda Group, Narayan Shridhar Bendre was born in Indore. He made…
Ganesh Pyne
Ganesh Pyne Born and brought up in Kolkata, living in a crumbling family mansion in Kabiraj Row, north Calcutta (now Kolkata), Pyne grew up listening to…