The Journal

Progressive artist group

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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…

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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…

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Jangarh Singh Shyam

Jangarh was born into a Pardhan Gond family in the village of Patangarh, Mandla district, (Dindori District), Eastern Madhya Pradesh. He grew up in extreme poverty…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Progressive artists’ group—-Krishen Khanna

Krishen Khanna is one of the progressive artists’ group associates born in Lyallpur, India (now in Pakistan). He attended Imperial Service College in England. He is a self-taught…

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Progressive Artist Group——Ram Kumar

Ram Kumar was born on 23 September 1924 in Shimla, Punjab, British India. He was one of the greatest artists of Indian abstract art. He was…