Tag: renaissance
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…
Drawings and their value associated with life
Drawing is an art or technique for creating images on the surface of the paper with help of ink, graphite, charcoal, technology, or any other tool. Consequently, there are both digital and physical drawings. It is believed that many artistic creations are initiated from drawings. These creations could be from the physical world or purely…
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— M.F. Husain
Maqbool Fida Husain popularly known as M.F. Husain was an Indian artist of modified cubist style. He is known for his bold and vibrant color applications. Born on September 17, 1935, in Pandharpur town of Maharashtra in a Sulaymani Bohra family. He lost his mother at age of 18 months soon after that his father…
Progressive Artists’ Group – Sadanand Bakre
Sadanand Bakre was one of the painters from the Progressive Artists’ Group. He was the only sculptor in the group. Sadanand was born in Baroda in 1920 and he joined the Gokhale Education Society School when his family moved to Bombay. He started showing some initial talents in drawing and was motivated by his teacher…
Progressive Artists’ Group – K. H. Ara
K.H. Ara was one of the artists from the renowned artist group Progressive Artists’ Group of Bombay. One of the founders of the Artists’ Centre in Mumbai. He was one of the first contemporary Indian painters to meticulously use the female nude as a subject. He hosted his first solo show in the Chetana restaurant…
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…
