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Contemporary Indian Artists

The document discusses contemporary Indian artists, highlighting notable figures such as Raja Ravi Varma, Jamini Roy, Amrita Shergil, M.F. Hussain, and Kamlesh Dutt Pandey. It details their backgrounds, artistic styles, and significant works, emphasizing themes such as Indian mythology, folk art, and social issues like dowry. Each artist's contributions reflect a blend of traditional and modern influences in Indian art.

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Contemporary Indian Artists

The document discusses contemporary Indian artists, highlighting notable figures such as Raja Ravi Varma, Jamini Roy, Amrita Shergil, M.F. Hussain, and Kamlesh Dutt Pandey. It details their backgrounds, artistic styles, and significant works, emphasizing themes such as Indian mythology, folk art, and social issues like dowry. Each artist's contributions reflect a blend of traditional and modern influences in Indian art.

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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ARTISTS

PAINTINGS B, GRAPHIC PRINTS AND


SCULPTURES
RAJA RAVI VERMA
• Member of the Royal family of Travancore.
• Mastered the techniques of oil paintings from Theodore Jenson who
was a Dutch portrait painter.
• Earlier he painted Indian themes in European style.
• Known as the champion of the first renaissance of Indian art in the
late 19th century for mythology and epics and observed a Indian
feminine type for Indian deities.
• Subdued colours, meticulous modelling based on grand compositions,
generally used Southern models for his paintings Sukeshi, Sakuntala
etc. in oil.
RAMA VANQUISHING THE PRIDE OF THE OCEAN
• Artist : Raja Ravi Varma
• Medium : Oil on Canvas
• Collection : Chitrashala , Mysore
• Subject Matter :The painting is based
on the episode of Valmiki's Ramayan
where Rama threatened Varuna ( the god
of ocean ) while the angry ocean was
preventing the attempt of Rama and his
army for building a bridge to reach Lanka
for recovering his wife Sita.
MOTHER AND CHILD
• Artist : Jamini Roy
• Medium : Water colour in Tempra
• Collection: NGMA, New Delhi.
• Subject Matter: Immortal love of
mother and child.
JAMINI ROY

• Born in Bankura in West Bengal.


• Inspired by folk art, richness and culture of village life of Bengal.
• Painted in the style of ‘Patuas’ of Kalighat. He followed the glowing
colours and flowing curves of this style.
• In 1931 , he adopted the harsh lines of patuas of western districts of
rural Bengal.
• For western colours he adopted local dyes and decorative designs of
Kantha and Alpana.
AMRITA SHERGIL
• Born in Budapest, Hungary (mother) and Indian father, studied in France,
was a bridge between Indian and Western Art.
• Great admirer of Cezzane’s simplistic drawings and Gauguin’s paintings.
• She was against the tame imitation of Western realism and the ‘wishy
washy’ traditionalism of the Bengal School. She wanted to bring out the
bright colours of Basohli paintings.
• Believed that modern work in oil can be true inheritor of Indian painting
with bold contrasting colours.
• The Red Veranda, Resting, Three Girls are some master pieces in which East
and West came miraculously close.
• Subject matter were inner reality of misery, suffering pain, and despair in
men and women of India of her time.
HALDI GRINDERS
• Artist : Amrita Sher-gil
• Medium : Oil on canvas
• Collection: NGMA, New Delhi.
• Subject matter: Burden on the life of
women in India.
M.F HUSSAIN

• Born in Madhya Pradesh, studied Art in J.J School of Art.


• In 1947 his painting ‘SUNEHRA SANSAR’ exhibited in Bombay Art Society
and a series of exhibitions from 1948 to 50 brought his work into limelight
all over India.
• Attracted by Basohli paintings used bright contrasting colours.
• Renowned works are Ramayana and Mahabharata using visual metaphors
of violence, injustice and despair. His early paintings were realistic but
present style is modern distorted approach to form which is a combined
influence of cubist and abstract school.
• He was sensitive to disharmony, hatred and cult of violence.
• European influence of Piccaso, Juan Gris , Fernard Leger. His style is
contemporary but artistic roots are embedded in the past.
MOTHER TERESA

• Artist : M.F Hussain


• Medium : Oil on canvas
• Collection: NGMA, New Delhi.
• Subject matter: It is an ovation
by the painter to the universal
motherhood.
KAMLESH DUTT PANDEY
• Dr. Pandey was an educationist, writer and painter. He was one of the
founder members of Samikshawad (an Art movement which was
critical of socio-political evils).
• In his life time he had many exhibitions to his credit which were
organized across the country. He was the author of the following
books — Bhartiya Rooprad and Kalaon mein Naari Chitran. He
received ‘Author of Millennium Award’ in the year 2000.
THE VULTURE
• Artist - Dr. Kamlesh Dutt Pande
• Medium – Oil on canvas

• The painting Vulture is the proof of the devil of


dowry present in the contemporary modern
society in India. The active vulture, ready to snatch
the flesh of body without thinking whether the
animal would live or die, has a great similarity with
the Indian women who are treated as a creature,
and have no say in respect of male.
• Our male dominating society has made them such
a helpless creature that they cannot think even
about their life. The dowry system is a slur on our
society. We have to abolish this discriminating
system to create a new world for women, where
they may feel full freedom of life and achieve
equality with the male population.

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