Sanatan Dinda is a first class graduate from the Government College of Arts & Crafts, Kolkata. His speciality is producing figures with a three dimensional quality, which transcends the limitations of a two dimensional canvas. In his short career span, Sanatan has received many awards right from inter college competitions to the prestigious Birla Academy …
Somnath Hore was born in a village called Barama in Chittagong in present day Bangladesh in 1921. While he was still very young, he started making posters for the Communist party. It was with the help of the leader of this party that he was admitted into the Government College of Art & Craft. Hore …
Shuvaprasanna completed his graduation from the Indian College of Art (R B University, Kolkata) in 1969. He was an active member of the “Calcutta Painters” group. Shuvaprasanna has depicted varying moods of the city and its people, its places, and all its facets that make the city distinctive. As he states, ‘There isn’t another city …
Bose Krishnamachari is an internationally acclaimed Malayali painter and Artist-Curator based in Mumbai, India. He was born in 1963 at Magattukara village near Angamaly, Kerala. He had done his early schooling at GHSS Puliyanam. He took his BFA from Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai in (1991), and then completed his MFA from Goldsmiths …
Jayashree Chakravarty was born in Khoai, Tripura in 1956. She completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Viswa Bharati in the sprawling natural environs of Santiniketan, and then obtained her postgraduate diploma in Fine Arts from the MS University of Baroda, where she was exposed to an urban sensibility. She was also an artist in …
Vinod was born in 1954 and graduated from Delhi College of Art, Delhi University. He was awarded by the All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi in 1982. Vinod Sharma’s rockscapes make a massive infact. He has developed the freehand of accentuate the deep folds of the mountains. Vinod’s Landscapes are like a …
Born in 1976, Uday completed his BFA in Painting from the Indian Art College, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata in 1999 and MFA from MS University, Baroda in 2002. He has held two solo shows at Mumbai in 2005 and one at Baroda in 2001 and participated in many group shows in India and abroad. Uday …
Vaikuntam hails from Andhra Pradesh, in South India, and draws a lot of inspiration for his work from the rural areas of the state. The men and women of his village have often been depicted in his work. Women, in particular, are frequent subjects for his works. The love for this subject can be traced …
One of India’s important post-modernist painters, Sunil Das rose to prominence with his drawing of horses. “I must have done 7000 horses between 1950 to 60,” he says. “In 1962, I went to Spain, where I was fascinated by the bull fights.” Das came from a middle class family and his father was just a …
Born in 1954 in Pune, Bahulkar obtained a diploma in Painting from the Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai, in 1975. Suhas Bahulkar’s paintings are the outcome of his childhood memories; the nostalgia over the vanishing culture of his formative years. He was greatly inspired by the traditional Maharashtrian lifestyle – the style of dress, …