Widely known as one of India’s leading painters in the modern realistic tradition, his artistic vision is informed by a vivid array of swirling colors and a sense of rhythmic movement (external and internal). These characteristics are abundant in a series that he has done on Indian dances. In these oil and acrylic canvases, the …
B.V.A. with First Class from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata. Certificate de l’intermediate da la langue Francaise, Alliance Francais, Kolkata. Camel Art Foundation award for Best Oil Painting, 2008. Basanta Ganguly Award at the GCAC Annual 2008. Nirode Majumdar Award at the GCAC Annual 2008.
Simrin Mehra Agarwal has studied in a French school La Martiniere Kolkata from 1983-1998, her association with France and its people has been considerable since then. Nine years later, she was awarded the French Government Scholarship and Indo-French Artist–in–Residence Programme by the French Embassy in India in the field of Painting. Her works have found …
Born in 1950 Shahabuddin Ahmed studied at the Academy of Fine arts, he later moved to Paris. He has shown his works extensively across the globe. In 1992 he is one of 50 Master Painters of Contemporary Arts, an award bestowed on him at the Olympiad of the Arts BArcelona. The primary concern of his …
Born in Patna, Bihar in 1921, Satyen Ghosal graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta in 1943 (Diploma Fine Arts) and obtained a post-graduate diploma as art teacher from the same college in 1945. He also studied at the Slade School of Art, London, 1955. First solo exhibition New York 1948, also …
Born in Kolkata in the year 1958 and completed his graduation from Government College of Arts and crafts Kolkata in the year 1982. Sanjay’s first inspiration was the Phantom. Sanjay’s figurative images are quite close to those found in the works of the Dutch realist painters or the French 18th century painters. Either oil paintings …
Born in Calcutta, Mookherjea gained his diploma in Fine Arts at the Government College of Arts and Crafts and went on to teach at the Delhi Polytechnic. He exhibited widely in India and is now to be found in important Indian collections, including the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta; the Lalit Kala Academi and National …
Harsha Vardhana gave up a successful career as a Bio-Scientist in 1993 to pursue his love for painting, a passion that remained a mere hobby for many years. Son of the late modern master J. Swaminathan, Harsha Vardhana’s inclination towards an artistic practice seemed almost natural. This self-taught artist displays his vast creative vocabulary in …
Ramkinkar Baij was the earliest Indian artist to experiment with abstract sculptural forms. His oil on canvas paintings have a singular experimenting quality going beyond its time, unregimented by dogmas and with only one commitment – to be unstintingly creative. Born in Bankura in West Bengal in 1910, Ramkinkar Baij studied at the Kala Bhavan, …
The first thing that strikes you when you see Ganapatye’s works is that his line meanders but never wavers. This quivering line seems to vibrate with a kind of expressionistic restlessness that only a refined draftsman can achieve. Slowly, an amoebic form starts to inhabit the paper. Within the contours of the line, the shifting …