Jogen Chowdhury was born in Faridpur (present-day Bangladesh) in 1939. In 1948, the family moved to Calcutta (now Kolkata) after the Partition of India. He graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata in 1960. Later, he joined Beaux-Arts de Paris for further studies. The trauma of being uprooted from the birthplace which…
Jayashree Chakravarty was born in Tripura in 1956. She completed her education in fine arts from Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan. She went to pursue a postgraduate diploma in fine arts from the MS University of Baroda. Later, she moved to France. The artist has showcased her work both in India and abroad. In 1988,…
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Jatin Das was born in Orissa (now Odhisha) in 1941. Alumnus of Sir J J School of Art, Bombay, he has participated in numerous solo exhibitions in India and abroad. His phenomenal work has been auctioned by Osian’s, Sotheby’s and Christie’s. In the late nineties, he designed a 7 x 68 ft mural named, The…
The vertical character of the skyline infused with brilliant hues is iridescent, as if framing a mirage or weaving a dream with rays of light. Gurudas Shenoy’s paintings of urban spaces recount narratives constructed around places, their architecture and history to form visual chronicles. The irregular façades of structural forms conceal stories of life and…
Ganesh Haloi was born in Mymensingh in present-day Bangladesh in 1936. The Partition of India forced him to leave his birth place, this experience deeply affected him and we see its reflection in his art pieces. In 1956, he graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta (now Kolkata). Later, he joined the…
G.R. Santosh was born in 1929. He was forced to abandon studies after his father passed away. He had to pick up odd jobs to make ends meet. He took to painting sign boards, weaving silk and even carried out whitewashing of walls. This skillful artist of papier-mache was given a scholarship by the Government…
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Francisco Victor Newton de Souza, popularly known as F.N. Souza, was born in Saligao, Goa in 1924. In 1940, he joined the Sir JJ School of Art in Bombay. In 1945, he was expelled from this institution because he had participated in the Quit India Movement. Later, he became the founder of the Progressive Artists’…
Dhananjay Singh was born in Bihar in 1977. He has a bachelor’s degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu University. He also has a master’s degree in sculpture from the M.S. University, Baroda. For a short while, Dhananjay Singh has been a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Fashion Technology,…