FAMOUS INDIAN ARTISTS

1.Raja Ravi Verma

Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2

October 1906) was a celebrated Indian
painter and artist. He is considered
among the greatest painters in the
history of Indian art for a number of
aesthetic and broader social reasons. His
works are held to be among the best
examples of the fusion of European
techniques with a purely Indian
sensibility.
 HIS WORKS
There comes papa 1893 Verma's sister in-law
2.Nandlal Bose
Nandalal Bose (3 December 1882 –
16 April 1966) was one of the
pioneers of modern Indian arTand a
key figure of Contextual Modernism.
A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore,
Bose was known for his "Indian
style" of painting. He became the
principal of Kala
Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1922. He
was influenced by the Tagore
family and the murals of Ajanta,his
classic works include paintings of
scenes from Indian mythologies,
women, and village life.
 HIS WORKS
Yama and Savitri
3.Abanindranath Tagore
Abanindranath Tagore(7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951)
was the principal artist and creator of the "Indian Society of
Oriental Art". He was also the first major exponent
of Swadeshi values in Indian art thereby founding the
influential Bengal school of art, which led to the
development of modern Indian painting. He was also a noted
writer, particularly for children. Popularly known as 'Aban
Thakur', his books Rajkahini, Budo Angla, Nalak, and Khirer
Putul were landmarks in Bengali language children's
literature and art.Tagore sought to
modernize Mughaland Rajput styles to counter the influence
of Western models of art, as taught in art schools under
the British Raj. Along with other artists from the Bengal
school of art, Tagore advocated in favor of a nationalistic
Indian art derived from Indian art history, drawing inspiration
from the Ajanta Caves. Tagore's work was so successful that
it was eventually accepted and promoted as a national
Indian style within British art institutions.
 HIS WORKS
Bharat mata 1905 Birth of Krishna 1895-97
4. Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore(7 May 1861 – 7 August
1941)Gurudev was a Bengali poet, writer,
composer, and painter. He reshaped Bengali
literature and music, as well as Indian
art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly
sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali,he
became in 1913 the first non-European to win
the Nobel Prize in Literature.He is sometimes
referred to as "the Bard of Bengal". Tagore
modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical
forms and resisting linguistic strictures.
 HIS WORKS
Human Faces Landscape
5.Jamini Rai
Jamini Roy (11 April 1887 – 24 April 1972)
was an Indian painter. He was honoured
with the State award of Padma Bhushan in
1955. He was one of the most famous
pupils of Abanindranath Tagore,whose
artistic originality and contribution to the
emergence of modern art in India remains
unquestionable. He was most influenced by
the Kalighat Pat (Kalighat painting), which
was a style of art with bold sweeping
brush-strokes.
 HIS WORKS
Three pujarins Santhal mother and child
6.Amrita Shergil
Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 – 5
December 1941) was a Hungarian-
Indian painter. She has been called "one of the
greatest avant-garde women artists of the
early 20th century" and a "pioneer" in modern
Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early
age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in
the art, at the age of eight. She first gained
recognition at the age of 19, for her oil
painting titled Young Girls (1932) Sher-Gil
traveled throughout her life to various
countries including Turkey, France, and India,
deriving heavily from pre-colonial Indian art
styles and its current culture. Sher-Gil is
considered an important painter of 20th-
century India, whose legacy stands on a level
with that of the pioneers from the Bengal
Renaissane. She was also an avid reader and a
pianist.
 HER WORKS
Group of Three Girls, 1935 Young girls 1932
7.M.F.Husain
Maqbool Fida Husain better known as M. F.
Husain(17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was
an Indian artist known for executing bold,
vibrantly colored narrative paintings in a
modified Cubist style. He was one of the most
celebrated and internationally recognized Indian
artists of the 20th century. He was one of the
founding member of Bombay Progressive Artists'
Group. Husain is associated with
Indian modernism in the 1940s. His narrative
paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style,
can be caustic and funny as well as serious and
somber. His themes—sometimes treated in
series—include topics as diverse
as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana,
the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs
of Indian urban and rural life.
 HIS WORKS
Mother Teressa 2 Horses
8.S.H.RAZA
Sayed Haider Raza (22 February 1922 – 23 July
2016) was an Indian painter who lived and
worked in France since 1950, while maintaining
strong ties with India.He was born in Madhya
Pradesh. He was a renowned Indian artist. He
was awarded the Padma Shri and Fellowship of
the Lalit Kala Academi in 1981, Padma Bhushan
in 2007,and Padma Vibhushan in 2013.He was
conferred with the Commandeur de la Legion
d'honneur(Legion of Honour) on July 14,
2015.His work evolved from painting
expressionistic landscapes to abstract ones.
From his fluent water colours of landscapes and
townscapes executed in the early 1940s, he
moved toward a more expressive language,
painting landscapes of the mind.
 HIS WORK
Bindu The untitled tomato
9. Vasudeo S. Gaitonde
Vasudeo S.
Gaitonde (V. S.
Gaitonde) (1924–
2001) was regarded
as one of India's
foremost abstract
painters. He
received Padma Shri
Award in 1971.
 His works
Untitled Untitled
10.Tyeb Mehta
Tyeb Mehta (25 July 1925 – 2 July
2009) was an Indian painter,
sculptor and film maker. He was
part of the Bombay Progressive
Artists Group and the first post-
colonial generation of artists in
India, like John Wilkins who also
broke free from the
nationalist Bengal school and
embraced Modernism instead,
with its post
impressionist colours, cubist forms
and brusque, expressionistic styles.
 His works
Mahishasura 1994 Kali 1989
11.P.N. Choyal
Choyal was introduced to
watercolours at eight by well-known
artist Kalu Ram Sharma,Known for
his imaginative capturing of the ruins
of Rajasthan, Choyal nevertheless
manages to infuse them with
contemporary concerns. The fort
and havelis (mansions) of his native
Rajasthan are a favourite subject and
his often realistic depictions are
evocative of the grandeur that they
represent. The rather contradictory
pulls of abstraction and realism
seem to have been realised in his
work.
His works
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