Ram Kumar

Ram Kumar was born in Shimla in 1924. He is one of the pioneers of abstract painting. He gave up figurativism for abstract art. He is known for his abstract landscapes in oil or acrylic. One of the main concerns ..

Manjit Bawa

Manjit Bawa was born in Dhuri, Punjab in the year 1941. He received the Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2006. He expired in the year 2008. Manjit Bawa was a figurative painter from the beginning. The ..

K.H. Ara

Krishnaji Howlaji Ara was an Indian painter, born in 1914 in Bolarum, Secunderabad. He is recognised as the first contemporary Indian painter to focus on the female nude as a subject while staying within the limits of naturalism. Initially, he ..

K. G. Subramanyan

K. G. Subramanyan (Born 1924) is a renowned Painter, Sculptor and muralist. Presidency College, Madras is his alma mater where he studied economics. He was greatly influenced by Gandhian philosophy and he participated in Indian freedom struggle with full enthusiasm for ..

Binod Behari Mukherjee

Binod Behari Mukherjee, a pupil of Nandlal Bose, was one of the pioneers of Indian modern art. He was a painter and a celebrated muralist. He was one of the earliest artists in modern India to take up mural as ..

Amrita Sher-Gil

The Birth Centenary Celebrations of Amrita Sher-Gil was launched in February 2013 at the National Gallery of Modern Art. To celebrate the life and works of Amrita Sher-Gil, the Ministry of Culture, Government of India is organizing a series of ..

Akbar Padamsee

Akbar Padamsee: Brief Biography Akbar Padamsee is considered one of the pioneers in Modern Indian painting. He was born in Mumbai, India. He met his first mentor Shirsat, a watercolourist in St. Xavier’s High School, Fort. He initially received training ..

Tyeb Mehta

Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art. He was born in 1925 in Kapadvanj, a town of Kheda district, Gujarat. During his early days, he worked as a film editor in a cinema laboratory at ..

Maqbool Fida Husain

Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011), India’s most charismatic and most internationally recognised painter, was romance personified in both work and life. Husain’s crime was that he had painted Hindu gods and goddesses, in the nude sometime in the 1970s. Though there ..

S. H. Raza

Syed Haider Raza (born 1922), is the 2013 Padma Vibhushan awardee. He was born in Babaria, Mandla (Madhya Pradesh), studied at the Nagpur School of Art and later went to Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. In 1946, his first ..