Artist Info
Lalu Prasad Shaw
Lalu Prasad Shaw was born in Bengal in 1937, and completed his education in fine arts at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata.
Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Prasad Shaw's works lay the most emphasis on his subject's physical characteristics.
Lalu belongs to the generation of Indian artists which emerged in the sixties in the post-war socio-cultural and political background and which had firm moorings in the native soil.
Awards and Achievements
1981 All India Graphic and Drawing Exhibition, Chandigarh
1978 Award for Graphic Art and Drawing, India
1976 Birla Academy Award for Graphic Art, India .
1971 National Award in Graphic Art, India
1959 West Bengal Lalit Kala Academy's Award for Graphic Art, India
Ramananda Bandyopadhyay
Ramananda Bandyopadhyay was born in 1936, Birbhum, West Bengal. He graduated in Fine Arts from Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, Kolkata in 1957 under the guidance of Nandalal Bose.
Ramananda’s work is typical of the Bengal School of Art. He is inspired by the simplicity and uncomplicated lives of the rustics. His work successfully recreates the innocence, simplicity and grace of a bygone era. Tradition provides a framework of cultural values that sustains the spiritual life of a nation, society and of every individual.
Awards and Achievement
Ramananda Bandyopadhyay has been awarded the National Academy Award by the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, four times between 1961 and 1980.
He was also awarded the Abanindranath Puraskar by the Government of West Bengal in 2000.
Paritosh Sen
Paritosh Sen was a leading Indian artist. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca), the present-day capital of Bangladesh.
He was a founder member of the Calcutta Group, an art movement established in 1942 that did much to introduce modernism into Indian art.
Sen pursued his artistic training at the Academie Andre Lhote, the Academie la Grande Chaumiere, the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and the Ecole des Louvre in Paris. Upon his return to India, he taught first in Bihar and then at Jadavpur University. He also taught art at The Daly College at Indore during the late 1940s.
Awards an Achievements
The Kalidas Nag Award & the Abanindra Puraskar amongst other awards.
Sen was awarded the Lalit Kala Ratna,
Nagesh Goud
Nagesh has been associated with various art galleries. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from College of Fine Arts, Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University,(JNTU) Hyderabad, in 1993.
He also completed his Maharashtra Art certification in 1987 with Distinction. His style of paintings is majorly reflects experimental studies and prehistoric stories.
Nagesh tries to experiment by using different mediums, such as acrylics, Water colors, Pen and Ink, Metallic inks, and oil pastels etc.
Awards and Achievement
He has been part of many youth festivals, including “SHRUTI” organized by Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology Hyderabad and “POTPOURRI 88 “organized by JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada and Hyderabad. He was awarded an award by LALIT KALA Samiti Siddipet.
He was also awarded with Cash Award by Lalitkala Samiti Siddipet and JNTU College of Fine Arts Hyderabad. Apart from this, he was bestowed with PUPPET MAKER-11 award by Hyderabad Art Society. He Lives and Works in Hyderabad.
Shipra Bhattacharya
Shipra Bhattacharya is a B.Sc. graduate, who later studied Fine Art at the College of Visual Arts, Kolkata, under the guidance of her teacher and mentor Shuvaprasanna whom she later married. In her early works she portrayed lifescapes she saw everywhere around, with an immense zest for the figurative idiom and a finesse in execution.
The artist combines with ease bright, bold colours and soft, curving strokes, rendering each of her paintings a mesmerizing paradox.
Her canvases often revolve around feminine figure entrapped within and encasing her dream world submerged in intricate renderings. While the female figure forms a central part of her work, it is more the inner consciousness of these women that the artist draws on, using bold yet soft colours and smooth brushwork.
Gurudas Shenoy
Gurudas Shenoy is an acclaimed artist with a career spanning over two decades.
Having been born to senior artist G.S. Shenoy, he lived and breathed art since the day he was born, and developed a passion for the colours of nature at an early age
M.F. Husain, a close friend of his father's, was a mentor, and has hugely inspired Gurudas Shenoy's journey as an artist. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group shows at leading art galleries in India, including several at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Known for his abstract and vibrant cityscapes, Gurudas Shenoy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda in 1988.
Awards And Achievements
He has participated in several art exhibitions in India and abroad, including the Central Lalitkala Academy, Karnataka State Lalitkala Academy, Gujarat State Lalitkala Academy, Bombay Art Society and most recently, the 10th Harmony Show in Mumbai.
awards include the Husain-Bendre Award by the Bombay Art Society. He has served as curator for Husain Sankalana in Bangalore since 1990.
Ajay De
Ajay De, born in 1967, graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, and did his post-graduation from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai.
Ajay De`s paintings continue to be shaped by his childhood memories. As an introvert, he often found himself at a loss for words, until he discovered the joy of putting pencil to paper to draw and express his feelings. His life, and the experiences that shaped it, were a source for inspiration.
His solo exhibitions have been held at various prominent art galleries in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Tokyo.
Thota Vaikuntam
Thota Vaikuntam (born 1942) is an Indian painter.paddy fields, toddy pots on shoulders of men, the household chores, temple rituals etc. His drawings range from stark charcoal on paper, transparent washes and pencil drawings.
Vaikuntam paints colorful and elaborately dressed Telangana region men and seductive women. His muse is the sensuous and voluptuous women of Telangana with their omnipresent vermilion bindis, draped in colourful sarees that highlight their dusky skin.
The stylisation of a painting are a perfect foil to Indian classical dance as the figures seem to dance, as if following their creator in a statuesque movement, reminiscent of temple friezes.
Awards and Achievements
Bharat Bhavan Biennale Award, Bhopal
National Award, Govt. of India
State Award
Jogen Choudhary
Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India. He lives and works in Santiniketan. He graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and subsequently at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1967.
He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris. His most famous paintings are in ink, water colour and pastel. He has painted in oil medium as well.
Lines and its tactile characteristic to enhance colours is an important material in Indian Art for ages. Jogen Chowdhury himself is a master of lines and he has mastered to make the curves depict the character of his figures. By careful distortion of the form he imparts the air of caricature in his figures, figures of men and women. The figure is always the most important and conveys all the artist has to express. Colour, he uses though, is to provide matter into the form. R. Siva Kumar has lucidly described Jogen's works in the following excerpt:"
Awards and Achievements
He has been honoured with the prestigious Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, (2001), an honorary D. Litt by Rabindra Bharati University (2010), the Banga Bibhushan award by the Government of West Bengal (2012), and the Zainul Samman (2016) by Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya
Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee is an Indian artist, born in Kolkata in 1947. He graduated from the Indian College of Arts (Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata) in 1969. He was an active member of the 'Calcutta Painters' group.
His work has been exhibited extensively in India and internationally in the United States, Bangladesh, Singapore, France, Switzerland, and Germany. He has won a number of awards.
Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee
Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee graduated from the Indian College of Arts (Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata) in 1969. He was an active member of the 'Calcutta Painters' group. He is married to artist Shipra Bhattacharya.
Ganesh Haloi
Ganesh whe started with a job of sketcher with Archaeological Survey of India to make copies of paintings in Ajanta Caves. He later worked at the Government College of Art and Craft as a faculty member.
Even though it is abstract, Haloi's works and his motifs have precise associations with the artist's psyche, his experiences and the upheavals that have shaped him and his point of view. "Everything begins in pain," says Haloi. He maintains high standards craftsmanship and his construction of tress, houses and the ambience of Kolkata that seems murky with a suppressed strength. Some of his unforgettable work includes nature-scapes painted on rice paper.
