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J. School of Art, Bombay. With influences as varied as Arshile Gorky, Roberto Matta, S. B. Palsikar and Rabindranath Tagore, Parekh has always sought to explore his inner landscape through art.\nPerhaps best known for his Banaras series, Parekh\u2019s works are characterised by his intuitive use of colour, bold brushstrokes, and prominent lines. He has experimented with colourful abstractions, sexual imagery, and figuration, responding as much to nature as to daily life and social issues. The women in his works are represented as nature spirits, plant forms, germinating seeds and allegorical figures, recalling mythological traditions.\nStage designer, art designer, actor and artist, Manu Parekh brings diverse perspectives to his work. Craft has been a long-term interest and association with the Weavers\u2019 Service Centre as a consultant designer gave him the opportunity to work with craftsmen. He has travelled widely across India studying the indigenous techniques and styles of folk artists.\nParekh received the President of India\u2019s silver plaque and the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society\u2019s award in 1972, and the national award of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 1982. In 1992, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India. His retrospective show at National Gallery of Modern Art also travelled to Mumbai and Bengaluru. He lives and works in New Delhi along with his artist wife, Madhvi Parekh.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/a/manu_parekh_cover.jpg","intro":"Manu Parekh\u2019s paintings on the infamous Bhagalpur blindings in 1980 reveal his deep response to humanity, in much the same way as Guernica\u00a0was Picasso\u2019s response to the horrors of war.","name":"Manu Parekh","profile":"https://dagworld.com/manuparekh.html","year":"b - 1939"},{"CurrentProductId":"2235","LastArtProId":"2874","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil on board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/suvaprasanna093.jpg","title":"Bird III","year":1994},{"medium":"","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/suvaprasanna02.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1973},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/suvaprasanna070.jpg","title":"Lament","year":1971},{"medium":"Acrylic and charcoal with rice paper on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/suvaprasanna083.jpg","title":"Beast","year":1997},{"medium":"Oil and acrylic on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/suvaprasanna088.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1988},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/suvaprasanna102.jpg","title":"The Owl","year":null}],"bio":"Born in Calcutta on 20 October 1947, he is a quintessential painter of the eastern metropolis that he unabashedly loves. He graduated from Indian College of Art, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, in 1969. An active member of Calcutta Painters group, urban themes are a constant in his work.\nSkilled in painting, etching, and drawing in mixed media, his artistic and personal concerns lie with urban decay and an anxiety of the collapse of urban culture, seen in his well-known works featuring crows and owls, and the series Illusion, Clock and Bird. This is also visible in his cityscapes which are curiously devoid of human presence; empty lanes and bylanes speak of the absence of the multitudes that populate this crowded city.\nIn 1984, he founded Arts Acre, an artists\u2019 village in Calcutta, and has worked as editor of Art Today magazine. Awarded by institutions like Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Akademi, West Bengal, and All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi, he was the subject of a documentary film by Goutam Ghose, titled Shuva and Me, in which the two visited Germany to meet German Nobel-laureate G\u00fcnter Grass. Shuvaprasanna continues to live and work in Kolkata with his artist wife Shipra Bhattacharya.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/suvaprasanna_1.jpg","intro":"Beset by problems and politics, but possessing great potential, Kolkata has remained Shuvaprasanna's abiding inspiration as he absorbs and responds to its upheavals, the tumult of its masses, and its frequent political turbulence.","name":"Shuvaprasanna","profile":"https://dagworld.com/shuvaprasanna.html","year":"b - 1947"},{"CurrentProductId":"2163","LastArtProId":"5886","artworks":[{"medium":"Watercolour on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/a/mali_am08.jpg","title":"Landscape","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/a/mali_am16.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Watercolour on handmade paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/a/maliam18.jpg","title":"Portrait of a Maharashtrian Man","year":1912},{"medium":"Soft pastel on board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/a/maliam22.jpg","title":"Portrait of a Lady","year":null},{"medium":"Watercolour on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/a/mali_am07.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null}],"bio":"Mali\u2019s initial training in painting was under the well-known landscape artist Abalall Rahiman. After a few years he moved to Poona for better opportunities, where he began work at the Chitrashala Press, which brought him acclaim and patronage. Unsatisfied with the range of activities Poona too could offer, Mali shifted to Bombay with his family.\nMali was a contemporary of academic artist M. V. Dhurandhar and Raja Ravi Varma, the painter of mythological oils. At a time when Ravi Varma\u2019s works based on mythology and epics were a rage, Mali established contact with the artist, the association influencing his own art making. In south Bombay, Mali opened his own art space in time, Gurudas Studio. Moving in Bombay\u2019s wider intellectual and artistic circles, he met established authors whose novels he illustrated, besides other well-known publications. He also did illustrations for the famous writer of mythology and epics, Kanhayalal M. Munshi. \nHis well-known painting depicting the \u2018Jatayu Vadha\u2019 episode from the Ramayana was included in textbooks in Maharashtra; and a painting of Shri Khandoba of Jejuri, Poona, too became popular. Mali was a versatile artist and worked in almost all genres, ranging from mythological illustrations, portraitures, nudes and still-life to landscapes. His paintings are part of various museums and collections; the Aundh State Gallery near Satara, Maharashtra, holds a notable collection of his paintings.\nMali was a contemporary of academic artist M. V. Dhurandhar and Raja Ravi Varma, the painter of mythological oils. At a time when Ravi Varma\u2019s works based on mythology and epics were a rage, Mali established contact with the artist, the association influencing his own art making. In south Bombay, Mali opened his own art space in time, Gurudas Studio. Moving in Bombay\u2019s wider intellectual and artistic circles, he met established authors whose novels he illustrated, besides other well-known publications. He also did illustrations for the famous writer of mythology and epics, Kanhayalal M. Munshi.\nHis well-known painting depicting the \u2018Jatayu Vadha\u2019 episode from the Ramayana was included in textbooks in Maharashtra; and a painting of Shri Khandoba of Jejuri, Poona, too became popular. Mali was a versatile artist and worked in almost all genres, ranging from mythological illustrations, portraitures, nudes and still-life to landscapes. His paintings are part of various museums and collections; the Aundh State Gallery near Satara, Maharashtra, holds a notable collection of his paintings.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/a/m/am_mali_cover.jpg","intro":"A. M. Mali was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, where his father was an artist, who painted mythological illustrations on the walls of local temples.","name":"A. M. Mali","profile":"https://dagworld.com/m.mali.html","year":"1871 - 1922"},{"CurrentProductId":"2122","LastArtProId":"2778","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/i/misrah021.jpg","title":"Transmutation into Green Gold","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on plywood","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/i/misrah034.jpg","title":"On Guard","year":1959},{"medium":"Watercolour on handmade paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/i/misrah037.jpg","title":"Hanging Clouds near Bara Bazar, Shillong","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/i/misrah050.jpg","title":"Resonance","year":1968},{"medium":"Watercolour on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/i/misrah085.jpg","title":"Sand Dunes, Shillong, Assam","year":1953},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/i/misrah099.jpg","title":"Calcutta","year":1964}],"bio":"Misra went to school in his hometown and later studied at Cotton College, Guwahati, and St. Edmund\u2019s, Shillong. As for the arts, he was self-taught, polishing his skills through a correspondence course with British artist John Hassal.\nMisra shifted to Calcutta early in his career, the first phase of which was marked by brilliant landscapes evoking his native Assam. Landscapes gave way to experiments with cubism. However, his cubism was not a copy of the West but its distillation, with angles being softer and compositions more lyrical. Misra traversed a wide range of pictorial styles before arriving at a consistent and personal vocabulary defined by intuitive surrealism,.\nIn 1947, he was the art advisor to the \u2018First Assam Hills and Plains People\u2019s Exhibition\u2019, and worked as a staff artist in the military. On the strength of his drawing, he was selected as member of the prestigious Calcutta Group of artists in 1953. Misra was also a writer and a poet, and illustrated several books. His publications include the Assamese book Bharatiya Chitrakala (1978), a book of poems in Assamese titled Roopar Antare Roop (1984), and the Bengali book Dikhow Luit O Sagar (1990). His works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and the State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow.\nHe passed away in Guwahati on 31 December 2009.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/e/hemanta_mishra.jpg","intro":"One of the pioneers of surrealism in Indian modern art, Hemanta Misra was born in Sivasagar, Assam, on 13 October 1917.","name":"Hemanta Misra","profile":"https://dagworld.com/hemantamisra.html","year":"1917 - 2009"},{"CurrentProductId":"2192","LastArtProId":"2636","artworks":[{"medium":"Serigraph on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit434.jpg","title":"Face X","year":1997},{"medium":"Serigraph on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit081.jpg","title":"Blessings","year":1989},{"medium":"Serigraph on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit111.jpg","title":"Silent Conversation","year":1988},{"medium":"Serigraph on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit212.jpg","title":"Pilgrim I","year":1986},{"medium":"Serigraph on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit218.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1986},{"medium":"Serigraph on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit240.jpg","title":"Light Behind","year":1983},{"medium":"Serigraph on handmade paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit261.jpg","title":"Calmness of Nature","year":1985},{"medium":"Serigraph on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit300.jpg","title":"Together","year":1991},{"medium":"Serigraph on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/singhparamjit305.jpg","title":"Green Valley","year":1986}],"bio":"Born and brought up in Jamshedpur in present-day Jharkhand, where career prospects appeared limited to engineering or medicine, his parents had hoped he would study architecture, but destiny had other plans as a friend took Singh to a local art class, which spurred his interest in drawing and painting.\nHe moved to New Delhi to study at College of Art. Upon graduation, he worked for an advertising agency for two years and returned to his alma mater as a lecturer, which allowed him to devote time to his passion. He benefitted greatly from discussions with the charismatic printmaker and colleague, Jagmohan Chopra, who turned his interest towards silkscreen printing. The medium appealed to Singh as it wasn\u2019t being practiced by many artists at that time, and it allowed him the scope to experiment. He also explored different genres of printing such as woodcuts, linocuts, and etchings.\nHis prints evoke an organic harmony between various elements of nature, in a pleasant juxtaposition of colours.  He practiced silkscreen printing for thirty years before shifting to painting in acrylic and oil in the year 2000. He received\u00a0the\u00a0Lalit Kala\u202fAkademi\u2019s\u202fnational award in the 1970s\u00a0and won the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society\u2019s Kala Vibhushan award for his contribution to art in 1988. He lives and works in New Delhi.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/p/a/paramjeet_singh.jpg","intro":"Silkscreens remained a favourite with Paramjeet Singh as the smoothness of the medium allowed him to blend colours in an unobtrusive manner.","name":"Paramjeet Singh","profile":"https://dagworld.com/paramjeetsingh.html","year":"b - 1941"}]