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Designing sets and costumes for the group\u2019s productions, he toured Europe with Diaghilev, and came in touch with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, and Wassily Kandinsky, who were also designing sets for Diaghilev.\nRoerich immigrated to the United States in 1920 with wife Helena, where he founded the Agni Yoga Society the same year in New York, and an art institute the next year which would metamorphose into the Nicholas Roerich Museum in 1949. Around this time, Roerich started on a quest to explore the Eastern philosophies that had begun to impact his work.\nThis quest brought him to India in 1923 and he extensively explored the Himalayas from Sikkim in the east to Ladakh and Kashmir in the north-west. He also travelled through large parts of Central Asia and South Asia as part of his Asian expeditions, and was instrumental in creating the Roerich Peace Pact for the safekeeping of cultural and artistic legacies.\nRoerich established the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute in 1928 in Kullu valley and passed away on 13 December 1947 in Naggar, Himachal Pradesh. His home there is now a museum.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/n/i/nicholas_roerich_cover.jpg","intro":"One of the nine National Treasure artists of India, Russia-born Nicholas Roerich was not just a painter but a stage designer for ballets, an explorer, writer, and philosopher.","name":"Nicholas Roerich","profile":"https://dagworld.com/nicholasroerich.html","year":"1874 - 1947"},{"CurrentProductId":"2231","LastArtProId":"2858","artworks":[{"medium":"Charcoal, conte and glass marker on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas038.jpg","title":"Fakirsahab","year":1941},{"medium":"Charcoal and dry pastel on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas043.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1940},{"medium":"Conte on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas047.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1939},{"medium":"Charcoal on paper laid on mount board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas116.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Watercolour and ink on paper pasted on cardboard","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas217.jpg","title":"A Refugee Camp in South Calcutta","year":1946},{"medium":"Lithograph on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas400ny.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1944},{"medium":"Conte on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas401ny.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1963}],"bio":"Born on 15 August 1894 in the north Calcutta neighbourhood of Nather Bagan, Sinha showed an aptitude for the arts since childhood. He enrolled at the Government School of Art at the age of eighteen as a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore. However, he had to give up studying within three years due to his father\u2019s death. He joined an insurance company as an agent to earn his livelihood but continued to study painting privately.\nSoon, he was illustrating books, magazines and journals, such as the Bengali periodical Basumati. Though he had been a student of Abanindranath Tagore, Sinha gradually found his own style in realism, and along with other students of Tagore such as Jamini Roy and Atul Bose, drifted away from the Bengal School. He also interned with Hemendranath Mazumdar at Jubilee Art Academy.\nIn later years, Sinha went on to teach at his alma mater. He also taught at Indian College of Arts and Draughtsmanship, where he was eventually elevated to the post of principal. Sinha was an active member of the Calcutta cultural collective called Rasachakra and served as joint secretary at New Delhi\u2019s Lalit Kala Akademi. He was awarded the ivory Ashok Stambha in 1962 by the Government of India for his contribution to Indian art.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/a/satish_sinha.jpg","intro":"Painting in the realistic style, Satish Sinha\u2019s forte was the female figure, followed by landscapes. His subjects remained people in everyday settings, creating endearing portraits of life quotidienne.","name":"Satish Sinha","profile":"https://dagworld.com/satishsinha.html","year":"1894 - 1965"},{"CurrentProductId":"2120","LastArtProId":"2754","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/h/shahh13.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/h/shahh15.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1962},{"medium":"Acrylic on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/h/shahh17.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":2006},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/h/shahh18.jpg","title":"The Supreme Consideration is Man","year":2000},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/h/shahh19.jpg","title":"Pathos","year":1960}],"bio":"Shah's understanding of his environment moulded him into a cultural anthropologist who brought global academic focus on tribal and folk arts and culture of India. He studied for his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in fine arts in the 1950s from M. S. University, Baroda, and was associated with the Baroda Group of Artists that was formed in 1956.\nShah's international breakthrough came in 1967-68, when he spent a year in the U.S. supported by the John D. Rockefeller III Fund, co-curating the exhibition, \u2018Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village\u2019, with Stella Kramrisch of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In subsequent years, he would curate several exhibitions in India and abroad on tribal and folk art and rituals, and Indian textiles, writing/co-authoring many related books, such as Rural Craftsmen and Their Work with Dr. Eberhard Fischer in 1970.\nShah\u2019s anthropological endeavours impacted him as an artist, as he revisited tribal art forms and folk themes in his work, repeating images of cows, trees, and human figures with a quiet force. He also painted a series on the poetry of medieval poet-saints like Kabir, Mirabai, and Rai Das.\nIn 1989, he received the Padma Shri and also set up Shilpa Gram in Udaipur for the revival of arts and crafts. He passed away on 21 March 2019, in Ahmedabad.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haku_shah_cover.jpg","intro":"Born on 26 March 1934 in the village of Valod, Gujarat, Haku Shah absorbed deeply the way of life, culture and beliefs of the pastoral and the folk, which he amply manifested in his works.","name":"Haku Shah","profile":"https://dagworld.com/hakushah.html","year":"1934 - 2019"},{"CurrentProductId":"2191","LastArtProId":"4279","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/e/reddypt132.jpg","title":"Bathers","year":1957},{"medium":"Oil on gunny canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/e/reddypt007_1_.jpg","title":"Village Deity","year":1966},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/e/reddypt014.jpg","title":"Fruit Seller","year":1963},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/e/reddypt092.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1980},{"medium":"Oil and marker on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/e/reddypt107.jpg","title":"Mahishasura Mardhana","year":1985},{"medium":"Oil on cardboard","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/e/reddypt123.jpg","title":"Still Life (Pineapple)","year":1956},{"medium":"Oil on Masonite board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/e/reddypt134.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1960}],"bio":"He was born to a farmer\u2019s family in Andhra Pradesh\u2019s Karimnagar district. Defying his family\u2019s opposition to art as a professional practice and fascinated with colour and form in his childhood, Reddy joined Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay, on a scholarship, to study painting.\nIn 1941, he, along with M. T. Bhopale, A. A. Majeed, M. Y. Kulkarni, and C. Baptista, formed Contemporary Painters of Bombay, a collective much before the Progressive Artists\u2019 Group. He worked as a freelance artist in Bombay, working in the film industry as an art director, at printing presses and commercial studios. Setting up a furnishing industry at Hyderabad from 1947-67, he returned to being a fulltime artist in the 1950s.\nA sensitive artist, Reddy evolved a unique vision of his own, creating complex compositions, realistic and expressionistic portraits, still-lifes, and impressionistic landscapes. His later works are abstract, often revealing a tantric influence with folk motifs and symbols, and a synthesis of almost contrary forms. He was also trained in mural design and was acquainted with the Rajput and Pahari miniature styles.\nReddy received gold, silver and bronze medals from various art societies, including the Dolly Cursetjee award and Mayo scholarship for murals. He received numerous other awards from other institutions including the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, and the Andhra Pradesh Lalit Kala Akademi. He also founded the Sudharma Art Gallery in Hyderabad.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/p/t/pt_reddy.jpg","intro":"An excellent draughtsman, Pakala Thirumal Reddy\u2019s lines have an even flow, rarely changing in thickness or intensity.","name":"P. T. Reddy","profile":"https://dagworld.com/p.t.reddy.html","year":"1915 - 1996"},{"CurrentProductId":"2224","LastArtProId":"5833","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil, marker and charcoal on Rexene","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/a/sadequain01.jpg","title":"Untitled (Bol Ke Lab Azaad Hain Tere)","year":1976},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/a/sadequain12.jpg","title":"Couple Embracing","year":1976},{"medium":"Oil and marker on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/a/sadequain13.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1982}],"bio":"He moved to Delhi in 1944 to work as a calligrapher-copyist with All India Radio where his elder brother was also working, but shifted to Pakistan following Partition. Moving between jobs for a few years in his new homeland, Sadequain devoted himself fully to the arts in 1955 after his fame as an artist rose with the patronage of the country\u2019s prime minister, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.\nIt was around this time that two important characteristics of Sadequain\u2019s art started taking concrete shape\u2014the influence of Pablo Picasso in his figurative works, and the trope of the cactii, used as a metaphor for human struggle. The thorny plant even became part of his calligraphic work, which was the source of all his art.\nAt the 1961 Paris Biennale, Sadequain was declared an artist laureate in the \u2018Under 35\u2019 category and awarded a scholarship, which allowed him to travel across Europe and the U.S. and hold solo exhibitions in London and Paris. Post his return to Pakistan in 1967, Sadequain started focusing mostly on calligraphy. He was also commissioned by the state to make murals for important buildings such as the ceiling of Frere Hall in Karachi, and the State Bank of Pakistan building. Sadequain passed away in Karachi on 10 February 1987.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/a/sadequain.jpg","intro":"One of the most important South Asian artists of the twentieth century, Syed Ahmed Sadequain Naqvi was born in Amroha in Uttar Pradesh in pre-Partition India and grew up in a family that highly valued calligraphy.","name":"Sadequain","profile":"https://dagworld.com/sadequain.html","year":"1930 - 1987"}]