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It was when he got his hands on wood with its uniquely tactile qualities that he felt inspired to carve and create.\nBhagat\u2019s early wood sculptures bore liquid, stream-like forms of the sensual feminine, with smooth, elongated lines charged by lyricism and the sensitivity of a young man not yet traumatised by the horrors of Partition. Post the cataclysmic event, the artist\u2019s oeuvre started acquiring rough edges and un-smoothed chisel marks. Deeply moving, these works are charged with the intensity of Bhagat\u2019s experience as a Partition refugee.\nIn the 1950s, when Bhagat had settled in Delhi, he began experimenting with different mediums such as cement, papier m\u00e2ch\u00e9, aluminium, copper and brass, the inherent qualities of each suggesting to him new forms and contexts. His female figures became large and heavy, steeped in sorrow, far from the earlier, lyrical and smooth wooden ones.\nA series of mostly large, powerful sculptures executed in concrete marked his evolution towards abstraction. He won many accolades such as the Lalit Kala Akademi\u2019s national award in 1961, the Sahitya Kala Parishad award in 1969, and the Padma Shri by the Indian government in 1977. He taught at the College of Art, New Delhi, from 1947-77, and breathed his last in 1988.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/d/h/dhanraj_bhagat_cover.jpg","intro":"Born in Lahore in British India, Dhanraj Bhagat acquired a diploma in sculpture from the city\u2019s Mayo College of Art.","name":"Dhanraj Bhagat","profile":"https://dagworld.com/dhanrajbhagat.html","year":"1917 - 1988"},{"CurrentProductId":"2165","LastArtProId":"3047","artworks":[{"medium":"Watercolour on handmade paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senathipatim40_1.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1975},{"medium":"Ink and charcoal on handmade paper pasted on plywood","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senathipatim42.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1981},{"medium":"Ink, watercolour and gouache on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senathipatim51.jpg","title":"Krishna and Gopis","year":1967}],"bio":"Among the earliest artists to move to Cholamandal Artists\u2019 Village on the outskirts of Madras founded by his mentor, Senathipathi obtained a diploma in drawing and painting from the Government College of Art and Craft\u202fin 1965. Memories of rites and rituals of his religious family that included an uncle who painted images of\u00a0Hindu\u00a0deities have remained an integral part of his vocabulary, as also the folk tales narrated to him in childhood by his mother\u2014as a young boy, he would admire the images of deities in the puja room of his home in Chengalpet near Madras. His lines, too, are drawn from kolam patterns, yantric diagrams, and geometric folk forms.\nA unique feature of Senathipathi\u2019s art is the transparent, stained-glass effect that he brings to his works. In the mid-1970s, he started working exclusively with pen and ink wash, immersing handmade paper in water before delineating his linear composition on it. The pressure of the nib or brush on wet paper gave rise to blots, smudges and sfumato effects, creating textures and enhancing the work\u2019s character.\nIn 1988, Senathipathi received a British Council grant to travel to different parts of Europe. Besides India, Senathipathi has exhibited in Poland, Germany, Malaysia, Holland, and Morocco. The artist lives and works in Chennai.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/_/m_senathipati.jpg","intro":"A student of K. C. S. Paniker\u2014the influential artist-teacher and founding father of the Madras Art Movement\u2014M. Senathipathi is known for his richly textured works drawn from mythology and contextualised in contemporary social issues.","name":"M. Senathipathi","profile":"https://dagworld.com/m.senathipathi.html","year":"b - 1939"},{"CurrentProductId":"2110","LastArtProId":"2599","artworks":[{"medium":"Gouache on rice paper pasted on mount board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haloig62.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":2000},{"medium":"Watercolour on handmade paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haloig63_1_.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1999},{"medium":"Gouache on rice paper pasted on mount board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haloig64.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1996},{"medium":"Gouache on rice paper pasted on mount board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haloig65.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1996},{"medium":"Gouache, watercolour and acrylic on handmade paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haloig72ny.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1992},{"medium":"Acrylic on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haloig78_1_.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":2004}],"bio":"From 1952-56, he studied at the city\u2019s Government College of Arts and Crafts, where he acquired his personal style of sophisticated elegance and finish. Upon graduation, he joined the Archaeological Survey of India and was assigned the documentation of the cave paintings of Ajanta from 1957-63.\nAt around the same time he began his artistic career primarily as a painter of landscapes. The picturesque landscapes of a homeland imprinted as childhood memories inspired his imagery of tender, verdant, moisture-laden vistas in his paintings. Human presence was erased from his visual panorama, giving way to a sublime conversation between land and sky, air and water. By the mid-1970s, Haloi was acknowledged as an accomplished landscape painter who could evoke metaphysical essences within an ordinary landscape.\nThe transformation that began in the \u201970s consolidated in the\u00a0Metascape\u00a0series of 1978, which demarcated a gradual transition from realism to abstraction. Since then, Haloi has made a significant contribution in building up a trend in contemporary painting of using abstract vocabulary to depict nature that goes beyond visual documentation, yet conveys the poetry of nature.\nThe artist, who lives in Kolkata, has received many honours such as seven gold medals from the Academy of Fine Arts, seven silver medals from the University of Calcutta, the Rabindra Bharati award, and the Shiromani Puraskar, among others.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/g/a/ganesh_haloi.jpg","intro":"Born in Jamalpur in present day Bangladesh on 9 February 1936, Ganesh Haloi migrated with his family to Calcutta upon Partition.","name":"Ganesh Haloi","profile":"https://dagworld.com/ganeshhaloi.html","year":"b - 1936"},{"CurrentProductId":"2225","LastArtProId":"5419","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/u/mukherjeas01.jpg","title":"Cave Gate","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/u/mukherjeas02_1.jpg","title":"Untitled (Two Sisters)","year":1959},{"medium":"Oil on canvas pasted on Masonite board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/u/mukherjeas11.jpg","title":"Untitled (Kneeling Peasant Girl)","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/u/mukherjeas13.jpg","title":"Untitled (Market)","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/u/mukherjeas14.jpg","title":"Village Scene","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/u/mukherjees017.jpg","title":"Untitled (Peace)","year":null}],"bio":"Born on 2 November 1907 in Calcutta, Mookherjea completed his diploma in fine arts from the city\u2019s Government School of Art in 1932. Upon graduation, he taught art and served as the art director of the Imperial Tobacco Company before moving to Paris in 1937-38, where he was highly influenced by Henri Matisse.\nMookherjea worked in oil in an easy expressionist style that set him apart from his Indian contemporaries, most of whom were working in watercolour washes, thus emerging as one of India\u2019s earliest modernists. He bore no affinity to the beliefs of any popular contemporary style and drew on the diverse influences of Indian miniature tradition and the Paris school. His paintings sought to bring back visualisations of  idyllic rural life in contemporary urban imagination through depictions of lived reality. His later landscapes showed a shift towards disintegration of form.\nMookherjea was highly influential as a teacher, training future greats such as Ram Kumar and J. Swaminathan; he taught at Sarada Ukil School of Art in New Delhi from 1945-47, and at Delhi Polytechnic from 1948-60. His works are part of important collections including Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai. He passed away on 5 October 1960 in New Delhi.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/a/sailoz_mukherjee.jpg","intro":"Perhaps the least celebrated of the nine National Treasure artists of India, Sailoz Mookherjea was one of the earliest modern painters of the country, and also one of the earliest to study in Paris, in 1937.","name":"Sailoz Mookherjea","profile":"https://dagworld.com/sailozmukherjea.html","year":"1907 - 1960"},{"CurrentProductId":"2255","LastArtProId":"3012","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil and acrylic on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/t/h/thozhurvasudha01.jpg","title":"Of Cages and Shrines or Still life with Cat and Bananas","year":1991},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/t/h/thozhurvasudha03.jpg","title":"A War Time Odyssey (Diptych)","year":1991},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/t/h/thozhurvasudha13.jpg","title":"Man with Dog","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/t/h/thozhurvasudha16.jpg","title":"Still Life with Head Encased","year":null}],"bio":"Born in Mysore on 14 October 1956, Thozhur received a diploma in painting from the College of Art and Craft, Madras, in 1972. She received a post diploma in painting from Croydon School of Art and Design, U.K., in 1982.\nPrimarily a painter, Thozhur creates works across mediums, comprising drawing, video, digital prints, and spoken and written text. Her works are bold, not just in content but also in colours as stark reds are juxtaposed against cavernous blacks, neon yellows and psychedelic greens. At the same time, some works convey her message in black-and-white.\nConstantly seeking to respond to her social environment, Thozhur collaborated with Himmat, an organisation based in Ahmedabad, where she worked with girls who had lost family members in the 2002 Gujarat riots. She taught them painting, silkscreen printing, photography, video, embroidery, appliqu\u00e9, and batik, and created an exhibition featuring their work along with her own charged paintings that was displayed in 2013.\nThozhur\u2019s work has been shown at exhibitions at important venues such as Chicago Cultural Centre, Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland, World Social Forum in Nairobi, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and Asia Society and Queens Museum of Art in New York, among other places. She is currently a professor at Shiv Nadar University, Noida.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/v/a/vasudha_thozur.jpg","intro":"Vasudha Thozhur is known for her conscious art practice that seeks to give expression to conflicts which humans encounter daily in a tension-ridden contemporary society.","name":"Vasudha Thozur","profile":"https://dagworld.com/vasudhathozur.html","year":"b - 1956"}]