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An active member of the Delhi Silpi Chakra, Khanna began his career as an art teacher in Modern School, New Delhi, in 1952-53. \nThough he worked in several mediums, Khanna was the only artist in India to practice and master the technique of enamelling, a technique used mainly to embellish jewellery. He worked primarily with the sifting and stencil method of enamelling, but also worked with mixed technique of raising, collaging of metal shapes, brazing and welding, with sometimes the wet inlay technique and lustres that gave him special effects. Through a painstaking practice, Khanna explored the \u2018infinite aesthetic scope of enamel as medium\u2019, resulting in works that Pran Nath Mago described as \u2018abstract compositions... enjoyable for their form, design and ... effect of calm and serenity\u2019. \nA significant member of the graphic art fraternity, Khanna organised some important art exhibitions, including \u2018Graphic Art in India Since 1850\u2019 for the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1986, and two exhibitions in 1998\u2014'The Early Years of the Delhi Shilpi Chakra\u2019 and \u2018Symbolism and Geometry in Indian Art\u2019\u2014for the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. \nIn his illustrious artistic career, Khanna received several awards, most notably the Padma Shri in 1990.\nThough he worked in several mediums, Khanna was the only artist in India to practice and master the technique of enamelling, a technique used mainly to embellish jewellery. He worked primarily with the sifting and stencil method of enamelling, but also worked with mixed technique of raising, collaging of metal shapes, brazing and welding, with sometimes the wet inlay technique and lustres that gave him special effects. Through a painstaking practice, Khanna explored the \u2018infinite aesthetic scope of enamel as medium\u2019, resulting in works that Pran Nath Mago described as \u2018abstract compositions... enjoyable for their form, design and ... effect of calm and serenity\u2019.\nA significant member of the graphic art fraternity, Khanna organised some important art exhibitions, including \u2018Graphic Art in India Since 1850\u2019 for the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1986, and two exhibitions in 1998\u2014'The Early Years of the Delhi Shilpi Chakra\u2019 and \u2018Symbolism and Geometry in Indian Art\u2019\u2014for the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.\nIn his illustrious artistic career, Khanna received several awards, most notably the Padma Shri in 1990.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/i/bishamber_khanna3.jpg","intro":"One of the first few artists to experiment in the medium of enamelling, Bishamber Khanna was born in Peshawar and studied at Forman Christian College, Lahore, now in Pakistan.","name":"Bishamber Khanna","profile":"https://dagworld.com/bishamberkhanna.html","year":"1930 - 2000"},{"CurrentProductId":"2194","LastArtProId":"4382","artworks":[{"medium":"Dry pastel on paper pasted on mount board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senp079.jpg","title":"Self-portrait with Pipe","year":1948},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senp083ny.jpg","title":"Untitled (Portrait Cubist de Femme a la Cruche)","year":1952},{"medium":"Acrylic on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senp89ny.jpg","title":"Untitled (Isabelle in Black Dress)","year":1982},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senp43.jpg","title":"Women at a Sacred Tank","year":1989},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senp52_1.jpg","title":"Head","year":1969},{"medium":"Charcoal on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/e/senp70.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1983}],"bio":"Uninfluenced by the European modern art trends till the 1940s, Sen experimented with a vocabulary drawn from Indian idioms. Exposure to the works of Vincent van Gogh, Paul C\u00e9zanne, Paul Gaugin, and other masters, through their reproductions during his teaching years at Art College, Indore, sparked off Sen\u2019s interest in form. In 1942, he participated in the only exhibition of the Calcutta Group, of which he was a founder member.\nHowever, it was Sen\u2019s visit to Paris in 1949 that saw him formally acquainted with European art; he also met Pablo Picasso on this trip. Sen returned to India in 1954 and subsequently made paintings with themes from everyday life. His spontaneous response to the traumatic socio-political changes in West Bengal in the 1970s resulted in a series, where, along with large canvases, he installed a papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 sculpture conveying a poster-like simplification of pop art, inspired by his travels in Mexico and Egypt.\nSen wrote on art for leading English and Bengali journals. In 1986, he wrote and illustrated a story in English, published by National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. The French government conferred on him the\u00a0L\u2019officier de l\u2019ordre des arts et des lettres\u00a0and the Lalit Kala Akademi honoured him with the title of Lalit Kala Ratna in 2004. He passed away on 22 October 2008 in Kolkata.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/p/a/pasritosh_s_cover.jpg","intro":"Drawn to art through the pages of the Bengali art journal Prabasi, Paritosh Sen ran away from his home in Dacca (Dhaka), now in Bangladesh, to learn art in Madras.","name":"Paritosh Sen","profile":"https://dagworld.com/paritoshsen.html","year":"1918 - 2008"},{"CurrentProductId":"2076","LastArtProId":"2489","artworks":[{"medium":"Watercolour and ink on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haldara061.jpg","title":"The Man","year":1940},{"medium":"Gouache on cardboard","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haldara067.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1944},{"medium":"Watercolour on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haldara088.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Watercolour on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haldara090.jpg","title":"Kokil","year":null},{"medium":"Terracotta","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haldara106.jpg","title":"Rabi","year":null},{"medium":"Watercolour and graphite highlighted with gold pigment on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haldara137ny.jpg","title":"A Scene from the Omar Khayyam Series","year":null},{"medium":"Gouache and graphite on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/a/haldara145.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null}],"bio":"A grand-nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, Haldar later trained under Abanindranath Tagore at the Government School of Art, Calcutta. He learned clay modelling from traditional artists Jadunath Pal and Bakkeshwar Pal, and sculpture from Leonard Jennings. \nA major artist of the revivalist Bengal School, Haldar experimented with different styles before evolving his own, and painted several series such as the History of India, Life of the Buddha and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Linking metaphors and allegories, he raised illustrative art in India to a level of languid beauty never before achieved. Haldar\u2019s washes stood out for an attenuated delicacy and unusually large sizes. One of the several artists to copy the Ajanta cave paintings under Lady C. J. Herringham, Haldar also worked on copying the Jogimara and Bagh cave paintings in present day Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh respectively.\nHaldar taught at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, from 1911-23, becoming the first principal of the university\u2019s fine arts faculty, the Kala Bhavana, and, later, principal of the College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow. During his stay in Santiniketan, he designed sets and acted in plays by Rabindranath Tagore. In 1934, Haldar was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and conferred the title of Rai Sahib by the colonial British government. He passed away on 13 February 1964, in Lucknow.\nA major artist of the revivalist Bengal School, Haldar experimented with different styles before evolving his own, and painted several series such as the History of India, Life of the Buddha and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Linking metaphors and allegories, he raised illustrative art in India to a level of languid beauty never before achieved. Haldar\u2019s washes stood out for an attenuated delicacy and unusually large sizes. One of the several artists to copy the Ajanta cave paintings under Lady C. J. Herringham, Haldar also worked on copying the Jogimara and Bagh cave paintings in present day Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh respectively.\nHaldar taught at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, from 1911-23, becoming the first principal of the university\u2019s fine arts faculty, the Kala Bhavana, and, later, principal of the College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow. During his stay in Santiniketan, he designed sets and acted in plays by Rabindranath Tagore. In 1934, Haldar was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and conferred the title of Rai Sahib by the colonial British government. He passed away on 13 February 1964, in Lucknow.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/a/s/asit_kumar_halder.jpg","intro":"Born on 10 September 1890, at the Tagore mansion in Jorasanko, Calcutta, Asit Kumar Haldar was initiated into art by a traditional patua, Jhareshwar Chakravarty.","name":"Asit Kumar Haldar","profile":"https://dagworld.com/asitkumarhaldar.html","year":"1890 - 1964"},{"CurrentProductId":"2215","LastArtProId":"2782","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil and acrylic on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/o/rodwityar89.jpg","title":"The River of Dreams","year":1994},{"medium":"Acrylic, dry pastel and graphite on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/o/rodwityar099.jpg","title":"And We Will Clap Whilst the City Burns...","year":1987},{"medium":"Acrylic, watercolour, pastel and graphite on handmade paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/o/rodwityar33.jpg","title":"The Ornate Chair Still Beckons","year":null},{"medium":"Graphite on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/o/rodwityar36.jpg","title":"Which Way Will the River Flow Tomorrow","year":1987},{"medium":"Oil and acrylic on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/o/rodwityar47.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1998}],"bio":"Rodwittiya studied for her bachelor\u2019s degree in fine arts at from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda, from 1976-81. She simultaneously studied and practised photography under the guidance of eminent Baroda-based artist Jyoti Bhatt. Soon after, she received an Inlaks scholarship to study for her master\u2019s in painting at Royal College of Art, London (1982-84). In the meantime, she also studied film and video at London\u2019s Fulham Institute.\nWorking across mediums, Rodwittiya has created allegorical works that are like psychological dialogues on socio-political issues, concerning topics such as alienation, belonging, acceptance, as also experiences of being a woman in contemporary society. All of this is deciphered through her accumulated observations of the past tempered with her beliefs and values. Her protagonist has often been a woman who is depicted absorbed in her daily routine. Rodwittiya\u2019s colour palette is bright and cheerful and she uses symbols and motifs metaphorically.\nA multi-faceted artist, Rodwittiya exhibits her works regularly in exhibitions in India and abroad, apart from delivering lectures and conducting workshops on Indian art at prestigious international shows. In 1990, she was awarded the fellowship of the Rockefeller Foundation-Asian Cultural Council to work in the U.S. She lives and works in Baroda.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/e/rekha_rodwittya_cover.jpg","intro":"Born on 31 October 1958 in Bangalore, Rekha Rodwittiya is an artist aligned with the Baroda School whose work engages with gender politics, socio-political subjugation, human degradation, violence and discrimination, all filtered through the prism of self-questioning.","name":"Rekha Rodwittiya","profile":"https://dagworld.com/rekharodwittiya.html","year":"b - 1958"},{"CurrentProductId":"2161","LastArtProId":"5872","artworks":[{"medium":"Acrylic on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf0010c.jpg","title":"Cobra Girl","year":null},{"medium":"Acrylic on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf_014c.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Acrylic on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf_017c.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf_03c.jpg","title":"Untitled (Nude)","year":null},{"medium":"Oil and acrylic on jute","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf_005c_1.jpg","title":"Arrival","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf289.jpg","title":"Untitled (Bhishma)","year":null},{"medium":"Oil on paper pasted on board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf474_1.jpg","title":"Untitled (Rajasthan Landscape)","year":null},{"medium":"Graphite and watercolour on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf490.jpg","title":"That Obscure Object of Desire 21","year":1982},{"medium":"Lithograph on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/h/u/husainmf618.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null}],"bio":"Born in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, on 17 September 1911, Husain came to Bombay in 1937 to become a painter, where he slept on footpaths and painted under streetlights. A self-taught artist, he began his career painting cinema posters and hoardings, and, in 1941, started making toys and furniture designs.\nHe imagined a secular language for modern Indian art that translated India\u2019s \u2018composite culture\u2019 into a rich mosaic of colours. As a member of the Progressive Artists\u2019 Group, launched in 1947, Husain heralded a new freedom for Indian art in the post-Independence decades. A peripatetic painter, Husain covered both geographical and conceptual territories, and transited at will between painting and poetry, assemblage and performance, installation and cinema. He experimented with text and images, and painted alongside musicians to translate music\u2019s elusiveness into the accuracy of brushstroke. His first film, a short film titled Through the Eyes of a Painter, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1967.\nHusain earned renown for his paintings of horses, though he became equally well-known for his series on Mother Teresa, or the British Raj, among others. His work reflected the relationship between generations of performers, and he referenced India\u2019s syncretic culture using motifs and figures imbued with mythological meaning to give them a modern makeover in keeping with prevalent art practices.\nHusain was awarded the Padma Shri in 1966, the Padma Bhushan in 1973, and the Padma Vibhushan in 1991 by the Indian government. Well into his nineties, he continued to paint despite living in exile in London and Dubai, having fled from India in 2006 following death threats and obscenity cases filed against him. He accepted Qatari citizenship in 2010 and passed away in London on 9 June 2011.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/f/mf_husain_cover.jpg","intro":"In the galaxy of modern masters, one name that is synonymous with twentieth century Indian art, is M. F. Husain\u2019s.","name":"M. F. Husain","profile":"https://dagworld.com/m.f.husain.html","year":"1913 - 2011"}]