5 women artists of India that you must know!
Women’s History Month is coming to an end, and as promised, here’s my post on the 5 women artists of India along with activity suggestions...
Looking at Art : Jamini Roy Activity Sheet
Jamini Roy, Tagore and a sholapith - terracotta Durga are essential to every Bengali household and my grandparents' home wasn't any different. Of all...
Mahabalipuram : Arjuna’s Penance / Descent of Ganga
Who doesn't love a great story? Now imagine, the story takes form of sculptures and caves - and 19 of them in the same...
Indian Museum, Kolkata: A History of Indian Sculpture
Republished with Permission from Rama Arya's Blog
A nondescript placard on the wall reads: “Buddhist Stupa, 2nd Century BC, Bharhut, Madhya Pradesh.”
I turn around and...
Looking at the art of Amrita Shergil : Activity
It is ironic how art is so gendered and presumably “female” and yet somehow, if you were asked to name 5 women...
The Master Sculptor of India: Ramkinkar Baij
Born into a poor barber's family in Bengal's Bankura district, Ramkinkar Baij is considered to be the "Father of Modern Indian sculpture”....
Remembering Sunayani Devi: A forgotten artist from history
When we think of artists from pre-independence India, Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore or Nandalal Bose come to mind. However, it wasn't...
Kshitindranath Majumdar: The Saint Artist
When the Nationalism movement was at its peak, the artists of Bengal, under the tutelage of Abanindranath Tagore worked towards the renaissance...
The Abstract Art of Nasreen Mohamedi
"The abstract art of Nasreen Mohamedi is a significant contribution to modernism, expanding the boundaries of western art history"
Nasreen Mohamedi is India's first woman...
Chitranibha Chowdhury: the first woman painter of Bangladesh and Shantiniketan’s first female professor
Even though women have made art for centuries in the Indian subcontinent, the historical narrative has somewhat favoured the male painterly traditions....