The document discusses Renaissance art and several Indian artists from the Renaissance period in India. It provides background information on the Renaissance art movement, noting that it originated in Italy in the 15th century and Florence was a cultural leader. It then profiles several prominent Indian artists from the Renaissance period in India, including Abanindra Nath Tagore, Nandlal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M.F. Hussain, describing their backgrounds, styles of work, and some of their most famous paintings.

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MOVEMENT THAT ORIGINATED IN ITALY IN THE 15TH CENTURY
FLORENCE WAS A CULTURAL LEADER IN THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD

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movement that originated in Italy in the 15th century
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Florence was a cultural leader in the renaissance period

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• The term “Renaissance” refers to the “rebirth” of Greek and Roman culture
-ARCHITECTURE
-SCLUPTURE
-PAINTING
- LITERATURE

5. POST OF INDEPENDENCE ART OF INDIA
• By the time of Independence in 1947, several schools of art in
India provided access to modern techniques and ideas.
• Galleries were established to showcase these artists.
• Modern Indian art typically shows the influence of Western
styles, but is often inspired by Indian themes and images.
Major artists are beginning to gain international recognition,
initially among the Indian diaspora, but also among non-
Indian audiences.
• Its founder was Francis Newton Souza and S. H. Raza, M. F.
Husain and Manishi Dey were early members.
Post independence art

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• Abanindra Nath Tagore
• Nand Lal Bose
• Jamini Roy
• Amrita Sher Gill
• M.F. Hussian
• Satish Gujral
• S.H. Raza

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Abanindra Nath Tagore
Abanindra Nath Tagore CIE was the principal artist and creator of the “Indian Society of Oriental
Art”.
Born: 7 August 1871, Jorasanku, Kolkata
Died: 5 Dec 1951, Kolkata
Period: Bengal art period
Education: St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Sanskrit Collegiate
school
Parents: Gunendra Nath Tagore, Saudamini Tagore
Nephew: Kanakendra Nath Tagore

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Working Period of Abanindra Nath Tagore
• He was one of the most prominent artiest of the Bengal School painting, along with being the first major supporter of
Swadeshi values in the Indian art.
• Abanindra Nath is also regarded as a proficient and accomplished writer.
• The painter tried to modernize Mughal and Rajput tradition as an answer to the growing influence of western art under
the British Raj.
• In 1897,the vic principal of Calcuta Government School of Art started teaching the traditional European academic
manner to Abanindra nath Tagore.
• During that time Tagore developed an interst in water colour and also come under the influence of Mughal art.
• He made some beautiful painting based on the life of Lord Krishna, relecting a strong influence of the Mughal style.

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Abanindra Nath Tagore Style
• Abanindra Nath Tagore believed in the traditional Indian techniques of painting.
• He was very much influenced by the Mughal school of painting as well as Whistler’s
Aestheticism.
• In his later works, Tagore started integrating Chinese and Japanese calligraphic
tradition in his style.

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Abanindra Nath Tagore Famous Painting
Bharat Mata The Passing Of Shah Jahan Journey’s
End

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Abanindra Nath Tagore Famous Painting
Ashoka’s queen Moonlight music party Ganesh Janini

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Nandlal Bose
Nandlal bose was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key fig. of Contextual Modernism. A pupil of
Abanindra Nath Tagore, was known for his ‘Indian style’ of painting. He became the principal of Kala Bhavan,
Santini Ketan in 1922.
Born: 3 Dec 1882, Mungar
Died: 16 April 1966, Kolkata
On View: Nation Gallery of Modern Art
Education: Government College of Art & craft
Award: Padma Vibhushan (1954)
Known for: Painting

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Working of Nandlal Bose
• He attended Calcutta government college of Art between 1905
and 1910.
• He joined Abanindranath’s Art School, where he was guided,
initially, by Harinarayan Basu and Iswari Prasad and later on,
by Abanindra nath himself.
• Nandlal bose received great support from sister Nivedita.

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Nandlal bose Famous Painting
Darjeeling and Fog Saraswati dandi march
(Bapuji)

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Nandlal bose Famous Painting
Tiller of the soil Saraswati Cotton Spinning

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Jamini Roy
Jamini Roy was an Indian painter. He was honoured with the state award of Padma Bhushanin 1954. He was one of the
most famous pupils of Rabindranath Tagore, whose artistic originality and contribution to the emergence of modern art in
India remains unquestionable.
Born: 11 April 1887, Beliatou
Died: 24 April 1972, Kolkata
On View: Museum of Art & Photography, Royal Ontatio Museum,
Period: Modern Art, Moderism
Award: Padma Bhushan
Education: Government College of Art & Craft (1903-1908)
Parents: Ramataran

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Working of Jamini Roy
• The founder of Bengal school was vice principal at the institution.
• He was taught to paint in the prevailing academic tradition drawing Classical nudes
and painting in oils and in 1908 he received his Diploma in Fine Art.
• He was most influenced by the Kalighat Pat (Kalighat painting), which was a style
of art with bold sweeping brush-strokes.

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Jamini Roy Style
• Roy began his career as a commissioned portrait painter.
• Roy changed style from his academic Western training and featured a new style based on
Bengali folk traditions.
• Jamini Roy's paintings were put on exhibition for the first time in the British India Street
of Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1938.
• During the 1940s, his popularity touched new highs, with the Bengali middle class and
the European community becoming his main clientele.
• In 1946, his work was exhibited in London and in 1953, in the New York City.
• He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1954.
• His work has been exhibited extensively in international exhibitions and can be found in
many private and public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• Initially he experimented with Kalighat paintings but found that it has ceased to be
strictly a "patua" and went to learn from village patuas.
Mother and child

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Jamini Roy Painting
Parvati and Ganesh Three woman Rani on a
horse

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Jamini Roy Painting
Gopini Mother and Child Krishna Yasogha

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Amrita Sher Gil
Amrita Sher Gil was an eminent Hungarian- Indian painter. She has been called ‘one of the greatest avant- gardle women
artists of the early 20th century’ and a ‘pioneer’ in modern Indian art. Drawn towards painting since a young age, Shergil
start getting formal lesson in the art, at the age of eight.
Born: 30 Jan 1913, Budapest, Hungary
Died: 5 Dec 1941, Lahore, Pakistan
On View: National Gallery of Art
Periods: Modern Art, Post-Impressionism
Spouse: Victor Egan (m. 1938- 1941)
Parents: Umrao Singh Sher- Gill Majihia, Mario Antonieette Gottesman
Education: Academic de la Grande Chaumiere, National School of fine art.

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Amrita Sher Gil Works
• In 1923, Marie came to known , an Italian Sculptor, who was living at Shimla at the time and in 1924 when he retured to
Italy.
• She too moved to Italy along with Amrita and got her enrolled at Santa Annuzita, an art school at Florence.
• Amrita didn’t stay at this school for long, and returned to India in 1924, it was here that she was exposed to work of
Italian masters.
• At sixteen, Shergil sailed to Europe with her mother to train as a painter Paris.
• She drew inspiration from European painters such as Paul Cezanne and paul Gauguin, while coming under the
influence of her teacher.
• Lucien simen and the company of artiest friends and lovers like Boris Tazlitsky.
• Her early painting display a significant influence of the western modes of paintings. In 1932, Shergil made her first
important work, YOUNG GIRLS, which led to her election an associate of the Grand Salon in Paris in 1933.

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• Making her the youngest ever and the only Asian to have received this recognition.
• In 1934, while in Europe she “began to be haunted by an intense langing in return to Indian.
• She later wrote about her return to India.
• She began a great for rediscovery of traditions of Indian art which was to continue till her death.
• In may 1935, as Shimla Amrita met the English journist Malcolm Mugyeridge, then working as assistant Editor and
leader writer for the Calcutta Stateman.
• Shimla and a short intense affair took place during which she painted a casual portrait of her new lover, the painting
now with the National Gallery in New Delhi.
• She left herself for travel in 1936 at the behest of an art collector and crites Kael Khandolava, who encouraged her to
porsue her passion foe discovering her Indian Roots
• She was greatly impressed and influenced by Mughal and Pahari school of paintings and the cave paintings at Ajanta.
• Later in 1937, she toured South India and produced the famous

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Amrita Sher Gil Famous Painting
Self Portrait Two Elephant Three Girls

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Amrita Sher Gil Famous Painting
Camels Village Sence The Bride

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M.F. Hussian
Maqbool Fida Hussian better known as M.F. Hussian was an Indian Painter, regarded as India’s most prolific, controversial
and world renowned artist. He was a modern Indian most prolific, controversial and world- renowned artist. He was a
modern Indian Painter of international acclaim and a founding member of Bombay progressive Artists Group.
Born: 17 Sep 1915, Pandharpur
Died: 9 June 2011, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom
On view: National Gallery of Modern Art Museum of art & Photography
Period: Cubism, Abstract expression, Pop art, Expressionism, Abstract art
Full Name: Maqbool Fida Hussian
Awards: Padma Shri, Padma Bhusan, Padma Vibhushan
Movies: Gaja Gamini, Though the eyes of a Painter, Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities.

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M.F. Hussain Work
• His association with painting began at an early age the learnt the art of Calligraphy and Practised the Kufic Khat with
its geomateric forms.
• He also learnt to write it geometric forms.
• He also learnt to write poetery forms.
• At 20 years years of age he moved Mumbai, determined to become an artiest an joined Sir J.J. School of fine Art.
• In 1937, he started his career painting cinema boarding for a livelihood.
• He had a tough time initially, but as the earning got better he visited Surat, Daroda and Ahmemdabad to paint
landscape.
• He also tried his luck in other jobs and the best paid job and the best paid job.was at a toy factory, where he design and
built firework toys.
• In between, Hussian got married to Fazila in the year 1914 and they two daughters Raisa and Aqueela and three sons,
Mustafa a restaurateur and Shamshed and Owais, both painter themselves.

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• Hussain’s painting ‘ sunhera Sansaar

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M.F. Hussian Famous Painting
Horse Mother Teresa 5 Horses

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M.F. Hussian Famous Painting
Krishna Gopala Lady with veena Rajasthani women

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M.F. Hussian Movie
Gaja Gamini

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Satish Gujaral
Satish Gujaral is an Indian Painter, sculptor, muralist and writer of the Post- independent era. He
was awarded the Padma Vibhhushan. The second Highest Civilian Award of the Rebublic of Indian,
in 1999. His elder brother , Inder Kumar Gujral, was the Former Prime Minister of India.
Born: 25 Dec 1925 (age 94 years), Jhelum, Pakistan
On view- National Gallery of Modern Art
Died: 2018
Awards: Padma Vibhushan
Education: Government College of Art, Chandigarh, National College of Art
Children: Mohit Gujral

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Satish Gujaral Famous Painting
Memory Biography Contemporary
Indian Art

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Satish Gujaral Famous Painting
Meera Bai Day of Glory Rising of Lazarus

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S.H. Raza
Sayad Haider ‘S.H. Raza was an Indian painter who lived and worked in France since March of 2005, while maintaining
strong ties with India. He was born in Barbaria, Central Provinces, British India which is now present day Madhye
Pradesh. He was a Renowned Indian Artist
Born: 30 March 1922, Mandla
Died: 23 July 2016, New Delhi
On View: Nation Gallery of Modern Art Museum of Art & Photography
Period: Abstract Art
Spouse: Janine Mongillat (m. 1959-202)
Awards: Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Padma Vibhushan
Education: Sir Jamsetjee, Jeejebhoy School Of Art, Nation School of Fine Arts.

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S.H. Raza Famous Painting
Surya Nameskar Prakarti Remebering the
Master

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S.H. Raza Famous Painting
Ankuran Surastra Composition
Geometria

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