ARTISTS

Ganesh Pyne (11 June 1937 12 March 2013) was an Indian painter and draughtsman, born
in Kolkata, West Bengal. Pyne is one of the most notable contemporary artists of the Bengal
School of Art, who had also developed his own style of "poetic surrealism", fantasy and dark
imagery, around the themes of Bengali folklore and mythology.
Pyne commenced his artistic career in the early 1960s, as a book illustrator and a sketching for
animation films at Mandar Mullick's studio in Kolkata. His early work was deeply influenced by
the Bengal school and especially Abanindranath Tagore was in water colour, and his first
painting "Winter's Morning", portrayed him going to school along with his brother. Further he
added the influences of Frans Hals, Rembrandt's handling of chiaroscuro and Paul Klee's
simplicity and cubism in developing his own style of "poetic surrealism", around themes from
Bengali folklore and mythology.
Pyne started as a watercolourist in the Bengal school mode, and gradually shifted to gouache
and finally to tempera, for his subsequent abstract and surrealist work period, in ochre, black
and blue shades. He was also known as "painter of darkness", for using dark colours like black
and blue and motifs suggesting death, and death, pain and solitude remained consistent themes
in his work.

'World Youth Festival', Prague-1968

Indian International Triennial, New Delhi-1968 & 71
Paris Biennial, Paris-1970
Exhibition in aid of Menuhin School of Music, Royal Academy of
Arts, London-1970
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Jamini Roy (11 April 1887 24 April 1972) was an Indian painter.
He was honoured with the State award of Padma Bhushan in 1955. He was one of the most
famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore, whose artistic originality and contribution to the
emergence of modern art in India remains unquestionable.He was most influenced by
the Kalighat Pat (Kalighat painting), which was a style of art with bold sweeping brush-strokes.
He moved away from his earlier impressionist landscapes and portraits and between 1921 and
1924 began his first period of experimentation with the Santhal dance as his starting point.
His underlying quest was threefold: to capture the essence of simplicity embodied in the life of
the folk people; to make art accessible to a wider section of people; and to give Indian art its
own identity.
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. Initially he
experimented with Kalighat paintings but found that it has ceased to be strictly a "patua" and
went to learn from village patuas. Consequently, his techniques as well as subject matter was
influenced by traditional art of Bengal.

Cats Plus
Cats Sharing a Prawn
Crucifixion with Attendant Angels
Gopini
Krishna and Balarama
Krishna and Radha Dancing
Krishna with Gopis in Boat
Makara

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Rabindra Behera is best known for his Odisha Patachitra paintings. At the age of 11, Behera showed
great proficiency in art, prompting his family to encourage him further . Armed with a few basic art
supplies, he began studying patachitra etching under the tutelage of Jagannath Mahapatra, a well-
known patachitra artist, in Raghurajpur village in the district of Puri, Odisha.

Initially the base of the cloth canvas is coated with chalk powder and glue to give it greater tensile
strength for absorbing paint. It is also traditional for the artist to paint the borders first, and use light
brush work for the preliminary sketch. When the painting is complete, it is held over a charcoal fire and
lacquer is applied to the surface for durability and shine. Traditionally, many of the paints used are
acquired from vegetable, mineral and earthly sources. The subject matter often centres around
religious, mythological, and folk themes, with Krishna Leela and Lord Jagannath as recurring motifs.
Likewise, Behera also depicts scenes from the Hindu epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana, legendary
stories of well-known gods like Krishna and Shiva. The paintings are also adorned with decorative
designs of animals and birds in geometric and symmetrical pattens, and the more elaborate they are,
the longer it takes to finish them. Behera usually works with tussar silk and patti, or palm leaf, as
canvases. He has participated in various exhibitions in New Delhi, West Bengal, Bangalore, Chennai and
local fairs in Odisha.