Khodidas Parmar
Khodidas Parmar (1930-2004) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1956 Khodidas Parmar was born on July 31, 1930 and was the only son of a poor Karadia Rajput family. He was named after the goddess Khodiyar as the family thought of him being a gift from the goddess after many daughters. Though hailing from a poor […]
Jeram Patel
Jeram Patel (1930-2016) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1973 Jeram Patel was born in 1930 at Sojitra in the Kheda district of Gujarat. He studied drawing and painting at J. J. School of Art, Mumbai and typography and publicity design at Central School of Arts and Craft, London for two years till 1959. Patel was […]
G R Santosh
G R Santosh (1929-1997) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1961 Poet-painter Gulam Rasool Santosh, was born in 1929 in the beautiful Kashmir valley. He completed his matriculation in 1945, with painting as a subject but had to give up further studies due to his father’s death. He did many odds jobs like writing, painting signboards, […]
Jagdish Swaminathan
Jagdish Swaminathan (1928-1994) Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, 1982-1983 Jagdish Swaminathan was born in 1928 in Shimla and pursued art education at the Delhi Polytechnic. He won a scholarship to study graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Warsaw, Poland and later joined the Communist Party of India, where he worked as a journalist and art […]
Akbar Padamsee
Akbar Padamsee (1928-2020) Uttarayan Graphic Camp, Vadodara, 2007 Akbar Padamsee was born in Mumbai in 1928. Padamsee was still a student at the J. J. School of Art in Mumbai at the time when the ‘Progressive Artists’ Group’ announced itself on the Indian art scene in 1947. Historically, this is considered to be one of […]
Mahendra Pandya
Mahendra Pandya (1926-2015) Artist Camp, Bhutan, 2007 Mahendra Pandya was born in Indore district of Bharuch, Gujarat in 1926. He studied B.A. in Sculpture from M S University, Baroda. He has accumulated many awards, scholarship and exhibitions till date by exploring various mediums like bronze, stone, wood, cement and metal sheet. His constant approach has […]
Feroz Katpitia
Feroz Katpitia (1926-1998) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1973 Feroz Katpitia was born in 1926 in Gujarat, and initially studied electrical Engineering in the Kala Bhavan at the Polytechnic in Vadodara. He then completed his MFA in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda under the guidance of N S Bendre […]
Ira Chaudhuri
Ira Chaudhuri (b. 1927) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1992 Ira Chaudhuri was born in 1927 as the younger of two sisters to parents who were well known educationists spending their early career years in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. The influence of both Rabindranath and Gandhian philosophy with its Nationalist ideology deeply inspired her parents. She […]
Tyeb Mehta
Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009) Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad, 1995 Tyeb Mehta was born in July 1925 in Kapadvanj, Gujarat. He was brought up in the Crawford Market neighbourhood of Mumbai, populated by Dawoodi Bohras. At the age of 22, during the partition riots of 1947 in Mumbai, he witnessed a man being stoned to death by […]
Satish Gujral
Satish Gujral (b. 1925) Pragati Maidan, Delhi, 1957 Gujral was born on 25th December 1925 at Jhelum in undivided Punjab in British India. He grew up along with his elder brother Inder Kumar Gujral, who later become the Prime Minister of India. While crossing a rickety bridge in Kashmir, he slipped and fell into the […]