JAMINI ROY

Shri 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.
Jamini Roy was born on 11 April 1887 into a moderately prosperous family of
land-owners in Beliatore village of the Bankura district, West Bengal.When he
was sixteen he was sent to study at the Government College of Art, Kolkata.
Abanindranath Tagore, 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. 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.

S.H.RAZA
Syed Haider "S. H." Raza (22 February 1922 23 July 2016) was an Indian painter
who lived and worked in France since 1950, while maintaining strong ties with
India. His works are mainly abstracts in oil or acrylic, with a very rich use of color,
replete with icons from Indian cosmology as well as its philosophy. He was
awarded the Padma Shri and Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1981, Padma
Bhushan in 2007, and Padma Vibhushan in 2013. He was conferred with the
highest French civilian honour, the Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur (Legion
of Honour) on July 14, 2015.He became one of India's priciest modern artist on
10 June 2010 when a seminal work, Saurashtra by the 88-year-old was sold for
16.42 crore ($3,486,965) at a Christie's auction.In 1959 he married the French
artist Janine Mongillat, who died in 2002 of cancer, after which he decided to
return to India.
Syed Haider Raza was born in Babaria, Narsinghpur district, Madhya Pradesh, to
Sayed Mohammed Razi, the Deputy Forest Ranger of the district and Tahira
Begum, and it was here that he spent his early years and took to drawing at age
12; before moving to Damoh also in Madhya Pradesh at 13, where he completed
his school education from Government High School, Damoh.
After high school, he studied further at the Nagpur School of Art, Nagpur (1939
43), followed by Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay (194347),before moving to France
in October 1950 to study at the cole nationale suprieure des Beaux-Arts
(ENSB-A) in Paris, 1950-1953 on a Govt. of France scholarship. After his studies,
he travelled across Europe, and continued to live and exhibit his work in Paris. He
was later awarded the Prix de la critique in Paris in 1956, becoming the first nonFrench artist to receive the honour.