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Arpita Singh, born in 1937 at Baranagar India was conceivably the first among women artists in India to introduce her domestic world into her pictures—to argue for its validity as a genre. She left her familiar home in Kolkata and went with her mother and brother to Delhi after she lost her father.
Arpita Singh ( née Dutta; born 22 June 1937) is an Indian artist. Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, her canvases have both a story line and a carnival of images arranged in a curiously subversive manner. Her artistic approach can be described as an expedition without destination.
Born in 1937 in Kolkata, Arpita Singh graduated with a diploma in fine arts from Delhi Polytechnic. She is described as a figurative artist and a modernist, whose work continues to be inspired by traditional Indian art forms and aesthetics like miniaturist painting and different forms of folk art.
Around The Table | Interview With Arpita Singh. Representing some of the most exciting young artists working today and the Estates of essential 20th century artists from India like Nasreen Mohamedi and Rummana Hussain, Talwar Gallery is a contemporary art gallery focusing on artists from the Indian Subcontinent and its Diaspora.
One of India’s most celebrated contemporary painters, Arpita Singh is acclaimed for her dreamlike compositions that convey a personal, poetic perspective on modern life. In 2011, the government of India awarded her the Padma Bhushan, one of the …
Born in 1937 in what is now Bangladesh, Arpita Singh received her diploma in Fine Arts at the Delhi Polytechnic before taking up the job of a designer at the Weaver's Service Centres in Kolkata and New Delhi. Each of Arpita Singh’s drawings, watercolours on paper, and oils on canvas has a story to tell.
Born a decade before the partition of India, Arpita Singh is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists of the country today. She is known for exuberant colours applied...
