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      • Amrita Sher-Gil is considered one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and is often referred to as the "Indian Frida Kahlo" for her bold and expressive style. She was known for her unconventional lifestyle and bohemian personality, often mingling with artists, writers, and intellectuals of her time.
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  2. Sher-Gil was sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo because of the "revolutionary" way she blended Western and traditional art forms. [ 2 ] [ 29 ] On 30 January 2016, Google celebrated her 103rd birthday with a Google Doodle . [ 51 ]

  3. Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941), often recognised as India’s ‘Frida Kahlo’, is one of the nation’s most celebrated female modern artists. Heavily influenced by Realism, Sher-Gil strived to portray the lives of people living within her local community.

  4. Jun 20, 2018 · With her style and her emphasis on women, Sher-Gil became known as the “Indian Frida Kahlo.” She understood the loneliness of her subjects well, since their moods were a reflection of her...

  5. Jan 30, 2023 · Amrita Sher-Gil lived a short but certainly interesting life. Her artistic oeuvre is extremely impressive and she is considered to be one of the most important painters of 20th-century India. She is even sometimes called India’s Frida Kahlo .

  6. Amrita Sher-Gil (born January 30, 1913, Budapest, Hungary—died December 5, 1941, Lahore, India [now in Pakistan]) was a painter who was one of the pioneers of the modern movement in Indian art. Sher-Gil was born of an Indian father and a Hungarian mother.

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  7. Sep 18, 2016 · Amrita Sher-Gil was sometimes known as India’s Frida Kahlo. Born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian-Jewish mother, she is today considered an important woman painter of 20th-century India, whose legacy stands on a par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance.

  8. Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest on January 30, 1913, to an Indian Sikh father, a photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil and a Hungarian mother. Frida Kahlo was born to a German father...