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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.
Arpita Singh has long been celebrated for the large, figurative paintings - vibrantly colorful and iconographically dense, these works gesture towards mythology and folklore, while drawing on the expressiveness of the line and textures evolved and developed during her seminal period of 1973-82.
Arpita Singh is an Indian artist. She was born in 1937 at Baranagar in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, her canvases have both a story line and a...
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 in...
Jan 3, 2019 · Arpita Singh (b. 1937, Kolkata) is one of the most significant women artists in India. This retrospective exhibition at KNMA gives an extraordinary opportunity to view six decades of her art practice.
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 …
Arpita Singh was born in 1937 in what is now Bangladesh. She attended the School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic in New Delhi from 1954 to 1959. After she graduated she worked for the Indian Government’s Cottage Industries Restoration Program.
Oct 27, 2020 · Born in 1937, a decade before the partition of India, Arpita Singh is part of the second wave of modernists, including Rameshwar Broota and Jogen Chowdhury, a group that followed the pioneering artists of the Progressive movement.
