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Krishen Khanna (born 5 July 1925) is an Indian painter known for his abstracted figurative artworks depicting street scenes of the country. He is a self-taught artist whose paintings showcase Indian idioms and human values.
Krishen Khanna is India’s most distinguished and admired artist. This site is an online resource for Krishen Khanna’s biography, artwork, paintings, articles, awards, videos and books.
Krishen Khanna was born in in 1925 in Lyallpur (now known as Faisalabad, Pakistan). A largely self-taught artist, he attended Imperial Service College in Windsor, England in 1940. The artist’s family shifted to India at the time of partition.
Krishen Khanna was born in Lyallpur, now known as Faisalabad, Pakistan. He attended Imperial Service College in Windsor, England and is largely a self-taught artist. One of the most endeavouring artists of the Progressives Group, Khanna works alternately between narrative and formal concerns.
Jun 27, 2024 · Born in 1925 in what is now Faislabad in Pakistan, Krishen Khanna grew up in Lahore, only studying art after he graduated from college at evening classes held at the Mayo School of Art there.
Nov 9, 2016 · UNLIKE HIS CONTEMPORARIES FN Souza, MF Husain and VS Gaitonde, for 14 years, artist Krishen Khanna successfully juggled his art practice with a career in banking as an employee of Grindlays.
Krishen Khanna painted using thick impasto strokes and was perhaps one of the earliest artists in modern Indian art to dabble with abstraction. His figurative paintings with their unbounded...
Feb 7, 2020 · As Krishen Khanna leads you into his basement studio in Delhi, it is not the strong smell of colour or the bright canvases alone that strike you, but the artist’s grit and determination to “paint and paint some more.” “I am 95, I must use the remaining time as well as I can,” says one of India’s greatest modern painters.
Born in Faislabad in Pakistan, Krishen Khanna grew up in Lahore, only studying art after he graduated from college at evening classes held at the Mayo School of Art there. In 1947, Khanna's family moved to Shimla as a result of the Partition of India and Pakistan, and Khanna was deeply affected by not only the change in his personal life, but ...
View Krishen Khanna’s 989 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist.
