Jamini roy

This is about Jamini Roy a famous artist.

1. Jamini Roy Jamini Roy was born in Bengal in 1887 into a middle-class family of land-owners. When he was sixteen he was sent to study at the Government School of Art in Calcutta. 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. However, he soon realised that he needed to draw inspiration, not from Western traditions, but from his own culture, and so he looked to the living folk and tribal art for inspiration. He was most influenced by the Kaiighat Pat, with its 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. His new style was both a reaction against the Bengal School and the Western tradition. His underlying quest was threefold to capture the essence of simplicity embodied in the life of the folk people; to make art accessible to a wider section of people; and to give Indian art its own identity. He was awarded the Padma Bhusan in 1955. His work has been exhibited extensively in international exhibitions and can be found in many private and public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He spent most of his life living and working in Calcutta. B. 1887 D.1972

2. JESUS - OIL PAINTING WOMAN - OIL PAINTING SEATED WOMAN - OIL PAINTING Pictures made by Jamini Roy SWAANAYANESHA - OIL PAINTING CHRIST - OIL PAINTING Cat and the lobster, Tempera on paper

3. Roy and traditional paintings The art of Roy is inspired by both traditional Indian folk and village arts & Western methods of painting. These examples illustrate this appropriately, e.g. many of his themes are around Jesus who is a Christian icon in Western society, however Roy applies aspects of traditional Indian arts, e.g. ‘Christ’ where he has incorporated a mosaic texture and Indian symbols.

4. More about Jamini Roy ‘ Swaana Yanesha ’ typifies Jamini Roys painting style. It is again a combination of Western and Eastern ideas. The subject matter depicts a traditional Indian god & the colours used are also reminiscent of those used in traditional Indian painting. However the style Roy has selected to portray this theme in is styalised and abstract in nature, typical of modern, Western paintings.

5. Imaginations of Jamini Roy Jamini Roy’s re-imagination of the folk art, his appropriation of pictorial idioms from other cultures and his “strategic” mode of producing paintings are the issues of seminal importance in the perception of modernity in Indian art. This paper seeks to probe into the diverse responses to the artist, thereby problematizing the notions of modernity, tradition, and the validation of the marginal folk culture in a colonial reality.

6. Some other Pre-modern artists Abanindranath Tagore  (1871–1951) Amrita Sher -Gil  (1913–1942) Gopal Rao  (1880–1945) Jamini Roy  (1887–1972) Kalipada Ghoshal  (1906–1995) Maniam  (1924–1968) Manishi Dey  (1909–1966) Mukul Chandra Dey  (1895–1989) Nandalal Bose  (1882-1966) Rabindranath Tagore  (1861–1941) Raja Ravi Varma  (1848–1906) S G Thakur Singh  (1899–1976) Silpi  (1919–1983) Benode Behari Mukherjee  (1904–1980) Gaganendranath Tagore  (1867–1938) Sailoz Mookherjea  (1906–1960)