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Remembering the artist who depicted Indian art in Indian Constitution with pictures

JUNE 15, ON THIS DAY The creator of illustrations in the original final manuscript of the Constitution of India including the complete Preamble page, Beohar Rammanohar Sinha, was born on this day, 15 June 1929. He is also the one who played a major role in spreading Indian art in the Far East, and brought […]

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Remembering the artist who worked with the intimate lives of contemporary women: Mary Cassatt

JUNE 14, ON THIS DAY Known for her perceptive depictions of women and children, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children, Mary Cassatt was one of the few American artists active in the nineteenth-century French avant-garde. She died on this day, June 14, 1926. She was a painter and a printmaker

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The artist who was named as the best painter of India in the 1970s by M. F. Hussain

JUNE 11, ON THIS DAY One of the most notable contemporary artists of Bengal Schools of Art whose dark imageries got him an international fame, Ganesh Pyne was born on this day, 11 June 1937. He was described as a man who ‘radiated a mysterious quality’ by filmmaker Pritish Nandy. Printed drawings by Abanindranath Tagore

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Jahar Dasgupta, a significant contributor of the modernist art movement in Bengal

One among seven founders of one of the oldest artist groups in India, Painters Orchestra, Jahar Dasgupta was born on May 31, 1942. He\’s a contemporary painter from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. His inclination toward paintings was vivid from his drawings of elephants, dogs, and trees on the floor during his childhood days. At the age of

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