Pahari Miniature & SH Raza
Pahari paintings developed from 17th to 19th centuries in the present state of Himachal Pradesh. These paintings were influenced by painters of Mughal. Pahari miniatures are known for their soft touch, calmness, impulse, characteristic symbolism, excellent sense of composition, and minute details and a deep feeling for human emotion. Pahari paintings contain the indigenous style in spite of the Mughal influence. Also, they have Indian mythological and religious stories. The paintings were done on handmade paper, which is made of bamboo, cotton and other materials. This painting had two principal phases of development. The earlier phase started from the mid- 17th century. It was extraordinarily colorful with primitive expressions charged with energy and emotional intensity. These phases could be distinguished by fish which was shaped elongated eyes, oval faces, receding foreheads, round chins and prominent noses. Backgrounds of the paintings were usually red, yellow, green or brown colors. The later phase was developed from the 18th century in the Guler area. This phase was more naturalistic with lines that seemed to be flowing in a rhythmic way. The color scheme also became slightly cooler and freshness. Pahari miniature started to decline in the 19th century.
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Syed Haider Raza is born on 22nd February 1922 in Madhya Pradesh. He lived and worked in France since 1950. His works are mainly abstracts in oil or acrylic, with a very rich use of color, full with icons from Indian cosmology as well as its philosophy. He had his first exhibition in1946 at Bombay Art Society Salon and was awarded the Silver Medal of the society. He started out his career as a semi-abstract landscape artist. But towards the beginning of the 70s his style evolved into creating geometrical designs. He used colors that are primarily Indian and are quite vivid and brilliant in nature. S.H.Raza’s painting titled ‘Saurashtra’ became the most expensive Indian painting ever auctioned. Christie’s auctioned the painting for $3.5 million. It is painted in acrylic on canvas and is a composition in bright colors and cubic shapes that emanate from the artist's trademark 'bindu' or the dot to transform into bigger and complex shapes. He believed it symbolized energy and painted series of painting in this theme. He is one of the founders of the Progressive Art Movement in India and has made Paris his home since the 1950s. He is currently 88 years old and lives in Paris and Gorbio.
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"Monsoon Canvas." Online Indian Art Gallery – Modern and Contemporary Artworks. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. http://monsooncanvas.com/Modern_Indian_masters_introduction.php?page=S.H.Raza.
"S. H. Raza." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._H._Raza>.
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