This is about Jamini Roy a famous artist.

1. B. 1887 D.1972
Jamini Roy was born in Bengal in 1887 into a middle-class family against the Bengal School and the Western tradition. His
of land-owners. When he was sixteen he was sent to study at
underlying quest was threefold to capture the essence of
the Government School of Art in Calcutta. He was taught to
simplicity embodied in the life of the folk people; to make art
paint in the prevailing academic tradition drawing Classical
accessible to a wider section of people; and to give Indian art its
nudes and painting in oils and in 1908 he received his Diploma in own identity. He was awarded the Padma Bhusan in 1955. His
Fine Art. However, he soon realised that he needed to draw
work has been exhibited extensively in international exhibitions
inspiration, not from Western traditions, but from his own
and can be found in many private and public collections such as
culture, and so he looked to the living folk and tribal art for
the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He spent most of his
inspiration. He was most influenced by the Kaiighat Pat, with its life living and working in Calcutta.
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

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

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.
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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)