The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

up the core of the Progressive Artists Group -

paintings. He also did several paintings on the

Husain, Souza and Raza with his appointment at

subjects of death and displacement and revealed

the Grindlays Bank. From the late 1940’s, he began the first indication to paint subjects from myth to exhibit his work at the Bombay Art Society and and history. In a critical decision to become a exhibited with the Progressives at the Jehangir

full-time painter and to abandon his career as a Art Gallery in 1951 following his invitation to

banker, he came to Delhi in the early 1960s with their show in

a family of three small

1949. Krishen’s

children and his wife

banking career

Renu and lived for

that spanned

several years with his

the decade of

parents.

the 1950s at

Krishen’s introduction

the Madras and

to allegory and

Kapur represents

religious symbolism is

another idyllic

buried in a childhood

period of a family

memory. When his

of young children,

father returned from

and his growing

his doctoral studies

fascination for

in England in 1932,

Indian classical

he brought with him a

music, which he

copy of Da Vinci’s The

introduced as

Last Supper which

a subject in his

he keenly studied. He

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