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 Arpita Singh  (born 1937)

         
         
 

 Arpita Singh is an Indian artist. She was born in West Bengal, India in 1937. Currently she lives in New Delhi.

 Singh attended the School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic in New Delhi from 1954 to 1959. After she graduated she worked for the Indian Government's Cottage Industries Restoration Program. While she worked in the program she met traditional artists and weavers in India. This is said to have impacted her artwork. In the 1970s her paintings were mainly black and white abstracts.

But in the 1980s she started to paint Bengali folk paintings. In these paintings often have women as the subjects. Many of her paintings of women show them doing daily work and simple routines in their lives. Originally when she started painting she was doing watercolors on paper which connected her painting to Indian tradition. But in the 1990s Singh started paint oil on canvas which was considered a dramatic shift. In some of her paintings of women the woman is portrayed nude. This is said to show the woman's vulnerability rather than showing her in a sexual sense. Singh's paintings are said to portray a woman's point of view about life in India. She has had a number of exhibits all over the world both individual and group exhibits. Singh has also won a number of awards for her work.
          
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  • All India Drawing Exhibition, Chandigarh in 1981 and 1992

  • Algeria Biennial, Algeria in 1987

  • Parishad Samman, Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi in 1991.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  
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contemporary Indian artists like M. F. Hussain, F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, Jogen Chowdhury etc.
Other well known Contemporary Indian artists include: A. Ramachandran, Akbar Padamsee, Anjolie Ela Menon, Anju Dodiya, Anjum Singh, Arpana Caur, Arpita Singh, Arunashu Chowdhury, Arun k Mishra, Atul Dodiya, B. Prabha, B. Vithal, Babu Eshwar Prasad, Badri Narayan, Baiju Parthan, Bhupen Khakhar, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Biren De, Bose Krishnamachari, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Datta Thombare, Dhruva Mistry, G. R. Iranna, G. R. Santosh, Ganesh Haloi, Ganesh Pyne, Gauri Seth, Gautam Mukherjee, Himmat Shah, Jagannath Panda, Jagdish Swaminathan, Jamini Roy, Jayasri Burman, Jayashree Chakravarty , Jehangir Sabavala, Jitish Kallat, Justin Ponmany, Krishna Pulkundwar, Laxma Goud, K. G. Subramanyan, K. H. Ara, K. K. Hebbar, K. M. Adimoolam, Krishen Khanna, Lalitha Lajmi, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Laxman Shreshtha, Manish Pushkale, Manisha Gera Baswani, Manisha Parekh, Manjit Bawa, Manu Parekh, N. S. Bendre, Navjot Altaf, Paramjit Singh, Paresh Maity, Paritosh Sen, Pooja Iranna, Prabhakar Barwe, Prabhakar Kolte, Rajnish Kaur, Ram Kumar, Rameshwar Broota, Ratnakar Ojha, Ravinder Reddy, Reena Saini Kallat, Rekha Rodwittiya, Riyas Komu, S. Harsha Vardhana, Sachin Karne, Sakti Burman, Samir Mondal, Sanjay Sable, Satish Gujral, Shibu Natesan, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Subodh Gupta, Sudarshan Shetty, Sudhanshu Sutar, Sudhir Patwardhan, Suhas Roy, Sujata Bajaj, Sunil Das, Sunil Padwal, Surendran Nair, T. Vaikuntam, T. V. Santhosh, Tyeb Mehta, V. S. Gaitonde, Valsan Koorma Kolleri, Yusuf Arakkal
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