Indian traditional paintings
Shanu Lahiri
Shanu Lahiri was a painter, art educator and activist. She was a first-generation modernist, having emerged post-Independence, and was often dubbed the ‘First Lady’ of public art in Kolkata, owing to her prominence in the practice. Lahiri’s time in Paris and the vocabularies of European modernism were constant points of reference for her own innovations with form, colour and content, culminating in a trademark style - contorted human figurations, assertive lines and brushstrokes, bold colours, and a predilection for vast sizes and scale.
While she communicated compelling, unfolding narratives and important social issues, it was the human figure that remained her forte.
Shanu lahiri biography of albert Shanu Lahiri (23 January – 1 February ) was a painter and art educator from Kolkata. She was one of Kolkata 's most prominent public artists, [ 1 ] often called "the city's First Lady of Public Art", undertaking extensive graffiti art drives across Kolkata to beautify the city and hide aggressive political sloganeering. [ 2 ].Lahiri was essential to the mobilisation of the first group of women artists in the 80s - the collective - ‘The Group’ - exhibited annually at the Academy of Fine Arts, even travelled internationally, and, importantly, advocated for the equal participation of women practitioners in the art-world. She was for a time the Dean of the Faculty of Visual Arts at Rabindra Bharati University.
Lahiri’s fascinating legacy is illuminated by Smritir Collage, and continues to fuel contemporary art and dialogue.
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