Roy K John (1977) reminds his viewers of the avant-garde art movement in France that came into prominence during the post-impressionist's era. Newer styles were being applied to newer ways of looking at the world beyond the borders of the country, when artists, like Henri Rousseau, made big contributions to the art world. John's art elaborates on his own identity as a resident of the tropical parts of the world and politically claim the flora, faunas, fruits, and the animals that are particularly important to Indian forests. The richness of the jungles along with the richness of John's colour palettes make a very interesting composition on the canvas. These works speak of the luscious

Born in 1939 in Gujarat, Manu Parekh completed a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, in 1962. Parekh’s early work explored the relationships between man and nature, as according to him, this was an energetic link that had to be celebrated. The artist also points out that, since then, contradictions have formed the basis of his artistic practice, no matter the subject or genre of his works. Banaras as a city came to play an integral role in Parekh’s work after his first visit there following his father’s death. This holy city of hope, of faith, of tourists offered him a vast number of contradictions in one location. Parekh also

Born in 1940 in West Bengal, India, Anjolie Ela Menon was exposed to a diverse cultural milieu right from an early age. The multicultural home environment she received - being born to an Indo Armenian father and an English-Welsh mother, played a significant role in shaping her artistic sensibilities. She pursued her fine arts training first at the Sir J.J. College of Fine Arts, and then eventually at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Art in Paris. This helped hone her skill and conceptual prowess further.  Her artistic style and sensibility is a captivating blend of realism and abstraction, wherein she often incorporates elements of mysticism and symbolism. Menon draws inspiration from a

Naina Dalal is a leading Indian artist whose powerful body of work in painting and printmaking testifies to a profound concern with human feeling, self, and the complexed experiences of womanhood. Born in Vadodara, Gujarat, in 1935, Dalal has always stayed close to her roots, both as a person and as an artist. She studied Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Master of Arts in Fine Arts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda's Faculty of Fine Arts and finished her academic education in 1959. Her studies led her overseas shortly thereafter, where she learned lithography at the London Polytechnic between 1960 and 1963. Subsequently, in 1977, she broadened her knowledge of printmaking by

Born in 1936 in Srinagar, Kashmir, Ratan Parimoo is one of India’s leading art historians as well as an accomplished painter and teacher. Beyond his post at M.S. University, Baroda, as a professor of Art History and Aesthetics and the dean of the department for twenty five years, Parimoo has been shaping modern art discourse in the country since he was a young man. In 1956, he cofounded the Baroda Group of Artists with peers including G.R. Santosh, K.G. Subramanyan, Shanti Dave, N.S. Bendre, and Jyoti Bhatt, to expand on the postcolonial aesthetics piloted in Santiniketan the previous decade and evolve the meaning of contemporary art in India by integrating living traditions with