IMPORTANT INDIAN ARTISTS
Compiled by ANUSHKA TANDON MF Hussain
Maqbool Fida Husain Urdu: commonly مقبول فدا حسین known as MF Husain, was a modern Indian painter of international acclaim, and a founding member of The Progressive Artists Group of Bombay. Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. Amrita Sher- Gil Amrita Sher-Gil was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo. Born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian-Jewish mother, she is today considered an important woman painter of the 20th century of India Francis Newton Souza
Francis Newton Souza, commonly referred to as F. N. Souza, was an Indian artist. He was a founding member of the Progressive Artists' Group of Bombay, and was the first post-independence Indian artist to achieve high recognition in the West. S. H. Raza
Syed Haider "S. H." Raza was an Indian painter who lived and worked in France since 1950, while maintaining strong ties with India. Rabindranath Tagore
◦ Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Thākura, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Raja Ravi Varma Raja Ravi Varma Koil Thampuran was a celebrated Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art for a number of aesthetic and broader social reasons. Abanindranath Tagore
Abanindranath Tagore (7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951) was the principal artist and creator of "Indian Society of Oriental Art". He was also the first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art, thereby founding the influential Bengal school of art, which led to the development of modern Indian painting Nandalal Bose
Nandalal Bose was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism. A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Bose was known for his "Indian style" of painting. He became the principal of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1922. Jamini Roy
Shri Jamini Roy was an Indian painter. He was honoured with the State award of Padma Bhushan in 1955. Ramkinkar Baij
Ramkinkar Baij was an Indian sculptor and painter, one of the pioneers of modern Indian sculpture and a key figure of Contextual Modernism.