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KANAYI KUNHIRAMANKanayi Kunhiraman (Malayalam: കാനായി കുഞ്ഞിരാമന് born 25 July 1937) is a sculptor from Kuttamath in Hosdurg Taluk in Kasaragod district of Kerala state, India. He is the Former
Chairman of the Lalit Kala Academy. Kunhiraman is the first sculptor recipient of the Raja Ravi Varma Award, which includes 1 lakh in cash, a citation and a statue, sculptured by Kunhiraman
himself. It was conferred by Kerala's Chief Minister Oommen Chandy at Thiruvananthapuram. In 2005 – he received the Raja Ravi Varma award by the Government of Kerala. He is not a
sculptor interested in gallery art which, he says, is like an animal put in a cage. Kanayi Kunhiraman has been Kerala’s Raja Shilpi (royal sculptor) for nearly half a century. His single minded
devotion to art has earned him an enviable reputation as a master craftsman who has remained unrivalled in his genre. A multifaceted personality and a consummate artist, Kanayi
Kunhiraman is a man of utmost simplicity, who believes in transparency and non-materialistic enterprise.
HIS FAMOUS WORKS
1. 1.Yakshi at Malampuzha, Palakkad.
2. Shanku and landscaping at Veli lake and the associated tourist village, Thiruvananthapuram
3. Mother and Child at Payyambalam, Kannur.
4. Mukkda Perumal at Kochi.
5. Jalakanyaka (Mermaid) at Shankumugham Beach, Thiruvananthapuram.
Jitish Kallat Jitish Kallat is an Indian artist who works in varied media. He was born in 1974 in Mumbai (Bombay). He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir Jamsetjee
Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai in 1996. Kallat's work incorporates varied media including painting, large-scale sculpture installations, photography, and video art. He employs a bold and
vivid visual language that references both Asian and European artistic traditions, along with popular advertising imagery that fuels urban consumerism.Every year he conducts solo
exhibitions in many place all over the world.
His images evolve out of texts and captions, well-known phrases and popular song titles. The close relationship between words, images,
tradition and contemporary symbols, is central to Kallat’s work.
Jitish Kallat’s paintings incorporate modern technology and popular essentials like the photocopy machine.
In his first solo show in three years, Jitish Kallat wrestles with grand themes of life and death. Stations of a Pause comprises mixed media paintings,
video and photography, and displays the artist’s preoccupation with the urban experience, the cycle of life, and the idea of real and metaphorical
sustenance
Devajyoti Ray Devajyoti Ray born in 1974 is today one of the youngest masters of Indian Art. In fact he has often been heralded as the most promising artist of the new generation and in days to come he is likely to emerge as the best of his time. The word Pseudorealism which is often attached to Ray’s works is in fact a term that was associated with films but Ray had drafted it according to his own needs to create a new style of visual imagery where he uses offbeat colours and shapes to create a pseudo-balance. It is thus a style that is rooted in the new Indian reality and in a way marks a new phase in Art of post-liberalization India.
Ray paints predominantly in acrylic. Since Ray had no formal training in art, his techniques are largely self-developed and this adds to his uniqueness. Ray uses large areas of flat colours, offbeat shapes and yet at the end the paintings look realistic and comprehendible. Ray has also worked in water colors and mixed and has produced many new forms of experimental art. His collages , which had a special feature of looking like scraps of haphazard papers but forming clear realistic scenes when seen from a distance was also a novelty of the young artist.
Devender Singh Devender Singh (born 6 November 1947) is a contemporary Indian artist (painter) from Punjab. His well-known paintings include the series made on Bara Maha. Singh started his
career with illustrations made for the very famous Amar Chitra Katha comics. His Sikh historical paintings are well known among Punjabis throughout the world. His father used to sketch down the paintings, sitting just right at the corner of the window, the sound of leaves and the sullen movement of brush strokes made his everyday life.
That time in the hot summers, typical food of Punjab, Saag, cut by lush and gorgeous Punjabi girls, the yellow sunflower greens, the Charkhas, The Sikh festivals and so much so the Love Stories of Heer and Ranjha and that of Sohni and Mahivaal are enormously portrayed on his canvases.
Apart from Sikh History, he is well known for his Abstract paintings as well. Hundreds of books have been published since then. The Smithsonian Institution, world’s largest Museum, also exhibits his works. Even the British Broadcasting Cooperation has made a documentary on him. At present he is making a new series of abstract paintings which are going to be exhibited very soon.
TV SanthoshTV Santhosh (1968- ) is an artist based in Mumbai.
Santhosh was born in Kerala, India. His paintings are based on images taken from the news media which Santhosh renders in solarised color schemes - like photo negatives. (Sidebar: A friend of mine in high school went to school as "photo negative man" on Halloween once. Just looked like a racist to me.) He started as a sculptor but turned to painting eventually.
Santhosh engages with the urgent questions of history, art history and popular visual culture – the idioms of contemporary politics and culture. His works focus on the immediate manifestation of the relationship between knowledge and power getting translated into images of laboratories, battlefields, machine guns, roses, and mushroom clouds of nuclear fallout.