Marking the fourth day of a five-day film festival, short movies on Amrita Sher-Gil, SH Raza and Tagore Painting were screened at Bharat Bhavan on Saturday.
The movies were screened under the film festival based on the world renowned painters.
Amrita Sher-Gil was an eminent Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called ‘one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century’ and a pioneer in modern Indian art.
Drawn to painting at a young age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in the art, at the age of eight. Sher-Gil first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her oil painting entitled Young Girls (1932).
Sher-Gil traveled throughout her life to countries including Turkey, France, and India, deriving heavily from their art styles and cultures. Sher-Gil is considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands on a level with that of the pioneers of Bengal Renaissance. She was also an avid reader and a pianist.
Sher-Gil's paintings are among the most expensive by Indian women painters today, although few acknowledged her work when she was alive.
The film depicts the life and paintings of Amrita Sher-Gil.
Another movie SH Raza is based on the life of globally renowned painter even now. Raza who passed away in 2016 was an Indian painter who lived and worked in France since 1950, while maintaining strong ties with India.
He was a renowned Indian artist. His works are mainly abstracts in oil or acrylic, with a very rich use of color, replete with icons from Indian cosmology as well as its philosophy.
He was awarded the Padma Shri and Fellowship of the lalit Kala Akademi in 1981, Padma Bhushan in 2007, and Padma Vibhushan in 2013. He was conferred with the highest French civilian honour, the Commandeur de la legion d'honneur (legion of Honour) on July 14, 2015.
The next movie was Tagore Painting, which threw light on the life of Abindranath Tagore. He was a painter and a writer during British rule in India.