Artist Jamini Roy- the genius from West Bengal
One of the most prolific painters coming out of West Bengal and very beloved was Jamini Roy. He first started learning art at the Govt college of Art, Calcutta. He started out as a portrait painter, and then moved onto to other subjects There were two schools of thought or art that came out of Bengal, at the turn of the last century considered to be the leaders in Modern Art. The Bengal School and the Shantiniketan School of art. Both influenced Jamini Roys work the most . Interpretations of art that took the existing art form from Ajanta Ellora caves/ Patua paintings and the figurative styles they offered. He painted a lot of paintings, apparently over 20000, and also did small scale paintings of larger ones- like an idea forming in his mind, and then it...
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