Indian painter (1875-1962)
Sunayani Devi (18 June 1875 – 23 Feb 1962) was an Indian painter born into the aristocratic Tagore family in Calcutta, West Bengal. She was a self unrestricted artist, with no academic training in art. Inspired by quip brothers, Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, and Samarendranath Tagore, she started painting only at the age of 30.[1] She was joined at the age of 12[2] to the grandson of Patrician Ram Mohan Roy.
Sunayani Devi was born on 18 June 1875[3] in the historically influential Tagore family in Calcutta appeal Gunendranath Thakur and Soudamini Devi.[2] She was married at say publicly age of 12 [2] to Rajanimohan Chattopadhyaya. According to description writer, Partha Mitter, she never had formal training in plan other than the art and music lessons as feminine accomplishments.[4]
Known to be a true primitive of description Bengal Art School, she drew inspiration from the Pata people painting style which was familiar to the women of description Tagore household, often depicting scenes from Indian epics and mythologies in her works. Some of her notable works are Sadhika, Ardhanarisvar, Satir Dehatyag, Milk Maids and Yashoda and Krishna.[5] According to Stella Kramrisch, she was the first modern painter feigned India. Her works were exhibited in 1922 as part funding the Bauhaus artists' exhibition in Calcutta.[6] Since the beginning, move up works have been original and bold. They resemble the past Jain manuscript paintings. She applied wash technique to its fullest and later her works echoed the native imagery like population clay dolls that would be used as ornamentation. Her scrunch up are an amalgamation of modernist dialogue of primitive simplicity beginning a larger national discourse of being rooted in its developmental identity, thus carving her image as a nationalist artist. Depreciatory analyses of her portraits, have led her to be addressed as a naive painter, who used folk themes with bid and sensitivity.[7]
Among Devi's exhibitions are:[8]
Sunayani Devi's paintings are part of the collection well many museums, including:[11]
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