MAIN PAINTERS OF MADHYA PRADESH

 Dattatriya Damodar Devlalikar

 Devlalikar was born in 1883 at Bidwal (Dhar). Since childhood he
was fond of painting. He went to JJ School of Arts Mumbai.
 He made many mythological paintings.
 He combined western and Indian art and developed a new style of
Painting. His paintings were influenced by Rajasthani as well as
Persian. One of his famous series of paintings was 'Shakuntala'.
 He was also good at sculpture. In 1927, he established College of Arts
at Indore. He was given the title of 'Ram Ratan’ by Shivant Rao
Holkar.

 Narayan Sridhar Bendre

 Bendre was born in Indore in 1910. He
was also mentored by Sri Devlalikar.
He later went to Indore School of Arts
and the JJ School.
 He also went to US, England, Holand
and France to study arts.
 His main paintings include: Village
life, Patna residence, Gandhiji in
prayer meeting, Buddha puja,
Rubaiyya of Umar Khyyam. He
Narayan Sridhar Bendre and his
received around 30 honors and awards in his
painting
lifetime including Padmashri.

 Devkrishna Jaishankar Joshi

 Joshi was born in 1911 in Maheshwar. He was also mentored by
Devlilakar in Indore School of Arts.
 He created about 3,000 paintings and statues. He is a school in himself
in the art world. His main creations include: red pagadi, bride buying
red bangles, weekly market.
 Maqbool Fida Hussain
 MF Hussain was born in 1916 in
Pandarpur village of Sholapur,
Maharashtra. He spent a major part of
his life in Indore.
 He was also mentored by Devlalikar in
Indore. His life was full of struggles. In
Mumbai, he painted film hoardings.
 The main subject of his paintings was
Indian woman. Horse and Ganesh were
also his favorite subjects.
 He drew a series of paintings named
Gajgamini and also made a film named Gajgamini. He became a
painter of worldwide fame and was awarded by Padmabhushan and
Kalidas Samman.

 Vishnu Chincholkar
 Famous for innovation in painting in modern
times. He was born in 1917 in a village near
Dewas.
 He was educated in Indore School of Arts.
 He was also mentored by famous painter
Devlalikar. Chincholkar is counted among
leading painters of MP.
 Chincholkar was an expert in landscape and
portrait making. He also worked with
Michael Brown for some time.
 In 1960, he formed a group of artists called
'Group Friday'.

 Laxmi Shankar Rajpoot

  Rajpoot was born in 1919 in Indore. He also studied in Indore School
of Arts and later went to JJ School Mumbai. ‘Arrival of rains' is a
famous painting by him.

 Sayyid Haidar Raza

 Raza was born in 1922 in Babariya village of Narsinghpur district.
 He studied in Nagpur School of Arts and later JJ School of Art,
Mumbai.
 In 1950, he earned French scholarship.
 In the beginning, he portrayed natural scenes
and later also internal feelings and emotions.
 There was an appealing integration of the west
and the east in his paintings. His main
paintings include: Rajasthan, White flower,
Fertility, Dot, Infinity of Zero, Vibration,
Unheard Voice and Mother.
 In 1956, he was given “pro de la critique
Sayyid Haidar Raza
award'. He was the only non-french to receive
this award.
 In 1959, he married a french artist Jony Mengila and settled down in
France.
 He was honored by Kalidas Samman by MP
Government and Padmashri by Central
Government.

 Devyani Krishna
 Devyani Krishna was born in Indore. She got her
initial education by Sri Devlalikar. Later, she
studied in JJ School of Arts.
 She has made paintings on life and nature in
Tibet. In 1946, she got first position in
International Painting Exhibition. Devyani Krishna

 She also made toys and this influence is also

visible in her paintings.
 Chandresh Saxena
 Saxena from Ujjain was trained in JJ School of Arts Mumabai and
Vishva Bharati University Shanti Niketan.
 His artworks have been awarded nationally. He also won Kalidas
Award for Painting in 1959.