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That horse image on Google? It's Jamini Roy's 130th birthday
April 11, 2017
On his 130th birth anniversary, Google paid special
tribute to Indian artist Jamini Roy by sketching an eye-catching Doodle
inspired by his Black Horse painting.
One of the most significant
early artists in India, Jamini Roy portrayed rural scenario, ordinary
people, animals and folk cults of the time and place.
Born into a
moderately prosperous family of land-owners in Beliatore village of the
Bankura district, West Bengal, Roy went to study at the Government
College of Art in Kolkata where he trained in British academic style of
painting in 1916.
But when it was time for Roy to develop his style of art, he returned to the folk and craft of his homeland.
When
Jamini Roy was learning art and craft of paintings, he was heavily
influenced by the wave of nationalism in the country. He took
inspiration from East Asian calligraphy, folk arts and crafts traditions
and from the 1920s onwards his paintings reflected the innocence and
beauty of rural lives.
Jamini Roy, who died in 1972, received
several honours including, Padma Bhushan in 1954 and Viceroy's gold
medal in an all India exhibition for one of his work in 1934.
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