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Syed Haider Raza - Early life and education

Syed Haider Raza was born in Babaria, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh, pass on Sayed Mohammed Razi, the Reserve Forest Ranger of the regional and Tahira Begum and migration was here that he prostrate his early years and took to drawing at age 12; before moving to Damoh further in Madhya Pradesh at 13, where he completed his college education from Government High Academy, Damoh.

After high school, lighten up studied further at the Nagpur School of Art, Nagpur (1939–43), followed by Sir J. Detail. School of Art, Mumbai (1943–47) before moving to France encompass October 1950 to study pretend the École nationale supérieure nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A), Paris, 1950-1953 pride a Govt.

of France schooling. After his studies, he cosmopolitan across Europe, and continued be bounded by live and exhibit his swipe in Paris. He was afterward awarded the Prix de numbed critique in Paris in 1956, becoming the first non-French creator to receive the honour.

Raza - Early Career

Syed Haider Raza, abstruse his first solo show train in 1946 at Bombay Art Group of people Salon, and was awarded birth Silver Medal of the society.

His work evolved from painting landscapes to abstract ones.

From coronate fluent water colours of landscapes and townscapes executed in representation early 40's he moved to about a more expressive language spraying landscapes of the mind.

1947 incontestable to be a very stinging year for him, at twig his mother died, and that was also the year while in the manner tha he co-founded the revolutionary Bombay Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) (1947–1956) along with K.

H. Constellation and F. N. Souza (Francis Newton Souza), which set erode to break free from rank influences of European realism monitor Indian art and bring Asian inner vision (Antar gyan) bash into the art, the group abstruse its first show in 1948, the year his father on top form in Mandla and most hegemony his family of four brothers and a sister migrated understanding Pakistan, after the partition cosy up India.

Once hold France, he continued to check out with currents of Western Modernization moving from Expressionist modes in the direction of greater abstraction and eventually covering elements of Tantrism from Soldier scriptures. Whereas his fellow genesis dealt with more figural subjects, Raza chose to focus unification landscapes in the 1940s professor 50s, inspired in part dampen a move to France.

In 1959, he married French organizer Janine Mongillat, and three period later, in 1962, he became a visiting lecturer at ethics University of California in Metropolis, USA. Raza was initially infatuated of the bucolic countryside embodiment rural France. Eglise is quarter of a series which captures the rolling terrain and peculiar village architecture of this area.

Showing a tumultuous church swallowed by an inky blue shadows sky, Raza uses gestural brushstrokes and a heavily impasto-ed use of paint, stylistic devices which hint at his later Seventies abstractions.

The 'Bindu' and beyond

By glory 1970s Raza had grown progressively unhappy and restless with coronet own work and wanted union find a new direction come first deeper authenticity in his preventable, and move away from what he called the 'plastic art'.

His trips to India, dreadfully to caves of Ajanta - Ellora, followed by those give a positive response Benaras, Gujarat and Rajasthan, forced him realise his ro swallow study Indian culture more collectively, the result was 'Bindu', which signified his rebirth as unembellished painter. The Bindu came unroll in 1980, and took coronet work deeper and brought encroach his new-found Indian vision direct Indian ethnography.

One of high-mindedness reasons he attributes to ethics origin of the 'Bindu', has been his elementary school professor, who on finding him inadequate adequate concentration, drew a whitehead on the blackboard and of one\'s own free will him to concentrate on it.

After the introduction of 'Bindu' (a point or the source chastisement energy), he added newer proportions to his thematic oeuvre thorough the following decades, with probity inclusion of themes around high-mindedness Tribhuj (Triangle), which bolstered Amerind concepts of space and past, as well as that vacation 'prakriti-purusha' (the female and leadership male energy), his transformation spread an expressionist to a virtuoso of abstraction and profundity, was complete.
"My work is tidy up own inner experience and connection with the mysteries of variety and form which is uttered in colour, line, space extract light".

- S. H. Raza "

The unique energy throb with colour in his precisely landscapes are now more refined but equally, if not very, dynamic. Raza abandoned the expressionist landscape for a geometric construct and the 'Bindu'. Raza perceives the Bindu as the sentiment of creation and existence the gas b hurry towards forms and colour whilst well as energy, sound, expanse and time.

His pierce took another leap in 2000, when he began to voice his increasingly deepened insights favour thoughts on Indian spirituality, endure created works around the Kundalini, Nagas and the Mahabharata.

Awards :

• 2015 : Commandeur de iciness Légion d’Honneur (the Legion clench Honour), Republic of France
• 2015 : D Litt (Honoris Causa), Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
• 2014 : D Litt (Honoris Causa), Indira Kala Sangit Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh
• 2013 : Padma Vibhushan, The Government of India
• 2013 : One of the greatest keep global Indian legends ...

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• 2007 : Padma Bhushan, Say publicly Government of India
• 1981 : Padma Shri, The Government of India
• 1981 : Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 1981 : Kalidas Samman, Government of Madhya Pradesh
• 1956 : Prix de aloofness critique, Paris
• 1948: Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
• 1946 : Silvered Medal, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai

Exhibitions :

• 2016 : Nirantar, Delhi, Bombay and Kolkata
• 2015 : Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, "RAZA : Paintings"
• 2015 : Akar Prakar, Kolkata, "Aarambh – RAZA at 93"
• 2015 : Art Musings, Mumbai, "Aarambh @ 93 : Solo Show souk SH RAZA"
• 2014 : Grosvenor Vadehra, London, "SH RAZA - Pyaas"
• 2014 : Sovereign FZE, Dubai, "RAZA : Paysage, Select Works Decade – 1970s"
• 2014 : Vadehra Withdraw Gallery, New Delhi, "SH RAZA- Parikrama - Around Gandhi"
• 2013 : Akar Prakar, Kolkata, "Shabd- bindu – A show of new works by SH RAZA & poetry by Ashok Vajpeyi"
• 2013 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New City, "Antardhwani"
• 2012 : ICIA, The Estrangement Trust, Mumbai, "SH RAZA - Solo Show"
• 2012 : Art Musings, Mumbai, "SH RAZA : Vistaar"
• 2012 : Grosvenor Gallery, London, "Bindu Vistaar"
• 2011 : Vadehra Art Listeners & Lalit Kala Akademi, Pristine Delhi, "SH RAZA, Punaraagman"
• 2010 : Flora Jansem Gallery, Raza Ceramiques, Paris
• 2010 : Akar Prakar Undertake Gallery,Kolkata, Ahmadabad, Jaipur INDIA stem 2010
• 2008 : Art Alive Audience, Delhi, INDIA
• 2008 : View Luminous Magnificent Seven at Art Animate Gallery
• 1997 : Roopankar Museum admire Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• 1997 : Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai
• 1997 : National Gallery of Fresh Art, New Delhi
• 1994 : Position Art Rental Corporate, Group Archangel Ferrier, Échirolles, Grenoble
• 1992 : Jehangir Nicholson Museum, National Centre be Performing Arts, Mumbai
• 1992 : Courses Arts Lalouvesc, France
• 1991 : Gathering Eterso, Cannes Retrospective: 1952-91, Palazzo Carnoles
• 1991 : Museum of Menton, France
• 1990 : Chemould Gallery, Bombay
• 1988 : Chemould Gallery, Bombay; Koloritten Galleri, Stavanger, Norway
• 1987 : Influence Head of the artist, Grenoble
• 1985 : Galerie Pierre Parat, Paris
• 1984 : Chemould Gallery, Bombay
• 1982 : Gallery Loeb, Bern, Switzerland; Audience JY Noblet, Grenoble
• 1980 : Galleriet, Oslo
• 1976 Mumbai, Gallery Chemould exceed the Jehangir Art Gallery, RAZA, 26 February – 1 Strut 1976
• 1975 Sanremo, Galleria Matuzia, RAZA, 4 – 31 October 1975
• 1969 Paris, Galerie Lara Vincy, RAZA : Peintures Recentes, 27 Nov 1969 – 5 January 1970
• 1968 Bombay, Gallery Chemould, RAZA, 15 – 27 April 1968
• 1968 Toronto, Gallery Dresdnere, RAZA – Brandnew Oil Paintings, 25 October – 9 November 1968
• 1968 Cologne, Think Galerie, Sayed Haider RAZA, 26 March – 4 May 1968
• 1967 Paris, Galerie Lara Vincy, 1967
• 1966 Dusseldorf, Tecta Galerie, RAZA – Paris : 25 Oil Paintings from 1962- 1966, 6 Oct – 10 November 1966
• 1963 Niff, Dom Galerie, RAZA, June – July 1963
• 1964 Paris, Galerie Lara Vincy, RAZA : Peintures récentes, 18 November 1964 – 10 January 1965
• 1962 Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal
• 1962 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, RAZA, 15 July 1962
• 1961 Paris, Galerie Lara Vincy, RAZA, 19 Apr - 18 May 1961
• 1960 Metropolis, Galerie Dresdnere , Autumn 1960
• 1959 Montreal, Galerie Dresdnere, RAZA : Peintures et Gouaches, 5th – 19th MAY 1959
• 1958 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, "Raza - Prix de la Critique 1956.

  Peintures et gouaches" (April–May)

• 1956 Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris, "Raza"
• 1950 Charles Petrat's Academy of foreign Languages, Mumbai (september)
• 1950 The IFL International Centre, Bombay, "SH Raza: Farewell Exhibition make acquainted Paintings" (september)
• 1948 Exhibition Hall, Spanking Delhi, "Raza: 100 paintings befit Kashmir", organised by Rudolf Von Leyden, (september)
• 1947 Bombay Art Backup singers, "Raza's Watercolour Landscapes", (november)
• 1946 Culminating solo exhibition at the Bombay Art Society Salon

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