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Jagdish Swaminathan (1928-1994)

Professions: Painter

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    <B>JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN</B> (India 1928-1994)

    JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN (India 1928-1994)

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    JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN (1929-1994)

    JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN (1929-1994)

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    Jagdish Swaminathan, Untitled

    Jagdish Swaminathan, Untitled

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    f - JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN 1929-1994 UDGHOSH FROM BIRD, MOUNTAIN AND TREE SERIES 1974

    f - JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN 1929-1994 UDGHOSH FROM BIRD, MOUNTAIN AND TREE SERIES 1974

Jagdish Swaminathan Biography

(b Simla, 21 June 1928; d 25 April 1994). Indian painter and writer. After failing his examination as a pre-medical student at Delhi University in 1943, he went to Calcutta for 18 months and then returned to Delhi, where he worked for the Congress Socialist Party. In 1947 he joined the Communist Party but resigned in 1953. He supported himself by writing and translation work, and also painted. In 1958 he won a scholarship to study graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw but returned to Delhi after six months and worked with the artist Sailoz Mookherjea (1908–60). From 1958 to 1962 he also worked on the weekly magazine Link , writing a regular political column and acting as its art critic. In 1963 he launched the exhibition of Group 1890 in the Rabindra Bhavan Art Gallery, New Delhi, that established the reputation of the group. In 1966 he was the founder–editor of the art bulletin Contra . In his career as an art critic Swaminathan attacked the dominance of the Western art world and stressed the need to rediscover the nature of Indian art. By the late 1960s his importance as a painter was recognized and he was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship in 1968–70. In 1970 he joined a group of artists protesting about the role in India of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; as the protest grew he became a central figure. In addition to his solo exhibitions in India he participated in group exhibitions such as the Tokyo Biennale (1965) and the first International Triennale India (1968). He was also a member of the international jury at the São Paulo Biennale in 1969.

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