Who is Jamini Roy, artist honoured with Google Doodle?
Indian painter Jamini Roy, born in West Bengal, is known as one of India's leading modern artists of the 20th century. Roy, who reportedly made about 20,000 paintings, was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1954. Google Doodle honoured Jamini Roy on Tuesday with a doodle inspired by his 'Black Horse' painting, on the occasion of his 130th birth anniversary.
Born on April 11, 1887 in West Bengal's Beliatore village in Bankura district, Jamini Roy is often called the father of Modern Indian Art. On his 130th birth anniversary, Google India honoured him with a Google Doodle.In 1903, at the age of 16, Jamini Roy joined the Government School of Art in Kolkata. Despite beginning his career as a painter in the Post-Impressionist genre of portraits and landscapes and following it for quite some time, Jamini Roy, by 1925, began experimenting. Jamini Roy was influenced by the bazaar paintings sold in Kolkata. In another five years, Jamini Roy switched to using indigenous materials and painted on woven mats, cloth and wood coated with lime, says a profile of the artist on saffronart.com.Here are 10 things to know about the impeccable artist: