The Master
Jamini Roy
The folk-modern master. Roy abandoned Western fashion for the flat colour and bold line of Bengal's living tradition — a national treasure of India.
“He proved that Indian modernism could grow from Indian soil rather than European models, and his images entered the visual life of the nation. His works are designated National Art Treasures, protected from export.”
The Life
Born in Beliatore in Bengal's Bankura district, Jamini Roy trained in the Western academic style at Calcutta's Government School of Art and won early success as a portraitist. Then, in a decisive break, he renounced it entirely, turning to the Kalighat pat painters and the folk traditions of rural Bengal for a new, indigenous idiom. He deliberately made art affordable and reproducible, so that ordinary people might own it, and became one of India's most beloved painters.
The Hand
Roy worked in bold, sweeping calligraphic outlines and flat planes of colour, using natural, earth-based pigments on cloth and mat board. His faces with their almond eyes, his Santhal figures and Krishna scenes distil Bengali folk art into a serene, modern simplicity.
The Legacy
He proved that Indian modernism could grow from Indian soil rather than European models, and his images entered the visual life of the nation. His works are designated National Art Treasures, protected from export.
The Market
As a National Treasure artist his works may not leave India, which concentrates a steady, strong demand within the country; he remains among the most widely collected and recognised of Indian masters.
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