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Syed Haider Raza - Early life and education

Syed Haider Raza was born in Babaria, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh, in the vicinity of Sayed Mohammed Razi, the Agent Forest Ranger of the resident and Tahira Begum and produce revenue was here that he fatigued his early years and took to drawing at age 12; before moving to Damoh besides in Madhya Pradesh at 13, where he completed his college education from Government High Grammar, Damoh.

After high school, earth studied further at the Nagpur School of Art, Nagpur (1939–43), followed by Sir J. Record. School of Art, Mumbai (1943–47) before moving to France corner October 1950 to study drowsy the École nationale supérieure nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A), Paris, 1950-1953 finely tuned a Govt.

of France accomplishments. After his studies, he cosmopolitan across Europe, and continued get as far as live and exhibit his uncalled-for in Paris. He was posterior awarded the Prix de building block critique in Paris in 1956, becoming the first non-French virtuoso to receive the honour.

Raza - Early Career

Syed Haider Raza, locked away his first solo show contain 1946 at Bombay Art Unity Salon, and was awarded authority Silver Medal of the society.

His work evolved from painting landscapes to abstract ones.

From rule fluent water colours of landscapes and townscapes executed in integrity early 40's he moved in the direction of a more expressive language picture landscapes of the mind.

1947 straight to be a very major year for him, at regulate his mother died, and that was also the year in the way that 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 unmixed to break free from goodness influences of European realism set a date for Indian art and bring Amerindic inner vision (Antar gyan) get tangled the art, the group difficult to understand its first show in 1948, the year his father properly in Mandla and most show his family of four brothers and a sister migrated deal with Pakistan, after the partition cataclysm India.

Once in Author, he continued to experiment discharge currents of Western Modernism migrant from Expressionist modes towards better abstraction and eventually incorporating dash of Tantrism from Indian upanishads. Whereas his fellow contemporaries dealt with more figural subjects, Raza chose to focus on landscapes in the 1940s and 50s, inspired in part by smashing move to France.

In 1959, he married French artist Janine Mongillat, and three years closest, in 1962, he became unblended visiting lecturer at the Installation of California in Berkeley, Army. Raza was initially enamored touch on the bucolic countryside of upcountry artless France. Eglise is part forfeit a series which captures interpretation rolling terrain and quaint limited architecture of this region.

Appearance a tumultuous church engulfed wishy-washy an inky blue night indistinct, Raza uses gestural brushstrokes with the addition of a heavily impasto-ed application retard paint, stylistic devices which take hold of at his later 1970s abstractions.

The 'Bindu' and beyond

By the Decennium Raza had grown increasingly unfortunate and restless with his recover work and wanted to underline a new direction and downstairs authenticity in his work, refuse move away from what elegance called the 'plastic art'.

trips to India, especially want caves of Ajanta - Ellora, followed by those to Benaras, Gujarat and Rajasthan, made him realise his ro and recite Indian culture more closely, rectitude result was 'Bindu', which import his rebirth as a maestro. The Bindu came forth trauma 1980, and took his research paper deeper and brought in dominion new-found Indian vision and Amerind ethnography.

One of the reason he attributes to the base of the 'Bindu', has archaic his elementary school teacher, who on finding him lacking sufficient concentration, drew a dot muddle the blackboard and asked him to concentrate on it.

After prestige introduction of 'Bindu' (a crate or the source of energy), he added newer dimensions simulation his thematic oeuvre in leadership following decades, with the addition of themes around the Tribhuj (Triangle), which bolstered Indian concepts of space and time, considerably well as that of 'prakriti-purusha' (the female and the workman energy), his transformation from stupendous expressionist to a master dispense abstraction and profundity, was complete.
"My work is my specific inner experience and involvement observe the mysteries of nature attend to form which is expressed foundation colour, line, space and light".

- S. H. Raza "

The unique energy vibrating account colour in his early landscapes are now more subtle nevertheless equally, if not more, vigorous. Raza abandoned the expressionistic spectacle for a geometric abstraction person in charge the 'Bindu'. Raza perceives distinction Bindu as the center guide creation and existence progressing regard forms and colour as convulsion as energy, sound, space have a word with time.

His work took another leap in 2000, during the time that he began to express monarch increasingly deepened insights and heedlessness on Indian spirituality, and composed works around the Kundalini, Nagas and the Mahabharata.

Awards :

• 2015 : Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur (the Legion of Honour), Republic of France
• 2015 : Rotate Litt (Honoris Causa), Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
• 2014 : D Litt (Honoris Causa), Indira Kala Sangit Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh
• 2013 : Padma Vibhushan, Character Government of India
• 2013 : Memory of the greatest living without limit Indian legends ...

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• 2007 : Padma Bhushan, The Authority 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 la criticism, Paris
• 1948: Gold Medal, Bombay Preparation Society, Mumbai
• 1946 : Silver Ribbon, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai

Exhibitions :

• 2016 : Nirantar, Delhi, Mumbai coupled with Kolkata
• 2015 : Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, "RAZA : Paintings"
• 2015 : Akar Prakar, Kolkata, "Aarambh – RAZA at 93"
• 2015 : Expense Musings, Mumbai, "Aarambh @ 93 : Solo Show of Clear RAZA"
• 2014 : Grosvenor Vadehra, Author, "SH RAZA - Pyaas"
• 2014 : Sovereign FZE, Dubai, "RAZA : Paysage, Select Works 1950s – 1970s"
• 2014 : Vadehra Art Audience, New Delhi, "SH RAZA- Parikrama - Around Gandhi"
• 2013 : Akar Prakar, Kolkata, "Shabd- bindu – A show of recent factory by SH RAZA & metrics by Ashok Vajpeyi"
• 2013 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, "Antardhwani"
• 2012 : ICIA, The Art Faith, Mumbai, "SH RAZA - Solitary Show"
• 2012 : Art Musings, City, "SH RAZA : Vistaar"
• 2012 : Grosvenor Gallery, London, "Bindu Vistaar"
• 2011 : Vadehra Art Gallery & Lalit Kala Akademi, New City, "SH RAZA, Punaraagman"
• 2010 : Accumulation Jansem Gallery, Raza Ceramiques, Paris
• 2010 : Akar Prakar Art Gallery,Kolkata, Ahmadabad, Jaipur INDIA in 2010
• 2008 : Art Alive Gallery, City, INDIA
• 2008 : View Exhibition Splendid Seven at Art Alive Gallery
• 1997 : Roopankar Museum of Superior Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• 1997 : Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai
• 1997 : National Gallery of Modern Quick on the uptake, New Delhi
• 1994 : The Exit Rental Corporate, Group Michael Ferrier, Échirolles, Grenoble
• 1992 : Jehangir Nicholson Museum, National Centre for Drama Arts, Mumbai
• 1992 : Courses School of dance Lalouvesc, France
• 1991 : Gallery 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 : The Tendency of the artist, Grenoble
• 1985 : Galerie Pierre Parat, Paris
• 1984 : Chemould Gallery, Bombay
• 1982 : Listeners Loeb, Bern, Switzerland; Gallery JY Noblet, Grenoble
• 1980 : Galleriet, Oslo
• 1976 Mumbai, Gallery Chemould at nobleness Jehangir Art Gallery, RAZA, 26 February – 1 March 1976
• 1975 Sanremo, Galleria Matuzia, RAZA, 4 – 31 October 1975
• 1969 Town, Galerie Lara Vincy, RAZA : Peintures Recentes, 27 November 1969 – 5 January 1970
• 1968 Bombay, Gallery Chemould, RAZA, 15 – 27 April 1968
• 1968 Toronto, Gathering Dresdnere, RAZA – Recent Deface Paintings, 25 October – 9 November 1968
• 1968 Cologne, Dom Galerie, Sayed Haider RAZA, 26 Parade – 4 May 1968
• 1967 Town, Galerie Lara Vincy, 1967
• 1966 Metropolis, Tecta Galerie, RAZA – Town : 25 Oil Paintings overrun 1962- 1966, 6 October – 10 November 1966
• 1963 Cologne, Prudence Galerie, RAZA, June – July 1963
• 1964 Paris, Galerie Lara Vincy, RAZA : Peintures récentes, 18 November 1964 – 10 Jan 1965
• 1962 Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal
• 1962 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, RAZA, 15 July 1962
• 1961 Paris, Galerie Lara Vincy, RAZA, 19 April - 18 May 1961
• 1960 Montreal, Galerie Dresdnere , Autumn 1960
• 1959 Metropolis, Galerie Dresdnere, RAZA : Peintures et Gouaches, 5th – Ordinal MAY 1959
• 1958 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, "Raza - Prix organization la Critique 1956.

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• 1956 Galerie Saint-Placide, Town, "Raza"
• 1950 Charles Petrat's Institute adequate foreign Languages, Mumbai (september)
• 1950 Interpretation IFL International Centre, Bombay, "SH Raza: Farewell Exhibition of Paintings" (september)
• 1948 Exhibition Hall, New City, "Raza: 100 paintings of Kashmir", organised by Rudolf Von Leyden, (september)
• 1947 Bombay Art Society, "Raza's Watercolour Landscapes", (november)
• 1946 First unaccompanie exhibition at the Bombay Phase Society Salon

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