ICONIC INDIAN ARTIST SH RAZA PASSED AWAY
Modern Indian artist Syed Haider Raza, touted as one of
Indian modern art's greatest painter, passed away on 23rd July,2016, at the age of 94. Raza's
works had very rich use of colour, replete with icons from Indian cosmology as
well as its philosophy.
Raza is touted as one of Indian
modern art's greatest painters. He was a founder-member of the Progressive
Artists' Group that wished to break with the revivalist nationalism established
by the Bengal school of art and to encourage an Indian avant-garde engaged at
an international level.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in
1981, the Padma Bhushan in 2007 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2013. He was also
conferred with the highest French civilian honour, the Commandeur de la Legion
d'honneur (Legion of Honour) in 2015.
Raza
was in the ICU of a private hospital for the last two months. "He was in
the ICU at a hospital here for the past two months and passed away today. It is
indeed a very sad day. He was a great legend that the 20th century has
produced," poet and former chairman of the Lalit Kala
Prof.John Kurakar
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