Artist amrita sher gil biography
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Amrita Sher-Gil was born to Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, a Sikh scholar, and Marie Antoinette Sher-Gil, an accomplished Hungarian musician, on January 30th, 1913. Her childhood was spent in Hungary, where she was exposed to the artistic and cultural hub of Budapest and her mother’s elite social circles. (Ananth 13) She grew up beneath the influence of her father’s intellectual and philosophical ideas and, following the tradition of her mother’s family, was also educated in music and cultural subjects. (Ananth 13) As a child, Sher-Gil was self-possessed, smart eller klok, and stubborn, refusing to adhere to formal drawing instruction. (Dalmia 15-17)
In 1921 the family returned to India, due to financial difficulties and growing unrest in Hungary, followed by a brief period in 1924 when Marie Antoinette and her daughters lived in Italy as Amrita’s mother pursued an Italian sculptor with whom she was having an affair. During her time in Florence, Amrita was expelled from Catholic school f
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Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a "pioneer" in modern Indian art.
She was born on January 30th, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary. Her father was an Indian Punjabi Sikh and her mother was a Hungarian-Jewish opera singer who came from an affluent bourgeois family. She spent most of her early childhood in Budapest. In 1921 her family moved to India where she would give violin and piano concerts with her sister and she began to study painting. She would continue to travel between Europe and India studying painting.
Sher-Gil had an exciting love life. She had a relationship with fellow painter Boris Taslitzky, was briefly engaged to Yussuf Ali Khan while probably also having an affair with her future husband Victor Egan.
In a 1934 letter to her mother, she wrote,
Knowing how unprejudiced, objective and intelligent you are, I am going to be very f•
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EThe daughter of a Sikh aristocrat and a mother that came from the Hungarian bourgeoisie, Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Hungary, where her family lived during World War I, before moving back to Simla, in the north of India, in 1919. She was introduced to visual arts and music from a very young age, and showed a predisposition for drawing. The family moved to Paris in 1929 so that she could follow the classes of Pierre Vaillant at the Grande Chaumière Academy, and attend Lucien Simon’s workshop as a “free student” at the School of Fine Arts until 1934. She made mostly life portraits during these Parisian years, and concentrated on studio and outdoor painting in a style similar to Post-Impressionism and classical interwar Realism. In 1934 her Parisian works became more introspective and her style increasingly pared down. Conscious of the limits of her art, she questioned her identity and decided to go back to India. At first, her romantic imagination prompted clichés depic