GROUP-3

Team leader- Pranshi Bhagat

JAMNABAI NARSEE SCHOOL

AMRITA SHER-GILL
 INTRODUCTION
 Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941) 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. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil
started formal lessons at the age of eight. She first gained recognition
at the age of 19, for her oil painting Young Girls (1932) (shown below).
Sher-Gil depicted everyday life of the people in her paintings.
 Sher-Gil traveled throughout her life to various countries including
Turkey, France, and India, deriving heavily from precolonial Indian art
styles as well as contemporary culture. Sher-Gil is considered an
important painter of 20th-century India, whose legacy stands on a
level with that of the pioneers from the Bengal Renaissance. She was
also an avid reader and a pianist. Sher-Gil's paintings are among the
most expensive by Indian women painters today, although few
acknowledged her work when she was alive
HER PAINTAING STYLE
 She was influenced by both academic realism and post
impressionist trends current at the time. From 1930
onwards, Amrita Sher-Gil made several portraits of her
friends and fellow students as well as figure studies of
models.
 Sher Gil looked at indian art traditions with a fresh eye and
she gazed at the sad eyed people around her with empathy
She became excited by the Indian miniature traditions and
as consequences of her travels to the rock cut caves of
Ajanta and Ellora and through south india,her visual
language underwent a dramatic transformation.
THE HILL WOMEN 1935
SUMAIR 1936
OPEN AIR PAINTERS AND RED VERANDAH
1938
THREE GIRLS 1935 HILL SCENE 1938
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