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"I always had a love affair with art. I was just running a successful marriage with politics." – V P Singh
Vishwanath Pratap Singh was the eighth Prime Minister of India, from 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990, and was also a painter and a poet. His engagement with the arts began long before his career in politics, and he returned to it later when he was recuperating from an illness. His work during and after this period -...
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"I always had a love affair with art. I was just running a successful marriage with politics." – V P Singh
Vishwanath Pratap Singh was the eighth Prime Minister of India, from 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990, and was also a painter and a poet. His engagement with the arts began long before his career in politics, and he returned to it later when he was recuperating from an illness. His work during and after this period - primarily sketches, watercolours and oil paintings in diverse styles - has been exhibited in New Delhi, Mumbai, London and more, and the themes of his paintings became more restless and frenzied in his later years. "The connection between V P Singh's politics and art may not be a direct translation from one to the other; but it definitely is transcreation. One can see... a complex being, looking askance at the sharp dualism of wealth and poverty, backwardness and modernity, beauty and ugliness and trying to come to terms with it." (Suneet Chopra, "A Politician and a Painter," Frontline, 1999, frontline.thehindu.com, online)
Singh passed away on 27 November 2008 in New Delhi after a long illness.
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2015 Selected Paintings by Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Aryan Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1999 Arpana Gallery, Academy of Literature and Fine Art, New Delhi
• 1999 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1998 Nehru Centre, London, UK
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Born
1931
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died
November 27, 2008
New Delhi
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