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S H Raza
La Chapelle Rouge

- - Fellow founders of the Progressive Artists Group, Raza, Souza and Padamsee traveled to Paris in the early 1950`s to break from both the Western Academic Realism that dominated art education and practices in India, and the overly sentimental artistic practices Bengal School with its stagnant romanticism. They sought, in Paris, artistic idioms to express `freedom`, a value they held dear in the wake of Indian independence.

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