Jagdish Swaminathan was born in Simla in 1928. His education in art consisted of short spells at the Delhi Polytechnic and later in Poland....in Bhopal. He served as the director of the institute till 1990. Jagdish Swaminathan passed away in 1994

Bendre and Sankho Chowdhuri who set up the Baroda School of Art Patel with artists like KG Subramanyan and Jagdish Swaminathan unknowingly initiated one

As a result of his decade long tenure as Founder and Director of the Roopanker Museum at Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal Jagdish Swaminathan gained a deep ...it is full circle or is it?” (Jagdish Swaminathan The Cygan An Auto-bio note Lalit Kala Contemporary 40 New Delhi March 1995 p. 13). Swaminathan

Originally enrolled in medical college Jagdish Swaminathan worked as a journalist political activist and writer of children’s fiction before he turned to painting. His experiences in these fields however were not forgotten. As an artist Swaminathan rebelled and organised against current romantic

In the manifesto that he wrote for the short-lived artists’ collective Group 1890 Jagdish Swaminathan called for a return to the representation ...European art especially the Paris School. For Swaminathan the "…significant issue was how to free the self the individual artist from the ‘clammy

Apart from being an activist Jagdish Swaminathan was a deeply spiritual painter who believed that it was nature alone that could lead man out of his maze of worldly concerns. "Swaminathan's subject here is a transcendental pristine view of nature. It is a view that antedates the corruption

One of the most revolutionary of India’s modernists Jagdish Swaminathan spent his career fighting hard to promote the artistic ideals that he ... collective he founded in 1963 Swaminathan rejected the academic nationalist and pastoral leanings of the Bengal School as well as similar movements

In 1963 Swaminathan formed the artists` collective Group 1890 that rejected the academic nationalist and pastoral teachings of the Bengal School ...and direction. In these paintings Swaminathan saw the future of modern Indian art. As he explains “…painting was never meant to `represent` reality

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AND FEATURES An exhibition of late Jagdish Swaminathan select works Jagdish Sawaminathan ...primarily as an art theoretician and writer. His select works are on view at RL Fine Arts, NY till 15 December, 2007. Jagdish Swaminathan's

S.H. Raza, Subodh Gupta, Jagdish Swaminathan and Rashid Rana. World auction records were set for 8 artists, including Subodh Gupta, Hema Upadhyay,

the auction featured the work of globally-sought painters, sculptors and installation artists, including S H Raza, Subodh Gupta, Jagdish Swaminathan

one 1942 sketch by Souza as well as his 1995 'St Sabastian', and one of the conceptual landscapes from Jagdish Swaminathan's 'Mountain, Bird and Tree' series. The highest valued piece in the auction is Raza's 'Germination', priced between Rs.27.5 million to Rs.37.5 million. Gupta, Swaminathan,

” Among the higest-priced lots will be Raza’s Germination with a reserve price of Rs2.7- 3.7 crores and an untitled work by modernist Jagdish Swaminathan

the auction featured the work of globally-sought painters, sculptors and installation artists, including S H Raza, Subodh Gupta, Jagdish Swaminathan

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