| Names |
RAM KINKER BAIJ |
| Date of Birth |
May 26, 1906 – Bankura, Bengal, India. |
| Date of
Death |
August 02, 1980 – West Bengal, India. |
|
Profession / Traits / Activities |
Sculptor, Painter |
| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- One of the pioneers of modern Indian
sculpture.
- Many of his artistic creations have been inspired by the
lifestyles of rural dalit or Adivasi
(Santhal) communities living in and around his place of
work, Shantiniketan.
- One of the first Indian Adivasi artists
to understand the language of modern Western art and use it
in his sculptures.
- Regarded as the father of modernism in art
in India and one of the greatest Adivasi artists.
- In his young age, he used to paint portraits of Indian
freedom fighters involved in the Non-Cooperation Movement
against the British rulers of India.
- At the age of 20, he joined the Visva-Bharati
University at Santiniketan as a student of fine
arts.
- Later he became the head of the Sculpture
Department.
- Eminent painters like Beohar Rammanohar Sinha
and Jahar Dasgupta, both students of
Shantiniketan were his disciples.
- Some of his sculptures are preserved and
displayed at locations including Kala Bhavan,
Santiniketan, Late Rani Chanda Collection & Academy of Fine
Arts, Calcutta, H.K. Kejriwal Collection & Karnataka
Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore, Lalit Kala Akademi, New
Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi,
Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi, Jane and Kito de
Boer, Dubai, and the Delhi Art Gallery in New Delhi.
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| Awards &
Accolades |
- Padma Bhushan award by the Govt. of
India in 1970
- In 1976 he was made a fellow of the Lalit Kala
Akademi
- In 1976 he was conferred the Desikottama
by Visva Bharati.
- In 1979 he received an honorary D.Litt
by the Rabindra Bharati University.
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