Arpita Singh is a renowned figurative and modernist artist, born in 1937 in Baranagar, India. She is considered one of her country’s most prominent contemporary artists. Her paintings are often from a female perspective, reflecting the life and emotions of 'real' women through their tormented stories. After graduating in fine arts from Delhi Polytechnic, Singh worked at the Weavers Service Centre, in New Delhi. She learned traditional methods of embroidery, including the Bengali type known as kantha, which impacted her work as an artist. Her oil paintings and watercolours are often composed of bright pinks and blues and tend to include traditional Indian figures, mythology and different forms of folk art. Despite their positive and dreamlike appearance, Singh's narrative scenes also speak of everyday threats and violence through the use of symbols such as guns, knives and airplanes. Although her art was initially figurative, in the late 1960s, she created abstract drawings using basic elements, dots or lines in black and white, only gradually re-introducing figurative elements and colour into her work in the 1980s. It is works from the final period for which she’s most famous and that generally achieve the highest prices. Illustration: @_patriciamafra_ Photos: 1 and 3 - My lollypop city gemini rising (2005), Wish dream(2000) from Vadehra Art Gallery; 2 - Untitled (2001) from AkaraArt,Mumbai and Read Signs Carefully (1998) from Christie’s; 4 - Carpet Untitled from AkaraArt,Mumbai. #Herchive #ArpitaSingh #arthistory #womenmakinghistory #archive #women #artist #womenofart #womenartist #femaleartists #indianhistory #indianartists #womenpainters #bengaliart #folkart #figurative #modernism #artistsofig #womenofhistory #womenmakinghistory #womenempoweringwomen #womensupportingwomen #equality #genderrepresentation (em New Delhi) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzuyJVaoIRg/?igshid=5q5jetnygk02
