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Sunayani Devi (Bengali: সুনয়নী দেবী; 18 June 1875 – 23 February 1962) was an Bengali painter born into the aristocratic Tagore family in Calcutta, West Bengal. She was a self taught artist, with no academic training in art. Inspired by her brothers, Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, and Samarendranath Tagore, she started painting only at the age of 30.[1] She was married at the age of 12[2] to the grandson of Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

Sunayani Devi
Born
Sunayani Devi

(1875-06-18)18 June 1875
Calcutta, Bengal presidency, British India
Died23 February 1962(1962-02-23) (aged 86)
Calcutta,Bengal presidency, British India
NationalityBritish Indian, Indian, Bengali

Early life


Sunayani Devi was born on 18 June 1875[3] in the historically influential Tagore family in Calcutta to Gunendranath Thakur and Soudamini Devi.[2] She was married at the age of 12 [2] to Rajanimohan Chattopadhyaya. According to the writer, Partha Mitter, she never had formal training in art other than the art and music lessons as feminine accomplishments.[4]


Painting style and themes


Known to be a true primitive of the Bengal Art School, she drew inspiration from the Pata folk painting style which was familiar to the women of the Tagore household, often depicting scenes from Indian epics and mythologies in her works. Some of her notable works are Sadhika, Ardhanarisvar, Satir Dehatyag, Milk Maids and Yashoda and Krishna.[5] According to Stella Kramrisch, she was the first modern painter in India. Her works were exhibited in 1922 as part of the Bauhaus artists' exhibition in Calcutta.[6] Since the beginning, her works have been original and bold. They resemble the ancient Jain manuscript paintings. She applied wash technique to its fullest and later her works echoed the native imagery like village clay dolls that would be used as ornamentation. Her works are an amalgamation of modernist dialogue of primitive simplicity and a larger national discourse of being rooted in its cultural identity, thus carving her image as a nationalist artist. Critical analyses of her portraits, have led her to be addressed as a naive painter, who used folk themes with allure and sensitivity.[7]


Exhibitions


Among Devi's exhibitions are:[8]


Museums


Sunayani Devi's paintings are part of the collection of many museums, including:[11]


References


  1. Singh, Kishore (10 April 2015). "It's all relative". Business Standard. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
    - Helland, Janice (2016). Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0-7546-3197-2.
  2. Sengupta, Subhodh Chandra; Basu, Anjali, eds. (January 2002). "Saroj Nalini Dutt". Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Bibliographical Dictionary) (in Bengali). Vol. 1 (4th ed.). Kolkata: Shishu Sahitya Samsad. p. 798. ISBN 81-85626-65-0.
  3. "Sunayani Devi". Goa Art Gallery. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. Mitter, Partha (2007). The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922–1947. Reaktion Books. p. 234. ISBN 978-1-86189-318-5.
  5. Kar, Amina. ".Critical collective". Critical Collective. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  6. "Artists". Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  7. "Milk Maids". National Portal and Digital Repository for Museums of India. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  8. "Goa Art Gallery".
  9. "Title unknown". The Hindu. 3 August 2004.[dead link]
  10. "Timeout". The Telegraph. India. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  11. "Museums of India".[dead link]



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[de] Sunayani Devi

Sunayani Devi (bengalisch .mw-parser-output .Beng{font-size:110%}সুনয়নী দেবী, eigentlich Sunayani Chattopadhyay[1]; * 18. Juni 1875 in Kalkutta;[2] † 23. Februar 1962[3]) war eine indische Malerin der Moderne. Einige Kritiker bezeichneten ihre Arbeiten als den „Inbegriff des indischen Primitivismus“.[4]
- [en] Sunayani Devi


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