Shanu lahiri biography of williams

          Shanu Lahiri (23 January – 1 February ) was a painter and art educator from Kolkata.!

          Shanu Lahiri

          Shanu Lahiri was a painter, art educator and activist.

          A sculpture by artist Shanu Lahiri that served as a marker in the early days of EM Bypass and evolved into one of the most prominent.

        1. A sculpture by artist Shanu Lahiri that served as a marker in the early days of EM Bypass and evolved into one of the most prominent.
        2. After receiving the President of India's Gold Medal for outstanding merit she arrived in Paris and studied at the École du Louvre where she learnt art history.
        3. Shanu Lahiri (23 January – 1 February ) was a painter and art educator from Kolkata.
        4. Eighty-two-year-old Shanu Lahiri laughs when you label her “anti anti-establishment”.
        5. Lahiri belonged to the early batches of female students at the Government Art School, who were beginning to be admitted after the intervention of another.

          6. She was a first-generation modernist, having emerged post-Independence, and was often dubbed the ‘First Lady’ of public art in Kolkata, owing to her prominence in the practice. Lahiri’s time in Paris and the vocabularies of European modernism were constant points of reference for her own innovations with form, colour and content, culminating in a trademark style - contorted human figurations, assertive lines and brushstrokes, bold colours, and a predilection for vast sizes and scale.

          While she communicated compelling, unfolding narratives and important social issues, it was the human figure that remained her forte. Lahiri was essential to the mobilisation of the first group of women artists in the 80s - the collective - ‘The Group’ - exhibited annually at the Academy of Fine Arts, even travelled internationally, and, importantly, advocated for the equal participation of women practitioners in the art-world.

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