R.S. Bisht

BEGINNINGS

Born in Landsdowne, Garhwal. 1956 Artist, Information Deptt., Govt. of UP, Lucknow. Chairman Subject Panel in Painting, Govt. of India Standing Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, Ministry of Education, New Delhi. 1968, 72, 84 Member of the General Council, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 1968 Member of the Executive Committee, State Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow. 1968 Member, UP Museum Advisory Board, UP. 1969 Member, Board of Studies in Fine Arts and Music, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. 1969 Representative of the Lalit Kala Akademi and All India Board of Technical Studies, New Delhi. 1969 Member of the Examination Committee, All India Board of Technical Studies in Applied Art. 1969 Member, High Power Committee of UP Education Deptt. for award of financial assistance under Govt. of India`s scheme to distinguished persons who have made contribution in art ans letters but are now in indigent circumstances or to dependents of such writers and artists

EDUCATION

·  1948-54 Drawing Teacher`s Training Cretificate and Diploma in Fine Arts. 1954 Studied at Govt. College of Art and Craft, Lucknow.

EXHIBITIONS

·  Four solo exhb., New Delhi. Five solo exhb., Lucknow. Two solo exhb., Mussoorie. Soloexhb., Simla. Solo exhb., Jhansi. Solo exhb., Kanpur. Two solo exhb., Landsdowne. Solo exhb., Pauri. Solo exhb., Allahabad. Solo exhb., New York. Solo exhb., Bombay. Participated in the National Exhb., Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 1961 Four Painters, Jyoty Art Gallery, New Delhi. 1964 Four Painters, Delhi Shilpi Chakra, New Delhi. 1965 Three Painters, NBG, Lucknow. 1965 Sixty-eight UP Artists, State Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow. 1967 Trends in Indian Paintings, Kunika Chemould Gallery, New Delhi. 1968 Four Painters, Press Club, Lucknow. Paintings on Christ by Eminent Indian Painters, organised by the Methodist Church in Southern Asia. 1970 Exhb. of Nine Contemporary Artists of India, organised by the Students Gymkhana IIT, in collaborartion with Gallery Chanakya, Kanpur. 1970 Miniature 70, International Galerie, Frankfurt. 1970 Contemporary Indian Painting II,

COLLECTION

·  Allahabad Museum, Allahabad. BIC Club, Kanpur. Circuit House, Varanasi. Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, New Delhi. King George`s Medical College, Lucknow. Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Lucknow. State Museum, Lucknow. Lucknow University, Lucknow. Punjab University, Chandigarh. Deptt. of Information, UP. Govt. House, UP. UP Secretariat, UP. Deptt. of Industry, UP. Deptt. of Education, UP. College of Art, New Delhi. Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh. Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi. Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai. Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.

AWARDS

·  1956 Received Chief Minister`s Gold Medal for the best watercolour, UP Artist Annual Exhb.. 1965 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 1967-68 UNESCO Fellowship for Visual Arts, to study the contemporary art at various universities and art colleges, USA and France. 1984 Fellowship, State Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow. 1987 Fellowship, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. A Monograph title R.S. Bisht in Search of Self, was published by Pustak Kendra. A Monograph titled Ranvir Singh Bisht: 1988 Contemporary Indian Art Series, was published by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.

STYLE

Paintings mostly painted with watercolors, that too, transparent, with wash and smudged effect. Bisht mostly painted grotesque portraitures and landscapes. His spontaneity in the rendering of brush strokes is clearly visible in his artwork.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1956 Lecturer, Govt. College of Art and Craft, Lucknow. 1960 Asstt. Professor, Govt. College of Art and Craft, Lucknow. 1968 Principal, Govt. College of Art and Craft, Lucknow. Later appointed as Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lucknow University, Lucknow.

Satish Chandra

Satish Chandra was one of the most renowned landscape painters in india. Such was his confidence in his art, and his love for Nature, that he devoted his whole life to painting landscapes. In the end, he acquired a reputation second to none on the lndan art scene.
Satish Chandra was born on 5 June 1940 in Ghaziabad. His father, late Manohar Lal Aggarwal, was an officer in the Indian Railways, and Satish was the fourth child among nine brothers and sisters

Satish’s childhood was spent in Khurja, in Uttar Pradesh, where his family lived with his great-grandparents and paternal uncles and aunts in their ancestral haveli known as the ‘Patthar Wali Ilaveli’. Built in 1840, the heautiful haveli, with its intricate carvings in wood and stone, still stood in all its splendour a hundred years later, with elephants at the entrance gates and ‘buggies pulled by horses.Khurja is a tehsil which, at that time, abounded in natural beauty. It was surrounded by lush green fields, lakes and rivulets, rich fruit orchards, mango groves and rolling meadows, the very air crisp and fresh, laden with the sxveet scent of flowers and foliage. Satish grew up in the lap of Nature left its indelible mark on him.The nomadic habit and the desire for fresh experience, so deeply ingrained in Satish, can be seen in his drawings and sketchbooks, which reveal the surprising extent of his travels in India.On these tours, he would invariably stop overnight in temples and gurdwaras. He actually lived with the tribals, the fishermen or the natives he met en route. With his simplicity and his child-like smile, he found his way into their hearts. He ate the food offered to him, laughed, sang and danced with them. He studied their everyday life. He observed minutely an incredible range of details relating to the inhabitants and how their environment influenced them. He rejoiced with them in the lap of unspoiled Nature, enjoying this chance to know the people. At times conversation was not possible, for Satish could not speak their language. He would use subtle gestures to make himself understood. “It was enthralling to see them dance — whirling around the bonfire in their colourful tribal dress their jewellery and beads jingling rhythmically to the beat of the drums. These were places where time seemed to have stopped hundreds of years ago. The landscape was pure like the people who had adapted themselves to it,” says Satish.All that he saw found its way into his sketchbook — the people, their houses made of wood and stone, the temples with their bells of different shapes and sizes, and the boundless beauty of Nature.Most of this work was bought by tourists and by the owners of ‘gift-shops’ during these travels.

Achievements
Award
1964
UP State Lalit Kala Akademi Annual Award
1964
UP Artists’ Association Silver Medal
1966
UP State Lalit Kala Akademi Annual Award
1967
UP State Lalit Kala Akademi Award
1968
UP State Lalit Kala Akademi Radhakamal Mukherjee Cold Medal
1977
UP State Lalit Kala Akademi Annual Award
1977
UP Artists’ Association Annual Award
1978
All India Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, Annual Award
1989
National Award, National Akademi of Arts, New Delhi
1994
Yash Bharti Samman, Government of Uttar Pradesh, India
Satish Chandra received the National Award from his excellency the President of India Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1989
Year
1963
UP State Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow
1964-65
Mussoorie (Savoy Hotel) and Roorkee University of Architecture
1965
Kanpur British India Corporation Club
1964
New York City
1966 1968,1970 1972 19741976 1980
Galleries in Lucknow

1975-97 1999
Taj Art Gallery Mumbai
1977 1978 1981 1993 1995
Various galleries in Delhi
1994 1998 1999
Gallerie Ganesha
2005
Palm Court, India Habitat Centre, Delhi, sponsored by Gallerie Ganesha
2006
Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Delhi, sponsored by Gallerie Ganesha
Awards
Solo exhibitions Year
Organisation/Position held
1985
Vice-President, UP Artists’ Association
1990-92
Member, North Central Zone Cultural Centre (NCZCC)
1994-98
Chairman, UP State Lalit Kala Akademi, Uttar Pradesh
1998
Jury member, Birla Academy, Kolkata.

Satish Chandra received the National Award from his excellency the President of India Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1989.

Data taken from www.satishchandra.com