Famous Artists Contributing their work on Punjab And Punjabi's Keeping Punjabi Virsa Alive
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Devender Singh, an icon in the field of art was born at Amritsar on 6th November 1947. He received hisformal education at Bombay, Amritsar, Ludhiana & Chandigarh but was initiated into the world of art by his accomplished father. He has participated in numerous exhibitions & got many a prestigious & reputed awards.
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S.G. Thakur Singh was born in 1899 at Verka, a suburban village of Amritsar. He never had proper education owing to poor family circumstances. His heart being set upon painting and drawing from a very early age, he apprenticed himself to Mohd. Alam, a skilled Mohammden painter of some repute, to learn the rudiments of the art. Later he accompanied Mohd. Alam to Bombay |
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Mardana was born in 1459 at the village of Rai Bhoi di Talwandi, district Shekhupura (Pakistan). This makes him ten years older than Guru Nanak His father-s name was -Badra- and mother-s name was -Lakho-. It is said that Lakho had six (or some say five) children who had died during birth, and she named this |
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Bhai Gian Singh (1883-1953), a Naqqash or a Fresco-Painter was born in the city of Amritsar in 1883. His father Taba Singh was a comb-maker by profession, supplemented his meagre income by dispensing ayurvedic medicines in his spare time. At the age of five, Gian Singh was sent to school run by Giani Thakur Singh, who |
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Artist Sohan Singh was born in August 1914. His interest in art was inherited from his talented artist father S. Gian Singh Naqqash. In 1929 he joined the Art Company of S.Hari Singh, and in 1931 after visiting Delhi and Bombay, he reached the port of Calcutta, where he |
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The Ghazal Maestro of the Millenium : JAGJIT SINGH grew up in the cradle of Indian folklore, Rajisthan. The noted musician and teacher, Ustad Jamal Khan, groomed him in the fineries of music and Jagjit followed the pursuits of music and academic learning with admirable equability. |
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Shiv Kumar was a born poet who migrated from the poetic region of Sialkot to Batala at the most miserable moment of human history. It was the Independence of the sub-continent in 1947 - the dreadful, painful, horrible, miserable, devastating, slaughtering and marauding phenomenon, which |
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Sardar Sobha Singh was an eminent artist of Punjab. Widely acclaimed as the saint-artist of the people, he created a new intensity by delving deep into the spirit of the subject. The conception and execution of his portraits and the landscape paintings remain singularly unique in the sense that they introduce the great spiritual masters and the heroes in a |
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Artist Gurbux Singh Theathi was born in Punjab on the 10th of November 1923. He did his matriculation in 1939 and that very year joined S. Hari Singh, a well known and a highly talented artist, as an apprentice. In 1941 he enrolled in the Lahore College of Arts |
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