Amrita Sher- Gil was a Hungarian- Indian painter who specialized as a pioneer of modern Indian art and is known to be one of the most prestigious female artists of all history. Sher- Gil was born on January 30, 1931 in Budapest, Hungary. Sher- Gil really pursued art when Indologist Ervin Batkay (Sher- Gil's uncle), noticed her artistic talent during his visit to Sher- Gil's family. Batkay then pushed Sher- Gil to pursue art and guided her by critiquing her work and provided her with an academic back- bone to grow on. Amrita's early career was heavily influneced by European artists such as Paul Cezanne and Paul Gaugin.
Sher- Gil's works mainly focused on people living in poverty and Indian Women. Most of the women Sher- Gil painted seemed to look full of sorrow. This was a choice made because she wanted to deeply "interpret the lives of Indians and particularly of the poor Indians pictorially, to paint the silent images of infinite submission and patience , to depict the angular brown bodies strangely beautiful in their ugliness, to reproduce on canvas the impression their sad eyes created on me." In general, most Amrita Sher- Gil's subjects portrayed the melancholy reflection of Indian women because of the harsh conditions of poverty.
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