A Vision of the Feminine

As Henri de Toulouse once said, “The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love, it is too exquisite”- which is probably the reason for many artists to be inspired to create their own expressive renditions of the female figure. The depiction of a classic Indian female started with Raja Ravi Varma’s realistic oil paintings on canvas. With a vast array of traditional mediums like oil and watercolour to contemporary ones like acrylic, you can find the work of some expressive contemporary painters like Amit Bhar, Anuradha Thakur, Basuki Dasgupta, Sachin Sagare, Suruchi Jamkar, Sukanta Das and Varsha Kharatmal among others who have focused on capturing tribal portraits, rustic scenes, nude forms and sari-clad quintessential Indian women.