This painting is created by Nasreen Mohammedi using pen and ink on paper. It is now exhibited in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
- Identifier
- ngma-12577
- Material
- Pen, Ink, Paper
- Note
- Nasreen Mohammedi was Born in 1937 in Karachi, now in Pakistan. Her family moved to Mumbai in 1944, and traveled a lot to various countries, giving her a cosmopolitan milieu to flourish. In 1954 to 1957, Mohamedi attended St. Martin's School of the Arts, in London, and later studied on a scholarship in Paris from 1961 to 1963. The constant move from country to country exposed her artistic temperament to various Western and Eastern artistic practices which led her to define her artistic oeuvre throughout her career. Mohammedi was a minimalist who followed the tradition of nonrepresentational aesthetics. Her body of work mainly comprises of line drawings executed in graphite and ink as well as black and white photography. She drew inspiration from the principles of Islamic art and architecture as well as Eastern mysticism. She returned to India and joined the Bhulabhai Institute for the Arts in Mumbai, where she met her contemporaries who were redefining the Indian Modern Art scenario in their own rights, namely; V.S. Gaitonde, M.F. Husain and Tyeb Mehta. In 1972, she settled in Baroda, where she taught Fine Art at Maharaja Sayajirao University, until her death in 1990.
- Pages
- 35 x 27 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
- Painting
