Arpita Singh, Chronicler of the Inner Lives of Women, Dead at 89
The Indian modernist was known for densely layered canvases that explored women’s lives, memory and everyday objects across more than five decades.
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Arpita Singh, Chronicler of the Inner Lives of Women, Dead at 89
Renowned Indian painter Arpita Singh, whose dreamlike depictions of floating women earned her comparisons to Marc Chagall and influenced generations of artists, died on November 9 in a New Delhi hospital. She was eighty-nine. Drawing from traditional Indian folk art, miniature paintings, and weaving, Singh centered Indian women in crowded, festive paintings filled with flora […]
In Arpita Singh’s canvas, richness of detail, depth of meaning
Born in pre-Partition Bengal, Singh, who moved to Delhi as a child, witnessed first-hand the brutal realities of a newly independent nation. Was this why, in her work, she rejected clear binaries and hierarchies, placing violence and beauty, the domestic and the political, within the same frame?
Arpita Singh's paintings were based on reality and yet always strange. Her work was bursting with meanings and memories....
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