Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo's beloved home is now a museum. Much of the interior has been preserved just the way Kahlo had it in the 1950s, making the space a popular tourist attraction that allows visitors a look at her work, life, and personal artifacts, including the urn that holds her ashes.
Amrita Sher-Gil
Sher-Gil’s works were considered revolutionary because they blended elements of the traditional Indian and western style. It evoked parallels with Frida Kahlo, whose portraits and other works were inspired by the artifacts of Mexico.
Village Scene, 1938
Sita Devi
One of the most prominent early Mithila artists and among the first to transfer the traditional art form from the walls of the home to paper and canvas. She also painted extraordinary images of the World Trade Center, Arlington National Cemetery, and facades of 19th century buildings in New York City.
Durgabai Vyam
Durgabai Vyam began her creative journey in 1996 at an artist's camp organized by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal. Durgabai and Subash (her husband) together take workshops and teach participants the integral elements of Gond painting while pointing out the changes brought by modernization in their medium of painting.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Like all dreamers, O’Keeffe’s ambition had no bounds. Following her dream to become an artist, O’Keeffe started her journey at the young age of 10. She attended the school of Art Institute of Chicago in 1905 and 1906 and later on won the still-life prize for her work Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot, at the Art Students League in 1908.
Kala Bai
The first Pardhan Gond woman to use acrylic and brush on canvas, Kala Bai depicts trees, birds, tigers and reindeer in her artworks. Kala Bai and Anand Singh Shyam (her husband) were roped in to draw the new map of Madhya Pradesh, which was released by the then President of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen’s artistic perceptions and style was inspired by the black and white paintings of Jackson Pollock along with the abstract paintings of Willem de Kooning. Helen’s art was characterized with thinly pigmented, unprimed canvases that possessed a delicate and liquid appearance with dense surfaces marked with aggressive and ferocious strokes of the brush.
Yayoi Kusama
Decades before designer Marc Jacobs tapped into the artist’s aesthetic for Louis Vuitton’s collection in 2012, Kusama had previously used style to broadcast her views. In 1966, she roped in Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe to capture her walking through the gritty streets of New York wearing a brightly coloured kimono and ornamented umbrella. Escaping the traditional roles of women in Japan in 1958, she moved to New York only to be an outcast as both a woman and a Japanese in the art world.
Japani Shyam
Japani Gond Artist, named after her father’s first trip to Japan, which was also when she was born, Japani Shyam is Jangarh’s first-born and beloved daughter. Japani started painting at a very young age and won the Kamala Devi award at the age of eleven.
Nankusia Bai
Jangarh’s wife, Nankusia Bai is a dedicated practitioner of the Jangarh Kalam. Nankusia learnt the art from her husband Jangarh, and continued his work after his death, in all its vibrancy. She portrays nature in her artworks, along with the many animals that she saw while growing up in Sonpuri, Madhya Pradesh.
