Himmat shah biography definition

Himmat Shah was born in at Lothal in Gujarat. After initially training as a drawing teacher, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University, Baroda, from to He was a National Cultural Scholar in , and received a French Government scholarship to study etching at Atelier 17, Paris in  Shah was a member of Group , a short-lived artists' collective founded by J.

Swaminathan. The then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, opened the group's first and only show in The group dispersed soon after, and each of its members, including Shah, continued their artistic practices with their own agendas.

Shah's predilection for drawing was natural.

Being an inexpensive, transformative and free form of expression, it appealed to him in his negotiations with form and space. If one looks at his early drawings closely, one discovers the skill behind the chaotic black lines.

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