Amrita Sher-Gil's Art Analysis

Entering the art gallery, disinterested, I knew I was going to have a boring day. As soon as I reached the section where Amrita Sher-gil’s paintings were exhibited, I couldn’t stop staring at her artwork. Painting since the age of 5, Amrita Sher-gil was born in Hungary but her Father was Sikh which is very prominent from her art as it is a combination of Indian and western techniques of painting, perfectly infused together to create masterpieces.

Amrita sher-gil’s use of western techniques to paint changed over time, she developed a belonging towards Indian techniques of art and adapted to them in no time. She started making a number of portraits and soon moved on to painting everyday scenes or scenes in daily life. Amrita Sher-gil’s vast

Since there were no restrictions on women and they were not considered as filth in the European parts of the world, Amrita Sher-gil did not fear while painting partially nude images of a girl who was supposedly her friend from France. The way the hair manages to cover some parts of the girl’s body while other parts still remain visible is in itself an art. Her paintings during that time were not that sharp, rather smoother and lightly detailed, but had a deep meaning to them. The best part of her work was subjectivity, different people saw her paintings in different ways, everyone had a a different opinion and found a different meaning to her paintings. She was the first Asian woman to receive a place as an Associate of the Grand Salon in Paris in 1933 which was one of the biggest art events in the West. Her painting “Young Girls” became very popular during that

Supposedly its from the Kushan period, from Gandhara, 2nd century AD. This statue is made from grey schist stones which are basically metamorphic rocks and these rocks are made up of different mineral constituents. The most interesting fact about this statue is that during the 2nd century, this was the first time that Buddha had been portrayed in a physical form. After careful observation, I noticed that the hands and the feet looked different and on doing some research, it became clear that sometimes the hands and feet were made from marble separately in order to make the figure look more realistic and give it an additional touch. Special Greek techniques were used to do