Artist

In today's day and age, a career in art has to be as well planned as any other. There are numerous courses offered for an art degree in various institutions. Avers R. B. Bhaskaran, principal of the College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, "An art student is trained to meet the challenges of society as in any other career.

Rabin Mondal was born in 1932, in Kolkata, in a poor government official`s family. He graduated with Diploma in Fine Arts from the Vidyasagar Art School.

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali-Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.

Born in 1910 in Pabna, in present-day Bangladesh, he graduated from College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, in traditional Indian art, oil painting, and Western academism. Abanindranath Tagore, Mukul Dey and other Bengal masters were major influences but Bagchi evolved his own artistic style. In 1951, he joined Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, as teacher, officiating twice as its principal in subsequent years.

Born in 1979, Oman, Radhika Khimji is a contemporary artist whose works explore materiality and form, shaped by her readings about hybridity and identity in our present-day society worldwide. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art in 2002 followed by a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from Royal Academy of Art in 2005, and a Master’s Degree in History of Art from University College London in 2007.

Born in 1972 in New Delhi, the artist completed his Bachelor of Arts from Delhi University in 1995. He did specialization in Painting from Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi between 1995 and 2001 apart from Specialization in Illustration and Graphics from Shankar Academy of Art, New Delhi (1996-1997).

Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. 

One of the pioneers of modern Indian sculpture, Baij created art spontaneously, driven by intuition and energy and disregarding the artistic standards accepted by the institution.

Dhawan participated in many shows following his return from Belgrade and also taught art at a college in Phagwara, Punjab. However, he left for Paris in 1970 to study at École des Beaux-Arts, eventually settling down in the French capital.

Rajib was born in 1977 in Howrah district of West Bengal. He started painting from a very young age. I grew up as a painter around the city of my life, Kolkata.

Born in 1976, Ram Bali Chauhan studied sculpture at the College of Art, New Delhi, and completed his post graduate degree there in 2003. Chauhan has developed a unique artistic language that provokes a heightened response and participation from the viewer.

His figurative works from this period, remain familiar with their muted earth-tone color palettes, but are devoid of any recognizable characters; distinctive, emotive facial features; costume elements; or urban and landscape backdrops.

Ramakrishna Behera (b. Orissa, 1977) received his BA in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Rorkee (1996–2000) and worked as a Chemical Engineer with the Indian Oil Corporation Limited.

Born in 1941 in Delhi, Rameshwar Broota graduated in Fine Arts from the Delhi College of Art in 1964. Soon after his graduation, he joined the institution as a lecturer. Since 1967, Broota has served as Head of Department at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi.

Born in Baler, Rajasthan in 1905, Ramgopal Vijayvargiya was allured to art at a very early age. A wandering ascetic introduced him to the basic principles of drawing.

The work of London-based artist Rana Begum distils spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture.

Ranbir Singh Kaleka was born in Patiala, Punjab, in 1953. He studied painting at the College of Art, Punjab University in Chandigarh, and subsequently took on a teaching assignment at the Punjabi University and College of Art in New Delhi. He later obtained his Master's degree in painting from the Royal College of Art in London.

Raqib Shaw, 29, graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Central St Martin's in 2002.  Born in Calcutta and brought up in the cultural wealth of Kashmir, Shaw's ancestry has shaped his richly layered paintings. 

Raqs have exhibited their works in Documenta 11 in 2002 and the Biennales of Venice, Istanbul, Taipei, Liverpool, Sydney and Sao Paulo, amongst others.

Rashid Rana was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1968. He received his Bachelor's degree from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 1992; and in 1994 received his Master's degree from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.

Rasik Durgashanker Raval was born in 1928 in Sourashtra, Gujarat. He was a student of the Sir J.J. School of Art. Spent his childhood in small town of Sabarkanta. He was a recipient of the J.J. School of Art Scholarship in Mural Painting, where he studied and received a diploma in fine art.

Ravinder Reddy's sculpture is heraldic. Many of his sculptures are larger than life heads. Invariably, they look frontally through wide-open eyes, the characteristic attitude of one who proclaims. None of the sculptures looks sideways, or over the shoulder. The one who predicts may draw material from the past, but he has only the future to address.

Rao recalls one career-defining instance from this informal education of hers very clearly. She and her father once saw a blind man begging for alms on the street, and decided to use him as a subject in a painting. When her father saw the final piece he noticed the man had no eyes. Rao answered his questions very simply by saying, "if he can`t see anyway, what is the need for eyes?" Rekha Rao always knew that creating abstract art meant that all the non-essentials had to be removed. She has always followed this path in her career, staying at a distance from the figurative, and never straying far from the symbolic.

Rekha Rodwittiya's work describes complex issues of life and living, of alienation and belonging, of discrimination and acceptance, of accord and discord. It is of paramount importance to this sensitive artist to react pragmatically to socio-political attitudes that surround her. Her work reflects her sensitivity towards socio-political attitudes along with the reflections from her past.

René Magritte, in full René-François-Ghislain Magritte, (born November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium—died August 15, 1967, Brussels), Belgian artist, one of the most prominent Surrealist painters, whose bizarre flights of fancy blended horror, peril, comedy, and mystery.

Riyas Komu was born in 1971 in Kerala, and moved to Mumbai in 1992 to study literature. Dropping out during his final year, Komu eventually obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Art from the Sir J. J. School of Art in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Since his graduation, Komu has been constantly asserting and pushing himself with a strong body of work.

Roy Thomas (1949–2004) was one of the most influential 20th-century Anishinaabe painters in Canada, and was famous for paintings of colourful totemic animals. Like Norval Morrisseau, he became well known when Indigenous art gained mainstream popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Born in 1948 in Bengal, Rini Dhumal studied painting from M.S. University of Baroda. “All my works make a unique and signature statement: they define my ethos, my philosophy, my style, my own metaphors.”

Rupchand Kundu is Primarily a painter. He also does installation art, art direction in audio visual and creative events. His Works as Durga Puja Theme Maker are a source of inspiration for budding artist.