Jagdish Swaminathan

Visual Artist

1928 – 1994

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Who was Jagdish Swaminathan?

Jagdish Swaminathan commonly known as J. Swaminathan was a leading Indian artist, painter, poet and writer. He was a member of the Communist Party of India. He is one of the most influential artists of India, instrumental in establishment of the Bharat Bhawan, a muti-art complex in Bhopal, in 1982, and served as the director of its Roopankar art Museum till 1990. He discovered, Jangarh Singh Shyam, the first known modern-day Gond tribal artist of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

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Born
Jun 21, 1928
Shimla
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Died
1994

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on July 23, 2013

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