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Sayed Haider "S. H." Raza was an Indian painter who lived and worked in France since 1950, while maintaining strong ties with India.He was a renowned Indian artist. His works are mainly abstracts in oil or acrylic, with a very rich use of color, replete with icons from Indian cosmology as well as its philosophy. He was awarded the Padma Shri and Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Academy in 1981, Padma Bhushan in 2007, and Padma Vibhushan in 2013. He was conferred with the highest French civilian honour, the Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur on July 14, 2015.He became one of India's priciest modern artist on 10 June 2010 when a seminal work, Saurashtra by the 88-year-old was sold for ₹16.42 crore at a Christie's auction.In 1959 he married the French artist Janine Mongillat, who died in 2002 of cancer, in 2010 he decided to return to India.

✵ 22. February 1922 – 23. July 2016
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“For me, Bindu is a point where I concentrate, my energy, my mind. It has become like Bhagvat Gita, Swadharm and all that. You have to fix your energy on one thing and not ten things. If you go to ten directions, it's distraction of energy. I think one woman is enough”

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Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza

“We are thrilled that this work will return to India as a fitting tribute to the artist and a celebration of art from this region.”

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By Hugo Weihe, Christie's International Director of Asian Art and Yamini Mehta quoted in "Raza's painting sold at record price".

“I tell god that he has been responsible enough. Without him it wouldn't have been possible. Thanks to him I could achieve these heights.”

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Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza

“To draw and paint is an elementary thing, it has to be done. But it can be a mental process, intellectual process, thought process. *It is a question of temperament of each artist, there are abstract painters, figurative painters, painters who work in silence or who don’t want to work at all, but they continue with ideas in their mind and in their soul. It’s very fascinating; it’s a vast area without rules or regulations.”

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Culture:S.H. Raza Comes in Full Circle

“One doesn't look at the quality of work, they see how much it fetches, how it earns. That's a sad thing. Money is not the criteria of art. Art or love is not a question of money. One should percieve these things at a different level.”

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Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza

“Everyone sees for himself, the artist also sees for himself. Others see where ideas coincide, or whether they agree or disagree. There is no binding, no forcing of things. It has to be a free association of ideas.”

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Culture:S.H. Raza Comes in Full Circle

S. H. Raza Quotes about art

“Well, art is reality, art is a muse if it helps us to realise the truth. It is the major guiding element which helps you to realise the truth.”

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Culture:S.H. Raza Comes in Full Circle

“If you say Ram Ram Ram and Allah Allah Allah, you will get confused. So one god is enough. For me Bindu has never done the same thing. There is logic in every abstract form that I make. My work is like poetry and it should create a different atmosphere for the visitor. Poetry, literaturea and art seem simple but it is very difficult to understand it.”

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Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza

“Young painters are amazingly involved in their own research and are coming into their own personal perceptions. There is great hope for the future of art here. We will be the most vital art expression in the world.”

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This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza

S. H. Raza Quotes about painting

“India is always in my heart and I put that in my paintings and sometimes in my dairies and letters.”

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This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza

“Well I spend my days reading, painting, thinking and meeting friends. It’s very pleasant. I’m studying Hindu thought, I’m studying Hindi poetry, my language is Hindi. I get up at 8am…there’s no fixed routine…after 10 or 11 o’ clock my friends come and see me. A message has to be conveyed. It’s not only a question of doing research, what has to be done has to be conveyed to people so it’s interesting to see people who are interested in coming and finding out what I’ve been doing all these years.”

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Culture:S.H. Raza Comes in Full Circle

“As an Indian, I remained convinced that the bhav or the feeling of a painting is important, and these put together, can make a good artistic expression. This is what I tried to do during my years in France.”

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This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza

“Installations are usually very mediocre. These new ideas are alright to promote themselves but I think real promotion can be done if they make good paintings or good sculptures.”

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His views on the 3D art, installations and the new forms of art.
Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza

S. H. Raza Quotes

“This exhibition is a sum total of all my experiences and all my research.”

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On the exhibition of his 39 new paintings in Mumbai.
This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza

“I didn't become a French painter or a European one. I remained an Indian painter through the years. That was always in my heart and I am very glad that I was able to come back here again.”

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This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza

“It is normal that I have done something significant and so have other artists. I have taken my work in such a way that it has been a success. But that is not the only thing which matters you see…it's the work which matters.”

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Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza

“I am very happy. My only ambition is that the quality of my work should go ahead.”

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On his artistic work till date.
This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza

“Sometimes I start with very little and it grows. Sometimes it grows up to a thing, and doesn’t continue further or it does continue further, which I call vistaar, or expansion, or developing the same idea into space or intensity. There’s no hard or fast rule you see. It happens.”

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Culture:S.H. Raza Comes in Full Circle

“Indian contemporary artists have not come to this standard. So I feel happy that I could present something to them. My work has a different meaning and something like this has never been done by any other Indian artist.”

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Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza

“Razaji said that the title of the show is Vistaar and by that he means expansion. But Vistaar to me, when I look at his body of work, means expansion inside. As much as he has gone outside and spread his vibration, that much he has equally and as importantly, gone inside his soul, so that there is no difference between Raza the artist and Raza the person. And that is what makes this show really special.”

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Quoted by Art connoisseur Sangeeta Chopra in "This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza}.

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