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Born 1940 Burnpur, West Bengal, India. Known for: Modernist painting on hardboard, Madonna figures, symbolism.
Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of Van Gogh, the Expressionists*,... Read full biography
Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of Van Gogh, the Expressionists*, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M. F. Husain. Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the... Read full biography
Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of Van Gogh, the Expressionists*, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M. F. Husain. Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the artist, "were dominated by flat areas of thick bright colour, with sharp outlines that were painted 'with the vigour and brashness of extreme youth'." Menon admits that her work has undergone tremendous... Read full biography
Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of Van Gogh, the Expressionists*, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M. F. Husain. Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the artist, "were dominated by flat areas of thick bright colour, with sharp outlines that were painted 'with the vigour and brashness of extreme youth'." Menon admits that her work has undergone tremendous changes with every phase of her life and that as she has grown older, the narcissism of the early years has been transformed into nostalgia for the past. Menon took up art while still in school, and, by the time she was fifteen, had already sold a... Read full biography
Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of Van Gogh, the Expressionists*, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M. F. Husain. Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the artist, "were dominated by flat areas of thick bright colour, with sharp outlines that were painted 'with the vigour and brashness of extreme youth'." Menon admits that her work has undergone tremendous changes with every phase of her life and that as she has grown older, the narcissism of the early years has been transformed into nostalgia for the past. Menon took up art while still in school, and, by the time she was fifteen, had already sold a couple of paintings. Finding the J.J. School of Art academically stifling, in 1959, at the age of twenty, Menon departed Ind... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
Art School
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student