ARPITA SINGH (1937)
Arpita Singh was born in 1937 in West Bengal. She had her art
education at the School of Art, Delhi and the Delhi Polytechnic
(1954-1959). Singh is one of the few women artists in Delhi who
do not make a virtue of 'feminism' as the only criterion for
artistic achievement. Since the beginning of her career, Singh
has been diligently learning the craft of painting in rhythm
with her absorption of modernist reductionism. Her native
paintings are un-laboured, particularly zesty in their comments
on the 'space' of women and the girl child in society, and on
the atrophied sensibilities of modern man regarding growing
violence and social injustice. Singh literally 'builds up' the
painted surface with the same patient facility both in oil and
water-colour. The surface tension created by the short,
overlapping patches of pigments and tones often result in the
surreal arising out of the continuous synchronicity of domestic
objects:flower vases and aeroplanes, guns and soldiers, men and
women oblivious of corpses strewn around. She thinks with her
paintings.The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
