peoplepill id: ghulam-rasool-santosh
GRS
India
9 views today
9 views this week
Ghulam Rasool Santosh
Indian painter

Ghulam Rasool Santosh

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Indian painter
A.K.A.
G. R. Santosh Ghulam Rasool Dar Gulam Rasool Santosh Ghulam Santosh
Places
Work field
Gender
Male
Age
68 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Ghulam Rasool Santosh (Kashmiri: ग़ुलाम रसूल संतोष (Devanagari), غلام رسول سنتوش (Nastaleeq)) (1929 – March 10, 1997) was a prominent Kashmiri Indian painter. He was best known for his themes inspired by Kashmir Shaivism.

Early life

He was born Ghulam Rasool in a Kashmiri Muslim family of modest means in the Chinkral Mohalla habba kadal neighborhood of old Srinagar. He dropped out of school after his father's death and took up odd jobs like writing, painting signboards, weaving silk and whitewashing walls. In 1954 he won a scholarship to study fine arts under a celebrated Indian painter, N. S. Bendre in the city of Baroda, in the state of Gujarat, in western India.

Around the same time he did what was considered unusual and unacceptable in conservative Kashmiri society - he married his childhood sweetheart, Santosh, who was a Kashmiri Pandit, and also assumed her name.

Career

In the early 1960s, Santosh studied Tantric (mystical) art and Kashmir Shaivism. In 1964 he adopted this style to create some of the best examples of modern Tantric paintings. His paintings are known for the vibrancy of colors, neat lines, spiritual energy and sensuousness.

Santosh also wrote plays, poetry and essays in Kashmiri. He was also an authority on Kashmiri Shaivism, and was one of the very few people who could read and write the ancient, and almost-extinct, Kashmiri script called Sharda.

"K a s h m i r S h a i v i s m has penetrated to that depth of living thought where diverse currents of human wisdom unite in a luminous synthesis." - Rabindranath Tagore (9 May 1861 - 7 August 1941) Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).

Death

He died on March 10, 1997 in New Delhi, India. He was survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.


The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Ghulam Rasool Santosh is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Ghulam Rasool Santosh
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes