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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Indian painter (1914–1985)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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H. Ara</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:K._H._Ara.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/K._H._Ara.png/220px-K._H._Ara.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/K._H._Ara.png/330px-K._H._Ara.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/K._H._Ara.png/440px-K._H._Ara.png 2x" data-file-width="625" data-file-height="836" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1914-04-16</span>)</span>16 April 1914<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Bolarum" title="Bolarum">Bolarum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secunderabad" title="Secunderabad">Secunderabad</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">30 June 1985<span style="display:none">(1985-06-30)</span> (aged 71)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Indian_people" title="Indian people">Indian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Jamsetjee_Jeejebhoy_School_of_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art">Sir J. J. School of Art</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Painting" title="Painting">Painting</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="white-space:nowrap;">Notable work</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Two Jugs</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Movement</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Bombay_Progressive_Artists%27_Group" title="Bombay Progressive Artists' Group">Progressive Artists' Group</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> <b>Krishnaji Howlaji Ara</b> (16 April 1914 – 30 June 1985<sup id="cite_ref-theory.tifr_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theory.tifr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) was an Indian painter and is seen as the first contemporary Indian painter to meticulously use the female nude as a subject.<sup id="cite_ref-saffronart_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-saffronart-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a part of the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Artists%27_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Artists' Group">Progressive Artists' Group</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bombay" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombay">Bombay</a> and was a founder of the Artists' Centre in <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a>. Opinions about Ara's works remain divided with his critics accusing them of lacking perfection and not referenced from life.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, curator Qaroon Thapar 22 works of Ara in an exhibition in Mumbai called "Privately Ara".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._H._Ara&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ara was born in <a href="/wiki/Bolarum" title="Bolarum">Bolarum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secunderabad" title="Secunderabad">Secunderabad</a> in April 1914, the son of a <a href="/wiki/Chauffeur" title="Chauffeur">chauffeur</a>. His mother died when he was three and his father remarried. He ran away from home to <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a> when he was seven. The city remained his home until his death in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-saffronart_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-saffronart-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Mumbai he earned a living by cleaning cars and later found employment with an English family as a <a href="/wiki/Houseboy" title="Houseboy">houseboy</a>. While employed he nevertheless found time to engage with his passion for painting and it soon caught the attention of first Rudy von Leyden, an <a href="/wiki/Art_critic" title="Art critic">art critic</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Times_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Times of India">Times of India</a>, and then Walter Langhammer, the Editor of the <a href="/wiki/Illustrated_Weekly_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Illustrated Weekly of India">Illustrated Weekly of India</a>. Langhammer was so impressed by Ara's skill that had him enrolled at the <a href="/wiki/J.J._School_of_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="J.J. School of Art">J.J. School of Art</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ara participated in the <a href="/wiki/Salt_Satyagraha" class="mw-redirect" title="Salt Satyagraha">Salt Satyagraha</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Disobedience Movement">Civil Disobedience Movement</a> and was jailed for five months. He later found employment with a Japanese firm as a car cleaner.<sup id="cite_ref-theory.tifr_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theory.tifr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, on India's independence he created a large canvas depicting an Independence Day procession of a multitude of Indian people in exuberant celebrations.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_as_an_artist">Career as an artist</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._H._Ara&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career as an artist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ara hosted his first solo show at the Chetana Restaurant in Bombay in 1942 which was a runaway success.<sup id="cite_ref-business-standard_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-business-standard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He joined the Progressive Artists' Group which included <a href="/wiki/M_F_Hussain" class="mw-redirect" title="M F Hussain">M F Hussain</a>, <a href="/wiki/H._A._Gade" title="H. A. Gade">H A Gade</a>, <a href="/wiki/S_H_Raza" class="mw-redirect" title="S H Raza">S H Raza</a>, <a href="/wiki/F.N._Souza" class="mw-redirect" title="F.N. Souza">F N Souza</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sadanand_Bakre" title="Sadanand Bakre">Sadanand Bakre</a> in 1948. The group set up the Artists' Centre at <a href="/wiki/Kala_Ghoda" title="Kala Ghoda">Kala Ghoda</a>, behind the <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince of Wales Museum">Prince of Wales Museum</a>. He held several shows with the group but with Souza, Raza, Gade and Bakre leaving India, the group became undone. From 1948 to 1955, Ara held several solo and group shows in Mumbai, <a href="/wiki/Ahmedabad" title="Ahmedabad">Ahmedabad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baroda" class="mw-redirect" title="Baroda">Baroda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calcutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta">Calcutta</a> and later had solo exhibitions across <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. In 1963 he exhibited his "Black Nude" series in Mumbai and was part of the inaugural show at the Pundole Art Gallery.<sup id="cite_ref-saffronart_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-saffronart-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Kumar Gallery, <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a> acquired his works between 1955 and 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Artistic_style">Artistic style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._H._Ara&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Artistic style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ara began his career doing <a href="/wiki/Landscape_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Landscape art">landscapes</a> and paintings on socio-historical themes but he is best known for his <a href="/wiki/Still-life_painting" class="mw-redirect" title="Still-life painting">still life</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nude_(painting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nude (painting)">nude paintings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-business-standard_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-business-standard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ara was the first contemporary Indian painter to focus on the female nude as a subject while staying within the limits of <a href="/wiki/Naturalism_in_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Naturalism in art">naturalism</a>. Several of his works deal with still life and human figure studies. While he initially used <a href="/wiki/Watercolours" class="mw-redirect" title="Watercolours">watercolours</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gouaches" class="mw-redirect" title="Gouaches">gouaches</a>, where his use of the <a href="/wiki/Impasto_effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Impasto effect">impasto effect</a> often made them resemble <a href="/wiki/Oil_paintings" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil paintings">oil paintings</a>, he later moved on to the use of oil paints. Here his successful execution of thin <a href="/wiki/Pigmentation" class="mw-redirect" title="Pigmentation">pigmentation</a> recalled his initial work with water colors as seen in the painting "Woman with Flowers".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ara work reflected a deep influence of French modern artists, specially Paul Cezanne.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._H._Ara&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ara won the Governor's Award for painting in 1944 and a Gold Medal from the <a href="/wiki/Bombay_Art_Society" title="Bombay Art Society">Bombay Art Society</a> for his canvas "Two Jugs" in 1952.<sup id="cite_ref-saffronart_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-saffronart-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also won the Windsor and Newton cash price, Bombay.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._H._Ara&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some of his critics have accused his paintings of being poorly executed and not referenced from life. The wrongly depicted <a href="/wiki/Female_genitalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Female genitalia">female genitalia</a> in some of his nudes have also drawn criticism with some viewers claiming that his paintings of groups of vases have greater voluptuousness than his nude forms.<sup id="cite_ref-business-standard_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-business-standard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_later_life">Family and later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._H._Ara&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Family and later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ara remained a lifelong <a href="/wiki/Bachelor" title="Bachelor">bachelor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Asexuality" title="Asexuality">asexual</a> as a person according to his adopted daughter Ruxana Pathan.<sup id="cite_ref-business-standard_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-business-standard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later in his career, Ara exhibited less and began to spend greater time at the Artists' Centre, where he often helped struggling artists from his personal funds. He lived in penury in the last decades of his life, far removed from the success he had enjoyed in the 1950s and 60s. Unlike Souza, Raza and Husain, his paintings have failed to emulate their renown or prices.<sup id="cite_ref-business-standard_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-business-standard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ara was part of the managing committee of the Bombay Art Society<sup id="cite_ref-saffronart_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-saffronart-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later became a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Lalit_Kala_Akademi_fellows" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Lalit Kala Akademi fellows">Fellow of Lalit Kala Akademi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died in Mumbai in 1985. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._H._Ara&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-theory.tifr-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-theory.tifr_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-theory.tifr_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/leisure/art/kh-ara.html">"K. 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