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Ram Kumar ((ヒンディー語:राम कुमार); born in Shimla 1924 ) is an Indian artist and writer who has been described as one of India's foremost abstract painters. He was associated with the Progressive artist's group along with greats like M.F. Hussain, Tyeb Mehta, S.H. Raza.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ngmaindia.gov.in/sh-pag.asp )〕 He is said to be one of the first Indian artists to give up figurativism for Abstract Art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=ram-kumar-artistic-intensity-of-an-ascetic&iid=30&articleid=846 )〕 His art commands high prices in the domestic and international market. His work "The Vagabond" fetched $1.1 million at Christie's, New york, setting another world record for the artist. He is also one of the few Indian Modernist masters accomplished in writing as well as painting.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?203731 )〕 ==Early Life and education== Ram Kumar Verma was born in Shimla, the capital of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh in a large middle-class family of eight brothers and sisters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.saffronart.com/artist/ArtistInterview.aspx?artistid=164 )〕 His father was a government employee from Patiala in Punjab, India who worked in the Civil and Administrative Division in the British Government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.saffronart.com/artist/ArtistInterview.aspx?artistid=164 )〕 While pursuing M.A. in Econonomics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, he chanced upon an art exhibition in 1945.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.saffronart.com/artist/ArtistInterview.aspx?artistid=164 )〕 One evening, after "loitering" around Connaught Place with his friends from St Stephen's College, he landed up at an art exhibition. Ram Kumar took classes at the Sharda Ukil School of Art under Sailoz Mukherjee and gave up employment at a bank in 1948 to pursue art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=ram-kumar-artistic-intensity-of-an-ascetic&iid=30&articleid=846 )〕 Sailoz Mukherjee was a painter from Shantiniketan School〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artofbengal.com/oil.htm )〕 who introduced him to still life painting with live models.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=ram-kumar-a-transition-from-figurative-to-abstract&iid=14&articleid=277 )〕 While a student there, he met Raza at an exhibition. Raza and Ram became good friends.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theartstrust.com/artistprofile.aspx?artistid=46&name=Ram%C2%A0Kumar )〕 He convinced his father to pay for a one-way ticket to Paris and studied further there under Andre Lhote and Fernand Léger. In Paris, the pacificist peace movement attracted him and he joined the French Communist Party. Seeking inspiration in the Social Realists such as Kathe and Fourgenon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=ram-kumar-artistic-intensity-of-an-ascetic&iid=30&articleid=846 )〕 He was befriended by S.H. Raza and MF Hussain who are two major artists. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ram Kumar (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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