Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship

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Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship
Award for individual contributions to Fine Arts
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Awarded forHonour for the fine arts in India
Sponsored by Lalit Kala Akademi
First award1955
Final award2021
Highlights
First winner Jamini Roy
Last winner
Website lalitkala.gov.in

The Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship, also known as Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna (Sanskrit ratna, "gem") is an honor for the fine arts in India. It is awarded to eminent artists for their lifetime achievements in the field of visual arts by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art. It is regarded as the highest recognition and honour that can be bestowed on an artist in the country as the academy is a national body of the Government of India. [1]

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The ‘Fellow,’ carries a purse-money of Rs.25,000/-, a citation and a plaque. The Fellow is honored with a portfolio about their major art works. The first elected fellow was Jamini Roy in 1955. [2] Most recent fellowship was awarded for the year 2021 to Himmat Shah, Jyoti Bhatt and Shyam Sharma on 9 April 2022. [3] [4]

List of Fellows

List of Lalit Kala Akademi Fellows
YearImageRecipient
1955 Jamini Roy
1956 Cropped Nandalal Bose 1967 stamp of India.jpg Nandalal Bose
1962 Deviprasad Roy Chowdhury.jpg D. P. Roy Choudhury
1962 K. Venkatappa
1963 O. C. Ganguly
1964 Nanasaheb Karmarkar.jpg Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar
1964 S. L. Haldar
1964 Rai Kishan Dass
1965 G. Venkatachalam
1965  C. Sivaramamurti
1970  Benode Behari Mukherjee
1970 RavishankarRaval 1966.jpg Ravishankar Raval
1974 N. S. Bendre.jpg N. S. Bendre
1974  Mulk Raj Anand
1976 Ramkinkar Baij
1976 Kanwal Krishna
1976 Kkhebbar.jpg K. K. Hebbar
1976  K. C. S. Paniker
1978 MFHussain2.jpg M. F. Husain
1978  Dhanraj Bhagat
1980  B. C. Sanyal
1980  Karl Jamshed Khandalavala
1980 V. R. Amberkar.jpg V. R. Amberkar
1980  P. T. Reddy
1982 K. S. Kulkarni.jpg K. S. Kulkarni
1982 S. Dhanapal
1982  Sankho Chaudhuri
1982 Prodosh Dasgupta
1982 Chandigarh, India rose garden bust of Dr Randhawa 5.jpg M. S. Randhawa
1984 K. H. Ara.png K. H. Ara
1984 Sayed Haider Raza (1995).png S. H. Raza
1985 K.G. Subramanyan 2008.jpg K. G. Subramanyan
1985 K. Sreenivasulu
1986 Shiavax Chavda.jpg Shiavax Chavda
1986  Paritosh Sen
1987 Mukul Dey.jpg Mukul Dey
1987 Artist Svetoslav Roerich.jpg Svetoslav Roerich
1988  Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya
1988  Ranbir Singh Bisht
1990 Bimal Dasgupta
1990 Radha Mohan
1993  A. S. Raman
1993  Amarnath Sehgal
1995 Kapilavatsyayan (cropped).jpg Kapila Vatsyayan
1995 Anand Dev
2002  A. Ramachandran
2003 Bikash.jpg Bikash Bhattacharjee
2004 Keshav Malik.jpg Keshav Malik
2004 Akbar Padamsee.jpg Akbar Padamsee
2006  Biren De
2007  Jeram Patel
2011 Ram kumar01.jpg Ram Kumar
2014 The Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Shri K.K. Chakravarty conferring the fellowship on eminent artist Arpita Singh, at a function, in New Delhi on October 10, 2014 (cropped).jpg Arpita Singh
2021 Himmat Shah
2021  Jyoti Bhatt
2021 Shyam Sharma at Bihar Museum on 4 December.jpg Shyam Sharma

See also

References

  1. "Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship". Lalit Kala Akademi. 2 October 2021. Archived from the original on 2 October 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  2. "Lalit Kala Akademi Fellows". Lalit Kala Akademi. 15 June 2009. Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  3. "Vice President confers Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Awards and National Awards of Lalit Kala Akademi to eminent artists". NewsOnAIR -. 9 April 2022. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  4. "Use art to honour unsung heroes of India: Venkaiah Naidu". The Hindu. PTI. 10 April 2022. ISSN   0971-751X. Archived from the original on 8 May 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022.