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"I cannot control my appetiate for color, and I wonder if I ever will.""
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Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian–Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a pioneer in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started formal lessons at the age of eight. She first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her 1932 oil painting Young Girls. Sher-Gil depicted everyday life of the people
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"Amrita Sher-Gill: Art and Life: A Reader (page xvii)"
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"My art is not a career, it is myself and I know myself best!""
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"The Brahmacharis as the most difficult thing she had ever done....dont you think I have learnt something from Indian painting?...I dont know whether it is a passing phase or a durable change in my outlook but I see in a more detached manner, more ironically than I have ever done."
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"An Indian with a measure of European blood, she returned to India to shed her acquired skin....She saw her country with new vision and has left a legacy of pictures simple and grand...as a tribute to the Indian countryside and its people."
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