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Born in Delhi the year 1943, Shobha Broota completed her Masters in vocal Indian classical Music from Sangeet Visharad in 1962. Later in 1964 she completed her Diploma in Fine Arts from the College of Art, Delhi. Since then, Shobha Broota has been teaching art at Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi hails from a family rich in artistic traditions. She is one of India’s most well established contemporary artists. Her husband is also a well known artist Rameshwar Broota and their daughter Pooja Iranna and her husband GR Iranna are artists as well.
In her long pursuit of a fulfilling expressive and artistic conception, Shobha Broota has passed through and experienced a lot of changes in her subject, media and style. She has painted various things, including portraits of men and women, more abstracted human forms, the forms of birds, animals and insects as well as the different elements of nature, namely earth, water, air and fire.
Art critic Keshav Malik had commented of her oeuvre and of her recent show ‘Music of the Spheres’ that, “Shobha’s works, in whatever medium, do not overtly claim any whiff of holiness. Not at all. Rather they are her effort to understand and work within the boundaries of an age-old convention, that have the basic harmony or purity of the underlying reality, as of inner reality.
The discipline, preparation, effort, contemplation, as the musical sense of the inner ear, that have gone into these works is palpable and one would not even dare to sum it up or even outline it. Still it must suffice to say that a lifetime of close attention lies behind each of the works shown, quite apart from the training in the fundamental skills of geometry, drawing and colour.”
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