Amrita Sher-Gil — Red Clay Elephant | Fine Art Giclée Print

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Amrita Sher-Gil — Red Clay Elephant | Fine Art Giclée PrintAmrita Sher Gil (19131941) is considered one of the greatest avant garde artists of the early 20th century and a pioneer of modern Indian art. Born to a Hungarian mother and Indian father, she trained in Paris and absorbed Post Impressionism before returning to India, where she developed a singular style fusing Western technique with Indian subject matter. She died at 28, leaving a body of work of haunting psychological power. Printed on Hahnemhle

and architectural commissions

a central figure of the Barcelona avant-garde centred around Els Quatre Gats café

His works epitomize shin-hanga's marriage of traditional ukiyo-e technique with modernist sensibility

written in the bold running script of the Chinese literati tradition

and mythological tableaux defined the visual language of haute couture in the 1910s and 1920s

and architectural documentation

Printed in vintage Bangla typography

This vintage advertisement — bold blue and yellow typography against a clean ground — reflects the confident graphic design of mid-century Dutch commercial printing

and the United States

Gustave Doré

and embroidered robes produced paintings of almost hallucinatory material richness

and the emerging science of applied design education

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