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Anjolie Ela Menon

Anjolie Ela Menon (Born 1940) is active/lives in India.  Anjolie Menon is known for Modernist painting on hardboard, Madonna figures, symbolism.

Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist.  Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of Van Gogh, the Expressionists*, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M. F. Husain.  Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the artist, "were dominated by flat areas of thick bright colour, with sharp outlines that were painted 'with the vigour and brashness of extreme youth'."  Menon admits that her work has undergone tremendous changes with every phase of her life and that as she has grown older, the narcissism of the early years has been transformed into nostalgia for the past.

Menon took up art while still in school, and, by the time she was fifteen, had already sold a couple of paintings.  Finding the J.J. School of Art academically stifling, in 1959, at the age of twenty, Menon departed India to study art in Europe on a scholarship from the French Government.  There, she was influenc   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9139 characters.]  Artist bio

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