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{{short description|Indian painter, illustrator, and teacher}}
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| name = R M Singh
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| birth_name = Mohinder Singh
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|5|9}}
| birth_place = Baroli Kalan
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| nationality = Indian
| education = Graduation in Fine Art
| alma_mater = [[Government College of Arts, Chandigarh]]
| known_for = Portraiture and Sikh Paintings<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sikhnet.com/news/master-detail-rahi-mohinder-singh-artist|title=Master of detail ~ Rahi Mohinder Singh - the artist - SikhNet}}</ref>
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| style = Realist Art
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| elected = Secretary Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Fine Art, Punjab), 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/sobha-singh-in-city/story-Uz4DpkB3ebLThrL8zt5YVO.html|title=Sobha Singh in City|date=26 November 2012}}</ref>
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'''Rahi Mohinder Singh''' better known as '''R M Singh''', is a Punjabi-speaking Indian painter, illustrator, and teacher. He studied under artist [[Sobha Singh (painter)|Sobha Singh]].<ref name="pressreader.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-amritsar/20170425/281771334079062|title=PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News|website=www.pressreader.com}}</ref> He has painted many men and women of importance and his portraits have been exhibited the [[Parliament of India]] and the President House of India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/our%20parliament/List%20of%20Statues%20and%20Portraits.htm|title=Lok Sabha}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/arts/man-who-paints-presidents/377948.html|title=man who paints presidents}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Service|first=Tribune News|title=RM Singh paints the Presidents|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/arts/painting-the-presidents-154089|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Rahi Mohinder Singh started schooling at a government primary school in his native village [[Bharoli Kalan]], distt. [[Pathankot district|Pathankot]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India. Later, he went to a nearby town Pathankot for high school. He started painting in oil colours when he was in 7th standard. The very first painting, he recalls painting was a landscape on waste piece of plywood tea leave container box. He was introduced to canvas painting, later. In 1983, he got a chance to meet renowned artist [[Sobha Singh (painter)]] at [[Andretta, Himachal Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20101204/saturday/main2.htm|title=The Tribune - Magazine section - Saturday Extra|website=www.tribuneindia.com}}</ref> R M Singh remained a lifelong follower of Sobha Singh's works.<ref name="pressreader.com"/> Soon he became a child prodigy known for his art works among local art lover families of Pathankot. He participated in an exhibition, which was organised by a local convent school, where he sold off all his displayed works.
For his further studies in art he went to New Delhi but finding the Delhi atmosphere not much to his taste, he returned and tried at [[Government College of Arts, Chandigarh]]. He completed his graduation in Fine Arts from this institute.

== Works and style ==
R M Singh is known for working with a wide spectrum of genres of painting. Painting landscapes is rather easy for him, but, where he finds the actual challenge to his sense of aesthetics and the grip over the medium is the genre of portraiture. He recognize a deeply entrenched realism in himself as he says that the portrait cannot be simply 'like' someone, it should 'be' someone.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/arts/man-who-paints-presidents/377948.html|title=the man who paints presidents}}</ref>

== Portraits ==
In 1994, he was commissioned by the War Museum in Ludhiana to paint portraits of the war heroes of Punjab.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

He made 40 portraits of writers and artists of Punjab for Punjab Kala Bhawan, Chandigarh.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

At Shabad Parkash Meuseum, Rakba, [[Ludhiana]], Punjab, he painted portraits of the 36 writers of [[Guru Granth Sahib]]. He also painted the "Inauguration Ceremony of The Holy [[Guru Granth Sahib]] ji" which portrays [[Baba Buddha]] ji opening the holy scripture for the public.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

Singh has painted portraits of [[Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sikhchic.com/our_heroes/poet_teacher_leader_Gurmukh_singh_musafir|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719050838/http://sikhchic.com/our_heroes/poet_teacher_leader_Gurmukh_singh_musafir|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-19|title=Poet, Teacher, Leader: Gurmukh Singh Musafir|website=sikhchic.com}}</ref> and [[Shivraj Patil]]. Both portraits are displayed at Lok Sabha Gallery at the Parliament of India. In 2012 and 2016, respectively, he painted portraits of [[Pratibha Patil|Pratibadevi Singh Patil]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sikhsangat.org/2013/master-of-detail-rahi-mohinder-singh-the-artist/|title=Master of detail ~ Rahi Mohinder Singh – the artist|date=15 June 2013}}</ref> and Pranab Mukhraji. Both portraits are displayed at the [[Rashtrapati Bhavan]] (president's residence) in New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/our%20parliament/List%20of%20Statues%20and%20Portraits.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016081301/http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/our%20parliament/List%20of%20Statues%20and%20Portraits.htm |archive-date=2018-10-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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