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	'''Uma Bardhan ''' (born in 1945) is ~~one of [[India]]'s~~ contemporary ~~female artists~~. Her paintings are usually themed on stories and positions which are under-represented in both mainstream and contemporary art culture. Her preferred medium is water color on silk, and she has also worked in other media, including oil on canvas. Her paintings are in several major collections in India & abroad. Her works has been hugely inspired by her formative years in Kolkata and her deep belief in spirituality.<ref name="Art Walk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.rosmeinwonderland.com/2015/12/launch-of-4th-season-of-art-walk.html\|title=Launch of 4th season of Art Walk\|author=Rosme Chaube\|publisher=}}</ref> Originally from [[Kolkata]] she lives & works in [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|title=74 and still Artistically strong- ~~The New Indian Express~~\|url=~~http~~://~~cms~~.newindianexpress.com~~/cities~~/delhi/2019/~~aug~~/24/74-and-still-artistically-strong-2023653.html\|access-date=~~2021~~-03-21\|website=~~cms.newindianexpress.com~~}}</ref>		'''Uma Bardhan ''' (born in 1945) is an Indian contemporary artist. Her paintings are usually themed on stories and positions which are under-represented in both mainstream and contemporary art culture. Her preferred medium is water color on silk, and she has also worked in other media, including oil on canvas. Her paintings are in several major collections in India & abroad. Her works has been hugely inspired by her formative years in Kolkata and her deep belief in spirituality.<ref name="Art Walk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.rosmeinwonderland.com/2015/12/launch-of-4th-season-of-art-walk.html\|title=Launch of 4th season of Art Walk\|author=Rosme Chaube\|publisher=}}</ref> Originally from [[Kolkata]] she lives & works in [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|last=Tankha \|first=Rajkumari Sharma \|date=2019-08-24 \|title=74 and still Artistically strong \|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/delhi/2019/Aug/24/74-and-still-artistically-strong-2023653.html \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240919165843/https://www.newindianexpress.com/delhi/2019/Aug/24/74-and-still-artistically-strong-2023653.html \|archive-date=2024-09-19 \|access-date=2024-09-19 \|website=[[The New Indian Express]]}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}}</ref>

	== Early life and education ==		== Early life and education ==
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	== Art career ==		== Art career ==
	The concern and contemplation on multiple aspects related to Mother Nature get expressed by works of Artist Uma Bardhan. She weaves her protagonists, Hindu God and Goddess, women, birds and other natural elements into visual thoughts, into strokes of spirituality as one breathe in the colors, flow with the textures and soak in the spirit of mother nature. Being spiritual at heart Hindu God & Goddess always remains as part of her theme.<ref name="Faith and its colour elements">{{cite web\|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=96615\|title=Faith and its colour elements\|author=Millennium Post\|publisher=}}</ref>		The concern and contemplation on multiple aspects related to Mother Nature get expressed by works of Artist Uma Bardhan. She weaves her protagonists, Hindu God and Goddess, women, birds and other natural elements into visual thoughts, into strokes of spirituality as one breathe in the colors, flow with the textures and soak in the spirit of mother nature. Being spiritual at heart Hindu God & Goddess always remains as part of her theme.<ref name="Faith and its colour elements">{{cite web\|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=96615\|title=Faith and its colour elements\|author=Millennium Post\|publisher=}}</ref>
	<ref name="SILK ROUTE – An Exhibition of art work by Uma Bardhan">{{cite web\|url=http://www.trendinn.net/silk-route-an-exhibition-of-art-work-by-uma-bardhan/\|title=SILK ROUTE – An Exhibition of art work by Uma Bardhan\|author=www.trendinn.net\|publisher=}}</ref>		<ref name="SILK ROUTE – An Exhibition of art work by Uma Bardhan">{{cite web\|url=http://www.trendinn.net/silk-route-an-exhibition-of-art-work-by-uma-bardhan/\|title=SILK ROUTE – An Exhibition of art work by Uma Bardhan\|author=www.trendinn.net\|publisher=\|access-date=20 March 2016\|archive-date=14 April 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414064422/http://www.trendinn.net/silk-route-an-exhibition-of-art-work-by-uma-bardhan/\|url-status=dead}}</ref>

	Uma Bardhan did her first solo art show in 1987, followed by numerous solo shows across decade. Her solo show Cosmic dance of Shiva I 2014 was themed on various form of dancing Shiva who is beneath all the creations and destruction's in this world.		Uma Bardhan did her first solo art show in 1987, followed by numerous solo shows across decade. Her solo show Cosmic dance of Shiva I 2014 was themed on various form of dancing Shiva who is beneath all the creations and destruction's in this world.
	<ref name="Cosmic Dance of Shiva">{{cite web\|url=http://www.indiablooms.com/ibns_new/life-details/L/479/uma-captures-different-forms-of-shiva-on-canvas.html\|title=Uma captures different forms of Shiva on canvas\|author=www.indiablooms.com\|publisher=Indiablooms}}</ref>		<ref name="Cosmic Dance of Shiva">{{cite web\|url=http://www.indiablooms.com/ibns_new/life-details/L/479/uma-captures-different-forms-of-shiva-on-canvas.html\|title=Uma captures different forms of Shiva on canvas\|author=www.indiablooms.com\|publisher=Indiablooms\|access-date=24 January 2016\|archive-date=31 January 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131090320/http://www.indiablooms.com/ibns_new/life-details/L/479/uma-captures-different-forms-of-shiva-on-canvas.html\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
	Her interest in the subject & spirituality took her to countless Shiva temples across India.<ref name="Indiatv">{{cite web\|url=http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/lord-shiva-cosmic-dance-on-canvas-44220.html\|title=Lord Shiva's cosmic dance on canvas\|author=www.indiatvnews.com\|work=India TV News}}</ref>		Her interest in the subject & spirituality took her to countless Shiva temples across India.<ref name="Indiatv">{{cite web\|url=http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/lord-shiva-cosmic-dance-on-canvas-44220.html\|title=Lord Shiva's cosmic dance on canvas\|author=www.indiatvnews.com\|work=India TV News}}</ref>

	In another exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bardhan portrays the predominance of artificial environment prevalent in present-day city life as a contrast to the pristine beauty of nature in rural life. This series is hugely inspired by her formative years in Kolkata and the time she spent travelling to the interior villages and tribal areas of Bengal—a motif which keeps recurring in her works.		In another exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bardhan portrays the predominance of artificial environment prevalent in present-day city life as a contrast to the pristine beauty of nature in rural life. This series is hugely inspired by her formative years in Kolkata and the time she spent travelling to the interior villages and tribal areas of Bengal—a motif which keeps recurring in her works.
	<ref name="Rural Urban Divide Paintings by Uma Bardhan">{{cite web\|url=~~http~~://indiatoday~~.intoday~~.in/story/rural-urban-divide-reflect-in-uma-bardhan-paintings~~/1/566825.html~~\|title=Rural Urban Divide Paintings by Uma Bardhan\|author=India Today\|work=India TV News}}</ref>		<ref name="Rural Urban Divide Paintings by Uma Bardhan">{{cite web\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/rural-urban-divide-reflect-in-uma-bardhan-paintings-485876-2016-01-11\|title=Rural Urban Divide Paintings by Uma Bardhan\|author=India Today\|work=India TV News}}</ref>

	== Water Color on Silk ==		== Water Color on Silk ==
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	==External links==		==External links==
			{{Commons category\|Uma Bardhan}}
	*[https://www.umabardhan.com/ Artist Website]		*[https://www.umabardhan.com/ Artist Website]
	*[http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-painter-uma-bardhan-in-quest-of-soul-of-my-country-2461205 Painter Uma Bardhan in quest of 'Soul of my country'], [[DNA India]]		*[http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-painter-uma-bardhan-in-quest-of-soul-of-my-country-2461205 Painter Uma Bardhan in quest of 'Soul of my country'], [[DNA India]]
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{{Short description|Indian artist}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Uma Bardhan.jpg
| name = Uma Bardhan
| birth_date = 1945
| birth_place = [[Kolkata, West Bengal]], India
| occupation = Artist
| website = https://www.umabardhan.com/
}}

'''Uma Bardhan ''' (born in 1945) is one of [[India]]'s contemporary female artists. Her paintings are usually themed on stories and positions which are under-represented in both mainstream and contemporary art culture. Her preferred medium is water color on silk, and she has also worked in other media, including oil on canvas. Her paintings are in several major collections in India & abroad. Her works has been hugely inspired by her formative years in Kolkata and her deep belief in spirituality.<ref name="Art Walk">{{cite web|url=http://www.rosmeinwonderland.com/2015/12/launch-of-4th-season-of-art-walk.html|title=Launch of 4th season of Art Walk|author=Rosme Chaube|publisher=}}</ref> Originally from [[Kolkata]] she lives & works in [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=74 and still Artistically strong- The New Indian Express|url=http://cms.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2019/aug/24/74-and-still-artistically-strong-2023653.html|access-date=2021-03-21|website=cms.newindianexpress.com}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Uma Bardhan started her work in early 20s, completed her Bachelor of Arts, from [[University of Calcutta]] followed by Diploma in fine arts from Birla Academy of Art and Culture, West Bengal under the tutelage of eminent artists like Makhan Dutta Gupta in oil color and Maniklal Banerjee in [[watercolor painting|water colour]].<ref name=":0" />

She was always inclined towards art from her childhood. She used to like poems of Rabindranath Tagore very much & used to draw sketches by reading & visualising his poems in her mind.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

== Art career ==
The concern and contemplation on multiple aspects related to Mother Nature get expressed by works of Artist Uma Bardhan. She weaves her protagonists, Hindu God and Goddess, women, birds and other natural elements into visual thoughts, into strokes of spirituality as one breathe in the colors, flow with the textures and soak in the spirit of mother nature. Being spiritual at heart Hindu God & Goddess always remains as part of her theme.<ref name="Faith and its colour elements">{{cite web|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=96615|title=Faith and its colour elements|author=Millennium Post|publisher=}}</ref>
<ref name="SILK ROUTE – An Exhibition of art work by Uma Bardhan">{{cite web|url=http://www.trendinn.net/silk-route-an-exhibition-of-art-work-by-uma-bardhan/|title=SILK ROUTE – An Exhibition of art work by Uma Bardhan|author=www.trendinn.net|publisher=}}</ref>

Uma Bardhan did her first solo art show in 1987, followed by numerous solo shows across decade. Her solo show Cosmic dance of Shiva I 2014 was themed on various form of dancing Shiva who is beneath all the creations and destruction's in this world.
<ref name="Cosmic Dance of Shiva">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiablooms.com/ibns_new/life-details/L/479/uma-captures-different-forms-of-shiva-on-canvas.html|title=Uma captures different forms of Shiva on canvas|author=www.indiablooms.com|publisher=Indiablooms}}</ref>
Her interest in the subject & spirituality took her to countless Shiva temples across India.<ref name="Indiatv">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/lord-shiva-cosmic-dance-on-canvas-44220.html|title=Lord Shiva's cosmic dance on canvas|author=www.indiatvnews.com|work=India TV News}}</ref>

In another exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bardhan portrays the predominance of artificial environment prevalent in present-day city life as a contrast to the pristine beauty of nature in rural life. This series is hugely inspired by her formative years in Kolkata and the time she spent travelling to the interior villages and tribal areas of Bengal—a motif which keeps recurring in her works.
<ref name="Rural Urban Divide Paintings by Uma Bardhan">{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rural-urban-divide-reflect-in-uma-bardhan-paintings/1/566825.html|title=Rural Urban Divide Paintings by Uma Bardhan|author=India Today|work=India TV News}}</ref>

== Water Color on Silk ==
[[File:Mud house .jpg|thumb|Watercolor on Silk (1998). Private collection.]]
She is one of a very few artist who uses a medium "Water Colour on Silk". A painstaking process
where a special silk cloth is mounted on board before it can be used for painting.<ref name=":0" /> The reason it's not so popular might be due to the fact that it is a relatively painstaking process where a special silk cloth is mounted on board before being used as a painting. The silk cloth is arranged from [[Murshidabad district|Murshidabad]] district of West Bengal, famously known as murshidabad silk, and at first washed silk cloth by hand or in the washing machine on a gentle cycle with warm water. followed by mounting on paper board with adhesive. As water colors would tend to bleed/run more than the other paints it is required to keep the paints fairly thick without too much water added in. She applies adhesive over the mounted silk cloth to hold the water color otherwise it will spread & leave it for 2 to 3 hours for drying. The amount of adhesive to be applied over the silk cloth is tricky as one have to be very careful as two much adhesive might not be good.
<ref name="Different Strokes New Woman magazine">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DgB3CgAAQBAJ&q=new+woman+uma+bardhan&pg=PA114|title=New Woman|author=New Woman|publisher=}}</ref>

== Exhibitions ==
Performed Solo & Group Shows at:<ref name="Official website of Uma Bardhan">{{cite web|url=http://www.umabardhan.com|title=Official Website of Uma Bardhan|publisher=}}</ref>
* Academy of Fine Arts, Kokata
* AIFACS, New Delhi
* Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
* Birla Academy, Kolkata
* Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore
* Chemould Art Gallery, Kolkata
* DD Neroy Art Gallery, Mumbai
* Epicenter, Gurgaon
* Information Center, Kolkata
* ICCR, Kolkata
* Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
* Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
* Open Palm Court IHC, New Delhi
* Sridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi
* State Gallery of Fine Arts, Hyderabad
* Visual Art Gallery IHC, New Delhi

==Exhibitions for Social Cause==
* " On Women empowerment" in association with Central Social Welfare Board at Sridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi 2012
* " On Color discrimination" in association with Gallery Sree Arts at Alliance Francaise, Aug 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-06-04|title=Painter Uma Bardhan in quest of 'Soul of my country'|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-painter-uma-bardhan-in-quest-of-soul-of-my-country-2461205|access-date=2021-03-21|website=DNA India|language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://www.umabardhan.com/ Artist Website]
*[http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-painter-uma-bardhan-in-quest-of-soul-of-my-country-2461205 Painter Uma Bardhan in quest of 'Soul of my country'], [[DNA India]]

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