Bharti Dayal

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Bharti Dayal is a well recognized feminist artist and has won many awards, including the "India’s National Award for excellence in handicrafts in 2007" and when I looked her up in wikipedia, I didn't find any information about her so I decided to write about her. She has contributed and still is contributing a lot into the art world and deserves to be recognized! She brought the ancient Mithila artwork and merged it with the modern artwork so people forget the past history of artwork and also so that they feel more connected when the modern material is added.

Bharti Dayal is an Indian artiest who was born in Samastipur which is located in northern Bihar and she was born in December 1961. Art is something that ran on her veins because she never took professional art classes and as a young child and only source of knowledge was her mother and grandmother; She actually holds a master’s degree in science because Bharti never really intended art to be her career. On her painting she heavily focuses on “the rich heritage of folk painting known as Mithila”. Her works are coalescence of the ancient Mithila afeminist movementnd modern art and she does this to keep the history alive and to inform those who don't know about the ancient Madhubani artwork. She essentially produced her first professional paintings in 1984. In Madhubani painting Bharti uses “natural vegetables dyes” and paints them on homemade papers and or cotton and fabric clothing and especially since she got her degree on Botany, it has helped her use the natural resources more wisely. Throughout her life she has competition in many art competition and won many awards. It was her dream to win the National Award and in 2007 she accomplished it by winning the National Award for excellence in handicrafts. In ten years’ period she has sold over 2,100 paintings. Not only that but in March 1995, “French Television made a documentary on her painting and was shown in the discovery channel.” Her painting was gifted to the wife of Pakistan’s president and her paintings also exhibited in the Prime Minister’s office and the financial Ministry’s office. Through her work she tries to spread peace, and the power of love by painting pictures of a Hindu god, Krishna, and goddess, Radha because they are the symbol of love and almost all her paintings are full of life with all the delegate colors flashing from it. Bharti Dayal says her ultimate goal “is to spread cosmic harmony amongst harmony amongst humankind through my work”. Bharti shifted to New Delhi since 1991 and has been working on many project since then. She is also involved in a research where she wants to prove that Mithila painting is the root of the “folk artistry in India and even abroad.” Bharti Dayal plays a role in the feminist movement she has “…been helping promote work by women of her native village.” He artistic talent is famous all around the world and she is a well respected feminist artist who has shown the world that females are as talented as males!

Achievements: National Award Winner - 2006Honoured with Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award 2013 Exhibited at INDIART GALLERY , Belgium ,September 2013Exhibited ' Radha ' at Gurgaon Hotel Galaxy, August 2013 Exhibited at Banyan Shade, Singapore, May 2013 Exhibited in Living Traditions London, an Indian Art Exhibition, April-May 2013Divinity through Humanity exhibition, at MUSEUM OF SACRED ART , Durbuy, Belgium, June 2012 Honoured with The Vishist Bihari Samman amid festivities to commmemorate 100 year of Bihar, March 2012 Exhibited at Delhi's Winter Carniva,l Dec 2011Exhibited at Tendence -messe, Frankfurt, Germany Aug 2011. Bharti Dayal was invited to Hyderabad House for dinner with India's PM., 2011 Her paintings displayed in Jaya Utsav Exhibition titled "Sacred Geography & Aesthetic Expressions" at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Matighar , New Delhi from 10th Feb to 10th March ,2011 for celebrating Living Traditions of MahabharataRare collection of her "Radha Krishna Paintings" in Mithila style displayed at Nehru Centre , London from 1st February to 11th February,2011Participated in Madhubani Art Exhibition in commemoration of 61st Republic Day of India , sponsored by The High Commission of India and Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Cultural Cooperation at Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago , West Indies from 14th to 21st January , 2011Guest of Honour, UGC sponsored, International Seminar on Heritage Tourism, Vashi MumbaiRepresented Mithila Painting of India during the CWG 2010Painting displayed at the INA Metro Station, Delhi "One of its own kind - Prestigious art and craft of India"Aug 2010 - International Woman entrepreneur award - 25th Indo-Thai Entrepreneurs SummitAwarded "Quality of excellence" - Achievers forum IndiaParticipant "Budapest International Fair" - Sep 2010, Budapest, Hungary...

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