| Detailed Description |
Prof. Vidya Bhushan, a freedom fighter and an artist worked
with oils, egg-tempera, water colour, etchings murals in
mosaic, and frescoes. He is one of the few artists, in India,
to have made original copies of the Ajanta cave paintings and
its widely recognized as being the only artist to do so using
egg-tempera medium. Vidya Bhushan was deputized by the State
Government to work in the caves as early as 1952, and was
commissioned by the Archeological Department of Hyderabad to
copy the Ajanta murals for their archives. He was also
commissioned by the State Government to make portraits of
Gandhi, Nehru, Sardar Patel, Abdul Kalam Azad, T.Prakasham,
Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. |
