C. Kondaiah Raju
Indian artist
Died when: 77 years 263 days (932 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
C.Kodiya Raju (7 November 1898 – 27 July 1976) was a popular Calendar artist well known for his depictions of Hindu Gods and Goddesses in a typical style, amalgamating the features of contemporary calendar art and traditional South Indian paintings.
He reached the peak of his fame during the heyday of the lithographic printing presses in Sivakasi.Kondiah Raju has an important place in the evolution of Indian Calendar art, which gained popular attention with Ravi Varma and continued on through artists such as S.
M.Pandit, and others in the 20th century.In addition to his painting skills he also displayed a spiritual streak, as also a starkly austere simplicity, that prompted many of his students to call him an 'artist-saint'.
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