artist gopal prasad sharma

   

                    ARTIST GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA

                               EXCEPTIONAL ARTIST OF MINIATURE ART 

A man who had a strong background of family in the childhood , father was in mines business  in a village of rajasthan ( bijoliya ) Bhilwara , rajasthan with 3 sisters and 3 brothers gopal is second last child to his father born on 16th june 1968 . gopal was from a family of artists his grand father was also an artist as he was the senior architect  at Bijoliya royal family then gopal's father was also have interest to make portraits on walls but due to the mines business he take this art only as a hobby .

artist gopal prasad sharma 

Gopal prasad sharma a simple but a very intelligent person who is the only person who want something els in his life who want to show the world some of his talent from a small village he left all the mine business come to the family of his mother a small village in famous Mewar (begu) that is the birth place of king Maharana Pratap . then he started working with his uncle ( Mama ) but as the lower thinking in that time people never teach the way of working to the other relatives because they don't want to make business rivals in the relatives his uncle have not teach much about the art, but gopal does not make himself down due to his uncle even he comes to jaipur in the age of 12 years and started working with a family who were the artists of making god sculptures , statues on makrana marble, Gopal is that much brilliant quality to learn something that the people who were working since years and not able to do the work but gopal easily manage to do those work's in very less time period.

  After doing work with that family he realise that this is not the work what he want to do in life because the man with exceptional qualities in him and talent to learn any work is looking for something else to do  so he left the job and come back to the village where his family lives in the age of 14 years , but the time when he start to think about the new work his elder brother has destroyed the whole mines business and gopal had a burden to earn money to feed his family  . gopal come back to jaipur , rajasthan and as he was thinking to become a painter he join a famous miniature painting artist in jaipur .  as the (famous artist) seen the talent in gopal he agreed to give salary to him and gopal is the only artist there who have no need to learn the art , only in one year gopal become the best artist working on that place after doing 4 years work there  gopal left the job and marry.

gopal prasad sharma with wife shashi bala sharma 

 To shashi bala sharma from jaipur she was in the family of sculpture makers and as everybody says that there is a only women to make a perfect men ,  shashi  becomes  a milestone in gopal's life  she motivate gopal to make the fine detailed work in miniature paintings  .

MINIATURE PAINTING 

Miniatures paintings are beautiful handmade paintings, which are quite colorful but small in size. The highlight of these paintings is the intricate and delicate brushwork, which lends them a unique identity. The colors are handmade, from minerals, vegetables, precious stones, indigo, conch shells, pure gold and silver. The most common theme of the Miniature painting of India comprises of the Ragas i.e., the musical codes of Indian classical music. There were a number of miniature schools in the country, including those of Mughals, Rajputs and the Deccan.                      The evolution of Indian Miniatures paintings started in the Western Himalayas, around the 17th century. These paintings were highly influenced by the mural paintings that originated during the later half of the 18th century. During the time of the Mughals, Muslim kings of the Deccan and Malwa as well as the Hindu Rajas of Rajasthan, this art flourished to quite an extent. Infact, the Mughals were responsible for introducing Persian tradition in the Miniature paintings of India. 

GOPAL had done hard work to make this art on the next level and do many innovations in this art by the dedication , hard work and deep research to extend and to make it more fine that the work which was not done in last many decades  . he had continued his research for the next 15 years and made many mile stone paintings which was not made before by any miniature artist he made his own subjects he try to innovate this art in his own style by mixing all the schools together .

there is...various schools ( styles ) of making miniature paintings from last many hundreds of years . ...

kangra school
mughal school
rajasthani school
pahari school
bundi school
kishangarh school  etc .

Many artists at that period doing work , making paintings in these schools .
but every artist can make paintings in only one or two or three schools but Artist gopal prasad sharma  the only person who had made paintings in all these schools separately which was an achievement itself . then after doing very much in all schools gopal had started innovations to make this art more stylish by mixing all schools in a single miniature painting , and that is the thing make him different and he able to make his own school ( style ) in miniature paintings that was JAIPURI school , later on many new artists copy GOPAL SHARMA'S work and style and also copy the imaginary paintings which GOPAL made by his imagination .

gangaur festival painting ( a festival which is celebrated in rajasthan) 

kings procession painting

The paintings made by gopal prasad sharma was the milestone and the finest work ever done on any miniature painting in india yet .

 but this is not the end in this field which can satisfy gopal he is a man ...


WHO THINKS THAT....

I AM NOT AN PERFECT ARTIST

I LEARN SOMETHING  FROM MY EACH PAINTING THAT I MAKE EVERY TIME
AND I ENJOY LEARNING AND MAKING PAINTINGS AND TRY TO DO  NEW INNOVATIONS  WHOLE LIFE FOR THE GENERATIONS .

THIS IS A THOUGHT OF A GREAT PERSONALITY .


 A day when SHASHI  said GOPAL  to make the smallest painting in  the world , so the miniature artist GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA started making portraits of the famous celebrities on a single piece of mustard seed (  mahatma gandhi , mother teresa , maharana pratap, indira gandhi , bill clinton , diana etc ) and had made a world record to make smallest painting in the world and this record is registered in limca book of world records . and in process to being registered in guinness book of world records .

Chatrapati Shivaj painting on a single piece of mustard seed comparing with the rice seed

 Gopal feel happy if somebody copy his work and make the traditional art live  infact he started teaching students from the year 1989 . He started teaching the students for free , if any student comes to him he never takes fees to teach traditional art , he started doing exhibitions in various states of india and being successful in whole india he had visited different countries of world and teaches the traditional art to the students .

after 35 years of hard work in the oldest style of paintings that is miniature painting in india ,  Gopal Prasad sharma become a well known artist in india , and represent the art of imagination in about 1,000s of art exhibitions in india and other countries and show his work .

HE  teach his art to above 20,000 students in whole world and make this imaginary miniature art and tradition famous in different countries and teach the history and about the detail of the work to the people from different culture and tradition .

                        In the same time gopal sharma got almost all the awards given by the Indian government including NATIONAL AWARD BY THE INDIAN PRESIDENT which is the highest civilian award in india .

GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA SHOWING HIS WORK TO LATE VICE PRESIDENT SHRI BHAIRON SINGH SHEKHAWAT 

 AFTER A LONG JOURNEY IN THE FIELD OF ARTS ARTIST GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA HAS WON ALMOST ALL THE AWARDS ALONG WITH THE .........

BEST CITIZEN AWARD OF INDIA
NATIONAL AWARD ( PRESIDENT AWARD )
STATE AWARD
GAUR RATNA AWARD
MAHARANA SAJJAN SINGH AWARD
FIRST PRIZE TENDENCE INTERNATIONAL FARE,FRANKFURT (GOT THIS IN GERMANY)

BHARAT KE KOHINOOR AWARD
BHARAT JYOTI AWARD BY INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY 2010

BIODATA

BIO DATA 

THIS GREAT MAN THINKS 

" DON'T RUN FROM THE DIFFICULTIES 
 THEY WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO FIGHT IN WORST SITUATIONS " 



ARTIST GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA

HE IS THE MAN WHO HAVE NOMINATED THREE TIMES FOR THE THIRD BIGGEST HONOUR OF INDIA " PADMASHRI " FOR PROMOTING THIS VEDIC MINIATURE ART AND FOR  HIS SPECIALISATION AND RESEARCHES IN THE FIELD OF ART .

Some students in india are doing PhD - Doctor of Philosophy on ARTIST GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA. 

GOPAL PRASAD HAD TWO CHILDRENS

ABHISHEK SHARMA
NEHA SHARMA

BOTH OF THE KIDS ARE ALSO LEARNING MINIATURE ART FROM THERE FATHER AND CONTINUE THE FAMILY TRADITION TO THE NEXT EXTENT .....


NEHA SHARMA is also announced STATE AWARD IN THE YEAR 2014

NEHA is also innovating miniature art as his father and merging phad painting into miniature style . and got State award for the innovation .

phad miniature style painting by NEHA SHARMA ( kishkindha kand painting bali sugreev scene from ramayana )

NEHA is also a brilliant artist learning in the guidance of her fabulous father , and now a days where all the traditional arts in india is becoming rare she is trying to make this art alive for generations .

THIS IS THE LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST FOR THIS GOD GIFTED PERSON AND HIS FAMILY , IN FUTURE WE WILL HAVE TO SEE MORE MILESTONES AND MORE FABULOUS WORK FROM THIS GREAT MEN ......

THANKS  REGARDS 

" TU KARAM KARTA JA  AYE INSA YAHA 

MAIN HOON YAHI TERE PASS ME  TUJHMAI HI SAMAYA ....

KUCH MAINE TUJHE BANAYA KUCH HAI TERE KARMO KA SARMAYA....  

TU KARM KARTA JA AIE INSA MAI HU TUJH ME  SAMAYA..... 

[ AFTER MARCH 2015 ]

Story continues after 2015 as ARTIST GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA IS A LIVING LEGEND 

he have been awarded by kala nidhi award in surajkund international award in 2017 and kala shri  in 2020  by governor of Haryana for his work .
also a previous student was doing phd on his work is has done her phd and a new student started doing phd on him in 2020 .

In 2017 gopal has completed his work on the biggest RAM DARBAR which he was making from last five years .must search on youtube for his ramdarbar .

        

    i am showing all of you a picture of the biggest RAM DARBAR in the world it has 400 figure     which we have never seen in ram darbar .

PHAD MINIATURE PAINTING INOVATION 

gopal prasad sharma started reading Ramayana in 2017 after completed the RAM DARBAR and started woking on a series of 50 paintings on Ramayana in phd style as i already have told you he is a master craft person in miniature style he is a versatile artist who can work in any medium and any style or form of miniature painting , phad is a school / shaily of paintings in rajasthan in which the painting is made according to the  story written alongside , phd is a folk art of rajasthan and generally have a story of bhola and bhopi which is avatar of lord shiva and parvati , but gopal has done an extra ordinary work in phad style and has taken it to next extent though his brilliant mind and art love . as we all know every art should need some developments into it so that the things should not stop and people can see something new to it , so GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA thinks into it and read ramayana and then decided to make ramayana series in phd style and do miniature work into it , so that it will become more beautiful and people who are fond  of the old style will have something different to see in new phad miniature painting .

till date 2020 he have completed 2 phd style Ramayana paintings that i am showing you .

 

Phad painting which is made by GOPAL PRASAD SHARMA in very fine miniature work on hand made paper , with natural colours .






to be continued ..................