Pugazhendhi
Pugazhendhi (born 1967) is a Tamil Nadu artist. He is known for his paintings on the Tamil Eelam struggle.
Summary of life
Painter Pukhalendi was born in 1967 in Thumpathikottai, Thanjavur district to Kundavel and Nagaratnam. He completed his primary education at Thumpathikottai Primary School and completed his secondary education at Ula Uzhuvoor. Pukahendi became fully involved in painting at the age of 16. Kuttan Gavin holds a bachelor’s degree in color painting from the College of Art. He then obtained his Master’s degree in Color Painting from the Central University of Hyderabad. He is currently working as a Professor of Painting at Gavin College, Chennai. He married Shanthi in 1995 and now they have two sons, Chithran and Likkiyan.
Portraits
His paintings of social concern were praised by many at an exhibition of paintings held at the Tanjore Medical College in 1983. Establishing himself as an artist for the people, he became actively involved in bringing his paintings to the masses. He first held an exhibition of paintings in the open space at various places in the Thanjavur circuit. He has published a book entitled Words on Colors, which summarizes the public response to Pukahendi’s paintings.
Following the exhibition of his paintings “இருபதாம் நூற்றாண்டு- ஒரு தூரிகையின் உறங்கா நிறங்கள்” held at the Lalithakala Academy, Chennai in 2000, the painting exhibition was widely held in many important places in Tamil Nadu. He drew attention to a 150-foot-long sketch entitled சிதைந்த கூடு, themed around the plight of clusters of people trapped in the Gujarat earthquake that rocked India in 2001. For this he was given the award for the best painter of the Dharmapuri Human Resource Development Center.
Father Periyar’s painting exhibition titled ‘Orientation’ was held in 25 major cities of Tamil Nadu. In the year 2000, he conducted a painting exhibition for the people of Malaysia and Singapore under the title ‘Sleepless Colors’. In the same year he exhibited both paintings of orientation and sleepless colors in the same exhibition in the cities of Chicago, Washington, Canada, and Paris.
The painting exhibition titled ‘Smoke Haze’ was screened in more than thirty places in Tamil Nadu and South India following Chennai in 2003.
A painting exhibition titled ‘Uyirpu’ was held in 2006 in Chennai and Madurai.
An exhibition of 50 paintings on the Eelam War in 2009 was held in Chennai.
In 2010, war paintings with 80 paintings on the Eelam War were displayed in Chennai, Thanjavur, Trichy, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Alliance Francaise of Madras in Tamil Nadu and in several cities in Norway, Switzerland and Canada.
Che Guevara 2015: A painting exhibition titled ‘The Color of the Revolution’ was held in Chennai.
Faces of War 2017: The Eelam War Paintings Exhibition was held in Oxford, UK and central London with over 100 paintings.
Eelam War Paintings
He has been painting Eelam War paintings since 1983. He exhibited the misery of the Eelam War on various topics such as the colors of the storm, the colors of sleep, the frozen colors of life, the faces of war and exhibited not only in Tamil Nadu but all over the world. He toured the bloody war-torn land of Eelam in 2005 and exhibited his paintings at 15 locations on the colors of the storm.
Source: Wikipedia
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