About Jyoti Swaroop

Born in 1939, a multi-talented individual Jyoti Swaroop is a prominent name of India’s contemporary art scene whose untiring efforts resulted into an admirable introduction to abstract art in Rajasthan. Apart from being one of the pioneers in the field of abstraction, Jyoti Swaroop was a brilliant screenwriter, writer, and movie director. One of the movie directed by him “Padosan” ranks amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films. When Rajasthani art seemed to be oscillating between folk and miniature, Swaroop liberated it by contouring Rajasthani sensibilities with his own abstractions.

The abstract of Jyoti Swaroop looks like a painting of brightly polished and polychrome metal foil with many indentations, the planes curving at many angles and thus catching the light and glinting all over the warped surface. In his entire life, he never used his art for exhibition and propaganda, always kept himself busy in introspection and fought for the highest parameters of the art. His art exhibitions in India and abroad had always informed the art lovers about the latest tread happening in the modern art of Rajasthan. He had got mastery in making golden mural. Murals made by him are established in Jaipur, Ajmer and many cities of Rajasthan. He belongs to genre of few finest artists of the states, who not only made a place in the hearts of the art lovers but also won many prizes. He was awarded national prize in 1984 and was also awardees of the State highest award 'Kalavid'. Swaroop passed away in 2009.