This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). S H Raza bindu art. About S H Raza Syed Hyder Raza was born in 1922 in Barbaria, Madhya Pradesh, Raza studied at Nagpur and later at the sir J. J. In 1970, Raza began to paint purely geometric forms, particularly the circle and the dot, which he likened to the idea of the bindu. He was born in Barbaria, Central Provinces, British India which is now present day Madhya Pradesh. Raza, Artist Who Showed the Universe in a Single Bindu. Undoubtedly the most celebrated of the Indian Modernists, Raza's work was one long meditation on being and nothingness. A young boy from the tiny city of Babaria, Madhya Pradesh, created his thanks to city within the Nineteen Forties to pursue a certificate at JJ faculty of Art. Many of his paintings have a dark circular focal point termed the Bindu which. He was a founding member of the Progressive Artists Group in 1948 with M. F. Husain, K. H. Ara, F. N. Souza. Sayed Haider "S. H." Raza (22 February 1922 – 23 July 2016) was an Indian painter who lived and worked in France since 1950, while maintaining strong ties with India. Though his style changed drastically over the course of his career, Raza’s works were all united in their emphasis on color, and their references to memory and mood. "Raza`s paintings explore, through the definition of a few chosen signs of the circle, the square and the triangle, a sense of the infinite"(Geeti Sen, Bindu: Space and Time in Raza`s Vision, Media Transasia Ltd, New Delhi, 1997, p. 110). S.H. according to him is the fountainhead of both energy and creativity The strong colours and geometric shapes in Raza's paintings have sometimes been mistaken for neo-Tantrik art but according to the artist there is … The paintings of S.H. In his spare time, he would work on a block-maker's studio wherever the window became a entranceway to the sights and sounds of town. Raza revolve mainly around nature and its various facets. Sayed Haider "S. H." Raza (22 February 1922 – 23 July 2016) was an Indian painter who lived and worked in France since 2005 of March , while maintaining strong ties with India. Gestural strokes of paint gave way to the use of geometric patterns inspired by spiritual motifs. Over the years, his paintings evolved from being purely expressionist landscapes to abstract ones. School of Art in Mumbai. He believes the Bindu (dot) to be the center of creation and existence and his works reflect this particular thinking.