Vetaran Artist Thota Vaikuntam to get Alvas Varna Virasath Award

Vetaran Artist Thota Vaikuntam to get
Alvas Varna Virasath Award

Moodubidare: Tota Vaikuntam, welknown artist has been named for the 'Alvas Varna Virasath' Award of 2015. The award will be conferred on  11th January 2015 in Alvas Virasat Conference.

Alvas Education Trust President Mohan said that the Award will consist of Rs. 25000 along with citation.

Born in 1942, in Boorugupally, Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Vakuntam, the most prominent figurative painter took a diploma in painting and a degree in fine arts at the College of Fine Arts, Hyderabad in 1970.

He also won a fellowship from the MS University of Baroda. There he worked under the great artist K.G.Subramanian. Mr. Hemendra Bhatt, Mr. Rohit Zaveri, Mr.P.D. Dhumal and Mrs. Rini Dhumal were very close to him.

He has won several awards (Bharat Bhavan Biennale Award, Bhopal,National Award, Govt. of India ),  his paintings are a part of several renowned collections and his works have been exhibited widely.
‘Telangana woman’ became his identity.

He says “I love to paint women with dark complexion, turmeric on the fore head, gigantic bindis and body with bright and colourful clothes.”