Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Chapters: Amarashilpi Jakanachari, Anish Kapoor, Ashok Gudigar, Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal, B. C. Sanyal, C. Sivarama Murti, Chintamoni Kar, Gollapalli Jayanna, Gundan Anivaritachari, Krishna Reddy (artist), Kumaradeva, Latika Katt, M. S. Nagappa, Mallikarjuna Reddy, Mani Nagappa, Nek Chand Saini, Raghunath Mohapatra, Rajiv Anchal, Ramesh Pateria, Ram Kinker Baij, Riyaz Komu, Rooma Mehra, Ruvari Malithamma, Sankho Chaudhuri, Satish Gujral, Sudarshan Pattnaik, Usha Rani Hooja, Usman Siddiqui. Excerpt: Anish Kapoor, CBE, RA, Padma Bhushan (born 12 March 1954) is an Indian-born British sculptor. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991 he received the Turner Prize and in 2002 received the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago, Sky Mirror exhibited at the Rockefeller Center, New York in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in 2010, Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough, Leviathan at the Grand Palais in 2011 and ArcelorMittal Orbit commissioned as a permanent artwork for the Olympic Park and completed in 2012. Anish Kapoor was elected a Royal Academician in 1999 and in 2003 he was made a Commander of the British Empire. In 2011 he was made a Commander in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was awarded the Japanese Praemium Imperiale. Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay, India to a Jewish mother whose family immigrated from Baghdad when she was a few months old. "She had an Indian-Jewish upbringing. Her father, his grandfather, was the cantor in the synagogue in Pune. At the time, the Jewish community in Mumbai was quite large, mostly consisting of Baghdadi Jews." His father, from a Hindu Punjabi family, was a hydrographer in the Indian Navy. Kapoor spent his early years first in Mumbai, and then in Dehra Dun at the The Doon School, which he hated attending. In 1971-1973, he traveled to Israel with one of his two brothers, initially living on a kibbutz. He began to study electrical engineering, but had trouble with mathematics and quit after six months. In Israel, he decided to become an artist. In 1973, he left for Britain to attend Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and Design. There he found a role model in