Maniam Selven
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Maniam Selven (1950 - ) popularly known as Ma Se is the son of a well known artist Sri.‘Kalki’ Maniam and Smt. Saraswathy. Though christened Loganathan by his parents, he prefers to be known as his father’s son and thus Maniam Selven – son of Maniam – which has become a name to reckon within the field of illustration among Tamil audience. He expresses through his creations a gamut of ideas drawn from the epics, history, religion, children’s stories, social themes and also essays on varied subjects. Went to P.S. High School, Mylapore and later graduated with Commercial Arts diploma with Gold medial in 1973 from Government College of Arts & Crafts, Chennai.
Biography[edit]
Started his career in the field of advertising and continued to become a freelance illustrator for Tamil magazines. It was his illustrations for “Arumbu Ambugal” a story by Kalki, which was serialized posthumously, that marked as MaSe’s beginning as a full fledged illustrator. He began to get lot of opportunities from many popular Tamil magazines like Kalki, Ananda Vikatan , Kumudam, Dinamani Kadir, Amudasurabhi , Kalaimagal, Kungumam, Aval Vikatan, Sakthi vikatan , Ramakrishna vijayam etc.
MaSe is not satisfied by just drawing a couple of major characters in the story. He takes it as a challenge and presents it with new perspective to carry the illustration beyond its limitations and make it into serious art. When depicting a children’s story the characters take a different ‘avatar’ appealing to the young minds; if it is a romance then the men and women in the story would attract the adult readers with their beauty and charm. A divine grace elevates the characters when he illustrates religious themes. His illustrations for a serialized story taking place in a southern village bring to life the rugged people and their hard working, struggle filled life; he has used earth tones in the pastel medium to give them a proper texture and aura, that one can almost smell the dust and feel the heat. He is equally at home in watercolour, acrylics, ink, Oil and pastels and he chooses each medium to suit the subject on hand.
MaSe also takes up commercial work and is a sought after artist for calendars by corporates. He has also done costume designs, movie titles. He is the recipient of NCERT Award, Sri Ganapathy Sthapathy’s “Oviya maamani” Award, Kamban kazhagam honour-2006, the Gnana Bharathi (Savi) Award -2002, Paramacharya Award, Rotary club , Thiruppur- For the sake of honour Award -2012, Bharathi Ilakkiya chelvar award – 2014 and “Potraamarai award from la. Ganesan -2015.
Bibliography[edit]
- Official websiteWww.maniamselven.com
References[edit]
- His Quest Continues, Geetha Venkatraman [1]
- Vist the Regional Rail Museum Chennai [2]
- Classic echos [3]
External links[edit]
- Himalayan Academy [4]
- Talk by Maniam Selvan on Tamil illustrators, including Maniam
- Kalki Online interview with Maniam Selven about his father Maniam
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