EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Sukhvir Sanghal was born in Muzaffarnagar , Uttar Pradesh in India on 14 July 1913.He did his graduation from the then Govt.School of Arts, Lucknow  after High School. He did his specialization in modern Indian Art under Late Prof. Asit Kumar Haldar .He also learned Indian Classical music(vocal) under Late Pandit  Bholanath  Bhattji of Allahabad  for  five years.

TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION

1.Indianized Chinese and Japanese Wash Technique of painting on the basis of Indian Rasa-siddhanta.

2.Evolved pure Indian means of expression of original bhavas (feelings and ideas) through paintings in series form like mahakayvas in Indian literature , like 'Marriage' series consisting of twelve paintings , 'Man' series consisting of six paintings, 'River of life' series consisting of six paintings, Arjuna series consisting of eight paintings, Gandhi series consisting of ten paintings, Usha-Nisha series consisting of six paintings, Ashrama (stage) in life' series consisting of six paintings and the 'Ramayan' series.

3.Evolved the original technique for tapestry work in India for the first time for figure composition , landscape and portrait with full tonal values.

4.Creative and dynamic method of teaching imaginative , idealistic and subjective Indian style of painting as explained in his book "Bhartiya Chitrakala Paddhati"

5.Evolved improved and durable process of 'lacsit painting' on wood with water or tempera color medium.

6.Evolved a novel technique of Indian painting based on Ajanta , Rajasthan , mughal style incorporating therein some creative and congenial eastern, chinese,japanese and western technical principles also thus symbolizing spirit of integration and unity of Indians in particular and making in general , as well as enhancing its aesthetical values.

LITERARY CONTRIBUTION

1.Author of 'Bharitiya Chitrakala Paddhati' in Hindi dealing with aesthetical , historical and especially technical aspects of Indian Art , published in 1985.

2.Author of 'Evolution of Art and Artist' in English in three huge volumes for revealing , solving or dealing various historical turning-points coupled with philosophical tantras, deep intricate aesthetical ends or mantras and technical means or yantras in detail , covering about 3000 pages(in manuscript).These works present for the first time in the history of art and aesthetics some original and easy proofs , meanings , significance , values , causes and effects regarding:-

• Existence of God and soul through Venetian color theory.
• Origin of emotional flavour(rasa) in human art apart from Bharata Muni's vyuptatti of rasa.
• Origin of art in human life.
• New principles of form-composition(rupa-sanyojana) and color-composition(varna-sanyojana) based on the properties of 'dharmas' of elements of Nature and soul for dynamic progress of art.
• Significance of colors in respect of different rasas. 
• Absence of light and shade , abstraction of colors and use of lines in Eastern schools of painting along with stress of light and shade , concretion of colors , for texture in Western ones.
• Prominance of yellow and red colors in Rajasthan paintings.
• Rise and fall of different styles or schools of painting.
• Philosophically and aesthetically sound six limbs or principles of painting propounded by me , instead of commentator of Vatsyayana's 'Kama-Sutra', Shridhar Pandit's 'shadanga' (six limbs of Indian painting) and also Hsieh He's six principles of Chinese painting. 
• Dynamic values of iconographic roots of mudra's revealed , though so far left unheeded and unexplained.

Like attributes- sat, chit, ananda of 'sachchidananda parmatman' or God ; three sattva ,rajas, tamas gunas of 'Anatman' or Nature; similarly three values : satya, shivam, sundram of 'Jivatman or soul and art also as a means of expression of 'bhavas' vibrated by it, explained aesthetically.