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Singampalli Sathyanarayana (2 June 1945) is an Indian Artist. He is the creator of the painting Dasavatharas The painting shows the ten births of Lord Vishnu, which stood as the reference for a number of paintings and sculptures from other artists thereon. The Idol Moola Virat in the temple that was recently built near Amaravati the capital city of Andhra Pradesh is made based on Sri Sathyanarayana’s creation Sri Venkata Viran Murthy(Dasavatharas). Chitravadhanam or Chitrakalavadhanam, A Cultural challenge with a brush that tests knowledge, memory and multitasking skills with spot painting. He is the first person to collaborate Art with the ancient literary practice Avadhanam.

Studies and Job life:
Sathyanarayana Garu is a BA graduate from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and completed his diploma in Applied Arts from Government College of Arts and Architecture, JNTU Hyderabad from 1960 to 1967. He worked as an artist cum Photographer at N.G.Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad from 1967 to 2003. Sathyanarayana Garu joined RSS(Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) in 1960 because of his elder brother but in the latter part, he got attracted by the principles and the activities carried out by the organization to serve the nation. Thereon he dedicatedly participated in all the activities. Since 1960 he took various responsibilities to serve the nation through Sangh.

Art Works:
He created so many paintings which are eminently popular throughout India. Those paintings are published as cover pages of some magazines and one of the painting is in the S V museum, Tirumala. One among his creations is Dasavatharam, the 10 Births of the lord Vishnu in one single painting. This Dasavatharas painting is the reason for a temple that was recently built near Amaravathi, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh. The Idol Moola Virat is made based on Sri Sathyanarayana’s creation Sri Venkata Viran Murthy. He created a Painting Twamevaham that was published as a cover page on Andhranadu 2012. He created a Painting Brahmamokkate Parabrahmamokkate from the meaning extracted from Annamacharya (Hindu saint) song and the painting was published as a cover page on Andhranadu 2014.

Bharata Mata, The Mother India is another painting in his creation. The painting in inner meaning symbolically shows mother India like mother goddess. It depicts various forms and shapes. Being a patriotic heart, he gave his best to serve the nation in his own way and to represent his country and culture.

Chitrakalavadanam :
Chitravadhanam or Chitrakalavadhanam, A Cultural challenge with a brush that tests knowledge, memory and multitasking skills with spot painting. He is the first person to collaborate Art with the ancient literary practice Avadhanam. Avadhanam is an ancient literary practice where there will be questionnaires from different domains with different skill sets asks questions on their platform and the Avadhani have to answer those questions. Based on the number of questionnaires the avadhanam practice will be named. If there are 8 questionnaires that will be called as Astavadhanam, if the number is 10 it will be called as Dasavadhanam. As such, Sathavadhanam will be carried out by one hundred questionnaires and Sahasravadhanam with a thousand members. Chitravadhanam or Chitrakalavadhanam technique is one which brought into practice by Sathyanarayana, collaborating art with this ancient literary practice. This is the youngest of all the sub-practices. Sathyanaryana Garu is the only artist performing this stage show in India till today. This performing art show starts with the number of questionnaires on a stage as well as the equivalent number of artboards with white charts pinned to them, keeping them in a semicircular manner allowing questionnaires to takes seats at each end of the semi-circle and providing a place in the middle. One person will be walking in between all these would be the host (Sandhana Kartha). These questionnaires would be experts in their diversified domains and the Avadhani answers the questions from all with his art being an expert in all the other platforms like.

Literature: Usually the expert explains some context from some novel in a poetic way and asks Avadhani to draw the meaning on board.

Action: He/ she acts like a character from some drama and asks Avadhani to draw their facial expressions.

Song: They might sing a song from Annamayya, Tyagaraj, Purandar Das or Meerabhai songs and asks to draw the meaning.

Music: They might take anyone music instrument playing it they ask to draw the context listening to the music.

Line: One artist draws a line on the paper and asks to build a picture that he wishes to see keeping the line as a base that he was drawn.

Sloka: From anyone Sanskrit novel expert takes a Sloka, reads it and asks to draw the meaning.

Dance: One will take a dance style from any style of dance like Bharathanatyam, Kathak, folk. He/she asks to draw the pose and complete context.

Mimicry: He/she creates a sound imitating anything among human, a leader, bird, animal, any incident (ex: cyclone) and asks to draw what it is.

Useless Talk: One person would be disturbing the Avadhani all the time during the program to grab his attention and concentration. He asks a question in a funny way and Avadhani should answer him with his brush.

Epic: One asks the Avadhani to draw some context from some epic or mythological story where the Avadhani should answer for the same with the brush. Sathyanarayana Garu performed Chitrakala Astavadhanam in Tirupati, Rajahmundry, Madras, Hyderabad, Gudivada totally five places which were a grand success. He performed Chitrakala Dasavadhanam at Surya Kalamandir, in Kakinada on 29th Oct 2016 which was organized by Navarasa Kala Samithi. Sathavadhanam is the one difficult performing art in these. Answering 100 questionnaires who can ask anything. Avadhani should answer them with his art. Sathyanarayana Garu took this challenge too. Where Mr. Bhanu, Lecturer from the Engineering Dept. S V University coordinated the event at S V Oriental College, there were 20 professors and 80 students participated as questionnaires and Sathyanarayana Garu answered them with 100 sketches and paintings. This program was led in the observation of the principle of the college and other senior lecturers. This was also another milestone which brought unique fame for Sathyanarayana Garu and the practice among all.

Live Art performances:
Sathyanarayana Garu joined art with other arts like Music, Dance, Poetry where he performs the stage show along with the other expert. In this Practice whilst the other expert performs his art. Sathyanarayana Garu finishes his art according to the meaning of the Steps or Ragas or Poems. Sai Krishna Yachendra is a great musician in the Andhra region (he is from Venkatagiri Dynasty). He is an expert in a technique called “Geyadhara” it’s also called Sangeetha Avadhanam.

He can sing a song as requested by the questionnaires in the Raga they liked even though they put restrictions and changes the raga in the middle. He can finish the song comfortably and get appreciations from all. Sai Krishna Garu invited Sathyanarayana Garu to share his stage and draw pictures for the same questions whilst Sai Krishna Garu answering with his song whereas Sathyanarayana Garu with his brush, colors, and paper. Together they shared a common stage in many places like Tirupati, Kodur, Gudu, Srikalahasthi, Rajahmundry, Hyderabad, Madanapalli, etc and made the events successful together and got appreciation from many. Sathyanarayana Garu answered the questions with his brush exactly suitable for literature and music. With that inspiration, he took another step ahead to coordinate with the experts in Dance, Music, Dramas in sharing the same stage to show what he got expertise. These practices were named Raga-Chitra, Natya-Chitra, and Kavya-Chitra.

Raga-Chitra (Tune- Art): In Panchavayidhya Sammelanam(Music associated with five different musical instruments) program that involves the instruments like Violin, Flute, Mandaleen, Mridangam, Ghatam organized by TTD music college he gave a performance according to the musical beats and variations in notes. The show longed for 1 hour 30 minutes program, he made 10 paintings according to the Raga and meaning of that tune. For the song Navaraga Malika that goes like praising Lord Balaji, he painted a picture of a person praising the Lord in front of him. This song has 9 ragas and it lasts for 3 minutes. Likewise, he made Shiva Thandavam, Srikrishna Leela incidents in that show. Nruthya-Chitra(Making paintings/ Art according to the steps of the dance): Sathyanarayana Garu made paintings for the performances from Bharatha Natyam, Kuchipudi, Mohiniattam, Odissi, Manipuri and etc. according to their styles looking them from the same stage itself. Few Nruthya Chitra programs he performed. In Kuchipudi, Pasumarthi Kesava Prasad hosted all India dance festival. For Kathak, Mohini Attam performances he made live paintings from the same stage in Rajahmandi Anam Kala Kendram. He made paintings for Dasavatharam performance by Kalyani Madhavi in Hyderabad - Shilparamam. The event happened in urban hearts, Tirupati which was coordinated by Bangalore Dance College he made paintings according to the steps of at the troop and got appreciations from all the audience.

Kavya- Chitra(Poetry-Art): All India cultural celebrations- Tirupati, Sanskrit Vidyapeeth. While Prof. Ravi Sadasiva Moorthy, reading poems from Abhignana Sakunthalam, Megha Sandesam, Raghu Vamsam, and others Sathyanarayana Garu made paintings to the context hearing to the poems in the way they can be extracted. Prahladhacharya, the Vice-chancellor Sanskrit Vidhyapeeth honored him for his excellence. In an event that to memorize Gantasala (Musician) conducted by Prasad in Venkatagiri, Sathyanarayana Garu has made 10 paintings according to the poems read by the student Giridhar from Vidhyapeth from Kalidasa drama Ṛtusaṃhāra. S.L. Narasimha Rao from postal department hosted the event and the organization honored him with an award “CHITRAKALADHUREENA”. In an event happened while inaugurating the Sanskrit Saptaha, Sathyanarayana Garu gave a live performance while retired Prof. Sir Ramasurya Narayana read the poems. This event was witnessed by thousands of students and lecturers in the city. During this event, V C Muralidhar Sharma honored him.

Other Accomplishments:
He made 50 paintings for 24 hours on Patriotism during a non-stop 24-hour show held in Thyagaraja Mandapam, Tirupati, in 2005 to Inject national spirit in every Indian. Terrorism is international social evil and in responding to the bomb blasts happened on 26th Nov 2008 at hotel Taj, Mumbai, and other places. He tried to create awareness in people with his paintings and chart boards with the relevant paper cuttings which can describe the way terrorists get the children into terrorism, their training methods.

In 2006, through Ravi Varma ChitraKalanikethan’s organization, he hosted another event-related to the freedom movement. He made Paintings on Freedom movement incidents to create awareness and rooting patriotism in everyone’s heart.

Sathyanarayana drew 100 paintings for Sanskrit slokas which tells the meaning of the sloka. These were sent to New Delhi and from there to other countries for exhibitions which got many credits and appreciations from the spectators.

He made 65 oil paintings, 10 poster color paintings those includes Bhaskaracharya, Vagbata, Patanjali, Kautilya, Nagarjuna, Kanadha and other legends paintings along with 3 feet Ashoka monument painting as per the request from Prof. Muralidhar Sharma, from Sanskrit Vidhyapeet- Tirupati. These paintings were exhibited in many places of our country and Russia. The first exhibition of these paintings was inaugurated by Murali Manohar Joshi, Human resources Minister during the period. And these paintings got an account of appreciations from the leaders like Abdul Kalam, Sushma Swaraj, and others.

The statue of Sri Krishna Deva Rayulu consecrated in Tirupati was made based on the reference painting that he made.

In Telugu Literary Celebrations he made around 200 paintings of eminent poets, artists, scientists, Journalists, and Actors. These paintings were enlarged and showcased in Tirupati roads during these celebrations.

He is training thousands of children through art classes, Demonstrations, exhibitions and workshops from 35 years. Through RaviVarma ChitraKalanikethan he is conducting FREE ART classes to the children every Sunday in his home from the day he got retired from his job.

Milestones:
1.	In 2010 an event conducted by Ghantasala association Venkatagiri and Sathynarayana Garu was awarded as Chitrakaladhureena for his peculiar and astonishing performance. He made 10 paintings according to the slokas from Ṛtusaṃhāra, a famous drama written by Kalidasa.

2.	 He was awarded as Chitrakalanidhi by VC of Sanskrit Vidyapet Muralidhar Sharma and other questioners in an Avadhanam event hosted by Nandanam Academy in Sri Padmavati Mahila University-Tirupati.

3.	World Telugu Mahasabha, Tirupati. He was honored by the great actor Padma Bhushan Akkineni Nageswar Rao, Padma Sri K. Viswanath prominent film Director and E.O of TTD in 2005, 2006, 2007 respectively for making paintings of legendary personalities.

4.	Congress Leader Raghuveera Reddy honored him during the World Telugu Mahasabalu in 2012 for his continual support in the cultural events. His paintings stood reference for other artists while making the paintings on Tirupati walls.

5.	Sathyanarayana Garu was honored by the chief minister Y.S. Rajaseshar Reddy for his painting of Sri Krishna Deva Rayulu which stood a reference while making a statue that consecrated in Tirupati Leela Mahal Junction.

6.	Sri Prahladhacharya Garu, Vice-chancellor of Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati honored him for his performance during the Kalidas poem reading event in 2002.

7.	Sanskrit Vidhyapeet, All India cultural celebrations, Tirupati. While Prof. Ravi SadasivaMoorthy, reading poems from Shakuntala(Abhignanasakunthalam), Meghadūta(Meghasandesam), Raghuvaṃśa, and others Sathyanarayana Garu made paintings to the context hearing to the poems in the way they can be extracted. and received the honor from Vice-chancellor.

8.	In the events happened while inaugurating the SANSKRIT SAPTAHA, he gave a live performance while retired Prof. Sir Ramasurya Narayana read the poems. During this event, he was honored by V C, Muralidhar Sharma.

9.	He is one among the 5 personals selected by B. S. Yeddyurappa CM of Karnataka for renovating Hampi fort.

10.	He received honor from Surya Prakash the Chairman of Prasar Bharati for the Painting Annamacharya in 2017.

11.	He is one of the members of the Sanskrit science exhibition committee.

12.	He was honored by south India Telugu association for his Avadhanam practice in Chennai.

13.	World Telugu federation recognized his skill and contribution towards his art stream and honored him in Chennai.

14.	For his peculiar performance in Avadhanam, he got an honor from TTD E.O Ramanachari in Potti Sriramulu Telugu University.

15.	Sathyanarayana Garu was honored by Navarasa Kala Samiti, Kakinada for Chitrakalvadanam in 2015.

16.	Mr. Appa Rao, Director of Akkineni Nageswara Rao College, Gudivada gave him an honor for his skill in avadhanam during his college annual events.

17.	He was selected for TEASORS – The international fine art & antiques fair for Asia 25-30 April 1996. But unfortunately, he couldn’t attend the Fair.

18.	He was one of the delegates in the Indo- Nepal Sanskrit conference held from 14-12-2000 to 16-12-2000.

19.	UNIFEST-1999, He acted as a judge for the fine arts events in the south zone inter-university youth festival held in December 1999.

20.	He acted as a judge for the fine arts events in the south zone youth festival organized by Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswavidhyalayam-2007.

21.	He guided thousands of students in fine arts through the events, he named for his unbiased judgments in many competitions held by ENADU, Inter-University art competitions, etc.