Education:

1926-28 Pupil of Ravishankar Raval at Kumar Karayala,

1929-31 Madras School of Art, pupil of D. P.Roy Chaudhury

1932-33 JoinedSir J.J.School of art, studied Mural Decoration under Jagannath Ahiwasi

Teaching Period:

1935 Joined Ravishankar Raval as fellow teacher in the Fine Arts at Gujarat Kala Sangh, Chitrashala, Ahmedabad

1960-1964 Principal at C. N. Vidyalaya, Ahmedabad.

History:

At the age of 16, Rasiklal Parikh enrolled as a student with Ravishankar Raval. Later, he traveled to Madras to study with D. P. Roy Chawdhury, a sculptor and painter who had studied in the Bengal School style. Rasikbhai completed his study as a student of Indian art under Jagannath Ahivasi at Bombay's J. J. School of Art in the early 1930s. In 1934, he met the artist V. P. Karmarkar and Somalal Shah while on summer vacation in Gondal. Rasikbhai joined the crew for the Pandal Decoration at the Haripura Congress in 1937. He avoided using historical themes and figures, unlike Ravishankar Raval. His enduring subjects come from rural life and have a romantic mood. The necessary elements of the setting and attire are all well defined. In his later works, he adopted the cubist technique because of its geometrically broken down deconstructions of spatial relativity, resulting in shapes of a more subdued color palette. His cubist works of art questioned conventional ideas of perspective and shape. The emphasis of synthetic cubism was on textural exploration, perspective flattening, and more vibrant colors. Although the invention of Cubism peaked between 1908 and 1914, the style had a significant influence on modern art. Rasikal Parikh, like his other contemporaries, received the proper academic training that served as the foundation for his compositional drawings. In contrast to Bengal School painters who used a thin, translucent wash method to apply color, his work was filled in with impenetrable tones. However his method of finishing with lines, details, and highlights was similar to Bengal school style.

He was awarded the Gaurav Puraskar by the Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi in 1970. He received the Gold Medal from the Bombay Art Society in 1936.

He passed away in 1982.