1923–28 M.R Acharekar Explored new areas of expression like photography and lithography. Started a lithopress, Bombay. Noted for his brilliant career with an early success at various exhibitions at home and abroad. Established himself easily as one of the most promising painters of his time. Executed important commissions like painting the historical event of the inauguration of theRound Table Conference by his late MajestyKing George V of the United Kingdom, in 1932, the Silver Jubilee Celebrations ofKing George V in 1935, in London where he was sent with special credentials by the then Viceroy of India,Lord Willingdon.[2][3]
He executed portraits of dignitaries and eminent men and women in India. His book,Rupadarsini, An Indian Approach to Human Form addressed the controversial issue offigure drawing.[3]
Acharekar remained in the forefront of portrait paintings, especially of the commemorative genre, for more than forty years. He was also an educationist and a successful art director who raised art direction to a new height in the field of cinema. His interest and superb ability in live portraiture is apparent in the ease and rapidity of his renditions of human figures, retaining their character and likeness. It was the perfect academic discipline gained in his early life, the sheet anchor of his artistic credo, which facilitated these easy renderings. He remained alive to change and rejuvenate, evolving gradually without sudden revolutionary mutations. He remained very much his own master with no direct and obvious influences of any "isms".
1952 He travelled to the United States, as a member of the Indian Film Delegation, at the invitation ofMotion Picture Association of America and State Dept, USA.
1954 Published Sky Scrapers and Flying Gandharvas.
1932, Exhibited painting titled Round Table Conference,Imperial Institute, London.
1937 Solo exhb. Inaugurated by Maharaja of Mandi, New Delhi.
1954, 56, 58, 79 Solo exhibitions., Bombay.
1973, exhibitions of 51 Paintings depicting the first hundred years of the freedom movement (1757–1856), inaugurated byIndira Gandhi,Birla Bhavan, New Delhi.
2004, Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery,Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
