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"A painting is never finished. I work to reach a point where I can let it go."
The intensity of Datta Bansode's politically aware paintings may be traced to his first encounters with art as a boy in Latur. Bansode's first teacher was the artist and Buddhist monk Jagtap Sur. Using hardboard and enamel paints, Sur painted portraits of Buddha, Gandhi, Nehru, and Shivaji in a vivid, realistic style. "He was my first guru," says...
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"A painting is never finished. I work to reach a point where I can let it go."
The intensity of Datta Bansode's politically aware paintings may be traced to his first encounters with art as a boy in Latur. Bansode's first teacher was the artist and Buddhist monk Jagtap Sur. Using hardboard and enamel paints, Sur painted portraits of Buddha, Gandhi, Nehru, and Shivaji in a vivid, realistic style. "He was my first guru," says Bansode, "a good teacher of drawing and painting."
Bansode went on to study art in Pune and Mumbai, taking inspiration from his conversations with senior artists Prabhakar Barve and Tuka Jadhab. At the J.J. School of Art, he became exposed to the contemporary styles and began experimenting with new techniques of applying paint to canvas. He describes his works of this early period as brightly-coloured compositions depicting daily scenes, including ad hoc still-lifes of his bedroom and portraits of his friends.
A turning point came in 1992, when Bansode returned to Latur in the aftermath of a major earthquake. Walking through the ravaged streets, he glimpsed many women in mourning for their lost families. The starkness of their figures touched him, and inspired a change in his style. "I painted the widows over and over, and gradually their figures became simplified." Abandoning bright colors, Bansode began to work with a palette of chalk-white, beige and charcoal, creating somber, uncluttered compositions of grieving widows.
His work shifted in focus after the 1998 nuclear bomb tests in India. Bansode was struck by the irony of the code phrase - "Buddha's Smile" - used by the government to refer to the tests. "After all," he says, "Buddha's philosophy is one of peace, and anti-crime." In response, he began his Lord Buddha series. Bansode explains that "I wanted to show that Buddha's birth happened here, but we have forgotten his philosophy." Retaining a neutral palette, the series draws on the paintings of Ellora and Ajanta to depict the major events of Buddha's life. The details of Buddha's figure are inspired by the Mathuran and Gandhari sculptures of the Buddha.
As influences, Bansode names the work of Tyeb Mehta and Sunil Das, stressing the importance of the Indian tradition in his own approach to art.
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Born
1969
Died
2017
Education
1994 Diploma in Art Education (Dip A. Ed.), Sir J.J School of Art. Mumbai
1991 GD. Art(Painting), College of Art, Pune
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 Gallery Studio, Mumbai
2000 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1997 Nehru Centre, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Masters Ltd: Limited Editions', Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2009 'Sacred and Secular', India Fine Art, Mumbai
2008 '10 Strokes', Sahil Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Art Fusion Show: 101 Artists’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2007 ‘Concern India’, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 ‘Colors of Life’, Cancer Patients and Association, Nagpur
2005 National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2001 Hotel Jewel of India, Mumbai
1999 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Hotel Jewel of India, Mumbai
1998 British Airways, International Airport, Mumbai
1998 Organized by Galleria, Mumbai at London
1994 Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1993 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
2002 Raza and Datta, Gallery Studio J, Mumbai
Participations
2007 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2005 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2004 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2002 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2002 Kala Mela, Mumbai
2001 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2000 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
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Lot 219
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Auction 2002 (May)
13-16 May 2002
Untitled
Mixed media on paper
31 x 23 in
Winning bid
$500
Rs 24,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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