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"Throughout the 1950s and early '60s, Padamsee travelled between the cosmopolitan centres of Paris and Bombay...Absorbing diverse visual terrains across India and Europe, and, beginning in 1963, of North America too, Padamsee began to explore landscape painting as a genre in the late 1950s. In spite of (or perhaps because of) spending the 1960s transiting among urban hubs in three continents, imaginative natural landscapes became one of... "Throughout the 1950s and early '60s, Padamsee travelled between the cosmopolitan centres of Paris and Bombay...Absorbing diverse visual terrains across India and Europe, and, beginning in 1963, of North America too, Padamsee began to explore landscape painting as a genre in the late 1950s. In spite of (or perhaps because of) spending the 1960s transiting among urban hubs in three continents, imaginative natural landscapes became one of Padamsee's central artistic projects during that decade...Never subsumed by wispy trees, romantic sunsets, or the limitations of conventional geography, Padamsee's landscapes often transcended the representation of specific sites and physically accurate settings. Rather than an intent to describe the natural world per se, the artist's object was the total conceptual and metaphysical ken of his visual environment, with his paintings impressing an immediate perceptual experience that relied on expression and sensation rather than realist recognition."(Beth Citron, "Akbar Padamsee's Artistic "Landscape" of the '60s", Akbar Padamsee: Work in Language, Marg Publications and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2010, pg. 195)

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