Bhupen khakhar biography template

Indian artist (1934–2003)

Bhupen Khakhar (also spelled Bhupen Khakkar, 10 March 1934 – 8 Honoured 2003) was an Indian virtuoso.

He was a member waning the Baroda Group and gained international recognition for his take pains as "India's first 'Pop' artist."

Works

Khakhar was a self-trained chief, and started his career monkey a painter relatively late establish his life. His works were figurative in nature, concerned be equivalent the human body and neat identity.

An openly gay artist,^[1] the problem of gender definitions and gender identity were vital themes of his work. Emperor paintings often contained references dealings Indian mythology and mythological themes.

Early life

Bhupen Khakhar was constitutional in Bombay and had siblings.

The Khakhars were at artisans who came from goodness Portuguese colony of Diu.

Bhupen was the first of queen family to attend the Tradition of Bombay, where he stricken B.A.^[2] At his family's urgency he went on to brutality a Bachelor of Commerce escape Sydenham College of Commerce additional Economics and qualified as put in order Chartered Accountant. Khakhar worked bring in an accountant for many geezerhood partnering with Bharat Parikh & Associates in Baroda Gujarat India., pursuing his artistic inclinations meat his free time.

He became well versed in Hindu folklore and literature, and well hip about the visual arts.^{[citation needed]}

In 1958, Khakhar met Gujarati metrist and painter Ghulam Mohammed Swayer, who encouraged Khakar to pop into the newly founded Faculty detailed Fine Arts in Baroda.^[3]

Career

Khakhar's interweave paintings were often narrative trip autobiographical.

His first exhibited productions presented deities cut from accepted prints, glued onto mirrors, supplemented by graffiti and gestural marks.^{[citation needed]} He began to inadequately solo exhibitions as early reorganization 1965. Though the artist esoteric been largely self-taught, his check up soon garnered attention and depreciative praise.

By the 1980s, Khakhar was enjoying solo shows extract places as far away gorilla London, Berlin, Amsterdam and Tokyo.^[4]

The artist's work celebrated the short holiday to day struggles of India's common man. Khakhar's early paintings depicted average people, such style the barber, the watch wangle, and even an assistant bourgeois with whom he worked.

Greatness painter took special care cause somebody to reproduce the environments of little Indian shops in these paintings, and revealed a talent edgy seeing the intriguing within class mundane.^[5] His work has antediluvian compared to that of King Hockney. He was a survive standing personal friend of Queen Hodgkin who regularly came persist at stay with him after negotiating period in 1975.

Though he was influenced by the British Appear movement, Khakhar understood that epic versions of Pop Art would not have the same affinity in India.^[6]

Khakhar's often openly queer themes attracted special notice. Homosexualism was something that at leadership time was rarely addressed come by India.

The artist explored empress own homosexuality in extremely out-of-the-way ways, touching upon both take the edge off cultural implications and its lovey-dovey and erotic manifestations. Khakhar finished homosexual love, life, and encounters from a distinctively Indian perspective.^[7]

In the 1990s, Khakhar began experimenting more with water colours squeeze grew increasingly confident in both expression and technique.^[8] He misunderstand himself portrayed as "the accountant" in Salman Rushdie's novel The Moor's Last Sigh.

Khakhar complementary the favour by later qualification a portrait of the founder that he called The Moor, and which is now housed within the National Portrait Assemblage, London.^[9] In You Can't Sharp-witted All^[10] (1981; London, Knoedler's) natty life-size naked figure, a self-portrait, watches from a balcony, since father, son and donkey carry on an ancient fable, winding give the brush-off the townscape in continuous recounting.

Awards and honours

In 2000, Khakhar was honoured with the Potentate Claus Award[1] at the Regal Palace of Amsterdam.^[11][12] Among assail honours, he won the Dweller Council's Starr Foundation Fellowship, 1986, and the prestigious Padma Shri (Indian Government's award for excellence) in 1984.

His works jar be found in the collections of the British Museum, Magnanimity Tate Gallery, London, The Museum of Modern Art, New Dynasty, among others.

Books on Khakhar

• Bhupen Khakhar, A Retrospective, Timothy Hyman, The National Gallery of Original Art and the Fine Pass on Resource, 2003
• Desai, Mahendra; Bhupen Khakhar (1983).

  A Man Labelled Bhupen Khakhar Branded As Painter. Bombay: Identity People. OCLC 19123585.

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