Datta Bansode - Artist Info

About Datta Bansode

  • Biography

    "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.


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