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1940 Kolkata, India - 2006 Kolkata, India. Known for: Paintings.
Painter Bikash Bhattacharjee is one of India's most widely acclaimed painters. He was a realist in technique who used the traditions of Titian and Velasquez in unexpected, often highly symbolic,... Read full biography
Painter Bikash Bhattacharjee is one of India's most widely acclaimed painters. He was a realist in technique who used the traditions of Titian and Velasquez in unexpected, often highly symbolic, unsettling and surrealistic ways. As the critic Manasij Majumder writes, Bhattacharjee "accepted the... Read full biography
Painter Bikash Bhattacharjee is one of India's most widely acclaimed painters. He was a realist in technique who used the traditions of Titian and Velasquez in unexpected, often highly symbolic, unsettling and surrealistic ways. As the critic Manasij Majumder writes, Bhattacharjee "accepted the challenge of transforming his consummate skill to evoke the subtleties of surface realism into a pliant tool of creativity without dismantling the received art forms." He also, like many of his... Read full biography
Painter Bikash Bhattacharjee is one of India's most widely acclaimed painters. He was a realist in technique who used the traditions of Titian and Velasquez in unexpected, often highly symbolic, unsettling and surrealistic ways. As the critic Manasij Majumder writes, Bhattacharjee "accepted the challenge of transforming his consummate skill to evoke the subtleties of surface realism into a pliant tool of creativity without dismantling the received art forms." He also, like many of his contemporaries, "eschewed any ideological loyalty to an imagined Indian identity in art," as Majumder writes. A member of the Society of Contemporary Artists—alongside other transformational artists like Somnath Hore and Ganesh Pyne—he made art that was an... Read full biography
Painter Bikash Bhattacharjee is one of India's most widely acclaimed painters. He was a realist in technique who used the traditions of Titian and Velasquez in unexpected, often highly symbolic, unsettling and surrealistic ways. As the critic Manasij Majumder writes, Bhattacharjee "accepted the challenge of transforming his consummate skill to evoke the subtleties of surface realism into a pliant tool of creativity without dismantling the received art forms." He also, like many of his contemporaries, "eschewed any ideological loyalty to an imagined Indian identity in art," as Majumder writes. A member of the Society of Contemporary Artists—alongside other transformational artists like Somnath Hore and Ganesh Pyne—he made art that was an instrument of aesthetic and social critique; in his prime, his paintings were a window into the struggles of Christie's Mumbai... Read full biography