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Bikash Bhattacharjee

Bikash Bhattacharjee (1940 - 2006) was active/lived in India.  Bikash Bhattacharjee is 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, 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 poverty and socioeconomic unrest that surrounded him.   Bhattacharjee began showing his work Christie's Mumbai   ...  [Displaying 1017 of 6978 characters.]  Artist bio

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