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Bhupen Khakar

Bhupen Khakar (1934 - 2003) was active/lived in India.  Bhupen Khakar is known for Genre painting.

Bhupen Khakhar is remembered as an iconoclast and a maverick, a man who never did what was expected, and who was open about his views on everything - from social sectarianism to his own homosexuality, all of which are reflected in his works.  Born in 1934, Khakhar began his career in art fairly late in life, at the age of 38.  Then a practicing chartered accountant, he joined the M.S. University at Baroda to study art criticism in his late 1930s, and began his career as an artist creating collages from calendar art.  He notes, "I was interested in the expressionistic style, which had no wit and humor.  Now I am more involved in wit, painting people, and the environment around me."

Khakhar received international acclaim as an artist much before he got recognition in India, when British artist Howard Hodgkin helped him organize a solo exhibition in the late 1970s.  Among his inspirations, the painter counts British artist David Hockney. Like Hockne   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16613 characters.]  Artist bio

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