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Rameshwar Broota

Rameshwar Broota (Born 1941) is active/lives in India.  Rameshwar Broota is known for Painting.

As a young painter in the 1970s, Rameshwar Broota's work forcefully expressed his anguish at the suffering he saw all around him and his indignation at society's greed and corruption—notably through colorful and humorous depictions of anthropomorphized gorillas representing the "pillars of society": police officers, military generals and the judiciary, depicted in compromising situations.  Broota's imagery shifted in the 1980s from his ironic "Gorilla Man" to the "Primordial Man," symbolizing the universal substance of the human being.  Since then, his work has continued to evolve, his more recent paintings dealing in crisp combinations of the abstract and figurative.  Here the body reigns supreme, reduced to its parts, internal and external—nerves, protruding ribs, veins, a folded knee, a muscular torso—usually disrupted by geometric shapes.

Broota studied at the College of Art, New Delhi, and graduated in 1964, serving there later as a faculChristie's Mumbai   ...  [Displaying 1017 of 6032 characters.]  Artist bio

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