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The Art

Jeram Patel

Jeram Patel was born in 1930

at Sojitra in the Kaira district of

Gujarat. He studied drawing and

painting at Sir JJ School of Art,

Jeram Patel was an important figure in contemporary Indian art, particularly known for his abstraction.

He was one of the founding members of Group 1890, alongside artists such as J. Swaminathan, Jyoti Bhatt, and Raghav Kaneria. His inclination toward abstraction was Mumbai between 1950 and 55, and evident from the beginning, yet his art can perhaps be typography and publicity design at

better understood as occupying the space between the Central School of Arts and Craft,

figurative and the abstract—a meeting ground where the London for two years till 1959.

two continually merge into one another. It is true that his works do not contain the clearly recognizable human or natural images found in conventional figurative art. Yet the Jeram Patel was one of the artists who turned around the Indian art

scene and formulated a new visual

identity and method of abstraction in

the late 1950’s and 60’s. Alongside

NS Bendre and Sankho Chowdhuri

who set up the Baroda School of

Art, Patel, with artists like Jagdish

Swaminathan, initiated one of the

greatest changes in Indian art as a

founder member of the short-lived

artists’ collective Group 1890. He

was till recent working as a professor

at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda

University.

The artist passed away in 2016.

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