The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

Ambadas

Ambadas Khobargade (1922-2012)

was one of the foremost artists who

gave abstract art a distinct identity

It has always been difficult for me to speak or write about the art of Ambadas Khobargade, known only

as Ambadas. He belonged to that rare category of artists whose creations resist verbal explanation. Young in modern Indian art. The year artists often asked him about his technique, and many tried to imitate it, but few succeeded. In doing so, they marks the birth centenary of this overlooked an important truth: every artist develops a remarkable artist, who was born in

technique from their own emotional and psychological 1922 in Akola, Maharashtra. This

capacities, but technique alone does not create art. One may say that Ambadas perfected his technique in the brief essay reflects on his artistic same way that a saint perfects the repetition of a sacred journey and vision.

mantra.

Ambadas Khorbogade is remembered for his

distinctive methods and visual effects. Born in Akola in

“Art to me is a happening and

1922, he studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art and later performance, an instant plunging,

became one of the founding members of Groupe 1890.

flirting and merging, with life, with

His artistic practice resembled a dive into deep waters in search of something unknown and unexplored. Over it’s being and becoming it. All that is time, however, this process became so familiar to him there on the canvas is but a charge

that he could almost anticipate its outcome. Although in celebration.”

this occasionally created a sense of repetition in his work, it was comparable to the repetitive discipline of meditation, where a mantra gains depth through continuous recitation.

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