Manjit bawa biography books

Manjit Bawa (1941 – 29 December 2008), born in Dhuri, Punjab, India, was an Indian painter.[1]

Biography

Manjit Bawa was born in 1941 in Dhuri, Punjab. Bawa's elder brothers encouraged him to pursue art.

He studied fine arts at the College of Art, New Delhi[2] between 1958 and 1963, where his professors included Somnath Hore, Rakesh Mehra, Dhanaraj Bhagat and B.C. Sanyal.

Manjit bawa biography books

"But I gained an identity under Abani Sen. Sen would ask me to do 50 sketches every day, only to reject most of them. As a result I inculcated the habit of working continuously. He taught me to revere the figurative at a time when the entire scene was leaning in favor of the abstract.

Without that initial training I could never have been able to distort forms and create the stylization you see in my work today," recalls Bawa.
Works

Between 1964 and 1971, Bawa worked as a silkscreen printer in Britain, where he also studied art.

"On my return I faced a crisis. I asked myself, 'What shall I p