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Datta bansode: "A painting is never finished. I work to reach a point where I can let it go."The intensity of Datta Bansode's politically aware paintings may be traced to his first encounters with art as a boy in Latur. Bansode's first teacher was the artist and Buddhist monk Jagtap Sur. Using hardboard and enamel paints, Sur painted portraits of Buddha, Gandhi, Nehru, and Shivaji in a vivid, realistic style. "He was my first guru," says Bansode, "a good teacher of drawing and painting."
Bansode went on to study art in Pune and Mumbai, taking inspiration from his conversations withsenior artists Prabhakar Barve and Tuka Jadhab.
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At the J.J. School of Art, he became exposed to the contemporary styles and began experimenting with new techniques of applying paint to canvas. He describes his works of this early period as brightly-coloured compositions depicting daily scenes, including ad hoc still-lifes of his bedroom and portraits of his friends.
A turning point came in 1992, when Bansode returned to Latur in the aftermath of a major earthquake. Walking through the ravaged streets, he glimpsed many women in mourning for their lost families. The starkness of their figures touched him, and inspired a change in his style.
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