The Other Shore, 1980

"The Other Shore, 1980" is an oil painting by Prabhakar Barwe (1936-1995). It is now exhibited in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

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Note: Barwe was born in Nagaon, Maharashtra, in 1936 in a family of artists. His father worked in the Bombay Film Studio and his granduncle was a sculptor. Barwe graduated from Sir J. J. School of Arts, Bombay in 1959 and worked using symbols in his abstractionist works. The artist made use of Tantric mysticism imagery in his works which he came across in one his visits to the holy city of Varanasi. The metaphors of Tantrism He continued to explore the theme of mysticism between 1961-65 and gradually shifted to other themes prominently arising from the Indian folk art and Popular arts. The artist made use of sundry objects as match sticks, broken glass fragments, pieces of jute cloth, etc to make some unusual collage works. His interest in the relationship between an object and its space inspired him to paint these extremely pictorial images that define innumerable possibilities of associations between an object and its space. His experimentation was also with medium where the artist used enamel paints and application of a coat of polish to his works, an unfamiliar practice at the time. The artist made insightful abstract works using flat and bold colours with rich and lasting visual effects. He was given the 'Yomiuri Shim bun' Award, Tokyo in 1969 and the National Award, Lalit Kala Academy in 1976. Barwe participated in different Biennales and Triennales held in India and internationally since 1969 until his death in 1995.