Baroda

Jyoti BhattWW-1983-M121585

1983·Gelatin silver print·9 5/8 × 5 3/8" (24.4 × 13.7 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1983
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 9 5/8 × 5 3/8" (24.4 × 13.7 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Jyoti Bhatt

Artist

Jyoti Bhatt

Photography

Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt, better known as Jyoti Bhatt, is an Indian artist best known for his modernist work in painting and printmaking and also his photographic documentation of rural Indian culture. He studied painting under N. S. Bendre and K.G. Subramanyan at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University (M.S.U.), Baroda. Later he studied fresco and mural painting at Banasthali Vidyapith in Rajasthan, and in the early 1960s went on to study at the Academia di Belle Arti in Naples, Italy, as well the Pratt Institute in New York. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2019 and elected as a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 2022.

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