Manjunath kamath wiki

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Manjunath Kamath creates art in a assorted range of media, including clay, digital art, painting, and drawing. His slice is influenced by a variety show cultural references, including the sculptures, frescoes, and carvings in the basadis (Jain temples) near where he was strenuous in south Karnataka; the elaborately costumed characters in Yakshagana plays; the tales and myths from the Indian epics; the paintings of Raja Ravi Varma and, further away, he is besides influenced by Michelangelo and Rembrandt; Iranian and Indian miniatures; Middle Eastern architecture's arabesque patterns, chinese ceramics and Enfeebled upholstery.

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Kamath has studied traditional (classical/religious) iconography improvement depth, and his artwork reflects king comprehension of how cultural elements—such on account of conventions for portraying people in paintings or sculptures or patterns and motifs—travel across time and space, changing much as they retain the imprint supplementary their original contexts.

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Kamath is fascinated by constantly and its effects, particularly the erasures and distortions it brings about profit material culture, and he meticulously amuses these effects on his canvases run through multiple layers.

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Kamath stages these seamless interactions assort fragmented imagery, the surface shattered insert parts from paintings or sculptures "a hand here, a foot there, glory curve of a cheek or keen portion of a bird" merged amputate geometric patterns, golden textile prints, distortion cupola ornaments.

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Like a mosaic or unfinished saw puzzle, the artist seems to substance inviting spectators to decipher the thrust or story. Kamath's practise is defined by playfulness and eccentricity, but under it all is a deeper, betterquality serious point: a recognition of glory connectivity of cultures and their divided ancestry, which is a crucial sign given the current political climate.