Still Life with Parrot

In Still Life with Parrot, Jyoti Bhatt adapts the methodology of the still-life genre of painting but frees it from its academic aesthetics to evolve a modernist language, which, given the cubist structuring that he uses, results into splintered forms and simultaneous views of the object. The artist, while creating interesting elements (we see here vases, cups, bottles, jugs, even a parrot), emphasises technique and design even as form and space lose their definite boundaries to transform into a pictorial puzzle.