Prabhakar Barwe’s artistic scholarship revolved around the subject of abstraction and its definition. His magnum opus was Kora Canvas (1990) which was, literally, a blank canvas, delineating his very articulate thoughts on the subject. The exploration of form and defining what it was intrigued Barwe, letting him explore and search for hidden meanings and a sense of arriving at a judgment by questioning everything possible around the subject of art, how it was defined, how it was perceived, and why.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 91 Singh, Kishore, ed., A Visual History of Indian Modern Art, Volume VII: Alternate Sensibilities (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), p. 1382
Prabhakar Barwe
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