Tribute to Painters I Admire was done in admiration of Francis Bacon and Chaïm Soutine and how they addressed, through their works, the hostile, traumatic sides of the modern world of the twentieth century…the killings of millions of people… Nazi movements and the communist revolution,’ notes Navjot, ‘whereas the philosophy of communism values humanism and socialism...’ The painting is a nod to her understanding of world events through voracious Marxist readings, conversations with her husband, painter Altaf, as well as friends and peers who made up the intelligentsia of Bombay.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Ways of Seeing: Women Artists | Women as Muse (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 126 Singh, Kishore, ed., A Place in the Sun: Women Artists from 20th Century India (New Delhi: DAG, 2022), pp. 130-131
Navjot
Tribute to Painters I Admire
1992
Acrylic on canvas
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