Datta Bansode

Datta Bansode was born in 1969 in Latur. In 1991 Datta received his Diploma of Art from College of Art, Pune. In 1994 he received Diploma in Art Education from Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai."The intensity of Datta Bansode’s politically aware paintings may be traced to his first encounters with art as a boy in Latur.Using hardboard and enamel paints, Sur painted portraits of Buddha, Gandhi, Nehru, and Shivaji in a vivid, realistic style. “He was my first guru,” says Bansode, “a good teacher of drawing and painting.”Datta Bansode describes his works of this early period as brightly-coloured compositions...