Widely considered one of India’s most significant artists, Atul Dodiya was trained in Mumbai, at Sir JJ School of Art, 1982 and École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1991-1992. He became known in the nineties for his hyperrealist paintings depicting middle-class Indian life and for his watercolour series on Mahatma Gandhi. The works are populated by diverse traditions in painting, the written word, images from cinema, the media, national history, political events, and pictures of saints, legends, traumata and with the layering of autobiographical narratives. His allegorical paintings on canvas, metal roller shutters and his watercolours are viewed either as aggressive or poetic.
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