{"id":1245,"date":"2009-01-02T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/manjit-bawa-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T09:38:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:38:52","slug":"manjit-bawa-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/02\/manjit-bawa-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Manjit Bawa Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j96APMOZUWPuw1oqxnMp2nSYXoqAD95CB4QO0\" target=\"_blank\">from The AP<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<h1>Indian painter Manjit Bawa dies at age 67<\/h1>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; color: #676767; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"hn-byline\"><span style=\"color: #000000; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" class=\"hn-date\">4 days ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Manjit Bawa, a leading Indian artist whose work highlighted peaceful coexistence, has died. He was 67.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">Bawa died at his New Delhi home on Monday after three years in a coma following a stroke, said Ashok Bajpai, a family friend and chairman of India&#8217;s National Academy of Art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalitkala.gov.in\/golden_jubilee\/arties\/M2.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lalitkala.gov.in\/images\/exhi\/big\/big_MANJIT_BAWA.jpg\" height=\"317\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">Bawa studied at the School of Art in New Delhi and worked as a silkscreen painter in Britain, where he also studied between 1964 and 1971.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">Often using animal imagery \u2014 tigers and lambs sharing the same space \u2014 Bawa sought to convey the message that people could coexist with animals in nature, said art critic Ena Puri, who wrote a biography of Bawa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">His canvases were distinguished by their colors \u2014 the ochre of sunflowers, the green of paddy fields, the red of the sun and the blue of the mountain sky, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px\">&#8220;He was an icon, a person who was completely head and shoulders above his contemporaries,&#8221; Puri said.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j96APMOZUWPuw1oqxnMp2nSYXoqAD95CB4QO0\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at GoogleNews.com<\/a> ]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The AP Indian painter Manjit Bawa dies at age 67 4 days ago NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Manjit Bawa, a leading Indian artist whose work highlighted peaceful coexistence, has died. 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