Prabhakar kolte biography of abraham

Prabhakar Kolte (born Nerurpar, 1946) belongs to a phalanx of distinguished Indian abstractionists that includes Laxman Shreshtha, Ram Kumar and Mehlli Gobhai.

An alumnus of Mumbai’s Sir J J School of Art and an influential pedagogue at that legendary institution, Kolte was a protégé of Shankar Palshiker, who emphasised the significance of abstraction while also attempting to combine the principles of rasa, the Sanskrit theory of aesthetic experience, with the ideas of the pioneering European abstractionists Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.

Under Palshiker’s tutelage and in consonance with his own temperament, Kolte renounced the figure and its personal and social associations, instead devoting himself to the non-representational, non-objective picture surface.

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