Project

1. PROJECT DONE BY : MRS VINEET AMIT
SHETHIA
PROJECT GIVEN BY :MR.HEMANT GADGIL
ART TEACHER
TOPIC : BAIJU PARHAN

2. Baiju Parthan
• Baiju Parthan (born 1956 in Kerala), is
a painter of intermedia art in India.[1]
• Curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Baiju Parthan: A User's
Manual takes the reader on a tour through the artist's
diversely populated imagination. It maps Parthan's journey
from his childhood in Kerala, through his student years
in Goa,[2] to his struggle to find a niche in the contemporary
Indian art scenario. This book records Parthan's
participation in the last years of the countercultural hippie
scene, his encounters with spiritual teachings and shamanic
lore, his experiments with form, and his engagement with
media flows and alternative reality environments

3. • Initially, Baiju Parthan resisted a career as an
artist. "In Kerala," he explains, "you are what
your work is. And in Kerala's Communist
schema, the artist is at the lowest rung of
society." Parthan began as an engineer, but
was drawn into the world of art in 1974, when
he stumbled onto a book detailing the history
of Western art. "With that book," he says, "the
chronology and the institution of art became
known to me." He became familiar with the
movements of Impressionism, Expressionism,
and so forth, and this new knowledge
nourished his interest in painting.

4. Parthan has
also received
many awards,
including the
“Goa Lalit Kala
Academy
Award for Artist
of the Year,”
Goa, in 1981.