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Prabhakar Kolte(b.1946)
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The early work of Prabhakar Kolte shows the strong influence of Paul Klee, the Swiss artist and teacher whose childlike figures belie the sophistication of his richly textured surfaces. Indeed, Klee`s influence was felt by many of Kolte`s classmates studying at the J.J. School of Art in the late 1960s. Kolte`s debt to Klee can be seen in his technique of weathering his stronger colors, adding touches of white to age the effect of an otherwise bold hue. His early canvases are characterized by a single, dominant color in the background, on which lighter and more complex forms, both geometric and organic, are placed.
Kolte freely acknowledges his early debt to Klee, stating in an interview that "In those days people used to call me the Indian Paul Klee. It didn`t really bother me because I was busy searching for my self." In the early 80s, his work took a new direction as Kolte began experimenting with installation and performative art pieces. In one piece, he covered a car with newspaper; in another, he painted a volunteer black and entitled him "A Man Without Shadow". Such off-the-canvas experiments allowed him a free space to play with abstract ideas of color and form outside the shadow of Klee`s influence. 

ngjJhm?¿ p?? of a distant country and a different culture has expanded the horizons of herimagination and forced certain pre-conceived images to change.

In her works, she uses superimposed forms, quite like the sketches that cave painters worked on before they mapped them on the walls of caves. Herimagery, because of her fluid and transparent images, reflect the presentmood of the world, which is fluid in itself. At a mere conventional andfigurative level, her works reflect the unity of man with nature.

Some motifs constantly recur in her paintings dogs, waves and serriedcrescent shapes.
Chakravarty has exhibited across India and Sweden and her works can be see inthe National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and in Chandigarh Museum. Shewon an award in 1988 in the II Bharat Bhavan Bienniale Bhopal.