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Sakti Burman's painting career spans more than five decades, over which his stylization of mythical birds, beasts and characters has shifted to highlight the interplay between reality and fantasy…

Sakti's paintings are often inspired by poetry - Tagore and Baudelaire for example…If his images do not come straight from reality that we know as such, they come often from the world of art and poetry, without any specific art-historical... Sakti Burman's painting career spans more than five decades, over which his stylization of mythical birds, beasts and characters has shifted to highlight the interplay between reality and fantasy…

Sakti's paintings are often inspired by poetry - Tagore and Baudelaire for example…If his images do not come straight from reality that we know as such, they come often from the world of art and poetry, without any specific art-historical or literary reference. Much of the form and content of his works is rooted in the Western tradition fusing the spirit of Mediterranean classicism with that of medieval romance…Nevertheless, no one would miss in them a rhythmic evocativeness reminiscent of Ajanta and Ellora, an overall Oriental feel and flavour in the pictures' miniature-like ornamental borders…

…But there is something fragile about it, like infitely delicate precious porcelain. There is a startled or blank, fixed gaze in the eyes of all male and female characters. An air of sadness clings to the beauty of their passionless faces…This seems to tell the saddest truth about the beauty of art that lacks the life and warmth of ephemeral flesh-and-blood reality. But this core of life-and-art dialectics enshrined in every frame sets off and enriches the splendour of Sakti's art.' (Manasji Majumdar, 'Sakti Burman: Dreamer on the Ark', Pundole Art Gallery, 2001 p.130, 132)

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