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    Mohan Samant was an Indian modernist painter born in 1924 in Mumbai. He studied art at the Sir J.J. School of Art and joined the Progressive Artists' Group in 1952. Samant experimented with diverse materials and techniques throughout his career, constantly shifting his imagery and style to avoid stagnation. He participated in important modern art exhibitions in India and abroad. Samant married American viola da gamba player Jillian Saunders in 1971. He spent his afternoons painting after practicing sarangi for three hours each morning.

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    Mohan Samant was an Indian modernist painter born in 1924 in Mumbai. He studied art at the Sir J.J. School of Art and joined the Progressive Artists' Group in 1952. Samant experimented with diverse materials and techniques throughout his career, constantly shifting his imagery and style to avoid stagnation. He participated in important modern art exhibitions in India and abroad. Samant married American viola da gamba player Jillian Saunders in 1971. He spent his afternoons painting after practicing sarangi for three hours each morning.

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    Mohan Samant was an Indian modernist painter born in 1924 in Mumbai. He studied art at the Sir J.J. School of Art and joined the Progressive Artists' Group in 1952. Samant experimented with diverse materials and techniques throughout his career, constantly shifting his imagery and style to avoid stagnation. He participated in important modern art exhibitions in India and abroad. Samant married American viola da gamba player Jillian Saunders in 1971. He spent his afternoons painting after practicing sarangi for three hours each morning.

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    Mohan Samant was an Indian modernist painter born in 1924 in Mumbai. He studied art at the Sir J.J. School of Art and joined the Progressive Artists' Group in 1952. Samant experimented with diverse materials and techniques throughout his career, constantly shifting his imagery and style to avoid stagnation. He participated in important modern art exhibitions in India and abroad. Samant married American viola da gamba player Jillian Saunders in 1971. He spent his afternoons painting after practicing sarangi for three hours each morning.

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    MOHAN SAMANT

    AN INDIAN MODERNIST PAINTER


    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    CONTENT
    1. EARLY
    YEARS
    2.CAREER
    3.
    ART
    4.PERSONAL LIFE
    5.EXHIBITIONS AND ARCHIVES
    Samant was born Manmohan Balkrishna samant into a middle class brahmin
    family in Goregaon, a suburb of Mumbai, India,in 1924. The fourth child of
    eighth grew up a cultured environment. Smart’s father, balkrishna ramchandra
    samant, was a headmaster and his master a homemaker. His younger sister ,
    vasudha patil, an accomplished novelist ,has written that their parents parents
    encouraged the family’s interest in music , art, theatre , movies, travel, and
    writing, and samant displayed and early proficient in and dedication to both
    music and the visual art.
    Samant received his diploma from the sir J.J. school of art in 1952 where he studied
    under S.B palsikar. In 1954 he was awarded the Governor’s prize and the silver medal
    for water coolers at the bombay Art society annual exhibition.
    In 1952, samant joined the progressive artist’ group and exhibited with them in several
    shows, including the 1953 exhibition, progressive artist’ group: gaitonde radia, at the
    Jehangir art gallery, mumbai. He also participated in the bombay group, a successor to
    the bombay PAG. According to artist Baburao sadwelkar , the bombay group, which
    included samant as well as hebbar, ara, chavda, kulkarni, laxman pai, har krishna lall and
    sadwelkar, had “six big exhibitions which were received extremely well. Samant did not
    mention the bombay group in interviews or recorded conversation , but a review from
    THE TIMES OF INDIA confirms the he had works in their November 1956 exhibition.
    Samant participated in the seminal international exhibition of twentieth-century
    India modernism. Ranjit Hoskote, intentionally renowned Indian poet and art
    critic, wrote in 2008 that Mohan samant was “ the missing link in the
    evolutionary narrative of contemporary art in India. As observed by jeffery
    wechsler in his in his essay on Mohan samant and his place in twentieth-century
    modernism, “samant’s practise was the antithesis of a signature style.
    Throughout his career, he delved into divergent materials and techniques and
    constantly shifted imagery. While some of his processes and forms can be
    perceived on a regular basis over long period of time, there was no hewing to a
    given image endlessly repeated.’ He started that “i will find that stagnation in
    style and search for the same forms cause an artist to suffer an immense amount
    of laboriousness in bis work. Samant’s art is, instead determinedly far reaching
    and inquisitive , and is inspired by the whole history of human visual creativity.
    In 1971, Samant married Jillian Saunders, a performer on the
    viola da gamba and recorder.
    At his spacious loft, he hosted performances by visiting Indian
    musician as well as artist, he practiced sarangi for three hours
    every morning . Afternoon was dedicated to painting. Samant
    and Jillian spent many Sundays at moma and the metropolitan
    museum of art, where samant would visit current exhibitions.
    At the met, he would usually end up in the African or Egyptian
    galleries, which he found major sources of inspiration.

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