EDUCATION
1929-33 Bachelor of Arts, Holkar College, Agra University.
1929-34 Diploma (Painting), State School of Art, Indore.
1933 Govt. Diploma in Art, Bombay. 1947-48 Study Tour
of USA, sponsored by Federation of American Artists.
1948 Graphic Art, Art Student`s League, New York (Student
of Armen Landeck).
EXHIBITIONS
1934, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 44, 58-59 Annual Exhb.,
Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1945 Prince of Wales Museum,
Bombay. 1948 Solo travelling exhb. Windermere Gallery,
New York. 1974 Retrospective, Jehangir Art Gallery,
Bombay. 1992 Individual Cultural Centre, Jammu. 2005
Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir
Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
COLLECTION
Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi. National Gallery of
Modern Art, New Delhi. H.K.Kejriwal Collection &
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore. Ghia Family
Collection, Bombay.
AWARDS
1935, 36 Received Governor of Bombay`s Prize, Bombay
Art Society, Bombay. 1941 Society`s Gold Medal, Bombay
Art Society, Bombay. 1955 Received National Award for
his work entitled `Thron`. 1969 He was awarded Padmashri
by the President of India. 1984 Received Aban-Gagan
Award from Visva- Bharati, Santiniketan. 1984 Received
Kalidas Samman.
STYLE
Bendre continued to travel in India in search of common
folk and landscapes which eventually translated into
the magical canvases that art lovers around the world
have come to enjoy and admire. Like most of the artists,
Bendre`s creativity initially concerned itself with
the appearances of things. He carefully cultivated a
technique to present them in his work in an academic
style. Gradually he became conscious of aspects beyond
his immediate experience, of total perception in which
his mind or emotion played a significant part. This
realisation came to him as he became familiar with contemporary
world trends. He studied the tenets of Cubism and became
aware of the significance of known aspects of an object,
not merely the seen ones. He became aware of the images
stored in his mind, their context and their total environment
- of all the elements that build up the total pictorial
structure in a given space. As he engaged in cultivation
of non-representational art forms, he felt convin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1950-59 First Reader and Head of the Painting Department,
Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. 1959-66
Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University,
Baroda.
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