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SAFFRONART on Instagram: "The need to evoke 'bhava' or feeling rather than literal connotations drove Shanti Dave to inscribe his canvases with invented calligr… | Canvas, Shanti, Modern artists
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Encaustic Painting

The need to evoke 'bhava' or feeling rather than literal connotations drove Shanti Dave to inscribe his canvases with invented calligraphic letters derived from the Devnagari script. The present lot, painted in 1968, features abstract forms with this unique script as part of a richly textured surface, a result of his experiments with encaustic painting—a technique that involves the use of heated beeswax and pigments—during this period.⁠ ⁠ Learn more about this work by tapping the link in…
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